Hi everyone, this is going to be my very first attempt at making a costume piece. I opted to use pepakura, using Gimpee's files (thank you if you can read this!) and then fiberglassing and bondoing. It might be a bit more challenging than foam considering this is my first time, but let's see how things go. Considering the little time I have to work on this ( i'm a highschool fresh man) I think it's going pretty well, just gotta mannage my time. 
Btw, I would love to get some feedback from any veterans out there, any criticism is appreciated
pieces done, just need to glue them together
Right after gluing everything, I noticed I had a couple leftover pieces (that's what happens when you stay awake for 20+ hours) I just decided to keep going though
All fiber glassed, I noticed a little too late that there were many dents and holes, (that's where the extra pieces had to go, oops:$)
First layer of bondo, I could only work on part of it, I had school the next day and the lack of sleep was catching up to me. I atleast got the chance to fill up all the cracks, dents and holes from my bad pepakura work.
Removed the ears, they ended up breaking on me,.. Anyways, started by doing the cheeck bone detailing, another part where I messed up during pepakura since I forgot to bend the paper where the cheek protrusion was, just decided to place a glob of bondo and I would then sand it downto create the protrusion.
Ill add more pictures as I keep working on this
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More fine detail work done, it still looks very rough though and for some reason managed toget the helmet to weight around 5 pounds -.-'
Finally got the faceplate off, used a hacksaw and a blade to make incissions and then proceeded to cut the helmet with the hacksaw blade, i'm making good progress although i'm still missing a lot of sanding to do
Btw, I would love to get some feedback from any veterans out there, any criticism is appreciatedpieces done, just need to glue them together
Right after gluing everything, I noticed I had a couple leftover pieces (that's what happens when you stay awake for 20+ hours) I just decided to keep going though
All fiber glassed, I noticed a little too late that there were many dents and holes, (that's where the extra pieces had to go, oops:$)
First layer of bondo, I could only work on part of it, I had school the next day and the lack of sleep was catching up to me. I atleast got the chance to fill up all the cracks, dents and holes from my bad pepakura work.
Removed the ears, they ended up breaking on me
,.. Anyways, started by doing the cheeck bone detailing, another part where I messed up during pepakura since I forgot to bend the paper where the cheek protrusion was, just decided to place a glob of bondo and I would then sand it downto create the protrusion.Ill add more pictures as I keep working on this
. More fine detail work done, it still looks very rough though and for some reason managed toget the helmet to weight around 5 pounds -.-'
Finally got the faceplate off, used a hacksaw and a blade to make incissions and then proceeded to cut the helmet with the hacksaw blade, i'm making good progress although i'm still missing a lot of sanding to do
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