How to make a Foam helmet top by Foam-Smith
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Hello again everyone. Foam-Smith is back with yet another great invention. This step by step guide will help you to make a basic round helmet top. Please note, I will have many more creations along the way based on this model design and to save time, i will specify in that instructable            Please refer to foam helmet top     . That will help, to let you know that you need to refer back to this instructable to help you in the next step of the design.
 
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Step 1: Material's

1 (quarter piece) of full camping foam matt.
colored duck-tape
cardboard or anything else you can use to transfer the designs to hard material for accurate shape tracing too later, transfer on to the camping matt
Foam-Smith (author) says: Mar 17, 2012. 5:47 AM
Please comment if you enjoyed this instructable and if it was helpful
Georgemk says: May 6, 2012. 1:43 AM
I want to make WW II but I can't get the autentic form so I'll use your way to make the form but with cardboard, can I?
Foam-Smith (author) says: May 6, 2012. 2:30 AM
LMAO. your funny. course you can thats why instructables was created to share ideas. Not like i could really stop you since its up.lol. BUT THANKS!! for asking.hmm form eayy. hmm try this...draw a triangle about 4 inches accrosed and then find the center and go about 5 1/2 inches up from the center. connect all the lines and to make a perfect triangle....next, from the top of the trianglr arc your lines on both sides. give them a little bit of a bend. once you do that, remake it out of cardboard and then do the finall project with foam (blue camping matts $7.48 at your local walmart or camping store closed cell foam) i recomend foam cause its soft and look good...especially for a project like this 1
Georgemk says: May 6, 2012. 4:33 AM
Just tell me can you watch this video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhC0g9D68Hg&feature=player_embedded
Foam-Smith (author) says: May 7, 2012. 6:42 AM
nothing comes up. you might of had an encryption error when loading whatever it was up. all i can say is try again.
Anyakin says: Apr 17, 2012. 6:01 AM
Thanks, this was very useful; I'm making a futuristic armour, and i needed the top part sorted out. Very useful!
Foam-Smith (author) says: Apr 18, 2012. 3:12 PM
your welcome!!!. yae my design will make a perfect helmet top any time. just if you need it more round and longer, all you really need to do is extend the length of the bottom piece to 4 of the foam shapes when making the helmet and it will turn out fine. Im working on a system to trace the shape and scan it into a JPG so everyone can just print of the shape I mad.
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