I am such a nerd!

Tron helmet, originally uploaded by hideyourarms/bigguybigcity.

Guess what I spent part of my weekend doing?

I realise that I’ve gone gone somewhat overboard with my outfit for Rob’s party next week, but I’m having so much f,un putting the outfit together that I really don’t care how silly I’m going to look.

The ice hockey helmet (’won’ for 99p off eBay) arrived on Saturday wrapped in about 5 plastic carrier bags for protection (though why a helmet needs protection I don’t know). A few hours later I’d taken it all apart and removed the stuff I didn’t need (face mask, ear protection, chin strap) and then gave it a quick sanding to remove the dents added by the previous owner. Then we sprayed it with some white primer in the spraybooth, but the finish looked a bit rough, so we let it dry, sanded the roughest parts and resprayed it so that the finish was a lot smoother.

That was yesterday. Today I decided that instead of doing the tough part (painting the blue design onto the top) I’d do the comparatively easy job of fitting the lights. It ended up taking hours (and a lot of masking tape), but I think the result looks pretty cool. I guess that EL wire would look more realistic (even if there wasn’t EL wire on the costumes in the film), but I think that I might actually prefer the glow of the LEDs.