Recently I started rewatching the whole MCU for the upcoming movie avengers doomsday, and I thought why not build an iron man helmet. I chose the MK III for its iconic look and for its simplicity as it's my first time building a helmet. For this project I have a couple of goals which might seem simple, 1- Fit on my head. 2-the faceplate is motorized (able to open) 3-have lighting on the eyes
Finally!!! Starting the dome of the helmet. Actually this part was the most time consuming, the dome is spilt into 4 part, the 1st part took +4 hours to finish
Just done with the cheeks, also fully done with the chin/jaw area but there was an issue with the Lapse app
finished the chin area, still continuing the lower part of the face
Just finished the jaw, prob I’ll continue w the cheeks or the upper chin area
not much but still working on the jaw area
After finishing the face plate, started to work on the jaw/chin area of the helmet. its a small of a progress but consistency matters more
Cleaned and finished the face plate after just an hour after getting hang of the modeling technique
nothing new just countiuing the outline of the faceplate using splines and surface modeling
Update!! I’ve been try to fix and transform the STL models to solid for more than 1 and 1/2 hours . then I tried to model the helmet from scratch, which eventually is the better option for future upgrades, THE PROBLEM is time, modeling the whole helmet from zero is very time consuming. SO I need your help should I work with the STL’s OR model the helmet myself
starting this project I made to things, printed a sizing tool to measure the helmet on my head. then I started with turn the stl files into solids, so I could tweak and add features to them
