Prop: Live from the Shop - Making a Cheap Helmet Template 

Great way to make a pattern. Just make one side of your helmet. Perfect!

I made my motorcycle seat form out of that pink foam and I actually used an electric carving knife to shape the foam. It works fantastic. Just thought I would throw that out there. Thanks for the great videos!

You make it look so easy. I feel inadequate :(. Great job, very cool

another awesome video from the master foam fabricator. I think this technique will work really well on a foam master chief helmet!

amazing i love seeing different techniques

Ya know, that would be a nice little give away idea if you decided to finish your prototype helmet. Can't wait to see the end result of this costume. You guys are an inspiration to builder's everywhere. Great job.

This is exactly what I was looking for. A lot of cosplayers and makers start out with simple tools.

YES!!! Thank you Punished Props!!!

trying to make knuckle head radar from destiny, when I watch u guys make u awesome armor I get all inspired and really excited, then I go to make stuff and the only materiel I have to work with is construction paper, and after about five minuets of frustrated paper cutting and folding, I angrily go on youtube and watch u make stuff to feel better XD ~love ur videos!!!!!!!!!

Perfect I'm working on a helmet now this is a timesaver TY!

A trick that I use to make patterns for helmets is to use sculpting clay on a styrofoam bust. I make a pretty basic shape and then cover it with tin foil and duct tape.

I actually did this myself with pink foam for a doom slayer helmet it worked pretty well then I sculpted on top of that with monster clay have plans to do it again for an airsoft helmet

Are you going to complete a design with this in another video? That'd be awesome! Love your work.

Thanks for all the great vids! How do you know when you should cut a release, versus when you can just heat and form the foam?

The ruler... that;s freaking BRILLIANT...

a bread knife works really well with that insulation foam. i made some 4' peppermint candies out of that stuff in high school and the bread knife worked better than the foam cutter we had

I LOVE THIS

G'day BIll! Is it okay to apply heat to the glued form? Does the heat affect the strength of the contact cement? Thanks for another amazeballz video. You rock, mate!

This is a cool!!!!!...... video plus I like the jazz music 🎷 to.

you guys should make a clone or mandalorian bounty hunter

Bill I was wondering if you could do a video on smooth cast products. like which product would be more durable when cast, or more flexible. is that something you explain? I read on there website, but I feel like I would understand more coming from you.

funny coincidence that i happen to be working on my own helmet right now too. AN original design, right now just trying to get a base shape going by layering cardboard i've got with a sizing template i printed out.

I have the same Shinto file, only i use it to carve guitar necks, it's savage... is it wrong that i like using it so much? :p think it's also known as a japanese saw file.

if i didn't work evenings I would totally watch the stream live.

Bill, is your work bench build up (i.e higher than normal work surfaces) so you don't have to lean over so far? Also, how do you stop dust getting into your workshop PC?

you should try making the dead space military suit

good job like the video is there any way to get that template the second one so I can give it a try

Maybe a little late to the game, but I have a question. I've done a lot of building with insulation foam, but I've always had problems gluing pieces together with various contact cements (super 77, super 74) and even various glues with the foam "frying" and melting leaving huge voids and gaps. Any tips?

freaky. subbed as he said new sub freaked me out for a sec. haha

I found that when I made a pattern off of something before when I put it together with the floormats it was smaller than the original I had made the pattern over. I was curious if there was a way to amend this? I used a foam skull once to make a pattern over but the helmet made will not fit the skull now as its to small inside. Is there something I am doing wrong?

HI! i am a maker and i would like to make a helmet like this! would you mind sharing the smaller helmet template with me?

sorry I'm so late but using a heat gun to round it will keep it from going into that oval shape that you get when the foam wants to spring back, no?

Hey bill. I know you might of said it at some stage, but how long are you doing prop making?

cool, thanks!

When you take photo reference pictures of yourself like that, what lens (50mm? 35mm? Sorry, I'm forgetting the proper name for that, at the moment) do you use to limit distortion and get the most accurate representation?

Does the foam that you use have fiberglass? Every time i l look for eps foam it has fiberglass and i dont know if it will seal, so i dont buy it.

Is there a U.K. Equilevant to the foam ? Ive looked around but I'm not 100% on the product could you put a link in or give me a tip please thank you :)

Cool!

well... I'm planning on cosplaying Slayer Pantheon for NYCC. the helmet design is pretty much the same one as this one in the video. is there ANY way you can provide the templates? I know I can do it myself and I have previously done it. I live in an apartment building with a roommate so.. I have NO space to work. having the templates would allow me to skip a lot of steps and it would mean I just have to cut glue and paint... also make LESS of a mess. :D you would be a hero if you can do that for me. besides! I would be recording the entire posses of how I make it. (the templates for the finished version.) you head can't be that much different than mine XD

How did you line up the ruler image to the photo of your head?

what type of knife sharpener do you use?

