Ctschurman Posted April 19, 2019 Share Posted April 19, 2019 Have you tried resting the spray can in warm water for 30 min or so?Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rawktrooper Posted April 19, 2019 Share Posted April 19, 2019 I probably did 8 to 10 coats of very thin paint over about 4 coats of primer with wet sand in between every other. and 3200 grit at the end. Looking good! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greenyone Posted April 19, 2019 Author Share Posted April 19, 2019 1 hour ago, Ctschurman said: Have you tried resting the spray can in warm water for 30 min or so? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk No, but the can sitting in a 90 degree shed all day should have had the same effect. I always turn my cans upside down hours before I use them too. Always had good luck when doing that. I stand by the nozzle comment. I miss those old fan tip style can nozzles. Very few brands of paint use them anymore. Krylon seemed to be a holdout with those nozzles but even their paints seem to use the new ones now too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greenyone Posted April 19, 2019 Author Share Posted April 19, 2019 New can of paint, different result on the face portion of the helmet. 4 thin coats shows an acceptable amount of orange peel from a rattle can paint job. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greenyone Posted April 21, 2019 Author Share Posted April 21, 2019 All painted up. Now to wait a day or two for it to all cure/harden up before assembly and decals. Still need to put some thought into padding. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greenyone Posted April 22, 2019 Author Share Posted April 22, 2019 Dry enough. Assembled with decals. Just need to install some padding or a welding helmet head strap thingy to keep in securely on my noggin. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jakeputt Posted April 22, 2019 Share Posted April 22, 2019 Dry enough. Assembled with decals. Just need to install some padding or a welding helmet head strap thingy to keep in securely on my noggin.That looks awesome!Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-N920A using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greenyone Posted April 27, 2019 Author Share Posted April 27, 2019 The roto-cast MC bucket does not lend itself well to internal padding. I think there are two reasons here. 1st being the irregular surface area on the inside of the dome from the resin roto-casting. Some areas have a build up of resin creating high spots (very large peaks in places). Without grinding them down (and risking damaging the dome) it's very difficult to find areas where the stick on velcro will sit flat for good adhesion. I tried and didn't have much luck. It's very difficult to get any kind of mechanical grinding tool in there to smooth things out. I'm not saying it can't be done, but I decided to try other things. 2nd is the height of the crown/dome itself. Other helmet photos I've stared at seem to indicate that the dome should be a bit taller (creating more space for the crown of a human head). Anyway, I was able to attach a welding liner to the helmet by attaching velcro to both the helmet and liner in enough places to make things work. There is no padding at the very top of the helmet with my setup. When test fitting I found that if I put a pad at the top of the helmet (or left air space above the liner) my eyes are not centered very well in the lens....meaning I was trying to look past the bottom of the lens with the ABS face-plate obstructing my view. Removing the pad and basically letting the bucket rest on the top of my head is the only way my eyes were centered in the lens. Understandably everybody has different head shapes, but I have a relatively small noggin. So this particular helmet may be a cause for concern for those with large heads. I don't have experience with any other TB helmets to make a comparison, but I'd guess an all ABS Thermo-Vac-Formed version being much thinner would give a bit more leeway in fitting padding/liners. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greenyone Posted April 27, 2019 Author Share Posted April 27, 2019 Whipped up a proper display stand on my little CNC table to proudly display my finished bucket. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CatfoodRob Posted April 28, 2019 Share Posted April 28, 2019 That's a nice helmet stand... and it looks like you have got the hang of rattle cans ,nice paint job . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greenyone Posted May 4, 2019 Author Share Posted May 4, 2019 My sewing skills summed up = Gordon Gartrell shirt 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greenyone Posted May 4, 2019 Author Share Posted May 4, 2019 It took me all day, but I think I got this coverall fitted. In hindsight I should have bought a smaller size. I basically took 2 inches out of this thing from the legs all the way up to the arm cuffs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greenyone Posted May 11, 2019 Author Share Posted May 11, 2019 I've been slacking on this build as of late. Anyway turning attention to other items I can make without having my armor kit in hand to size things up I'm going to attempt to make some 5x6 bund pouches. Again digging into my old stash of US Navy uniforms I came across a couple pairs of heavy cotton white bell bottom uniform pants. Not enough material for the bund itself, but certainly enough to make up the pouches. I have a small desktop CNC machine on hand so I decided I'd make some pattern tracing templates from some 1/16 inch ABS plastic sheet instead of trying to transfer a paper template to fabric. My sewing skills are still in adolescent stage, so hopefully having an accurate pattern making tool helps me along. