Tips and Tricks for making the Helmets

[Dei]

I seriously love this thread for all the tips and tricks that it's taught me! Totally revamped the way I make props now.

Our helmets went from this, in 2009:



to this in mid-2010:



Up to the Tron Legacy premiere in December 2010:




Volpin,Sporgo and everyone else here have been huge inspirations for us and we thank all of you guys for all the info,research,tips and advice!

[Agent RayBans]

Anyway, just a short update. I'll probably do a full run through over on the RPF and/or here when I get to the molding stage.

You better, your helmet looks great!

[Agent RayBans]

I seriously love this thread for all the tips and tricks that it's taught me! Totally revamped the way I make props now.

I love posts like this. You guys have come a long way, and surely your skills will only keep improving as time goes on. You should be proud of what you've accomplished, in just two years no less!

[sporgo]

I seriously love this thread for all the tips and tricks that it's taught me! Totally revamped the way I make props now.

Volpin,Sporgo and everyone else here have been huge inspirations for us and we thank all of you guys for all the info,research,tips and advice!

I am always happy to help when I can.

Your build is looking extremely awesome as always Volpin.

[Thomas Bangalter]

Awesome work Dei!

[Dei]

Thanks guys!

Here's what the final version of the costumes look like.

[Volpin]

Nice man! I'm going to be picking up one of those discs to mod this evening. Looking forward to cracking it open! Did yours attach to your backs? I know thats not canon for DP in the film, at least not according to the behind-the-scenes footage, but logically they'd have discs like the rest of the programs do...

Working on Thomas a bit more myself. Did some photoshoppin' to see how everything is shaping up proportion-wise. If I can get some decent weather to paint, I should be able to pull casts in a few weeks!



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[knup_tfaD]

volpin, are you trying to show off? im still kinda wondering how you only have two records for you account

[ThreeFN]

volpin, are you trying to show off? im still kinda wondering how you only have two records for you account

He's a bigger deal over at RPF. He's mostly here as a courtesy to us DP nutters

[Volpin]

volpin, are you trying to show off? im still kinda wondering how you only have two records for you account

I'm not exactly sure what you're getting at here. I don't post often, no, but I like to think that when I choose to it is contributing to helping other people with their builds and projects.

I have distributed dozens of handplate kits to members here, offered critiques on current projects, and supplied detailed build info for both of my helmets - processes that have been emulated by several other of the more successful builds out there (Artfunk in particular)

I don't "show off" - I'm sharing my build, my process, and hopefully some people can benefit from that. Showing off would be me rolling up with a finished chrome helmet, posting nothing but a picture, and never mentioning anything about how it was created. Go to my profile, check my posts. No fluff, no BS, no LOL OMG THIS IZ SO KEWL. What have you done with your 71 posts?

If anyone needs me, I'll be in the angry dome.