Daft Punk Dev Diary 6
Posted by Andy | Labels: cosplay, costume, daft punk, dragon*con, props | Posted On Tuesday, February 9, 2010 at 6:21 AM
Hi.
So, I'm a little late with this one, since I got home last night but couldn't upload until today. We were up until four-ish in the morning the day before, so I was dead tired.
Not much has happened on this end. Last time I was talking about the crack in Jim's helmet.
SO, sucks, right? Yeah. It does. Unfortunately, we think that's going to be it for that one. We either find an alternate way of fixing it, or start over. Real cool, right?
Well, turns out it is pretty cool. We found this great baseball helmet at Academy sports for ten dollars. I had seen other prop makers using baseball helmets for the Tom helmet before, so we think we can do it too. With it, we'll cut the face/visor piece off the already pep'd and resin one that we're going to toss out, and try to cut some corners. I'm not ready to call it a loss just yet.
Only problem is that...well, it's still not that easy. See, when we were doing research, we came down to a simple step by step process:
1.) Make the paper base
2.) Resin and Fiberglass
3.) Something else
4.) Something else
(See post one for more detail)
Well, we think we bought the wrong fiberglass. Now that IS a problem.
See, the fiberglass MAT is little strands of fiberglass kind of pressed together. Fiberglass MAT = HUGE PAIN IN THE ASS TO USE. The fiberglass cloth is fiberglass strands woven tightly together. Fiberglass CLOTH = WONDERFUL BUT HAVE TO START OVER AGAIN. We can't get the strands from the mat under control. They're every where. Plus they itch like hell. I'm not putting that in my helmet and wearing it for four days. If push comes to shove, I'll start over again.
Andy
So, I'm a little late with this one, since I got home last night but couldn't upload until today. We were up until four-ish in the morning the day before, so I was dead tired.
Not much has happened on this end. Last time I was talking about the crack in Jim's helmet.
SO, sucks, right? Yeah. It does. Unfortunately, we think that's going to be it for that one. We either find an alternate way of fixing it, or start over. Real cool, right?
Well, turns out it is pretty cool. We found this great baseball helmet at Academy sports for ten dollars. I had seen other prop makers using baseball helmets for the Tom helmet before, so we think we can do it too. With it, we'll cut the face/visor piece off the already pep'd and resin one that we're going to toss out, and try to cut some corners. I'm not ready to call it a loss just yet.
Only problem is that...well, it's still not that easy. See, when we were doing research, we came down to a simple step by step process:
1.) Make the paper base
2.) Resin and Fiberglass
3.) Something else
4.) Something else
(See post one for more detail)
Well, we think we bought the wrong fiberglass. Now that IS a problem.
See, the fiberglass MAT is little strands of fiberglass kind of pressed together. Fiberglass MAT = HUGE PAIN IN THE ASS TO USE. The fiberglass cloth is fiberglass strands woven tightly together. Fiberglass CLOTH = WONDERFUL BUT HAVE TO START OVER AGAIN. We can't get the strands from the mat under control. They're every where. Plus they itch like hell. I'm not putting that in my helmet and wearing it for four days. If push comes to shove, I'll start over again.
Andy
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