Sunday, November 11, 2012

Derby Helmet

This is that post that about derby I mentioned might be talked about. My derby name was approved last week. I am now "Jayne Snobb," after Jayne Cobb from" Firefly" and "Serenity".
 


Well, This means I needed to have that stocking hat for my helmet, RIGHT? Right. I knew you would agree. Here is how we did it. Firstly, I used 400 grit sand paper to scuff up the outside of the green helmet.

I forgot to photograph the B4 Helmet. So sand paper is all you get. After I sanded it down, we washed the helmet and let it dry. I put on rubber gloves to keep the oils from my fingers from ruining the paint when it goes on the helmet. We did a base coat of the yellow, but I we realized there was a lip where the "tripple eight" logo on the back was. To fix this we used lighter fluid to remove the logo.


I wish we I had thought about this before we started painting it. Use a light coat of paint. EVERY TIME. A thick coat and you get runs. The paint we used was valspar paint for plastic. It was great. Use this. I liked the satin finish, but they had glossy.


We did 3 coats of yellow base coat.



Then, after 8-10 hours I taped off the area that I wanted to remain yellow with paper and painters tape and we gave the orange 2-3 coats of orange.

After 8-10 hours I began painting the knitting stitches with the acrylic gauche that you saw in the photo of paints above.


After about 6 hours I finally finished the stitches.


We then used the high heat top coat as seen in the photo earlier and put 4 coats of clear coat.


I'm going to take that sand paper and wet it. Then hit the helmet again. This will get the ridges from the guache out of it. Then, respray the top coat once or twice. That should be it. Hope this helps with anyone who wants to paint their helmet.

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