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Author:  Trigger happy [ Mon Nov 04, 2013 5:02 am ]
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Decided to bite the bullet about 12 months ago and cut up a sph4 helmet to build a Ferro style dropship helmet. These helmets are crazy cool looking and a great deal of fun to build so far. Got the gentex from ebay for about $225 shipped from the USA to Australia. Helmet was in good condition and fitted well. Only prob was it had the Clear lens not the tinted.
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Whilst building this one I did a cheap chinese helmet for a friend Kelly. This is its result after a few mods and a gentex mic and boom was installed and some brown bess.
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Author:  Trigger happy [ Mon Nov 04, 2013 6:39 am ]
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Removed everything from the helmet and cut the ears out as per Nobles template. Then filled all the gaps with auto filler
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Then sanding and painting
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Author:  Trigger happy [ Wed Nov 06, 2013 6:09 am ]
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A few bits arrived today in the shape of a robotech 1/48 changer. The Hamma cable releases with vinyl clear cover.
Picked up a few headphone jacks. A few more bits are on the way.
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Author:  retrogarde [ Wed Nov 06, 2013 6:18 pm ]
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Goddamn you smoothed that left ear section out nicely! That looks extremely professional. I see you have a number of original pieces (awesome finds!), but are you also going with some of Stephen210's casting? I'm very excited to see this progress!
Author:  Trigger happy [ Fri Nov 08, 2013 3:21 am ]
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Thanks mate. Im using most of Stephen210s cast. But replacing any badly cast parts with original parts where available. I got another found part in the post today. Its from the Railway gun and needs to be cut down
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Author:  eviltikimonkey [ Wed Nov 13, 2013 4:30 am ]
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holy crap thats some nice smoothing on the helmet! WELL DONE!
Author:  Trigger happy [ Fri Nov 15, 2013 3:49 am ]
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Started gluing to helmet today and sculpting in where the helmet blends the greeblie. still a lot of sanding to do.
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Author:  postmanpat [ Fri Nov 15, 2013 9:42 am ]
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Looking fantastic mate.
Author:  nick-a-tron [ Sat Nov 16, 2013 11:01 pm ]
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VERY nice work!
Author:  Osmotic [ Sun Nov 17, 2013 1:00 pm ]
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Very nice, I might finish mine one day :shock:

PS: You can never have too many helmet builds :D
Author:  eviltikimonkey [ Mon Nov 18, 2013 9:15 pm ]
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you are inspiring me to want to try my hand at this helmet!
Author:  pelikan [ Mon Nov 18, 2013 9:20 pm ]
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With all the various movies that used these helmets for props, it's getting hard to find an intact one for my dad who actually wore one during the war!
Author:  Trigger happy [ Thu Dec 12, 2013 10:52 am ]
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Painted on Ferro's 'Fly the friendly Skies' today on the visor shield
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Author:  postmanpat [ Sat Dec 14, 2013 8:34 am ]
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Looks fantastic Jarrod!!
Author:  clanger68 [ Tue Dec 17, 2013 11:32 am ]
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That is fantastic, congratulations.

I found it an extremely rewarding project when I did mine, but nerve wracking at the same time!

Will look forward to updates.

Cheers,

Andy
Author:  Trigger happy [ Tue Dec 17, 2013 11:39 am ]
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Thanks Andy and Peter. Its been a great fun build so far. Hope to have more pix and the helmet complete by xmas.
Author:  SGT KITTEN [ Wed Dec 18, 2013 3:09 am ]
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Just seeing this myself, but I'll second the kudos on an awesome job with the filler. Looking great!

Charlie
Author:  Trigger happy [ Thu Dec 19, 2013 7:29 am ]
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Made this little prick up today. It takes a few attempts to get it rite.
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Author:  clanger68 [ Thu Dec 19, 2013 11:58 pm ]
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Very nice, looks good and strong.
Author:  Trigger happy [ Mon Dec 23, 2013 8:51 am ]
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Finally got all the parts together today. here is the finished product. hope you like. A difficult but very rewarding build.
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Author:  retrogarde [ Mon Dec 23, 2013 12:34 pm ]
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Thing of beauty!

I see you have a Spunkmeyer name tape there, are you considering trying his helmet next?
Author:  nick-a-tron [ Mon Dec 23, 2013 12:59 pm ]
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Fantastic build!
Author:  bigbisont [ Mon Dec 23, 2013 2:00 pm ]
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Truly a thing of beauty.
Author:  Trigger happy [ Mon Dec 23, 2013 9:31 pm ]
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Thanks guys. The spunkmeyer may be done after i clear a few other builds and manage to source the nvg part or someone with a cast.
I got 1800 name tapes to make a full set of all screen used characters plus personalised a while back. I just Put it on my mk11 flight suit for the hell of it.
Author:  MattRendar [ Mon Dec 23, 2013 9:36 pm ]
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big thumbs up !!
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