Harry - I had the thought. However, if you look closely, the dark ring is larger than the round part.

Matt - the rim with the cut out corners around the rectangular part looks somewhat too pronounced to me. Judging from Gio's pictures I'd say it should be half the thickness you have now. Also the corner cutouts could be slightly smaller. And btw.: Great job!!

Cheers,
Stefan

Stefan,

True.

I'll check on the thickness. It's at 1mm now.

If I go thinner, it will be done manually in the sanding phase.
Parts become brittle if too much smaller.

Harry,

It appears to be hacked together regarding the motorcycle part.
Only from the top, you can really tell. It looks like foam core furing
up the harley part from the base.

Ok

A ................ 6 mm

B ................ 4 mm

C ................ Ferro's helmet: no step
Spunk's helmet: half millimeter step
(...but I think not wanted!)

D ................ 30 mm (total)


Bye
Giò

Here's a little update.

Just like the old days in college....










Aluminum plates epoxy'd in. Then starting to blend in with the
helmet. Still have some sanding to do.

Nice and sweet!



Cheers,
Stefan

OMFG

Wow!

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"I plan to live forever.........or die trying!"

Simply incredible work Matt. You know how much I want these.

Will you still be offering the template to cut the correct sized holes out and will the plates that all the greeblies sit on be part of the kit or something that we have to get done ourselves?

Cheers

Darren

JAW DROPS

C ngrats
BRA-VO

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Pvt. ROUGE. C. A09/TQ1.0.02142E1

Here's the mod to the ear cups:





The cups are really thick, and need to be shaved down as per
originals due to removing most of the space for greeblies.


This not an easy model kit, The greeblies will be made, and a
cutting template aid will be provided, but due to different helmet sizing,,,, each person would have the task to epoxy + bondo plates to their helmets.

The molded greeblies will probably have alteratiions, due to the
numerous undercuts ..... nothing you can't dremel away though.

That's looking just amazing Matt!

Can't wait to see the finished build!

Come on Matt, you're killing me with the suspense. Any updates?

Not much. Finishing up the bondo build on the right ear pieces.

Also shortened the hose connect pieces. Almost there!


Got engaged and have family in town, so progress has been a
bit slow the last two weeks.

Waaahaay,

Congratulations Matt.

All the best to both of you.

Andy

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"I plan to live forever.........or die trying!"

Seems like a pretty lame excuse to me

Serisouly though, congratulations mate. Don't forget to invite us all to the wedding.

Cheers

Darren

Yayy, free cake!

Congratulations Matt!

Harry

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Great News Matt.
Congrats

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Michael Larson
Minnesota-USA

A03/TQ1.0.92141E1

WOOP WOOP! congrats Matt!

oh and that helmet is looking daaaaamn sweet

Congrats Matt!

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"Awww, someone tell me that's a boot!

It's a boot!"

III drops

Congrats and Good luck on the future.

But since I already have a wife.
must... have... helmet... greeblies...

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Rob Slater
A08/TQ2.0.42136E1

U guys are funny. Thanks!

After this weekend, back on to the helmet.


I already had my future brother-n-law sanding mag tabs during
the week. He had fun...

Congratulations on the engagement and all my best wishes for the future matt!

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That's great.. Already breaking in the new family
Congrats...

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PVT. Schmaus, Christopher J.
2nd Batt 6th Regt
USS Tahoma

got back to this.

Putting a dent in the left side. Joined a bunch of pieces and

started the bondo scratch building.

Station!

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It's a boot!"

III drops

Just wanted to poke my head in here...

This is amazing work guys! I've been keeping my eye on the thread as of late... Seems I've caught the Dropship Pilot bug.

Time to start looking for and SPH-4!

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