Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Incredibles Gazer Beam Helmet with The Broken Nerd”.
All right, hey guys, i’m inspired by the incredibles, so i’m back with another build [ Applause, ], [ Applause, ], [ Applause, ], [, Applause, ]. Today me [ Applause, ], all right here. It is guys. Gazer beams helmet, now um very pleased how this came out. Just to start off with – and i know, gazer beam wasn’t one of the main characters in the movie, but he was mentioned quite a bit in the incredibles.
Now my son is a big fan of the movie, he loves the movie and when he saw his helmet like he was like over the over the top with it. As usual, i’m going to talk about the process of how i went about finishing this um, i’m gon na start from the very top, and that’s with the modeling, as i do with all my models. I model in cinema 4d um, put some reference pictures from online and there’s like there’s very little, there’s like maybe two or three again, because he wasn’t one of the main characters in the movie um. There’S a black and white picture.
That’S online of gazebeam and i kind of use that, as my reference photo for the helmet in terms of the logo, what i did was i pulled that reference picture of when he was in the cave. When mr incredible found him in the cave um with the with the skull head and side, no quick side note – i was gon na this is so bad to say. I was gon na print a skull and put it on top of it to kind of replicate that scene, but i don’t think that was going to fly over well with my son, so i didn’t do it, but no i um, i uh pulled that reference photo Into um illustrator and i went ahead and uh made a vector file of the logo. I pulled that into cinema 4d and just did a simple extrude and then applied that to the helmet and then meshed everything together now.
One thing i will note is that i did attempt to put the logo on the side of the um on the side, parts of the actual helmet and i’ll talk about what happened with this when it printed and what i’m going to do about it. But that’s as far as the 3d modeling one, this was really straightforward. This was not a hard model to make, and i may do a tutorial for this because in terms of tutorials and 3d modeling, i want to start off with some basic uh shapes and how we can turn basic shapes into a helmet like this, and i think It’Ll just be more easier for people to grasp versus trying something complex, so i’ll, probably gradually slowly move into more complex helmet models um as tutorials but uh. This is one that i’m thinking about doing um so now we’re gon na move into the actual printing. So this was printed on the cr-10 and um. It took about maybe a day or two to print, and i see 3d sponsored the filament for this build um and it printed very well.
I usually print my helmets upside down, so i usually print it in this orientation and the reason why i was doing that was to save on support material that builds up in the middle in order to support the helmet and keep it from caving in or having The print messed up, but recently i seen some people printing, their helmets, um right side up and just having supports around where it needs it and not in the middle of the helmet itself. And i decided to do that for this print and try it out and see how it would work and it worked amazingly fine. The only thing is that now, instead of the most of the cleanup work being on top or the messy part being on top now it’s on the inside and to be frank with you, i really don’t care nobody’s, seeing the inside and plus that you can cover This you can decide to clean it up if you want, or you can just uh lay down fabric on the inside. If you’re that uh concerned about who’s seeing the inside of the helmet, i’m not so i started off by sanding the print i started off with 100 grit moved up to 150, then 220, 600 than 800, and once i got to 800, i coated it with a Coat of primer filler, once the primer filler was dry, i applied spot glazing putty to all the areas that needed um, some extra work and extra filling and where the print lines were still kind of deep, and i sanded that back down, starting at 220, moved up To 600 then 800. At that point i was ready to go ahead and start wet sanding and for wet sanding. This helmet, i used 1 500 and 2 000 grit sanding paper, um, of course, starting with the 1 500 moving up to 2 000 and the trick for me at least that works for me, is keeping the sandpaper wet. So, as i’m standing, i make sure i’m keeping the sandpaper uh pretty wet and the helmet pretty wet and just moving in a circular motion around the helmet. Now this really helped.
This is one of the smoothest finishes. I’Ve had out of everything i’ve done so far and i can honestly contribute that to the wet sanding the problem i was talking about earlier with the um side pieces here. My initial thought was to have these light up and i’m still probably gon na. Do that.
But it was very, very difficult to get into these areas because the lines are so small and my needle files cannot get into this and i was afraid of breaking it versus cleaning it up. So i figured if i got my needle files and actually, as i was cleaning up one of these, my one of my needle files snapped – and i was just like you know what i’m going to leave it alone. So i’m just going to leave it as is for now.
