Zombie Ironman helmet - Spiderman Far From Home/What If 3d print project

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So a while back I saw a picture on my social media feed of someone that made a zombie Ironman mask from Spiderman - Far From Home. The users name was Kylo on youtube, who posted a video of how he created this masterpiece. but it was frickin' COOOOOOL. This is my best attempt to do something similar. I love zombie movies and I love Ironman, so what a perfect mashup from the movie and the "what-if" series. Being new to 3d printing I looked every where I knew of that had stl's file to print for this kind of stuff....no luck. So I decided I would do one of my own. So this thread is my process, journey if you will, of making my take on the Zombie Ironman. Note, I have completed it and I did post it on the old rpf feed on FB, but never here. I'm gonna post a few pictures at a time so it's not a huge photo dump.

So the first thing I did was found a decent ironman helmet stl and skull stl and tried to match them up in size. On a side note...it's amazing how sizes for helmets fluctuate ...really kind of hard to nail that down. Anyways, I started to print these, and I didn't think to start taking photo's till I got the helmet printed and assembled. I think for the helmet is was roughly 12 individual pieces and the skull was printed into 3 different pieces. ( I don't have a big 3d printer). I then glued or melted the pieces together, on the back side, to form the final skull and helmet. Then after a bunch of sanding, I coated the both with automotive glazing putty,to help make the surfaces smoother. Then again with the sanding, to smooth that out. I hope you enjoy the photos, I did include photo of the zombie ironman from the movie....I'll post some more later...

 

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So the next portion of the build I used a marker to indicate where I needed to create the cuts on the helmet. I also printed out a neck piece, thinking that it would be a nice addition to the helmet. After double checking everything I used a soldiering iron to follow the lines I made to remove the pieces I didn't need. I also used the soldiering iron to flay open the plastic to add some depth to the cuts. I also used the soldiering iron to create additional battle scaring. The was a pretty arduous process but patient and steady hand kept me from making any large mistakes. So this brings us to this portion of the build for intial mockup before paint. Hope you enjoy the pictures. I'll post more later.

 

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Time for paint! I ended up applying red and good spray paint to the helmet and neck piece. I then went back over the battle damage parts and with silver paint on the "damaged edges" and black paint for inside the cracks. I also painted the skull white and added a black wash to bring out the contours and crevices. After everything dried I did another mock up of the helmet, neck piece, skull and added a bendable helmet lens that lights up. Side note, I did remove the original power source and added a flickering candle light power source to the lens. That would allow it to light up, but "flicker" like it had be damaged. More to come....

 

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Weathering continued.... at this point I wanted to add something that looked like earth on to the helmet and skull. I took a combination of paint and tile grout and mixed it together. I then tried to do a cast of effect by flicking the mixture with a brush on to the helmet and skull. After that I applied the more robust mixture to some of the nooks on the helmet. I also applied a wire mesh to certain parts of the helmet. The mesh helped to give the helmet a little more depth in the battle damage areas....enjoy the pictures

 

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Here's what I have today, I did go over the entire helmet with oil paints to add some additional weathering and highlights to the battle damage. I may circle back around and add some more "earthy" type elements like roots or something like that. This was a fun project and I really enjoyed. If you like what you see please leave a like on the posting, and thank you for the few people that already have. Enjoy.