My first Pepakura project - Magneto Helmet Part 6 - Applying Resin

This is a video detailing my 1st pepakura (paper craft) project building a comic book style Magneto helmet. The goal is that I will end up with a nice quality wearable replica.

Part 6:
I'm going through the process of applying resin to the outside of my helmet. This will make the helmet stronger and will help with retaining the shape when I need to apply fiber glass cloth to the inside as well as when i go to apply bondo to the outside to get it nice and smooth.

At this stage I am taking my paper helmet and applying the liquid and letting it sit over night. Normally it should only take a few hours to dry... however it's mid november here in NY and it's starting to get really cold out. The process of drying took a little longer than it normally would.

** Make sure you wear gloves and a mask when applying the resin. The fumes are very toxic. Also make sure you are doing this outside or in a well ventilated room.

You can find the Resin at Walmart in the automotive section. The container I bought came with the liquid hardener however I bought extra incase i needed it.

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• Pepakura
• Magneto
• Helmet
• Iron Man
• Resin
• Strengthening
• Fiber Glass
• Bondo
• Walmart
• x-men
• Halo
• Reach
• Replica
• tutorial
• paper

[shadow0imposter]

walmart has awesome cheap brushes. also get some acetone so you can keep your brushes clean. i got about 4 uses out of each one of mine and thats only bcus i got lazy about cleaning them lol

[clyparkr]

@shadow0imposter Thanks for the tip. I'm actually heading to walmart this weekend so I might try to find some Acetone to pickup. Anything to help save some money in the long run.

[camra93]

bc i was going to do that and make cast molds from so i can make multi ones . could you do a video of one ?

[clyparkr]

@camra93 - All depending how this goes I might attempt making a mold... If I do I will definitely be making a video for that.

[camra93]

could you do the same with a loki mask pepakura ?

[clyparkr]

@camra93 Yeah man. Just google Loki Helmet pdo the first link that comes up should be the movie version of the helmet that you can download. Just open it in Pepakura Designer or Viewer to check it out.

I wont lie... that looks like it would be a difficult project... cool as hell though

[camra93]

good luck dude bc i love magneto :)