Walt’s Trooper Factory helmet

[Zugor]

I have been working in my helmet.

 

I glued the dome halves together and sanded the ridge down. I don’t have any pics of the sanded dome prior to putting the bondo on tho.

[Zugor]

This is the helmet dome with the visor and faceplate assembled and bondoed. I noticed at this point that the bottom of the face plate angles out, you can see it in the left and right side photos. Is that ok? I thought it should be pretty much straight up and down.  I also noticed the left side of the faceplate and visor doesn’t exactly match up with the dome. I am not sure if I should heat the face and “tweak” it a little to make it fit or just leave it.

[BikerScout007]

The original helmets had that jawline taper, it's just more exaggerated on the WTF.

Also, the screen helmets did not perfect join up on the sides either.  Though you may want to tweak yours a bit so the gap is not that wide

[Zugor]

Thank you for the reply. I will try to "tweak" the dome a little and see if that gets the mating surfaces between the dome and face a little closer. The other question I have is the angle of the snout. Your photo shows the snout being nearly a right angle to the visor or straight up and down while the WTF helmet seems to angle outward, please see the photo. Should I take the face plate back out, I used E6000 so it should come apart, to reangle the face plate so that its more like your picture? I have noticed that a number of other helmet makers have snouts that angle out a bit like the WTF so I am not sure if this is a point of contention. Also, now that I am comparing the screen helmet to the WTF I see the snout isnt sticking out past the visor a little like the screen used helmet. I am not sure how I would fix that since the visor has features that I would have to cut off to shorten it enough to bring the face forward enough to make it look right.

 

[BikerScout007]

The WTF helmet doesn't score very high in accuracy and I'm not sure getting too nitpicky with it is going to lead to better results or just more frustration.  At some point you gotta say "good enough" and more onto the next thing!

[Zugor]

I see, thank you for the candid response. Hopefully, my GML isn't a nit picky person concerning these points.

[BikerScout007]

34 minutes ago, Zugor said:

I see, thank you for the candid response. Hopefully, my GML isn't a nit picky person concerning these points.

For basic approval it should be fine.