I made a Quiet Riot mask when I was in junior high school in 1986-87. I made it out of sheet metal in my shop class. The school provided the thin sheet metal. I used their Industrial shearing machine to cut it, after drawing the design first of course. I sort of, measured my face for it to fit. To make the eye holes I drew the rectangles then drilled a hole in each corner and kept drilling more holes along the lines of the rectangles until I could get a blade inside. After the eye holes were cut out, by just drilling along the line. The edges were very jagged and rough from drilling all the holes. So I took a file and filed them down until the edges were smooth. I counted how many holes they used for the mouth, from the album cover. Then drew them onto the metal mask with a sharpie and positioned them perfectly. Then I drilled the holes for the mouth. I also drilled out the nose hole and filed it down the same way I did the eye holes. Then I made a separate piece to cover the nose hole. Straps that hold it on, I made out of metal. I soldered them on using a soldering iron. Then I had to sort of, fold the mask in half almost, using a giant industrial metal bender in the school shop. For contouring I took it outside on the lawn and hit it with a hammer trying to round the face off in the cheek bone area. The whole thing is held together with solder. For the chains, I used a dog color chain. I still have it to this day its rusting a little bit. if I can add pictures to this I will.
I can't figure out how to add pictures to this. So email me at (gmaxroble@mail.com) if you would like help.
I'm on Facebook as "Max Halifax" I have hundreds of pictures in my F.B. albums, of costumes and masks that I do. My Quiet Riot mask, pictures are in one of those fb albums, somewhere.
