My Guy Man

[FIRE_WIRE]

looking awesome.

Funnily enough i just bought the exact same saw from ebay 2 days ago for cutting the visors out my own helmets.

Not long until we will see some rubber on this bad boy. :P

[PedroAloha]

looking awesome.

Funnily enough i just bought the exact same saw from ebay 2 days ago for cutting the visors out my own helmets.

Not long until we will see some rubber on this bad boy. :P

yeah man, i'm so close to getting rubber on it, gonna do the ears this week and thats it done. I literally have a couple of tiny scratches from doing the seem to fix and that's it. Here's a quick photoshop mock up of it with my drawings of the ears added (also i know that the circuits are the wrong way round, i just flipped the ear over to photoshop it)

[Thomas Bangalter]

my god i want one of these! this is one of the best I have seen on here

[DaTBoYFrOMTeXaS]

Agreed. It's looking really nice, man.

[cama900]

Its absolutely gorgeous!! Great work!

[FIRE_WIRE]

Cool, Just take your time when applying the rubber.

I would advise the first coat should be thinned and the next 3 just normal. work on a clean surface so excess can be scraped up with a clean stick and dripped onto the top so that you don't get loads of wastage. I wouldn't apply thickened silicone until you have at least 4 coats layered up as the thickened stuff tends to have air bubbles which causes havoc with the final mold. The only place id put the thickened stuff would be in the ears and on the lower rear neck part. Then id coat that in another normal layer to smooth the surface as much as possible for your mother mold.

[PedroAloha]

Cool, Just take your time when applying the rubber.

I would advise the first coat should be thinned and the next 3 just normal. work on a clean surface so excess can be scraped up with a clean stick and dripped onto the top so that you don't get loads of wastage. I wouldn't apply thickened silicone until you have at least 4 coats layered up as the thickened stuff tends to have air bubbles which causes havoc with the final mold. The only place id put the thickened stuff would be in the ears and on the lower rear neck part. Then id coat that in another normal layer to smooth the surface as much as possible for your mother mold.

Thanks for the kind words fellas, Glad people like it so far.

Also Firewire thanks for that post, you pretty much just answered most of the questions i had about applying the rubber. Very much appreciated mate

[Decipher]

(also i know that the circuits are the wrong way round, i just flipped the ear over to photoshop it)

They also seem to cut off parallel to the ground rather than the bottom/jaw-line of the helmet, which is odd.

[PedroAloha]

They also seem to cut off parallel to the ground rather than the bottom/jaw-line of the helmet, which is odd.

You mean like this?

[Decipher]

Wow. They changed that for the Tron Legacy style, eh? It seems to be pairing down the essentials of it's design over time.