Daft Punk Dev Diary 8
Posted by Andy | | Posted On Wednesday, February 17, 2010 at 8:59 PM
Hi.
So what an eventful day. God, I am so exhausted that I am literally falling asleep at the keyboard. The best part is that I have to get up for work in a few hours, and will proceed to put two more long days on these. It's a good thing that working on these makes the time go fast.
And now, some pictures.
So if you're just tuning in, or have been following the whole time, you should know that we began on the tedious task of Bondo-ing. Bondo is a brand name. The product we're actually using is Bondo brand body filler. Usually used to fill in dents on cars. The idea here is that if we pile the Bondo on top of the base, we can sand it down into the shape we want. It works really great, and can solve any mistakes you've made in the earlier step, only there's a catch (and there's a catch to everything) you have to be up for umpteen million hours of sanding.
Now on the other helmet, we had encountered an issue with a large crack in the side of the dome. We were concerned with having to start again from the very beginning until we stumbled upon a baseball helmet at Academy sports that we thought we could use. The idea was to cut the face off of the Thomas helmet and reattach it to the baseball helmet. It was almost a perfect fit.
Of course, there's a catch, since the both of us are perfectionists, we wanted to adjust the way the helmet sat on Jimmy's head. The plan was to take about an inch and a half out of the center of the helmet, lowering the top of the dome down to more near the ear area.
I want to say it was easier than I expected it being, but I wasn't the one doing the cutting.
So, by the end of the day, my helmet had been Bondo-ed and re-Bondo-ed many times, and sanded to almost perfection. I'd show a picture here, but evidently I don't have a more recent one...
Jim's came out great. We Bondo-ed the whole thing into one piece.
Pretty great, right? Well, the plan is (and I don't want to jinx it) to start painting next time we meet, and start vacuum forming the visors after that. Which would put us at almost 90% done. What a trip, man.
Andy
So what an eventful day. God, I am so exhausted that I am literally falling asleep at the keyboard. The best part is that I have to get up for work in a few hours, and will proceed to put two more long days on these. It's a good thing that working on these makes the time go fast.
And now, some pictures.
So if you're just tuning in, or have been following the whole time, you should know that we began on the tedious task of Bondo-ing. Bondo is a brand name. The product we're actually using is Bondo brand body filler. Usually used to fill in dents on cars. The idea here is that if we pile the Bondo on top of the base, we can sand it down into the shape we want. It works really great, and can solve any mistakes you've made in the earlier step, only there's a catch (and there's a catch to everything) you have to be up for umpteen million hours of sanding.
Now on the other helmet, we had encountered an issue with a large crack in the side of the dome. We were concerned with having to start again from the very beginning until we stumbled upon a baseball helmet at Academy sports that we thought we could use. The idea was to cut the face off of the Thomas helmet and reattach it to the baseball helmet. It was almost a perfect fit.
Of course, there's a catch, since the both of us are perfectionists, we wanted to adjust the way the helmet sat on Jimmy's head. The plan was to take about an inch and a half out of the center of the helmet, lowering the top of the dome down to more near the ear area.
I want to say it was easier than I expected it being, but I wasn't the one doing the cutting.
So, by the end of the day, my helmet had been Bondo-ed and re-Bondo-ed many times, and sanded to almost perfection. I'd show a picture here, but evidently I don't have a more recent one...
Jim's came out great. We Bondo-ed the whole thing into one piece.
Pretty great, right? Well, the plan is (and I don't want to jinx it) to start painting next time we meet, and start vacuum forming the visors after that. Which would put us at almost 90% done. What a trip, man.
Andy
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