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gotta say, amazing quality in the model and I love that color scheme. Beats the pants off the purple scheme you see in Frontier

I was watching Gundam Unicorn and Macross Frontier to over the last few days of peping but there is more Clone Wars to cover more time haha. Yeah lots of work in the bondo stage but for my first time I cant complain yet.

Turned out better and worse than I expected if that makes sense haha. Next I'm going to resin inside then out and work towards bondo'ing. Also have been doing some reading on vacuum forming a lens. Just the finished pictures are posted here, the rest of the WIP pics are in the gallery.

Fiber glassing for me will be mid next week when i get paid haha. Your so right about learning from mistakes on first peps, this one will be a solid lesson all around from start to finish for me. I'm sure like your ODST I'll end up make a few of these helmets until I'm 100% happy. Only thing I'm debating on is the lens and how i will go about it.

Sorry if it feels like I'm posting to much on this but I've got to say I'm very excited about this regardless of outcome. This hours update.

I defiantly used the edge IDs for the same reasoning that if its gonna get bondo'd anyways why worry what the pep part looks like. As for the 'fixing' part of it I think its more my tab folds not being exact or as close as they should be. I'm going to refer to this helmet as the Mk. I learning lesson haha. I'm working on the Jaw line now paying more attention to the fold quality and gluing accuracy. Pictures posted after I've finished that part.

So after i hit a creative wall and realizing this is my first time building pep, I've continued working on the helmet haha. Couple of pics of what I did in about half hour and I realized I should have printed it all out in Black and white instead of colored as a guide to painting later. Also since the creator of the pepakura file I am using locked it I couldn't scale or adjust pages to make the helmet fit. I'm starting to think it may be unwearably small but not by much. Curse my larger than life head hahaha.

Yes there was one page where two pieces overlapped but i MacGuyver'd the tabs a bit. I disliked the idea that he password his work though i don't blame him, only wish I had the talent to CAD some models for peping. How did your spartan peps turn out? I've hitten a small wall and missed glued a piece and have been debating how to go about fixing it now or in Bondo phase.

Yep Hikuro I found a pep file while scavenging the net. Only had this helmet though in Roy, Max, Hikaru colors though. I have seen the halo peps at 405ths website also, some great works of inspiration there to.

I do plan to use the liquid resin to coat the inside and out to give it a stiffer build, then I'd like to end up using Bondo as well before re-detailing with a dremel. I actually messed up cutting 2 pages last night to haha so I've got to reprint and fix.

So I recently learned about Pepakura and how fun it could be, so here is my first VF Pilot Helmet. It is a work in progress but I should be done folding/gluing by tomorrow and Resin soon. This is about 3ish hours of work and a small .07 oz tube of super glue. Only reason I'm taking a break right now is to cut more pieces.

Cool to hear something new, defiantly my favorite tease for a long time (in a very positive way i say this!)

I ended up being Global, not bad lol