Masking The Pain- Part Deux

 It always starts with a plan.

So for anyone who has been reading since the beginning (I'm sorry) or anyone who has read through it all, you may know that my first design for the costume was the mask. 

I saw this as being the hardest element to replicate so i figured i would tackle this first.

What i designed was fantastic, however i did not consider how exposed the sides of my face would be until i had the pattern cut out of cardboard.

What i now needed was some sort of plate that will cover my face and forehead.

Dooms mask is always shown as a separate piece for the rest of the head armour (i wont call it a helmet)

See Below:

 Therefore, i needed to find a way to make them separate but still connected.

Needless to say, i spend quite a bit of time trying to figure it out.

Shown below is one of my many sketches:

 The mask it self will consist of Five Pieces. The nose, two eye surroundings, chin plate and Main mask.

 

 The additional head armour will consist of four pieces. 

Two plates that will cover the sides of my face and will include holes to hear.

 One Plate that will be dished to fit my forehead (illustrated below).

And a plate that will go directly behind that to cover the top of my head just in case i want to break character and take off the hood, which i promise i wont do.

First objective, design the plates. The forehead or skull plate will be the most difficult. Not only to create, but to design around as the round edges make it difficult to approximate. So what i have to do make the skull plate first and design the rest around that!

 

 Skull plate design on steel

 

Mostly cut out

 

 Cut out and deburred. I did it by hand with a file as this was faster than setting up the buffer.

 

 Lets Dish!

 

 Almost There!

 

 Now that its completely formed i have a better idea of where the lines will lie. 

This will make it much easier way to make sure the other pieces will fit.

 Notice how the bottom edge is flat, i needed to make sure it was, as the face plates will need to be riveted directly onto these two plates.

 From the front. In all reality, the most you should see of this is the bottom front piece as the rest will be covered by the hood. Provided i design that right!

 

This will be the face Plate section. Dont worry, ill make a hole for my ears.

 

 Done! So there you have it, my version of Dooms Head Armour!