My initial plan was to fill it in with epoxy putty and sand it down, but uh for time sakes. I just left it, as is it doesn’t look terrible um, but eventually i probably make these light up on the side here that space is there um. I will be making this file available for download, but it will not have i i’ll probably keep two options: um i’ll probably keep the option where you can have the logo um on the side, and you can make a light up yourself as well and i’ll have The version, which is the movie version that does not have the locals on the side.
Alright, so let’s talk about paint, i will say that this project, i did not have any problems or any major problems like the only problem i had was the was the side logo, but outside of that i did not have. Surprisingly, i didn’t have any like major issue issues or that or that i could really talk about to me and which is surprising. This build went surprisingly smooth.
Don’T know why maybe this the the the stars were aligned right, but everything went fine with this build and i could say that um. For the most part, this was one of the easiest builds or one of the easier builds that i had. I first laid down a layer of black gloss paint and then i went over that with this rust-oleum blue metallic paint.
As i was spraying it on it was glossy, but then it kind of died down to like a semi-gloss, which i was all right. So then, i masked off the top of the helmet and i uh used vallejo air um. I believe it was aluminum um for the for the visor area and i airbrushed that on and and it went on just fine – i didn’t have any problems with the airbrush.
Didn’T have any problems with um, with the airbrush getting clogged or anything again, this project everything just went fine, with the exception of the site, logos and that’s more of an aesthetic thing than actually something going wrong with the actual build itself uh in terms of the Logo, i did not want to take the chance of trying to mask off some of the fine areas, so i used the silver rub and buff and just went over it and that worked just fine and it actually matches with the actual aluminum. So everything went great. I was happy super super happy with how this turned out um in terms of the visor. Now the visor, i used a red lighting gel, so those gels that you use to change your lights uh to a different color. I used i used.
I had an extra one laying around and i just cut a strip of it and placed it on the inside and hot glued it hot glued it into the area, because i knew i was gon na use the lighting gel for this helmet. I created a space in the helmet that the lighting gel could sit um flush into the actual helmet um and it worked out perfectly so i was able to put the lighting gel and then hot glue it in there and it sit there just fine and it’s Far enough away from the eyes where it’s not pushing up against your eye um, i did go ahead and add lighting to this um. I added a strip of lead light in here hot glue that into place, i probably add another strip um along the bottom of the visor, but i just added one at the top, so the light is kind of shining down and i have a battery pack in The back of the helmet – and that just turns on like so and i know it’s kind of hard to see with the light, but the lights are pretty cool um, so yeah, i’m quite sure you guys want to see me try this on and and it fits Great, even with the battery pack and it kind of helps it keep it in place, and i know i know i look ridiculous right now, but yeah i um super happy how this came out again. It was one of the easier builds and right now, i’m seeing everything in like bread, so yeah gazer bean helmet super happy all right guys, so that does it. For this build um had super fun. It was an exciting build. I uh one of the easier builds that i’ve done even from modeling even down to the actual finishing of it it would.
It actually was pretty quick. I was able to finish this build within, like i think it only took me a day to do it, and then i allowed myself an extra day for the paint to dry before i masked off anything. So really it took me two days, but if i had done it all and i could have got it done all in one day but again, um super fun.
So if you guys want to print it head over to my patreon page, you can um become a patreon and download the file and print it yourself um. I would like to thank make again for hosting this video can’t thank them enough. They’Ve been so good to me and um, i’m so glad to share my content with you guys and with me, and i also like to thank ic3d for sponsoring the filament for this build. So if you guys like to keep up with the projects that i’m working on, you can follow me on twitter at thebrokenair83, or you can follow me on instagram at thebrokernerd83. Once again, i like to thank you guys for tuning in.
If you want to check out some of my work, you can also head over to my youtube page and see some more of the builds that i made. I just posted a video of this guy. I just posted a video of this nova, corp helmet and you can head over to my channel and see how i’m printed and finished this guide once again.
Thank you all for tuning in peace and love. God bless i’m gaza bean .