Thor, the Goddess of Thunder Part 2: Molding the Helmet

At the end of the last post on this project, I had three shiny helmet parts.  The first one looked like so:


The other two pieces looked like this:


Tacked together in a hurry, they looked kinda like this:


The problem: the carved and polished prototype helmet is way too thick, way too heavy, and way too pink.  So it was time I turned it into this instead:



For details on how it was done, read on...

Thor, the Goddess of Thunder Part 1: Prototyping the Helmet

My shop robots had some free time lately, so I got them working on something new carved out of some leftover MDF I had sitting around: 


After a couple of miscalculations, I finally assembled a helmet with a size that I like:


Before the day was over, I soaked it with primer:


The next day I got started cleaning up some of the details:


After a bit of bondo work, it was looking pretty good:






Here's the wings after a bit more love with a file and some sanding blocks:


So the new addition to my routing in the shop is to spend the last few minutes tinkering a bit with this helmet and then adding a coat of primer:


Here's how it looked last night:


Which means it looked like this this morning:




Here's the inside face of the wings with the cutouts that register to the sides of the helmet:



Once that dried, I sprayed the outside faces too:
I'm not sure why, but this is the first time I've sprayed something with my standard high-gloss pink prototype paint and not had it instantly feel wrong*. Once the paint is dry, I'll flip the wings over and give the outside faces a nice, glossy coat of paint.  Then I'll be ready to start molding all three pieces and make them into something wearable.

Now I just need to resist the urge to dive in all the way on this project and make some shiny ARMORED BOOBS!

I'll probably fail though.  This outfit is pretty darned sexy:


Stay tuned...

*Historically, I use pink gloss paint for my prototypes for no reason other than to aggravate a certain subset of people.  In this case, those are probably the same people that will already be upset by the creation of a female Thor.  So that's an added bonus.