Legendary Armor Master Chief Helmet

[postmortem01]

Well, we are new to the Halo realm and wanted to give it a try. We've started with the Master Chief Mark VI helmet. We CNC'd the basic shape from foam to get a symmetrical base. It's taken a bit longer than anticipated to clean up but we think it's ready for molding.

After sculpting back in the details, we resin coated it.

After contaminated resin problems...ugh....we primered and found more problems....joy!

We shot the helmet with a polyester primer to get the contaminated resin to cure. Meanwhile, we started cleaning up the inner padding and rear neck plate.

After the primer has done it's thing, we were able to clean up the helmet a bit more. We replaced the "nose" area to sharpen some lost detail.

We took impressions of the vent areas and made vent covers.

We then fit the rear neck plate to the helmet prior to molding.

We bought a rotocaster and are working on the mold....that's it so far.

 

[phase pistol]

Master Chef. That guy can cook. :thumbsup

 

[ColeHorton]

The helmet is lookin really nice! I was about to ask if you made it with those hedge trimmers in the first picture... but you said you CNCed it. :lol

Can't wait to see the finished product. :thumbsup

 

[postmortem01]

LOL. Yeah, you and me both....another week and I'll see the first part pulled. Then I can start on the vac buck for the visor and finish the inner padding ring. Woohoo...yeah more work.

 

[Soundwave]

Incredible work!! The detailing looks amazing! Can't wait to see more progress pics!

 

[Fizbin]

That is a really nice helmet! :thumbsup

But, it seems that sculpting from scratch is soon becoming a lost art form these days.

 

[Onigiri]

Diggin the detail...theres some nice little touches there that make it pop.

 

[postmortem01]

Yeah sculpting from scratch is really an art for people who want art though. LOL. We make props, costumes and fx so we want fast and good. Sculpting from scratch would take longer and wouldn't necessarily be as symmetrical.

There are tons of more progress pics on the website...
http://www.legendaryarmor.com

 

[Fizbin]

I can certainly understand that point of view, not everyone is willing to go through the pains of scratch-building and sculpting. Besides, now that the technology is becoming more affordable, why not let a machine do it, right?

Again, that really is a fantastic helmet! :thumbsup

 

[postmortem01]

Yeah, nothing against sculpting from scratch of course, but there are better ways to do certain things. In this case, a high resolution file of the helmet existed therefore CNC was the way to go.

 

[Kadajiroth]

Amazing work. I can't get enough of Spartan armor. :lol

 

[TMP]

Bravo looks nice.

 

[Darksaber212]

Nice looking MC helmet. thumbsup

 

[postmortem01]

Thank you guys. This helmet is based on the "Starry Night" commercial helmet. We are trying to keep to it as closely as possible.

 

[Robb007]

looking great !!! :thumbsup

got some serious craftsmanship going on there, can't wait to see the finished product !!!

 

[postmortem01]

Thanks we appreciate that. We've put some time into it for sure. It didn't go as smoothly as we had hoped.

 

[CMANavy]

Looking forward to the finished product, and keeping tabs on the halo board too. At lest there are fewer 12-13 year olds here, just grown men and women acting like 12-13 year olds.

 

[Got Maul]

That is so great- awesome job man.

 

[Chuey]

Fantastic work. Great to see how this project is developing.

 

[Cptnchaos]

Looks great!

Cant wait to see more.

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