Magneto Project

Here's one I haven't seen anyone do yet which surprised me, Magneto's helmet from the first Xmen movie:

I managed to find an old pepakura file floating around that I think was modelled by Dungbeetle, the file was not created by me. I think the file was an early draft, the faceplate if you will and the helmet section are separate pieces and when overlayed with an image of the screen used helmet the shapes were a little off:

I sketched over the actual model with the basic forms of the screen helmet as a reference whilst I was building the pepakura model, with the paper helmet I redid most of the major shapes such as the eye shape, ear slots and the crown shape that curves above the ear down to the front of the helmet. Some of the other mods I will leave till I get to the bondo stage. 

The crown piece needed a lot of reshaping, so I added more card to the area to create more accurate curves, the same went for the ear slots. Luckily with only a few little patches the old lip pieces fit around the new shapes and it didn't take too long to get the whole thing built.

The helmet looks pretty dam messy at this stage but that's because I glue all the tabs onto the outside to give a smooth interior since I will be using the same process here as I used on the Guy Manuel Helmet, with the new crown shape I needed to recut the inside of the helmet to reveal the new shape so that the bondo mix would reach right into the small corners.

The right side has been roughly trimmed out here and you can see how the left side was covering the now lower profile of the front detail. Small triangles were cut out of the crown pieces edges so that it could curve into the same shape as the rest of the helmet as the original shape was too blocky.

I then made some inner supports that matched up to the new shape to keep it symmetrical and prevent warping during the next stage.

Now all ready to go !