helmet mold making

pisani

pisani

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I was wondering if any one could send a tutorial of how they made a mold of their helmets, or of a tutorial from a website that helped them make mold of helmets because I have no clue how you guys do it. :cry
 
Welcome to the RPF. Are you finished with your helmet sculpt? If not, maybe you should start there first.

There's also a search feature at the top of the page, where you can hunt down past topics on how to mold anything from helmets to tiny pieces.
 
Thanks synasp. :D I guess I should start there first. :lol But would you make a helmet sculpt out of clay or what material? :D
 
Some popular materials include clay, sculpting foam, or even scratch built from various materials and filler.
 
Does anyone have tutorials with pics. Or has anyone tried a darth vader helmet sculpt made from clay or for darth vader helmets is it better to use something else that you guys know about. :confused
 
This was a good while ago, we rushed it while working 16 hour days doing mold work after hours... It shows a couple ways to mold a helmet depending on how sane you are from lack of sleep to how durable your mold needs to be for the material you will use to make the final peices. There are other ways but I can get silicone to kick in minutes so....

http://www.imperialcommandos.com/IC%20Helmet.htm
 
Thanks for the links guys.

Vaderman I cant get on to the proptopia because I am not registered and was wondering if you have any pics.

Thanks

Jango Fett
 
I'm in the process of producing a series of instructional DVD's that covers a lot of mould making. They're primarily for creating prosthetics but the first DVD focuses on making a silicone and fibreglass mould of a head cast but the process is identical for moulding anything of a similar size such as a helmet.

There's a second DVD coming out very shortly which shows how to laminate a head out of the mould which would be the same if it were a helmet you were producing. The second DVD also covers sculpting techniques.

Check out: www.mfxreplicas.com

or clcik ont his link;

http://www.mfxreplicas.com/showitem.php?item_id=16

Best
Neill G
 
Has any else done a tutorial? ,i cant get on proptopia either,but i would like to see one if anyone else has done one in the past,i bought part one of mfx tuition dvd and its great,however i would like to see the subject that im interested in being cast.
 
Vader Helmet

I know one of our guys also made a Vader helmet. The whole face mask was made out of sheet styrene. :eek I think the top of the mask where it curves back was fiberglass, as was the helmet. But holy crap, it was amazing to see what a person could do with sheet plastic!

I don't remember off-hand who made it though. But I'm sure someone else will.

Obi-Bob

Okay, found it! http://www.ketzer.com/ Go to the "science fiction model making" section. Not a tutorial, just inspirational.
 
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Wow, nice to see a different method of putting together the mask .i could have save a small fortune in clay and silicone if i had thought of doing something like this.
 
Yeah, as the German's say, "Too soon old, too late shmart!"

It is really rocking cool to see all the different ways to build things. If I knew of HALF of these techniques in college, WOW! The stuff I would have made!

Or more likely, we would have never graduated, as a friend of mine says. :)

Obi-Bob
 
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