Very nicely done. :thumbsup What color/brand of blue did you use?
It's too bad the movie was so incorrect on the helmets though. All navy aircrew helmets for carrier ops are required to be 100% covered with white reflective tape and are only allowed up to 65 square inches of non white reflective tape for decoration. Although I seem to recall that it may have been only 75% white when the movie came out. They could have done them up just as well in a more accurate mode. I suppose they did it that way with paint to eliminate a reflection back at the camera.
I've considered converting one of my spares to a Maverick helmet for fun, but the reflective tape is a great pain to remove, even with applying heat and anything else I could think of to remove it. I did it once for a re-tape job, never again. :wacko I don't need another helmet shell lying around waiting for parts anyway. Too many other projects as is.
I was fortunate enough to have a spare APH 6 helmet in my collection that was gutted and untaped, to make an X-Wing conversion. I'm finally getting back to that after quite some time of it gathering dust in the garage storage closet.
Ambition resurfaced after recently finishing a custom re-paint of my old Don Post Helmet. When the old APH 6's were used there were less restrictions on reflective tape, and they could use more color and less tape. Although I do have one that was completely done in blue reflective with squadron markings done on a white visor housing.
