
Spray painted the helmet acrylic metallic silver. Sprayed the helmet with automotive putty spray primer to fill in some of the layer lines. Sanded the helmet with sandpaper to remove some of the layer lines. So after printing the helmet I did the following: “Next, I looked on Youtube for tutorials re weathering Cosplay helmets and armour and applied similar techniques that I’d used on miniatures to paint and weather the helmet. It was a four-day print in the end – the longest I’ve ever done - and I used about 1.5Kgs filament. So I printed the helmet again at full size.
“However, it turned out OK as I then realised it would make sense to make an adult-sized one so he could continue wearing it. I was using the Crealty CR10 3D printer and it didn’t have a resume function or a low filament sensor so if the print failed mid-print it just failed. I started with a child-sized helmet by scaling down the original design but the print failed. “So I looked on Youtube to see if I could find someone who had already 3D printed a Mandalorian helmet and three different people recommended this Nikko Industries helmet. You could definitely try to design your own helmet though – it would be a really fun challenge. Plus, my heart lies more in the making than the designing. “I thought about using 3D design software to make my own parts but there are heaps of 3D designs already out there.
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