Els Posted July 26, 2016 Share Posted July 26, 2016 Hello all, I wasn't sure where to post this but since it is Sci-Fi I will put it here. Around a year ago I saw these vinyl helmets in a store and thought that they were cool, but at $20 each, they weren't cool enough to pry the wallet out of my pocket. A couple of months ago I saw them on sale for $4 so I picked up three of them. These are sold with the intention of the purchaser designing/decorating the helmets in what ever way they want. This is what is included in the box. They are pretty good sized, maybe 1:4 scale. There is a bottle of Tamiya glue in the picture for size reference. Since there is no base included I cut a hole in the bottom and epoxied a round wood dowel inside the helmet. More epoxy was poured in to add strength. Some round wood bases were picked up at my local Michaels and painted. I little Bondo was applied to cover up some of the mold defects. For the first one, I kept it as close to "reality" as possible. The second one I did up in shadow trooperish darker metalic color. And for the last one I needed some rivets. So I ended up using linoleum nails because they were about the right size. I was going to rivet the hole helmet but after drilling around 200 holes I got real bored with that. So I am calling this one a medieval throw back helmet. They were a nice break from the aircraft models I have been working on and I had fun with them. Now I need to find one more to make it look like stone. Els Quote Link to post Share on other sites
toadwbg Posted July 26, 2016 Share Posted July 26, 2016 That last one completely ROCKS! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
nicholassagan Posted July 26, 2016 Share Posted July 26, 2016 Not too shabby! I like the pipe hole cover idea :) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
skyhawk174 Posted July 26, 2016 Share Posted July 26, 2016 Great thanks a lot now I have to go find those grumble, grumble, grumble :lol: :lol: Seriously though, looks great. Really like the third one. Looks like something Rocketman would wear. Should make a nice collection if you get some more. I know there were some camouflage ones but I think those were more the clone troopers. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Els Posted July 27, 2016 Author Share Posted July 27, 2016 Thanks everybody. Its fun to do strange projects once in a while to restore some mojo. I usually build an egg plane when I need a change. Those covers came from Home Depot. They were phasing them out of their inventory so they charged me one cent each for these. I should have bought a few more. Els Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ben Brown Posted August 7, 2016 Share Posted August 7, 2016 Those are pretty cool! I was going to suggest you could paint four of them as KISS, but I see that's already been thought of: Ben :D Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Els Posted August 8, 2016 Author Share Posted August 8, 2016 Those are pretty cool. If they had some smaller scale helmets I would try to paint up a set just to see people do a double take. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Don Posted August 8, 2016 Share Posted August 8, 2016 These are super cool! Love the Shadow trooper helmet ! If they did clone trooper helmets (not sure if they did?) a modeler could do a whole lineup of the various Clone Trooper Units that each had distinct colors, patterns and logos (always partial to Rex and Wolf myself). http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/ADHO15/MSPaintCharacters/mural4.png Good stuff! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
TaiidanTomcat Posted August 21, 2016 Share Posted August 21, 2016 Excellent work all around Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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