I've finally had chance to get some of those jobs done I've been putting off for a while and a dropship helmet was one of them!
I've been collecting the parts and kits for months so now time to build.

First to mark out and cut the templates. Probably the hardest part of the process. Making sure they are in the correct place.









Now on to the fun stuff. The right ear greebles.







Had too improvise a little with the parts on the end of the bike pump adapters with leftover parts in the model kits.





On to the left ear greebles. Ive tried to incorporate as many genuine parts into Stephen210 excellent mold as i could. A lot of extra work for very little gain yes but there was no rush to build this!

The first job was to drill and file the grills so i can get the all important camera part in behind. Not that you can even see it!

A bit of blending with some milliput modeling clay to blend it all back together.





Cables cut painted and clear heat shrink added.





Cable holder made from wire, a plastic bb and a beer can!



Lastly a paint in brown bess and Ferros slogan. Had many practices on some paper before attempting it on the helmet as i didn't want to mess up at the final hurdle. Think i got it fairly close!











Done for now! I still need to add all the little screws around the ear greebles but I'm still waiting on them to arrive in the post.

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Happy Happy, Joy Joy

That came out really well!

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that cable holder kit bash is awesome. Theres nothing you cant make with a box of greeblies. Did you use actual humbrol original brown bess?

Thanks. It was the best i could come up with that was lying round the house. The paint is alclad British brown bess

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Happy Happy, Joy Joy

Awesome job! I'd love to find original Hama cables and Belvin connectors for my build currently being done by stephen210 but I have yet to get THAT lucky lol

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Quick update as the little detail screws have finally arrived so just a few close ups of the now complete ear greebles.
Thanks to the few who took the time to comment!

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Stimpy which brown bess did you use? was it an original tin or reformulated super enamel?

I've already answered you further up the post from when you asked the first time!

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Gorgeous and super help ref pics (I've just cut my lid, and am in the process of smoothing out the "ear plates", prior to attaching my greebies).

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Cpl Aron "septic" Williams
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Wow really nice. Great job

looks great! Where did you get the bike hoses?

Thanks, i was lucky enough to pick them up on here in the px section.

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Dang it. I still dont have enough posts to open up the PX section!

It doesn't take many posts to up the the px section, just make some comments on some threads an you'll soon be there. Theres no bike pumps for sale in there at the moment unfortunately but you can make a wanted post, you might find some!

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Happy Happy, Joy Joy

I have been searching for quite some time for them. I need 4..... I have everything else needed for the 2 dropship helmets..... I will keep looking as i wantthem to be as close as possible to the screen used ones.

shit my bad hahaha