Two steps forward, one step back.

I am backtracking on Rescue just a little bit. I coated the helmet with PVA glue (diluted wood glue in this case), and opened up the back a little bit more for ease of access (to put it on). Then, when I tried it on, the glue cracked (crazed?) and it fit, but it was a huge pain to put on and wear. The chin also rubbed rather annoyingly on my chin/neck and we just weren't having that.

Not pictured: my head.

I went and bought Pepakura Designer so I could scale the armor up a bit. I basically went by percentages instead of measuring exactly for every dimension of every piece (the armor was designed for someone 5'7" and I'm 5'10") and have saved the new, larger sized files. I am a lazy person. Sometime this week I'll be re-printing and trying out a heavier foam (I guess). The craft foam is awesome to work with because I can do most of my pieces with scissors, but it's VERY difficult to get the seams to be smooth. There's not much space between "outside" and "inside," so gluing it down from the outside in doesn't do all that much to prevent glue leakage.

I'm still going to keep finishing the first helmet and make it my experimental piece, basically. I've got Plasti-dip and am choosing paint soon. This way, if I mess up, it wasn't the final helmet anyway. If it looks good, I'm sure I have a (smaller than me) nerdy lady friend who wouldn't mind having an Iron Woman helmet.

I took up Rescue before any of the other potential projects because I got a FANTASTIC pepakura file for it already from JFcustom on the Replica Props Forum (RPF) - I love that place, and I love that guy.

TTFN!