Making of Darth Vader - Pepakrua

JoeAKim

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Hi everyone.


First of all: Thank you for all the information, help, etc. in this forum. It helped me out a lot!


Since I have been leaching this forum for a while, I figured it might be nice to finally give something back. Therefor I decided to post my "making of"s of the 5 helmets I've created so far.


This one is about my Darth Vader helmet :)

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This helmet was some pain in the a** since it consists of two pieces. Also it was very instable.
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Since it was so instable, I had to use tap in order to hold its shape somehow.
It was also the first time I figure it's wise to use braces (more stabl than those provided in the template)
Resin was also very very very annoying, since I was clever enough to do it outsite... but... it was winter. Well, the first time that I learned how important ambient temperature is. That stuff didn't want to dry at all. It was sticky for DAYS. After this helmet I started apreciating my wife's old hairdryer :D
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I never put as much effort into sanding and grinding into any helmet as I had into this one. I used wet sand paper for the first time. Still I get those annyoing "pin holes"...
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Finally a few layers of black and then glossy spray paint.
Also using a brush to paint the vents and the nose piece.
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