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Customized Helmet! Waooh! :o


Roa McToa

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I took my all black Shoei RF-200 helmet that I got for $5, and decided to add some custom decals to it to detract from its boringness. I went to the hardware store and picked up a wide roll of red reflective tape, and a narrow roll of the white, and came up with this...

 

I spent maybe a total of six hours working on it. What do you think?

 

The tape reflects light pretty well, so it is high vis at night, and should gleam in the sun. (click the pics to see larger versions) I am going to use it for snowmobiling.

 

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Oh, wow! I'm guessing that you laid out pieces of the tape on a cutting board and then cut out the individual shapes? That is so cool.

 

-Nukaya

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Surprisingly enough, this wasn't very difficult to do, it was just time consuming. I cut the whole thing out with scissors. For the dragons wings, I took a long piece of tape and cut it diagonally, then I would draw a shape and cut the end out of one of the triangles, and then trace the design on the other piece so it makes an exact opposite copy. The arrows around the shield were made by folding the white tape in half and cutting it at an angle. The scalloping on the ends of the wings were cut from the leftover pieces from making the main wing panels.

 

I did the fold technique for some of the larger teeth, and all the smaller teeth were cut out individually. For the tail I cut some pieces of leftover tape into a graduated wedge, and the cut it into squares and laid it out in the right order. I did the detail work and stuck em down as I went. On the head I took a leftover triangle cutout and scalloped it down to make the head and neck. The face was cout out of the tip of leftover :P

 

Glad y'all like it! I'm gonna see if I can submit it to Shoei. Maybe they might like it... :o

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