loving this style of build video, no nonsense, just telling you the main things that you need to know and no voiceover for every freaking step you do (not that I have anything wrong with people that do that style, but it can be annoying at times). Anyway keep up what you're doing, love your style and your work :)
+Ironclad Industries i would go wider and maybe a little deeper. i think my one is about an inch in the center.but making it deeper will probably mean more planishing work
+callum russell oh yeah you would have to then, after using that ball peen in the video i move to a 3 lb sledge and i rounded one side to fit the radius of the dish, that worked really great, and was surprisingly smooth
why not make a mold for your head pour some metal into it and use that for dishing/planing and make a second one thats the width of your head and you clamp the sheet onto it and hammer it around the cylinder so itll fit on your head
Only thing i see is a guy in same kind of armor and this helmet walks into the room with RPK in his hands and a few bandits behing him and just saying " SEEMS LIKE MEAT IS BACK IN MENU BOYS!
The dishing wouldn't be half as bad if you mounted the wood piece in an ergonomical height, instead of dishing on your knees or on top of a much too high table.
its not too bad to get tools for, cheap tin snips can be less than $20 and can cut up to 16 gauge usually, and steel you can salvage if you know where to look
I'm really new to the channel but if you can get a section of tree trunk or a few 4x4's on end, just need as many as it takes to make a hollow the size you need it. You can use a grinder or a chainsaw (use the tip, it's really dangerous) and grind out a dish. If you don't have thoes you can use charcoal and a claw hammer. If you have a Blacksmith around sometimes they use them and they may help you for some coin, or beer or some help around the shop. let me know if you need more direction.
Idea for a build I don't have a fungus idea how to go about doing it what about a helmet that will fully lock on the wear by utilizing the wearer's tongue to operate the lock mechanism
I don't think that, I just prefer that look, it does make sense though, you use what you can find, making things without necessarily all the tools or supplied you would need to make it nice, I actually do have a line of armor that's nice and well made, it's for the military of my post apoc world, and it's very uniform and nice, this helmet was for a rough scrapper costume
I've always just found the scrap metal thing odd. It doesn't take much skill or expertise to do basic blacksmithing. It takes more specialized equipment to weld than it does to smith, and files are almost always going to be readily available even in a post-apocalyptic world.
But that takes much more time, and this isn't just "a post apocalypse world" this is my post apocalypse world, that I'm writing a book and making a webseries on, there would be industrial tools and methods available, there would be fresh new sheets of metal available from foundries, but an outlaw gang isn't going to have access to them, they could have the tools because they aren't all that rare, but the material supply would be
And if your trying to make a helmet in a few hours your not going to want to blacksmith it if you can just weld it, or sit and file and polish it up when you can leave it rough and it's just as functional as a polished nice helmet
usually i scavenge it from shop projects, that way its already beat up and rusty, and i like about 16 or 18 ga for costume projects 14 or 12 ga for functional armor
scrap bins at welding shops usually will sell their scraps cheap or just give them away, welding shops in agricultural areas specifically, or a junkyard, old oil drums or burn barrels are great, and a throatless shear, roper whitney junior punch, angle grinder, rivet gun, and a small welder, welder is about $500 for a small one, i recommend miller brand, and everything else is under $100 each
For a minute I thought this was a tutorial on how to cobble together a rough helmet /in/ the apocalypse. Not how to make an apocalyptic looking helmet.
I just happened onto your channel, I have some experience with Iron and I am wondering what I'm seeing here, I think this is on purpose, but there is some rough looking armor here.
still going to do it but i got too busy to work on the car and it was taking too much space at the shop so i moved it home and will work on it again when i have time to finish it all at once
+Drut agem you could cut the hard hole with that plasma easily, and probably weld a nice piece of tool steel to the top of it as well. The only equipment I have a a 30 dollar angle grinder and some old files for shaping the horn, and mine turned out not too shabby.
