Found this stuff called MonoKote at the hobby shop across the street. It's made for R/C planes but I've been wanting to customize my gear a bit and gave it an experimental run. Anyway, I'm very happy with how it came out.
Guy at the shop said a little clear nail polish around the edges could help seal it from the elements, but I'm going to test it for a bit as is to see how it stands up.
Just printed a template and hand-cut, nothing fancy and hardly perfect... but it comes in big sheets and could see it being great for fairing work as well.
MonoKote Trim Sheet:
(http://i.imgur.com/Eme1cFWl.jpg)
Cutting:
(http://i.imgur.com/nCFjzusl.jpg)
Finished:
(http://i.imgur.com/OjoU7Spl.jpg)
Oh wow awesome! I have been planning my 4th custom helmet and this stuff might come in handy... thank you for sharing this info Tekime :cheers:
Cool! Got rained on yesterday and no issues, so far so good :)
Any of your customs posed on gstwins?
Sweet! I'd be willing to bet that stuff will stand up to the rain :insert smiley showing off arm muscles:
Hmm... I think in the Picture Game thread... there's a pic of my GS in the garage with my gear in the background... but that was a while ago...
...and in The Fink's build thread he asked to see one of my helmets once and I posted a few shots but I couldn't tell ya how long ago that was as well.
I did a Spiderman one with perforated vinyl on the visor, a Corey Taylor one where I also did the visor with the vinyl and also added dreadlocks to it... and then the other one was for my ex... it was black and white zebra stripe with a black mohawk on the top. That one I still have but I'm getting ready to re-do it. Was thinking about keeping the mohawk idea but making the design on the helmet match my GS... and I really didn't want to hand-paint or mask off and spray the letters/numbers.
That's pretty cool stuff, nice idea. ShowBiz, you need to make a helmet thread, you do cool stuff, I still get scared of that slipknot helmet :icon_eek:
Maybe someday I will do that!! Thank you for the kind words fink :D
Yeah the Slipknot helmet... I had it in mind to be creepy... kinda frightening like, "What YOU lookin' at, cager? Get your eyes on the road" lmao :laugh:
Quote from: ShowBizWolf on May 16, 2016, 05:25:48 PM
Sweet! I'd be willing to bet that stuff will stand up to the rain :insert smiley showing off arm muscles:
Hmm... I think in the Picture Game thread... there's a pic of my GS in the garage with my gear in the background... but that was a while ago...
...and in The Fink's build thread he asked to see one of my helmets once and I posted a few shots but I couldn't tell ya how long ago that was as well.
I did a Spiderman one with perforated vinyl on the visor, a Corey Taylor one where I also did the visor with the vinyl and also added dreadlocks to it... and then the other one was for my ex... it was black and white zebra stripe with a black mohawk on the top. That one I still have but I'm getting ready to re-do it. Was thinking about keeping the mohawk idea but making the design on the helmet match my GS... and I really didn't want to hand-paint or mask off and spray the letters/numbers.
They sound awesome, I'll have to dig around but I agree with Fink would be cool to see a helmet thread!
I finally got my new laptop in the mail this week and I might start a helmet thread then :)
I've searched here in the past and there is an old thread called "Let's see your helmets" or something like that but maybe I'll just start a new one.
I'd do it tonight while I'm at work but I don't have my pictures... nor does photobucket load up right on the computers here :technical:
Thank you for the kind words Tekime!!!