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The bounty hunter helmet in KIT form consists of the helmet shell (resin and fiberglass wearable casting), the
antenna, two tusks, a snout brick, dual visors, antenna details, two buttons (for the leather strap), and a few
detail pieces for the ear pieces. You'll need to provide your own leather. The recommended leathers are:
deerskin for the snout, and thick cowhide for the rear section and strap.

To do the trimming and finishing work you will need:

A Dremel with a cut-off wheel and sanding cone
Sandpaper (various coarse grits)
Superglue
fabric adhesive
leather (deerskin and cowhide)

Photo at left demonstrates an untrimmed helmet shell. The photo at right shows
the seamline on the helmet trimmed down and some beginning stages of assembly.

Once all your assembly is completed, start by painting the entire helmet in a
medium brown colour. Then you want to get some flat black and give the whole
surface a misting of dark color to break up the surface (weathering stage 1)

On this particular helmet, I wanted to it be weathered with 'dust', so I essentially used dust to
weather it. Using a rag dragged through the dirt (not mud) wipe the helmet down and the grime will
stick into corners etc... Once you're happy with it, seal it with some clearcoat. Then go ahead and
mask off the black vertical areas as shown (use ref. photos to help)

Applying the leather is going to take some patience. I used a rubber adhesive that is rated to work
with leather. I recommend practicing on some scrap before tackling the real job. Start by applying
adhesive to the snout area. Then drape your deerskin leather across the snout and press it down
firmly. The deerskin is a wonderful leather because it will contour down and is somewhat
stretchable. Work it down section by section until the entire snout is wrapped.

Here you can see that you need to either be REALLY CRAFTY to wrap the sides of
the helmet, or, if you're suave like me, you can cut a separate piece of deerskin and
apply it separately. Don't worry about covering the very FRONT of the snout. That
gets covered by the resin detail components.

Now bring out your cowhide leather. Wrap a nice long section at the rear as shown. Test fit
the helmet before you secure it down. Use a dremel to trim the resin portion as necessary so
it slides down over your head with the leather in place. Then cut a thin strip of your
cowhide and tack it down. Finish the ends by covering them with the resin details.

Once all the leather bits are in place, you can finish the rest of the assembly. Glue on the dual
visors, glue on the tusks and tusk brick, and weather down the leather. Use silver model paints to
apply one final stage of weathering (worn paint) to corners and such.

ENJOY!!!

HI HEIDE!!!