ekuth said:True, but unfortunately the helmet is too small, or my head is too big to put the eyeholes there... LOL.
I modified the eye parts Bazookajo sent us to fit what I had done- it leaves a small opening for vision. With the helmet on and the electronics going, you can barely see the person's eyes. I'm pretty happy with it.
It's a tight fit, though- if I were to do it again, I'd probably scale the model up by about 10 to 20%.
I also found it necessary to add another row on the bottom of the mouthpiece grille- it didn't quite reach the bottom edge of the helm.
Admittedly, my version is heavily modified due to the addition of the electronics, but I have to take my hat off to Bazookajo.
This model is VERY well designed and fairly easy to build, given the amount of compound curves it has.
Kudos!
Now get to work on the neck and shoulder piece, will you? :-D
Seriously. I'd love to see this evolve into a full suit.
I think that wearing the helmet under studio direction and wearing 'for real' warrants slightly more visibility than the micro dots would allow :-D . You could always get the lens from one of those cheap wraparound sunglasses and glue that on the inside.
As for the mouth grille - is it supposed to reach the bottom of the helmet? I Checked out WGFE and it looks like it stops short by about 1 band:
http://www.wegottafindearth.com/head.htm
As for the coloured filter I'm sure you can get coloured transparent paper from some craft shop or other but I like Red's transparency idea.
I've also seen it done with some transparent tubing (imagine a clear rubber straw). Cut a slice along the back of the tube and curve over the LEDs - it looked pretty good if I recall.
Anyway, the next picture we want to see is you wearing it Ekuth :grin:
And I reckon the neck and shoulder peices should be a doddle after the helmet :razz: - I hope I can call on your assistance when I've got a Ceta to build.
Best regards
Paul.