Just apply liberal amouts of paint to a brush and channel your inner Jackson Pollock. Using loads of thinned down black, umber and a little green acrylic paints, I waetherd the helmet. So layers of dirt, dust and oil must be coating this helmet. Quickly wiped down at the end of a shift and back in the mines. This equipment must have been used in some asteroid mine or planet core for years. In space, no one can hear you scream, but you can still get mighy dirty. For the latter part, I put some black gaffer's tape down the middle section.ĭon't forget to paint the knobs of the strap as well – I almost did. I painted some panels with a lighter, some with a darker silver, some with a lighter copper to give it a look of being made out of different materials.Ĭhecking the reference I found that some parts of the helmet seem to be brass, some zinc-ish and some fabric or fabric-coated. As Adam Savage always says 'Weathering tells a story' and every story begins with a new thing. I knew this thing would be heavily weathered, but I decided to paint It 'factory new' at first. Once the white base was dry It applied a base of copper acrylic paint with a brush. Black would have been easier to hide if the next paint layer missed any spots. In hindsight it might have been better to use black paint, but I dind't have any at the time, and it was Sunday. Acrylic paint doesn't eat away the EVA and dries quite fast. )Īfter I was satisfied with the panels and greeblies, I spraypainted the whole thing white with acrylic paint. Vision & function = more important than looks. Double check that you neither obscure your vision nor sensors in the process. I added 2 wooden coffee stirrers to the visor as 'guards'. For one because it was there and it has a pin in the middle to open the glue, which adds extra detail. The rivets where pressed in with the cap of the superglue bottle. Looking at the reference, I thought it was important to work in layers to give it some depth, so I addes bits and pieces to some of the panels. Be careful, while it might be quite handy, that it sticks fast, it's also not very forgiving since it sticks fast (to fingers also). I tried to work symmetricaly as much as possible.Įverything was glued down using superglue. The parts that wrapped around corners where a little tricky, but it worked out fine. Using thin (1-2mm) EVA foam, I cut out all the shapes with a cutter knife and/or scissors. Then I drew the patterns on the helmet with a pencil (sorry, no pictures of that). First, I took out the visor, the electronics and the head strap.

Diy dead space helmet