X-Men Days Of Future Past Magneto Helmet NEW NEW PHOTOS!!

[JBReplicas]

Re: X-Men Days Of Future Past Magneto Helmet UPDATE! ARMOUR STARTED 11/05

It looks like a neoprene undershirt, the armour is mounted to a kind of vest that wraps around under the arms, not sure what it does at the back, but there is also spacer mesh underneath the plates, it looks simple from a distance, but it really isn't lol

 

[jaybible]

Re: X-Men Days Of Future Past Magneto Helmet UPDATE! ARMOUR STARTED 11/05

What are you making it with? something like worbla?

I hope they make it look good in the movie, i'm not quite sold on the pants yet

 

[JBReplicas]

Re: X-Men Days Of Future Past Magneto Helmet UPDATE! ARMOUR STARTED 11/05

I'm using sheet styrene to get the bacic shape, then refining it with body filler.

 

[JBReplicas]

Re: X-Men Days Of Future Past Magneto Helmet UPDATE! ARMOUR STARTED 11/05

UPDATE 18/05

Progress marches on, the helmet mold is pretty much done, and the armour is progressing nicely, I am getting in some sample of spacer mesh this week to try and get an accurate match, here's where I am as of today.

 

[jollyskeleton]

Re: X-Men Days Of Future Past Magneto Helmet UPDATE! ARMOUR STARTED 18/05

Really cool build. I'm gonna hop on that helmet run when I get funds

 

[PegasusTenma]

Re: X-Men Days Of Future Past Magneto Helmet UPDATE! ARMOUR STARTED 18/05

In some interview, Michael Fassbender said that there was going to be a scene of Magneto creating his helmet out of different metals, so I'm pretty sure that's the explanation of the texture of the helmet.

 

[JBReplicas]

Re: X-Men Days Of Future Past Magneto Helmet UPDATE! ARMOUR STARTED 18/05

Yeah I saw that, that was the original plan but it was scrapped in favour of him going to get his helmet from a lock up, this is what we see in the trailer. As an additional note I am going to be reworking the back of the helmet slightly to add some details that I saw in the movie last night, I want this to be as good as possible.

 

[jaybible]

Re: X-Men Days Of Future Past Magneto Helmet UPDATE! ARMOUR STARTED 18/05

Movie was Awesome!.. convinced the gf I could get the helmet haha... do you have a straight on pic of the helmet?

 

[AboLunatic]

Re: X-Men Days Of Future Past Magneto Helmet UPDATE! ARMOUR STARTED 18/05

Hey guys! I'm relatively new but I love the new suit/helmet you're making. I was wondering if you guys could help me on my own project! I've been using foam for everything. EVA foam that is. I was wondering why every time I cut the foam there's fridges left and the cut isn't smooth. Also I've looked at the pieces for the body armor you've done (the part I am working on currently) how would I make slants on it. The slopes are very hard to make from foam And that's what I find the hardest to do. Things like the helmets crown piece have these slants that are hard for foam to make into that position. Any suggestions?

 

[JBReplicas]

Re: X-Men Days Of Future Past Magneto Helmet UPDATE! ARMOUR STARTED 18/05

Hey guys! I'm relatively new but I love the new suit/helmet you're making. I was wondering if you guys could help me on my own project! I've been using foam for everything. EVA foam that is. I was wondering why every time I cut the foam there's fridges left and the cut isn't smooth. Also I've looked at the pieces for the body armor you've done (the part I am working on currently) how would I make slants on it. The slopes are very hard to make from foam And that's what I find the hardest to do. Things like the helmets crown piece have these slants that are hard for foam to make into that position. Any suggestions?

I can't really offer any advice at all as I am not using foam, the helmet was a clay sculpt and the body armour I made from sheets of styrene and car body filler (bondo) lots of sanding and shaping by hand, sorry.

Jay, I will get some good shots of the first cast this weekend.

 

[JBReplicas]

Re: X-Men Days Of Future Past Magneto Helmet UPDATE! ARMOUR STARTED 18/05

Update time

Here is the first cast with a quick trim and a very quick paintjob just to show up some detail, definitely NOT the final colours I will be using, but I was keen to show this off..

 

[julalex53]

Re: X-Men Days Of Future Past Magneto Helmet UPDATE! FIRST CAST OUT - PHOTOS

Amazing work, I hope you could upload the files of Pepakura of this helmet. I want to make it.

 

[JBReplicas]

Re: X-Men Days Of Future Past Magneto Helmet UPDATE! FIRST CAST OUT - PHOTOS

Pepakura what? This was a clay sculpture.

 

[jollyskeleton]

Re: X-Men Days Of Future Past Magneto Helmet UPDATE! FIRST CAST OUT - PHOTOS

damn that's exciting stuff!!! This is gonna be sick when finished!

 

[AboLunatic]

Re: X-Men Days Of Future Past Magneto Helmet UPDATE! FIRST CAST OUT - PHOTOS

Hey jb just wondering, what are you going to use for the suit. The shirt has like maroon sleeves and a black center. I havent been able to find one on the web that fits what it looks like in the movies

 

[JBReplicas]

Re: X-Men Days Of Future Past Magneto Helmet UPDATE! FIRST CAST OUT - PHOTOS

It looks like a maroon shirt, the pattern is something I have to look into, the armour actually fits to a vest of sorts, from what I can see its like a body armour shell for the front of his torso which is covered with a spacer mesh type fabric, the armour then goes on top of that.

 

[neal225]

Re: X-Men Days Of Future Past Magneto Helmet UPDATE! FIRST CAST OUT - PHOTOS

The helmet turned out great JB. Can't wait to see all the finished pieces together.

 

[JBReplicas]

Re: X-Men Days Of Future Past Magneto Helmet UPDATE! FIRST CAST OUT - PHOTOS

After seeing a few small details in the movie that I couldn't pick out in the original photos, I went back and modified my first cast, here are the results so far....

 

[JKKS]

Lovely. Great job so far.

 

[MooMooEgg]

It's looking so good. Did you make any changes to the front crest? In some of the photos, it looks like it's too tall and doesn't curve in enough.