Do you live in a post-apocalyptic world where the air is turned into a noxious
green gas?
Maybe you do. Do you wish you had a sweet
gas mask to wear? Well you're in luck! Introducing the CH 2000: Stylish,
comfortable, contemporary and affordable.
Now get out there and have some fun.
Hi my name is Chris and I like to make things. Here I am already hard at work
cutting out the pattern for my foam gas mask. Care to join me? Once you've cut the
pattern out of paper you can trace it on to foam. Use a ruler to mark the fold
lines and a tip of a pen to mark all the little dots. Get out your sharp knife and
cut directly on top of the pen line. Take your time with the swirly front piece
it's a little bit tricky. If you have a hole punch of any kind now's the time
to use it. And use it. Now grab a fancy little butter knife with a flat end and
rub it like crazy along the fold lines.
Now grab your hot glue gun and glue those edges together and you can glue
piece letter M down on to the nose. If you look carefully you might notice that
I forgot to cut the center hole of the mask out. Maybe try not to forget that.
Crease down the entire length of pattern piece N and glue it down on the vertical
edges of the mask. Use a pair of scissors to cut off the excess. Now glue the two
ends of pattern piece J together making a nice cylinder. Grab a ball from your
son's toy box or if you don't have a son that has a toy box find something else
round like a fruit from the fruit bowl. Heat up pattern part H with a blow
dryer and form it around your ball or fruit. Repeat this with the other three
pieces. Take two of these pieces and glue them into the cylinders you've made. Glue
them from the back and make sure they sit up about three to four millimeters
from the back of the rim. Now glue the ends of piece E together and pop fancy
swirly piece B right in the centre. Glue it into place from the back using hot
glue. Glue piece K on either side of the mask and apply two-part epoxy to
simulate rivets. For more information on how to make rivets click on the linked
video here. Glue both ends of piece P to make a ring and glue that
ring onto piece G. Repeat again for the second one and again this time with
strip F and piece D. It's time to do some painting before we continue
construction. Everywhere that's going to be silver I paint black and everywhere
that's going to be bronze I'll paint brown. It's important to paint all the
internal parts first because once they're glued together you won't be able
to get at them with the paint. You may also notice that I'm not painting
certain parts and that's so that I have a good place for the glue to adhere. If you
have a fruit mug you can use it for a cup of tea while you're waiting for the
paint to dry. Now pull out your rub 'n buff and apply it to the painted
surfaces.
Strip R gets glued in behind the swirly piece as a spacer to make it super easy
to glue in piece C, the silver grilled thing. A bit more brown paint around the
edges, leaving space for glue and glue in the back. Now for some extra detail
evenly space six piece Qs around the circle and add some more rivets. Now
paint it up and apply rub 'n buff. I'm not worried if I get rub 'n buff on
some of those tabs because I'm just going to paint them black right now. All
that's left to do is glue the remaining H pieces onto your air intake valve
system, add some rivets, paint, and rub 'n buff. Okay you've got all the parts. Put
them together. Once it's all glued together touch up any bits where the
foam is still showing through. Check out my goggles video for how to make the
strap and glue it into place. Give it a quick paint and you're done.
So thanks for watching my video if you liked this tutorial maybe subscribe or buy the
pattern or something. This is really warm it's like 30 degrees out and
I'm wearing a foam gas mask and a suit and also these aren't my real glasses so
I actually can't see. Hmm. Good idea Chris.
You're in my video. >>Oh I'm in your video in the background.
Heh heh. Still in my video. >>Gotta get outta here
You can come out from behind the fridge. Well people are gonna be more wondering
why you're standing behind the fridge. >>Can you tell I'm standing behind the fridge?
Yeah, I can. (laughter)
>>I'm leaving. You could be famous!
>>When are you turning off the camera?
Ah it's off. >>No it's not!
(laughter) Okay I'm turning it off.