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Everyone starts out with the welding goggles, and mine were starting to disintegrate. Luckily Nick offers amazing fiberglass casts of the accurate frames, with resin lenses included.

To start, I filled in some voids and spent time doing general body work. I sanded down the buttons around the facemask for more accuracy.

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The DOT snaps around the real frames that hold the face pad became an issue because they're hard to find without buying a ton at a time. I opted to use binding posts/screw posts in place of them.

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Multimedia Mayhem used to offer aluminum plates to hold the lenses to the mask. Sadly, he does not any more. So I made my own out of a styrene sheet.

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I then secured the resin thumbscrews into the lenses with some epoxy.

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Test fitting.

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Painting the lenses and lens plate.

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The straps on the goggles in the movie had snaps installed right to them, which attached to the snaps on the mask. I decided to make a military strap with some faux leather and buckles.

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The snap kit I got had the male snaps with screws on the reverse side of them, so I was able to screw them directly into the frames, and then secured the screws underneath with some epoxy putty.

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This is what the inside looks like without any face padding.

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Frames are painted. Posts and snaps are installed.

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I used weather stripping for padding. It works amazing, and comes backed with adhesive.

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Aaaaand done.

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#4833177
Full-Roaming-Vapor wrote:I'm not sure, actually. I kinda don't mind the way they look now.
Right on...right on... I just know they look amazing with or without stickers :cool:

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