ob1al
Sr Member
Thanks to Alan Castillos tipoff, I recently purchased a budget (£50) Maximus Gladiator helmet:
Fairly well made in steel, if a little unrefined, but excellent value for the money.
After a few days of admiring the thing, I realised that I needed to feed my compulsion to make it a little more accurate to the screen used helmet:
First thing I did was to quickly sculpt some greeblie-bolts, make a little silicone mold and cast a couple up in tinted resin. Here's the sculpt:
Next, I looked at the screen grabs and realised I needed to extend the raised area under the eyes, as well as cut back the eye sockets to match the screen used helmet. I also added the raised curved areas around the greeblies. I used steel epoxy to sculpt these areas. Tricky, as you only have a 2 minute work time:
I also realised that there were 2 spikes missing on the temples. I made a quick mold of an existing spike, reproduced it in resin and added those to the temples.
Then I noticed that the area under the nose was too deep, so I trimmed that back as well. I went through around 10 sanding discs on my dremmel, the sparks really did fly!
Finally, I sanded, wet sanded and then painted the reworked areas. I also took this opportunity to weather the entire helmet with several layers of acrylics.
Here's the result:
I'm fairly pleased with the results. Part of me thinks, why did I bother because I've lost the lovely shiny thing - but my prop geek brain tells me this thing is much more accurate now and not to worry about the lure of the shine...:lol
Anyway, let me know what you think!
Regards
Al
Fairly well made in steel, if a little unrefined, but excellent value for the money.
After a few days of admiring the thing, I realised that I needed to feed my compulsion to make it a little more accurate to the screen used helmet:
First thing I did was to quickly sculpt some greeblie-bolts, make a little silicone mold and cast a couple up in tinted resin. Here's the sculpt:
Next, I looked at the screen grabs and realised I needed to extend the raised area under the eyes, as well as cut back the eye sockets to match the screen used helmet. I also added the raised curved areas around the greeblies. I used steel epoxy to sculpt these areas. Tricky, as you only have a 2 minute work time:
I also realised that there were 2 spikes missing on the temples. I made a quick mold of an existing spike, reproduced it in resin and added those to the temples.
Then I noticed that the area under the nose was too deep, so I trimmed that back as well. I went through around 10 sanding discs on my dremmel, the sparks really did fly!
Finally, I sanded, wet sanded and then painted the reworked areas. I also took this opportunity to weather the entire helmet with several layers of acrylics.
Here's the result:
I'm fairly pleased with the results. Part of me thinks, why did I bother because I've lost the lovely shiny thing - but my prop geek brain tells me this thing is much more accurate now and not to worry about the lure of the shine...:lol
Anyway, let me know what you think!
Regards
Al
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