hey robot fans welcome back to the build today we are going to cut out the visor
and cut out the teeth and we're also going to start prepping the head for
paint
is this thing off okay we're gonna start with the visor we have a collection of
tools here to help us cut through it we're going to start by drilling a bunch
of holes all around and then we're gonna connect them with either cutting tool we
have a saw here we have all different kinds of stuff to help us get this visor
going so let's get started with that
okay we got a good number of holes in here I think I did pretty good not
messing anything up one of these holes right here is just a little bit closer
to the edge than I would have liked I think I got a little groove in there
nothing I can't fix later so now we're going to cut through all the holes and
see if we can get a nice cut out of this visor
okay got a good chunk of that Weiser cut out and the rest of it all this rough
stuff I'm going to do with a dremel and a sander outside it's getting a little
dusty as it is with the saw so definitely not going to use the Dremel
just like the last time I was outside with the Dremel there's really nothing
secret happening here I'm just using it to get rid of everything that's not
needed well not messing up the parts that are
needed I use the Dremel for most of it I also used a hand saw to cut off some of
the bigger chunks I did a lot of hand sanding with some 60 grit sandpaper then
I drilled out the teeth some more and used a needle file to get those shaped
properly all in all this took about a half an hour I'm not going to bore you
with all of that footage so let's just cut straight to the end okay here's some
fun mess on the helmet I got the main shapes cut out all of the teeth and the
visor are definitely gonna have to clean up some of these edges a little bit took
some chunks out where I probably should know nothing a little bondo can't fix
next time I'm going to cut out these three slits back here I'm pretty sure
that these get cut out and then we are going to start sanding down everything
and getting the head nice and smooth and ready for paints it looks like it's
about to start raining here so I think I have to call it a day but yeah good
progress today and we'll pick it up next time the weather is good so next up are
these three little slits in the back of the helmet I'm gonna highlight them here
just in case they can't be seen I'm going to use this cutting tool and I'm
just going to attempt to dip it into the slit there make a little incision one
two three and then use a file to file out the rest of the slit I don't trust
my steady hand enough to go all the way up and down so I think just manually
filing it out will be the best way to go I really wish you could see my face as I
make this first cut because it is the look of instant regret the Dremel was
not the tool of choice for making the initial cut the sawing with the needle
file was a good plan but I think I would have been much better off if I had
started with maybe just drilling two small hole
using the new file the recess that this panel is on that contains the slits is
much deeper than I thought so when I went in there with that cutting disk it
came in at such an angle that I immediately went off of the groove and
you'll see in the final bit here where there's a little bit of a chunk taken
out of the bottom I think I might be able to get some bondo on there but
ultimately I don't think it matters this is a pretty small area that is painted
very very black so it shouldn't matter too much but it's a bummer just to not
have things the way you want them but hey that's what this is about so let's
keep moving forward and here's the end of that video okay I got those three
slits cut out I've made one little mistake here's a little bulgy not too
bad though this all gets painted super black so I don't think it will even show
up this is gonna give me some good airflow through the helmet yeah so next
up is going to be sanding everything down to make it nice and smooth and
getting it ready for paint I did a rough sanding of the head and then I added on
some bondo and some primer I plan on doing a ton of rounds of sanding primer
bondo sanding primer bondo so I think a picture for each one of those rounds
will suffice just to save some time so let's take a look at those
okay I did some really good sanding on that Brown I think this is pretty close
to where it needs to be I'd say it's like 95% of the way there I'm a little
hesitant to take that last 5% because we still have to install the binoculars
into the ears so there's gonna be some more cutting and whatnot but for the
most part this is right where it needs to be so I think we're gonna call it
here yeehaw so that's gonna do it for this video at
the same time I was filming this video I was also filming another one about my 3d
printed grebe leaves so I'll probably put that one up right around the same
time next time it's gonna be all about the macro binoculars which I am super
excited about so until then we'll just end with our picture progression see you
later
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