I was FREAKED out for a second. As soon as I hit the sub button you said, "Heey, we got a new sub" Realized it was a coincidence when you thanked BOB. Oh jesus... Thought there was a new update or something.

Quick question about safety: I'm working on a mando helmet and I used barge cement to glue the pieces. It's been a couple of days since and I've noticed when I try it on, the cement smell is still pretty strong. Should I be worried about the smell?

No respirator when using barge? :) :)

I'm totally using this method if I need to shape out giant World of Warcraft shoulders for my template :D

Hi Bill!! maybe you had to resize the templates because you made the base with the insulation foam as big as you wanted the helmet to be? :) so that when you made the first foam shaped they "gained" 5mm (the foam thickness)? :)

Gonna try using this method to make a Dalek dome. I may end up just stopping at the insulation step...

So, if I want to make the Dovahkiin helmet from Skyrim could I just make the form with Polystyrene, then Bondo it? Other crafters like Volpin make a sort of skeleton out of MDF, but can I skip that step?

That first helmet might fit "The Mountain" Sir Gregor Clegane of 'Game Of Thrones'.

I tried this and failed so baaaad haha, i felt like Homer when he tried to make a barbecue pit ... i may have got the wrong foam though, they only have white and other foam that was kinda green/mint... is there a great difference? I might try again soon haha.

Any chance youd be willing to release the pattern for the helmet?

On compound curves like this, do you not need to bevel cut mating edges?

I think you didn't link the head form video in the description!

Is the black foam also the gym flooring material?

What can you use for filling in holes or scratches in your foam?

If you are doing a helmet this way, remember that you are measuring the outside. You need to account for the thickness of the foam on your template. This was how the first attempt was 10% too large. Remove the thickness of the foam from your template before cutting your foam.

I will be buying your physical foam armor book here soon! Is there any sweet talking i can do to have one of you two amazing people sign it??? :D Please and thank you

I have a request for sir bill. Can you mod a nerf maverick. I really would like to see how you do it to make it more realistic. Thank you 😅

Did you go to school for this?

nice finish with the duffman impersonation lol

Hey what paper did you use for template drawings

9 views oh my. tutorial for the head form link isn't in description right now.

5:24 shepherdofmen is now a proptart!

Is there any where I can get copy of your patten?

wood glue works to

Can you make the Deadpool movie mask please?

If you change the blade in that box cutter with any regularity, I can almost guarantee you that you're only dulling it with that knife sharpener. Razor blades come extremely sharp off the factory line, and are very fragile.

How did you make the other half of the helmet?

You know I keep calling you guys Punisher props 🤔😂😉

fialure to wear ppe. =proper protective equipement.

Offtopic: I do a lot of terrain for tabletop wargaming, where do you find the thick pink foam? I can only find 1inch stuff.

This has possibly already been answered in one of the comments but is there a way you'd be able to give me the pattern? I'd be willing to pay for the template

I want to sculpt/make/cast/mold a helmet from star wars but don't know how to!!! Is there relatively cheap way to do this for like >100 dollars?

check out Deadbeard Props on Instagram and Facebook ..He made the same helmet!!

no respirator?

Sureform

What did u use to make the helmet the second time "later that day"? It was darker and seemed more stiff. Was it just a different type of material or was it still EVA?

Is this from the Automatron Dlc for Fo4?

Could you make a helmet of Netflix 's Ultraman,please?

Bill Doran... Build a ran?

I only wish you would have taken advantage of on screen captions to humbly explain the audience through your difficulty deciding where to slice your tape template instead of keeping the realness offscreen, jump cutting to the next step so soon on this one. It looked a lil scurrdy. Most of us have the most trouble at that stage there and are weeded out by the daunting feeling of stupidness alone. Then we go screw off time on yt and end up commenting on a cool craft video I found down the rabbit hole. Great tut. Don't hide tho. This ain't TV. We don't subscribe for that weak mess. Cheers.

Not shown: screams of many PropTarts who are sensitive to the sound of knives cutting styrofoam! :D

Why hasn't he done anything from the gears universe

First time in my life I ever realized tin foil and aluminum foil are different things lol.

you make it look way to easy. but you also have the money to learn from your failures. I have enough money.. if in lucky for one try. if I screw up. I really. Financially don't have the choice but to give up...

I thought insulation foam caused cancer & is hazardous to have particles in the air, or around you.

Let me get a ruler from my ruler drawer...like all normal people do

Hmm, so is this cosplay a [SPOILER ALERT KINDA] crossplay, technically? :P

Wow I'm early.

Good work, but I think it would be better if you make the helmet first in clay and you slowly work that out

that helmet is also in fallout 3.

Downside to this method: all the rigid foam squeaks! _shudder_

Why not just buy a cheap bike helmet, and take the plastic off from the outside? ....