Captain Murasa
New Member
Welp, time to add another Iron Man onto this board. Hi. I guess this is my first Foam build. And I decided to do the one thing that people says never to do first: The Helmet.
I'm using Gimpee's Mk 42 files (You're awesome, thank you!), edited by Anyway, finishing the helmet yielded me this:
My gluing isn't the best and I do realize that. It's also a tad too small. D: When I test fitted it without the chin piece in, I found it was too tight around the head. Now that I added the rim at the bottom (see pic 5), I couldn't fit my head in at all! Is that normal? Either way, I think I'll probably remake the helmet and add another 2 inches to my measurements so I can fit electronics in. (I'm only finishing it so it's for display. xP)
Afterwards, since I'm not happy with my seams, I decided to spackle the seams. I saw this idea from someone doing foam over at the 405th and I found it's a great idea... The only thing is that I went a bit overboard... (One side was rather warped from over gluing, so I decided to add on to the side with spackle. Did I over do it? D: I'm changing the way how I make the templates for foam when I remake the helmet.)
I'mma sand the spackle down and then plastidip it. Any advice would be helpful!
I'm using Gimpee's Mk 42 files (You're awesome, thank you!), edited by Anyway, finishing the helmet yielded me this:
My gluing isn't the best and I do realize that. It's also a tad too small. D: When I test fitted it without the chin piece in, I found it was too tight around the head. Now that I added the rim at the bottom (see pic 5), I couldn't fit my head in at all! Is that normal? Either way, I think I'll probably remake the helmet and add another 2 inches to my measurements so I can fit electronics in. (I'm only finishing it so it's for display. xP)
Afterwards, since I'm not happy with my seams, I decided to spackle the seams. I saw this idea from someone doing foam over at the 405th and I found it's a great idea... The only thing is that I went a bit overboard... (One side was rather warped from over gluing, so I decided to add on to the side with spackle. Did I over do it? D: I'm changing the way how I make the templates for foam when I remake the helmet.)
I'mma sand the spackle down and then plastidip it. Any advice would be helpful!
