Disturbingly I came across a few air pockets inside the cast that I've had to fill. Initially after picking off the thin plastic skin covering them, I found they tend to be larger inside the cast then first appeared on the surface. I found a major pocket towards the edge of the mohawk which you can blatantly see, but I have now filled these out and sanded them down.
A series of smaller air pockets to the side now filled and also ive circled the flakey bottom edge to the helmet which had chipped slightly where once again the cast thinned out too much. I've now also filled that edge inside and out to give the helmet a very solid smooth finish.
And last but not least, I've now sanded the re-inforcer filler inside the helmet to a smoother finish. I'm not too bothered about getting that flush as it won't be seen and once I've spray painted the inside and further down the line, added various padding etc, it hopefully shouldn't notice. Again you can see ive filled out some of the bottom edges inside and out where needed.
I guess to some you might be thinking where the hell did he pick up such a problematic cast?
Well this is part of the course for the rarer whole helmet cast it would seem. It certainly has been time consuming, just when you think it's taken as much filler as it needs, there is always some other imperfection waiting to be discovered. I really think I've conquered it's surface terrain now though, so in the next couple of days I'm hoping to give it the first coat of primer.
