kingcamero
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I would just like to thank everyone who has been contributing to this thread it has been super helpful. I asked earlier on how to make the seams less visible and gave it another go with some really promising results. I am now finding that it is less the seem itself that is giving the seem away and more that the flat edges leading up to the seam is and the way the light reflects off of it is what is giving it away. On the next one I will try sanding the entire helmet so that it is all the same curve instead of flat edges. I do have a heat gun and I tried to use that except the flaps on it were too small to hold at the right curve. Any other ideas would be helpful.
you can obviously see the huge difference from my first attempt on the left and second attempt on the right. I did a lot differently, first of all, changed from wood glue to white glue and thinned down the white glue so it was more even. I also sanded the heck out of the seems and filled extra gaps with more hot glue that I smoothed out and sanded down. And I added way more plasti-dip, about 4 coats and sprayed it on a lot heavyer, I suffered a bit for there are major drip marks in the back. I cant seem to get an even coat with plasti-dip when I try to spray it lightly.
I think it was a huge improvement, I am going to try again to make the helmet look seamless. I figure if I can master the seamless look here I can probably master any helmet haha. I also toyed with 2 mm foam here to seem how adding those details worked and I might use those again to make my next helmet look even more like the one from TFA.
you can obviously see the huge difference from my first attempt on the left and second attempt on the right. I did a lot differently, first of all, changed from wood glue to white glue and thinned down the white glue so it was more even. I also sanded the heck out of the seems and filled extra gaps with more hot glue that I smoothed out and sanded down. And I added way more plasti-dip, about 4 coats and sprayed it on a lot heavyer, I suffered a bit for there are major drip marks in the back. I cant seem to get an even coat with plasti-dip when I try to spray it lightly.
I think it was a huge improvement, I am going to try again to make the helmet look seamless. I figure if I can master the seamless look here I can probably master any helmet haha. I also toyed with 2 mm foam here to seem how adding those details worked and I might use those again to make my next helmet look even more like the one from TFA.
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