Make certain you use some acetone to clean the brush before you let it harden.
Generally its best not to do it all at once as you can get warpage. (If you are sanding, wear a hat or something, gloves and long sleeve shirts to keep the dust off your skin.Īssuming now you have a mask, mix a small amount of resin and paint the outside of the item and let it harden. In short make certain it filters organic vapors and particulate matter as you are going to use it while using the resin, and while sanding. Polyester resin is so bad for you its not funny. Step two: Buy a ABEK2 P3 multigas filter, mask and goggles. Not only does the resin cause brain damage, the sanded glass fibres cause lung damage. Step one: Read up on the safety and hazards when using fibreglass resin. Once you have an idea where/how they will be located it’s time to start on the fibreglass/resining. I used plastic watering system fittings, flexible tubing, old plastic torches and binoculars and finally bits and pieces i found around the workshop. Once you have the majority of the item glued together (BTW i use wood glue, it cures quick, doesn’t glue your fingers together like super glue and doesn’t give you 3rd degree burns like hot glue.) it’s time to think about the details (greebles). Also when starting on pep items its best to start with the bits that need to be symmetrical, as you will see below. Any messy bits or things you stuff up in the initial build will take twice as long to sand and fill later. One mistake I made was not being accurate enough. At the end of the day without mistakes you can’t learn. The best way to get into pepakura is to start small and easy to get use to how it all works, then go nuts on your project. Some pep files need to be scaled but I won’t go into detail as there are much better tutorials around than what i could create.īuy yourself a pack of 50 210 GSM weight card. I decided to use a program/process called Pepakura to create the helmet and started with a 'pep' file someone had created before (I'll have to credit the person once i can find the file again) which was already scaled to the right size. My first (Or second, the pulse rifle seems to be sitting and thinking) real attempt at a replica prop was the Fallout 3 Brotherhood of Steel helmet.
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