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greenyone Posted May 14, 2019 Author Share Posted May 14, 2019 I made a pouch today......barely bled at all and only broke one needle!!! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jakeputt Posted May 14, 2019 Share Posted May 14, 2019 2 hours ago, greenyone said: I made a pouch today......barely bled at all and only broke one needle!!! I would count that as a win! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greenyone Posted May 15, 2019 Author Share Posted May 15, 2019 Pouches fitted with CNC cut .125" styrene boxes . 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HSM76 Posted May 15, 2019 Share Posted May 15, 2019 Wow, very cool! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greenyone Posted May 16, 2019 Author Share Posted May 16, 2019 I think I've exhausted everything I can make/sew without having an armor kit on hand. I really need to see where the parts will end up on my body before sewing riding patches, making a bund/cod etc.. With that in mind and after much debating on which vendor kit to buy I decided on entrusting the job to Jeff at Studio Creations. I'm really pleased with my MC bucket and was leaning toward using Cal's armor kit too.... but some other scouts in my garrison talked me into the SC kit....for no other reason than the SC stuff seems to be available at any time without having to wait for a kit run.....and the ease of getting replacement parts when/if something is damaged beyond repair. Looking forward to getting this kit in hand and wrapping this project up. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chopper Posted May 16, 2019 Share Posted May 16, 2019 Both MC and SC are good choices. Jeff recently updated his molds, so I don't think you'll be disappointed in the route you took. Looking forward to seeing the rest of your build. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greenyone Posted May 18, 2019 Author Share Posted May 18, 2019 Really pleased with how my pouches turned out. Making these rigid plastic pattern tracing templates made it so easy for a novice sewing machine operator. I'll probably use the same method on the bund lines and cod instead of trusting my ability to use a ruler with any kind of consistency. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greenyone Posted May 18, 2019 Author Share Posted May 18, 2019 Putting this here for posterity. I really love the old pants fabric I used for the pouches. It's not super heavy like full on canvas or duck cloth, but heavier than most white fabrics that I came across at the fabric store. I had luck finding this stuff at a Joann store. It's pretty much a spot on match to the old pants fabric. Nice thickness, just the right amount of sheen without being shiny and it's not opaque/transparent like most white fabrics. https://www.joann.com/drill-fabric-40-white/15782204.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaygoErm Posted May 18, 2019 Share Posted May 18, 2019 Putting this here for posterity. I really love the old pants fabric I used for the pouches. It's not super heavy like full on canvas or duck cloth, but heavier than most white fabrics that I came across at the fabric store. I had luck finding this stuff at a Joann store. It's pretty much a spot on match to the old pants fabric. Nice thickness, just the right amount of sheen without being shiny and it's not opaque/transparent like most white fabrics.https://www.joann.com/drill-fabric-40-white/15782204.htmlCan I use this for canvas belt? Also just 1 yard? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaygoErm Posted May 18, 2019 Share Posted May 18, 2019 Also, do you have a pdf of the pattern you used for pouches? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greenyone Posted May 18, 2019 Author Share Posted May 18, 2019 35 minutes ago, DaygoErm said: Can I use this for canvas belt? Also just 1 yard? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk For the scout trooper belts? Probably not. I think most use a traditional belt made of cotton webbing. That stuff usually comes in a roll of pre-made widths that you just cut to length. If you are referring to the cummerbund and cod piece.. then yes. I don't see why not. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greenyone Posted May 18, 2019 Author Share Posted May 18, 2019 38 minutes ago, DaygoErm said: Also, do you have a pdf of the pattern you used for pouches? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Sorry, I don't have a .pdf file. There is a topic/thread in the soft parts area of the forum with the dimensions shown in photo, but I don't see a downloadable .pdf file for the pattern. I just used the photo as a reference to recreate the pattern in a CAD/CAM program for use in cutting them out on a desktop CNC router. Forum user DK5IDE created the pattern. Maybe you can ask him if he has that image in .pdf format. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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