locust star Posted July 14, 2013 Author Share Posted July 14, 2013 Once again I need help from the BS community! I'm starting to build the mould for the faceplate. I'm currently watching pictures and taking measures. But I'm not going to make the nose greeblie. it would help me a lot to have this greebile. this way I can build the mold around it and make everything look more accurate . So the great question is : where can I buy one? in the meantime it would be great to know the measures of the greeblie . grazie !! daniel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
locust star Posted July 25, 2013 Author Share Posted July 25, 2013 here's a picture of the faceplate. still hard to tell it will be a faceplate. We'll see what happens Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
locust star Posted September 5, 2013 Author Share Posted September 5, 2013 after summer holidays, I'm back at work! actually working on faceplate and visor mold. I really want to finish this as soon as possible. It has been going on for too long! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
locust star Posted September 8, 2013 Author Share Posted September 8, 2013 slow progress but it's something, here's some pics of visor and faceplate. on the back you can see the rest of the helmet still waiting to be painted. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRookie Posted September 8, 2013 Share Posted September 8, 2013 Nice! Will follow this thread closely. Looking forward to seeing this complete Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
locust star Posted October 10, 2013 Author Share Posted October 10, 2013 bad news! I'm trying to vacuumform the face of the helmet, and it doesn't work. looks like the machine can't suck enough air.... maybe the mold is too big or high. I did some holes on the visor , but it doesn't change. before I waste more plastic, I need to find a solution Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chef Posted October 10, 2013 Share Posted October 10, 2013 Post pictures of what you have bud, and we can see where the vac issues are occurring. I suspect you don't have enough vac holes in the visor area and/or they are not right near the deep indents. Because that area is effectively a recess to the rest of the buck, you really need to vent it all, because if any of the small creases or vac holes get covered up, you're effectively cutting off all the vac/venting to that area and will result in a weak pull. Post a pic of the face plate buck directly from the front, and I'll annotate it for you with where I think all the vac-holes should be. They don't need to be big (only say 1.5mm each), but there does need to be LOTS of them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
locust star Posted October 10, 2013 Author Share Posted October 10, 2013 Post pictures of what you have bud, and we can see where the vac issues are occurring. I suspect you don't have enough vac holes in the visor area and/or they are not right near the deep indents. Because that area is effectively a recess to the rest of the buck, you really need to vent it all, because if any of the small creases or vac holes get covered up, you're effectively cutting off all the vac/venting to that area and will result in a weak pull. Post a pic of the face plate buck directly from the front, and I'll annotate it for you with where I think all the vac-holes should be. They don't need to be big (only say 1.5mm each), but there does need to be LOTS of them. Problem solved!!!! what was wrong? the frame wasn't lined with the sealing strip on the table.... I'll show pictures soon ok, here come the pics: it's no assembled-painted yet, I also drew a line were it needs to be cut 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
locust star Posted January 7, 2014 Author Share Posted January 7, 2014 hello scout troopers! helmet is getting me crazy! I have no idea how to paint, but I have managed to put the bucket together. as you can see here I tried to paint it, but it was rubbish. so I sanded a little bit more... fingers crossed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
locust star Posted March 1, 2014 Author Share Posted March 1, 2014 I have finally assembled and painted the helmet!! it's NOT 100% perfect , the sealing line is still visible . I also run out of plastic and my supplier seems to have disappeared ( ninja guy). anyway I have learned a few tip and tricks.. next one will look better. I will upload some more pix as soon as I get the visor and glue the nose detail.. ah and I don't have decals, I don't even know if decals for other helmets will work here... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chef Posted March 1, 2014 Share Posted March 1, 2014 The seam lines are just a question of time and patience. Fill it, sand it, flat it, fill it sand it flat it. Takes a while to get it right. If you gently warm the plastic (not so easy now you've painted it, so you may not want to), you can pull all the bits in and match them up. Likewise, the visor shroud. If you cut back the rear flashing of the visor shroud, so it's more flush, you can pull in the bottoms of the visor and counter the flare. Good effort buddy. Pleased to see you're cracking on with it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
locust star Posted March 20, 2014 Author Share Posted March 20, 2014 hi! I started this topic on 28 february 2013. so more than a year has passed and finally I have something in my hand that resembles a bikerscout helmet. even if working by myself, I have received precious help in the bikerscout forum. so thank you guys!! I still have some questions ..... how should I do the hole in the ears and where do I need to paint black? all inside the helmet?? visor and faceplate are not attached in my helmet , only the 3m bolt keep them together but there's still some movement in between. not sure how to solve this.... ok here's some pictures ok here's some pictures 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
locust star Posted March 20, 2017 Author Share Posted March 20, 2017 Hi, it's been a long time since I started this project ( Feb 2013) . but after a long hiatus ( and a snowtrooper build ) I have pictures of my scout helmet 2.0 basically all the molds have been heavily modified. and the visor molds restarted from zero cause they just weren't right. I can't say is over because there is still some things to fix. but definetly much better than v. 1.0 anyway I leave it to your judgement, here are some pics 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shwarzwald Posted March 23, 2017 Share Posted March 23, 2017 Wow v.2 turned out even better! Glad to see you came back to work on it. Nothing worse than reading a thread and seeing it stop only half finished. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
locust star Posted March 23, 2017 Author Share Posted March 23, 2017 Wow v.2 turned out even better! Glad to see you came back to work on it. Nothing worse than reading a thread and seeing it stop only half finished. thank you buddy! even if it looks better, there's still space for improvement. receiving critiques/ support / encouragement is always great 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strider Posted March 25, 2017 Share Posted March 25, 2017 Great job, man. Keep up the good work! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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