Mastering the Art of Creating a Shiny Metal Finish: The Predator Helmet Clean Version Process

All right, so now we’re going to start the clean version of the predator helmet here. So I’m going to use kind of a higher pressure. Again, I usually never go by what the regulator tells me. I usually always go by feel. So it’s kind of at a higher spray with a lighter fan. And I’m fairly gonna be shooting it on there. Now, this has a much finer, if you shoot too much of this on there, it tends to look fake. So it’s kind of like that perfect in between where I’m just kind of hazing it on there until the look I am kind of going for, which is that shiny metal look.

What we’re trying to go for, too, is an even consistent sheen to it. You want to get good coverage, even coat.

So I’m kind of, I’m just taking it slow and getting it to the level that I want. Instead of just blasting it on, let’s kind of easing it on, trying to build up that level of intensity, a machine that I’m looking for.

Then again too, making sure you get all the angles, including underneath, it’s looking pretty good. One thing that this product has, when you’re shooting it, it kind of dries before it hits the surface. So you get this dust layer on there. So once you wipe that off, it actually starts becoming a little shinier. And as you can see, it drives pretty fast. You know, I just stop spraying it and I’m able to wipe it down.

And that’s basically the metal process from here. Now we’re gonna add a couple more colors on there, darken in some stuff, and the rest will do at the other table.