Star Wars TFA - Kylo Ren - Helmet Modelling

[littlebigm]

Hey there!

So recently, like much of you i imagine, i recently saw the new star wars film and fell in love with Kylo Ren's helmet.
Anyway, I'm planning on building his helmet from pepakura, but would like to create the final piece via casting it.

My question is - would I be able to make it from pepakura and then coat it in fibreglass, and then go on to fill it with clay? After that i was thinking of cutting the fibreglassed pepakura off and sculpting any fine details that werent captured from filling it with clay.
As you can probably tell, i've not used clay to create mould before, so yes i am a massive amateur and may be coming across as a bit of an idiot - so bear with me!!

I'd appreciate any advice any of you have; i've used pepakura with fibreglass and bondo before, I just felt it had the potential to be more refined if i'd have sculpted it first from clay and created a mould from it.

Sorry again for being a noob!! Hope this is in the right thread too.....

 

[paulblopez]

that's dangerous for your lungs t=what you should do is a resin head form and life cast sculpt it make it probably 10 15% oversized so it can fit with some space then more likely should make a 2 piece silicone mould then run a urethane mix in it

 

[Sinned]

This is an interesting approach. I'd be worried that with pouring clay into the hardened shell, it would stick like mad to the original paper, on the inside, and then destroy the whole thing, when you try to take it apart. At the very least, I imagine it would tear off a lot of the finer detail pieces, causing you more resculpting than intended. But, if you can get in there and coat it well with an appropriate release material, it could work.

Typically what you'd do is the fiberglass/bondo like you've done before, and make a junk mold from it. Then run your clay or resin in that, refine the details, and then create your production mold.

 

[littlebigm]

This is an interesting approach. I'd be worried that with pouring clay into the hardened shell, it would stick like mad to the original paper, on the inside, and then destroy the whole thing, when you try to take it apart. At the very least, I imagine it would tear off a lot of the finer detail pieces, causing you more resculpting than intended. But, if you can get in there and coat it well with an appropriate release material, it could work.

Typically what you'd do is the fiberglass/bondo like you've done before, and make a junk mold from it. Then run your clay or resin in that, refine the details, and then create your production mold.

Thats actually a really good point I hadn't thought of (such a noob arent I), Thanks for the advice man!!