19.After the painting ,all is done now.,Ironman helmet was almost done.
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16.Now everything is done.,next is the funnest part of all "the sanding time".,Smoothen all the rough surfaces of the helmet using sandpaper grit 250 and finalized it using grit 800 + water technics.(search on youtube how to sand a pepakura ) 17.After sanding it and you found it smooth enough.The easiest part is next "the spray painting" 18.Before you spray paint.,make sure to mask all the parts that was not intended to be painted.You can use a primer paint(gray or white"optional only)before painting it with the desire color you want. 14.After coating all the external parts of the helmet.,cure it again in 24 hrs 15.If you find the helmet was hard enough for you.,then its time for patching it up with Putty(use in automotive body filler).,Coat everything that has bumps or gaps. 13.After the long wait of 24 hrs.,Same procedure in mixing chemical.But this time coating the cardboard helmet with Fiber Mats.Same approach,it's like painting but with a little force of pushing down the fibers to help the chemical melt the fibers. 12.Coat the pepakura helmet you build.,Coat it with the chemical you mix.(initially no fiber mats) ,after coating all of it.,Let it rest for 24 hrs(yes,patience is a virtue here).,24 hrs will help the resin cured itself and hardened the cardboard. 11.Just estimate or mix only what you need.,For it dries up very quickly when not attended.(15 minutes grace period to finish all up the mixture.)Use the chemical mixtures as fast as you can. I used 1:1 ratio which is 1 drop of hardener per 1 bottle cap of the resin. 8.If your sure enough and ready to finalize it.,(it's only one time no turning back on this procedure., 9.Prepare the chemical needed for resinning 10. 6.After cutting & pasting your templates on cardboard.,Start folding and connecting the tabs.(tabs have corresponding numbers to follow) 7.After combining the parts of templates and succesfully created the ironman helmet shape.,Double check it.,before finalizing it in resinning and fiberglassing.
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(Links of software can be found in some parts of this intructables) 4.Print out the template 5.Start cutting out the template & paste it on cardboard.,Using cardboard is advisable for it's stiffness. 2.Get the file( link will be in some parts of instructables) 3.Using a windows computer will be an advantage(optional).,Get the software from Tama Software a.Pepakura Viewer(for viewing pep files only) b.Pepakura designer(you can edit the pdo file(pepakura template).,change the sizing of your project,add tabs etc. Steps: Ironman Helmet Mark VI How to build an Ironman helmet., 1.Start it with pepakura (an art of making things out of paper or cardboard).