been a long time comming, original plans for this fell through, so i decided to undertake the task myself, i figured seeing as i painted the armour i could certainly manage it, my first ever helmet build, lots of time spent on the pepakura parts, sand, fill, prime, sand, fill, prime, sand and so on and so forth until they had a finish like a moulded part.:

ive spent 2 weeks on this, maybe real time has been 5 solid days from parts to end pics

1x m1 helmet with liner, camo cover and band: £30
2x headphone sockets and 5mm lengh of ali: £6.50 - slit with a dremel to create the mic grooves
1x resin camera £20 delivered
1x pentax lens £20 delivered
1x spat ir sensor £40

Pepakura files for the:
strikeplate, rear lobster plates, and all the ear sections

already had the humbrols, fibreglass resin, milliput, p38, wet and dry so it was a simple build, had zero headaches making it, everything sits where it should when worn. i will say hacking the helmet was fun - dremel was definetly needed :)

so some pics now its done:
EDITED BY MOD (uploaded from site host to direct to forum)

Oooooo that looks good.

Well done!

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AKA: Simon

That looks excellent!
Well done!

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Pedro Bedard AKA "The Blacksmith".

Wow! That looks great. Never would have guessed those were Pep lobster plates if you hadn't said.

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"You know, you blow up one sun and suddenly everyone expects you to walk on water."

Fantastic work with this helmet, well done.

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STEAD,J "TECKNO VIKING"
A06/TQ1.0.22140E1

Skype: ulthur1

yep all the add on plates were pep, this was what played most on my mind - could i pull it off, but worked perfectly........mainly as i over indulged the top coats of resin for preperation of alot of sanding back, 5 individual coats of poly resin so i eouldnt sand it back so much to go through the paper:




after the bonding and sanding:

Nice job indeed.

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Martin 'Victim' Victory
A86/TQ3.4.49421E3
UKCM 13th Regt. 1st Batt. Freebooters


you can't take the PUNK outa Spunkmeyer

Top notch work, Marine!

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Pfc. Wells, Brandon. W
"I am the ultimate bad-ass. State of the bad-ass art."

Looks great.

Niiiice job indeed! Looks ace!


Kevin

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I told you I'd shoot, but you didn't believe me! WHY DIDN'T YOU BELIEVE ME!?!

VERY nice and pep plates to boot...excellent work!

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

It's a boot!"

III drops

Wow, that looks awesome!

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Witty closing remarks have been replaced by massive head trauma and severe hemorrhaging.

looks damn good man keep it up. thinkin of goin the pep route for my armor when i start it soon.

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SGT Chris Kraemer "BIRD"
S/N: A07/TQ0.0.82154G1 Sgt Kraemer

This sir, is a spot on Helmet!

-Callum

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Sgt C. Kee-McParlin
A05/TQ1.0.02160E1

13th Regt. 1st Batt. 'Freebooters'

Great used look! Well done.

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Sgt. Frank Peters 'reload' Smartgun Operator
A03/TQ3.0.12136E1 "It will be no picknick!"
AL Colonial Admin. - Sergeant at Arms (SgtA) -- 2020-2022
GERCM - Executive Officer (XO)
UKCM Foreign Legion: The Deviant Dragoons

Wow!

can't believe it's a pep job! That looks amazing....now get the armour done!!

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Cpl Dan Callaghan

"On an express elevator to hell...going down!"

Just call me Admiral....

Im a fan of bringing back old threads. That lobe plate/ strike plate looks good. I did mine with eva foam and bondo and I thought it was a lot of work, but not compared to the work that you must have put in to that.

If possible can you please upload the photos to the forum itself?

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The impossible takes a while longer and goes over budget too...

Since the guy hasn't logged into the site since 2014, I doubt he will upload them.

That said, this is a great build! Nice find Seven. Might even have to toss this one into the fanmade armor all star list. It was well executed.

What is odd though, is the photos look 100% normal to me when I check this thread on my phone, and they are they blurred out photobucket ones on my desktop. Anyone able to explain that one? I mean, i have both open right this second and the photos are glorious on my phone. Wonder if I can actually save the jpg on my phone of the good photo, then manually upload them to the forum on the desktop to make it make sense...may try tomorrow.

You could also maybe screenshot them, then it automatically shrinks the file size. These should be preserved.

OK, I have updated this thread with the original images in their spots. It is now established forever (*)!

This was an amazing build with craftsmanship. Unfortunately not every Photobucket (or dead host site) issue can be resolved by saving pics from your phone instead of the website. Please send actual image files along so I can restore the rest of the valuable threads on this forum! Just saying. Classic example of what we lose when these images die. Don't let them die! Send them along and I will update the posts. Thanks

Thanks that is much better on the eyes!

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The impossible takes a while longer and goes over budget too...

Great job on this build!

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im realizing i need to heat and bend my lobster plates after seeing this. mine stick out like big dumbo ears.