GoldPointProps
Active Member
hello! I am going to be building a metal replica of king Leonidas's helmet from 300 after I finish up my metal iron man helmet. I will be using 18 gauge sheet steel. I looked into making it out of bronze but a sheet the size needed to make the helmet was $1500 so ill just stick with steel. this is just a test I used a pick hammer to add all the hammer marks and hammered the face of the helmet on the concrete to add all the little pits/texture. For just a quick test it turned out pretty good. Also I will be making a video of the build and posting it here too.
It is not easy to weather steel to make it seem random and natural. One other thing you may be interested in trying is using a welder to get splatter all over the face of an old hammer, grind it a little, and use that to texture. Concrete with coarse sand sprinkled here and there does a good job too. Cheers!
