Dr. Doom Build...WIP...(newbie at this)

[NcognitoMagneto]

Hello everyone.

I would like to start by saying that this is the coolest site that I have ever seen and the only forum that I have ever wanted to be a part of. The pooling of creativity and amazing artists on the rpf is mind blowing...Glad to be a part of it.

With that being said...now to the build...

Dr. Doom and Magneto are my all time favorite villains. I would have like to have done a magneto build, but spandex is not something I would feel comfortable in just yet, so I went with my runner up, dr doom. My friend BSD has been my biggest encouragement for getting into this form of art and I thank him dearly for introducing me to it. It has me fired up about doing art again.

I started my build using a pepakura file that BSD scaled for me and then I assembled the helmet. I have worked in a few different mediums and I have to say that pepakura is one of the more time consuming and laborous ones. Here are some pics of my initial pep build.

 

[NcognitoMagneto]

Pics tomorrow I guess...can't upload them for some reason. Sorry

 

[sonicprops]

cant wait to see pics sounds amazing

 

[Alpha Proto]

Don't worry you will do fine with this build.
"Failure is beneath Doom!"

 

[NcognitoMagneto]

I will post more pictures when I get home tonight, but here is the start of my pep build. Photo bucket was the only way I could get the pics off of my phone that I could find. Here is the link.

Mobile Photobucket

I uploaded some pics. Here are pics of the pep build instead of a link...

Folding and gluing paper is a challenge, but I think I managed ok. I had a small gap in the brow/forehead area, but i figured that would fill with resin and putty.

Let me know what you think.
Thanks

 

[NcognitoMagneto]

Don't worry you will do fine with this build.
"Failure is beneath Doom!"

Thanks for the vote of confidence. Love the quote too!

 

[NcognitoMagneto]

cant wait to see pics sounds amazing

thanks. I hope it turns out as amazing as I have envisioned.

 

[Lord Magneto]

Welcome welcome. Looking forward to seeing your stuff

 

[BSD]

Yo! Awesome you finally started a thread! I am sure it is going to turn out great!

 

[NcognitoMagneto]

Here are some pics of doom during the first resin coating on the outside of the helmet.

I purchased a fiberglass repair kit from my local NAPA store. The kit came with fiberglass resin, hardener, tray, mixing stick, and fiber cloth for $35. The resin instructions were very vague so I "guestimated" the mixture amount of hardener to resin and, well, I was wrong LOL! I didn't put near enough hardener in it. It took 4 days to cure out. Whoops. Rookie mistake...

 

[NcognitoMagneto]

FYI ... I updated from a link to actual pics for the start of the build.

 

[tgk]

Looking good, just remember that temperature and humidity also affect the curing time on resin and bondo.

 

[NcognitoMagneto]

Cold and damp doesn't help, huh? This is the wrong time of the year to be doing projects like this outside i guess, but I want to get this bad boy finished up. I will keep that in mind on what days I have off to work on future pieces. Thanks tgk

 

[Lord Magneto]

great start

 

[NcognitoMagneto]

great start

Nice tutorial on your magneto helmet by the way. I would say that I will have to do your magneto helmet after my doom project.

 

[BSD]

I have been helping my smooth on puddy cure faster by keeping about 3 feet away from a space heater on low setting... Makes it much better to sand out the next day.

 

[LordCaharin]

Awesome build so far sir. How long (estimated) did you work on the folding and the gluing of the helmet itself?

 

[NcognitoMagneto]

Awesome build so far sir. How long (estimated) did you work on the folding and the gluing of the helmet itself?

Thank you...I'm trying. And it was What seemed like forever!!! It was a pain staking effort haha. The worst part I felt was cutting the 73 or so pieces out with an xacto knife. Altogether I think I had roughly six hours time in cutting, folding and gluing.

Thanks for posting and asking. Fun stuff.

 

[NcognitoMagneto]

I hope that everyone had a great Thanksgiving!

Here is the second resin coating pics...with more hardener this time. It started curing in about 10 minutes so I had to work fast. I didn't know if the "resin icicles" were normal during this step, but I didn't have time to worry about it.

 

[NcognitoMagneto]

I'm playing catch up on posts so I will be moving through the next couple of steps quickly.

Next, I used a spray adhesive on the inside of the helmet to lay my fiber cloth in a controlled manner without the resin dripping and running onto everything. It seemed to work really well. I didn't get a pic of the resin on the inside yet, but what I did after the fiber was glued to the inside was simply mix up the resin and pour into the helmet. I used roughly 4 oz of resin to do the main crown of the helm letting it run and coat as I rolled the helmet around. I used another 3-4 oz on the face to coat it well.