[RocktimusPryme]

I decided to break up the winter monotony and paint my cheap boring race helmet. I follow a couple of people on Instagram who do cartoon style paint jobs on everything from helmets to whole cars. I also see it called cyberpunk, anime, comic book etc. And I just kinda thought I could do it. Results came out okay for a first time. Definitely more pink than I intended it to. I for sure feel like I can do even better with lessons learned.

I also readily admit this style isn't going to be for everyone. Especially with this group skewing older, but it might be motivating for someone else to take a stab at customizing their own boring helmet in a different style.

The MTN 94 graffiti paint was way better than normal rustoleum, and the paint markers were easy to use. The black spiderwebbed in a couple of places. Not sure why, no other color did.

I did a long video with the whole process (not a tutorial as this is a first time for me) if anyone is interested.

https://youtu.be/mxaB9jXhpA0

And this is a little short teaser cut up in fast motion

https://youtube.com/shorts/G6JbpcLjPmo


With the SA2025 helmet coming out, Im hoping the Simpson Bandit SA2020 helmets start going up cheaply. I want to try again with a more Ed Roth inspired design with some lessons learned from the first one. And you can do more cool stuff with the lines on one of the Bandits.

[72projectbird]

Looks damn good!

Custom helmets are always cool. My next one I'll be painting will essentially look like a lowrider. Flake, patterns, lace, fades etc etc.

[RocktimusPryme]

Originally Posted by 72projectbird

Looks damn good!

Custom helmets are always cool. My next one I'll be painting will essentially look like a lowrider. Flake, patterns, lace, fades etc etc.

The lace is a damned good idea. I might do that too with one. I get fixated like this on things, do it hard for 6 months and then lose interest lol.

I mentioned I wanted to buy a Bandit, or similar (Racequip Vesta20) but Ive also been considering buying an open faced Dale Earnhardt style helmet. When I do race videos it would be nice to be able to annunciate without my face being muffled. So Im going to buy a nice closed helmet for actual racing, and an open helmet for when Im messing around making videos.

I always look forward to seeing all the custom helmets NHL goalies are wearing at the beginning of the season. The Nashville Predators consistently have awesome ones.

[turbo69bird]

Lace, endless line , cob webbing , etc all were huge in the late 60s a guy named Wayne “woody” wood did a lot of the funny cars and stock and super stockers that way and matched helmets always.
My car was painted by woody

[73LeMans]

I'll say it out loud...the low riding groups tend to have some kick ass paintjobs. I too miss those bold graphics, huge metal flake, lace etc that were all the rage like Turbo69bird was saying....... I wish they would make a comeback!!!

That helmet is awesome man...and it is inspiring!

[72projectbird]

Originally Posted by 73LeMans

I'll say it out loud...the low riding groups tend to have some kick ass paintjobs. I too miss those bold graphics, huge metal flake, lace etc that were all the rage like Turbo69bird was saying....... I wish they would make a comeback!!!

That helmet is awesome man...and it is inspiring!

I love lowriders. I was subscribed to Lowrider Mag for a while, and I'm decently active on a few lowrider forums and groups.

[turbo69bird]

Originally Posted by 73LeMans

I'll say it out loud...the low riding groups tend to have some kick ass paintjobs. I too miss those bold graphics, huge metal flake, lace etc that were all the rage like Turbo69bird was saying....... I wish they would make a comeback!!!

That helmet is awesome man...and it is inspiring!

Yup I’m cheesy as hell I love that ****!
It’s funny they started restoring cars because all of them had been done up like that, plus headers and dual quads and stuff because everyone wanted to be like the racers ! The super cars .
Now it’s nothing but a sea of restored cars and I’ll say it’s BORING! I like restored cars but how many stick firebirds and GTOs can you see at a show

Regular people. Don’t want to ponder over how a am /fm car is rarer the n a Am car or wow that one was ordered w a reverb.

But you take one of those tricked out cars to a show today and it’s surrounded by people. I know because I’ve done it and it pissed off all the stock liking car guys who had changed their cars FROM that.