Ugh today was a day of disappointments and frustrations.
Lets start with the good: The greeblie printed and glued fine.
Painted up nicely, unpictured. So that's done at least. I also twisted metal to make loops for the backplate and chestplate, riveted those boys the rest of the way in, and gave it all a scuff and paint.
Now onto helmet assembly. I painted the greeblie on the side "rangefinder" and the rest of the lid, then installed the notched code disks. I got the notched code disks from this really cool vendor called Bailey Builds. Highly recommended lol.
I went to install the trim and low and behold, the trim in the kit was juuuuuust a tad short of the amount I needed. Sad day.
Luckily I had some U-Channel I could cut to size to finish it for now. I might replace it all with that thicker boy, I sorta like how it looks and feels.
I also installed the painted resin metal spine in the back. He's in there with wood screws so he can be replaced with tapped metal once I lathe the actual part. Will that happen before approval? Likely not.
So the rough bit of the helmet is done. I might clear coat it, I'm not sure. I'm worried about the feldgrau layer scuffing.
Unfortunately my goggles elastic was too short to get around the bucket, so I'm waiting until tomorrow to get more gray elastic and extend him. Ugh I really wanted the helmet to be done today.
Just the backplate and the rest of the chest to go.