SC cuts - how do they look?

[Bass]

Hello! Started work on my helmet today and took the plunge to do my cuts, I think they look mostly about right... I'd like some input from you folks before I widen anything else.

 

I mostly used the guide stencil for the lens but the shape looked off, so I've penciled in where I think I need to widen the hole. Also curious if I should flare out the ear holes a bit?

[Nexous]

The ears look fine to me, I know some people like deeper cuts. I would also recommend painting the back of the helmet black prior to assembly, I did it afterwards... was not fun

[Bass]

I didn't even think about timing on painting, if you hadn't mentioned it I bet I would have waited. Good call!

[Nexous]

No problem! Just easier to do when it's still in pieces Other than that, it looks good. The extra cuts you plan on doing to the lens area looks solid too Personally I like mine not as jagged

[stasz]

Agree ears looks good. Your pencil line on the bottom of lens "eyes" looks a little too pointy to me. I think what you've got cut out looks good. Maybe a touch more off the top, but the shape overall is good. Nice job!

[Bass]

I'll probably just go with trimming the top of the lens area then and not worry about grinding out the bottom bits. Thanks for the input!

[Nikko]

Nice ear holes! I also like that you noticed that the SC lens hole is not quite accurate. I don't see a lot of people mentioning that and it is bothering me too (on mine). I am cutting my ear holes and revisiting the lens cut-out soon. Nice work. Good eye.

 

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[Bass]

Haha, yeah, I can only imagine the stencil on there is smaller on purpose to give room for error when cutting it out. It would certainly suck to have a blade slip and take a chunk out of an expensive helmet piece.

[Oberkisstillalive]

does the hole on the faceplate already come pre-cut? I would suggest coloring in marker where you think you should trim to sort of see what it might look like if you trimmed it

[Nikko]

The top needs to be shaved about an eighth of an inch, and the "valleys" need to be slightly deeper and sharper. Hard to illustrate with words. I will post some pics in the helmet comparison thread or something later on. I just completed my SC helmet mods, and I am very happy with the shape of the lens cut now.

 

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[Nikko]

I posted pics of my own lens area cut in the "Ultimate Helmet Comparison Thread" (post number 25)

 

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[Nexous]

 

I would just say use these as guidelines if you want absolute screen accuracy, don't look at helmet comparisons and just look straight at the film that's your best bet

 

EDIT: Just from a personal observation, there are "variations", not every single helmet was cookie cutter and some differed (ear hole sizing between these two)

[Bass]

 

Alright, so shortly after I did those cuts I got knocked down with some disease I can only assume was the black plague, during the tail end of it I decided to make some more cuts... then I wound up going to mexico for a bit on vacation, and now i'm finally home.

 

So the image above is what I wound up with after getting a bit more off.

 

I honestly feel I should have gently curved the top more now that I'm looking at it next the screen capture. I think I'm going to revisit it tomorrow and give it a really hard looking at and see if I can maybe do some kind of damage control without compromising the face.

 

Edit -- Alternatively I could take what Nexous said about 'variations' to heart and just not over-cut on my lens hole