sulaco
New Member
Hi guys..
i want to share with you my humble first step making this P1 biohelmet which I am building based on a pepakura model circulating on the net ......
immediately a thought.
The Pepakura model is good but it is far from the forms of the original bio, so, must be made many modifications to achieve a fairly close shape to the original P1.
as you know the Pepakura technique is: print, cut, fold and assemble a cardboard model on which applied resin and then put some bondo to smooth the surface, personally i preffer a resin called "solflex" which contains a polyester resin with fiberglass all in one and is "light cure" (don't know if that's is correct spelling), the downside, is expensive, the positive side, you can work without problems in artificial light with a very malleable putty, once you take it out the sun or put it under a ultraviolet ligth it will cure in 10 minutes! NICE!
i don't have pics of the pepakura process but have some of the rest of the process
in my backyard putting bondo with a small dental tool.
close up!!:
sanding night...
*yes i know.. i'm so bald .
here start the corrections of the pep shape.
too high
solving the problem
putting bondo (pic without sanding)
extending the "helmet flaps", put some cardboard on it, and later applied a layer of solflex and bondo.
the helmet with the new "flaps" and the "correct" shape of the dome
as well i made some correction to the mouth section but still "feel" wrong to me
400 hours later of sanding and the first layer of primer
still need a lot of work
making some comparison with a hollywood collecting model and i found a lot of differences so i was very dessapointed-...
so i took my dremell and make some cuts to achieved the corrects dimensions, and also make the holes for the laser sigth and the thing with the "hose conectors..."
putting some oild based clay to make the shape
and then a layer of solflex on it, putting the clay away...
inside view
* Quick conclusion, the solflex can be applied directly on the clay and it won't sitck to it.!!
making the 3 laser "thing"
so it is waiting for the solflex and the coat of bondo...
soon new pics...
guys here's some new pics testing the sigth and also a video ...
enjoy
putting the laser sigth ..
extendening even more the flaps, now i'm almost happy with the result..
all together with some primer on it...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZTkqwvVxIw
i hope you can trow some lines to tell me what ya thinks guys!!
greetings from Chile!!! the very ass of the world!!! (but a beautifull ass after all)
i want to share with you my humble first step making this P1 biohelmet which I am building based on a pepakura model circulating on the net ......
immediately a thought.
The Pepakura model is good but it is far from the forms of the original bio, so, must be made many modifications to achieve a fairly close shape to the original P1.
as you know the Pepakura technique is: print, cut, fold and assemble a cardboard model on which applied resin and then put some bondo to smooth the surface, personally i preffer a resin called "solflex" which contains a polyester resin with fiberglass all in one and is "light cure" (don't know if that's is correct spelling), the downside, is expensive, the positive side, you can work without problems in artificial light with a very malleable putty, once you take it out the sun or put it under a ultraviolet ligth it will cure in 10 minutes! NICE!
i don't have pics of the pepakura process but have some of the rest of the process
in my backyard putting bondo with a small dental tool.
close up!!:
sanding night...
*yes i know.. i'm so bald .
here start the corrections of the pep shape.
too high
solving the problem
putting bondo (pic without sanding)
extending the "helmet flaps", put some cardboard on it, and later applied a layer of solflex and bondo.
the helmet with the new "flaps" and the "correct" shape of the dome
as well i made some correction to the mouth section but still "feel" wrong to me
400 hours later of sanding and the first layer of primer
still need a lot of work
making some comparison with a hollywood collecting model and i found a lot of differences so i was very dessapointed-...
so i took my dremell and make some cuts to achieved the corrects dimensions, and also make the holes for the laser sigth and the thing with the "hose conectors..."
putting some oild based clay to make the shape
and then a layer of solflex on it, putting the clay away...
inside view
* Quick conclusion, the solflex can be applied directly on the clay and it won't sitck to it.!!
making the 3 laser "thing"
so it is waiting for the solflex and the coat of bondo...
soon new pics...
guys here's some new pics testing the sigth and also a video ...
enjoy
putting the laser sigth ..
extendening even more the flaps, now i'm almost happy with the result..
all together with some primer on it...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZTkqwvVxIw
i hope you can trow some lines to tell me what ya thinks guys!!
greetings from Chile!!! the very ass of the world!!! (but a beautifull ass after all)
