So I bought a Forkbeard helm off of Zuloo a little while back. got bored and painted it up, figured I'd toss up some pictures.
This is the original helmet, plus Zuloo's old shield, but thats not really important for this.
this was originally all I was planning to do to the helm, during events and such, or at least at feast I paint those onto my face at the same time. not really sure why, thought they looked cool. but the helm still didn't feel like mine yet.
step 2 of personalizing it. my tongue in cheek position in my unit is the "Mercenary King" we decided I should have a crown then. Still looked cool, but from here we had an idea for a much more radical paint job
first step was to tape up the parts that I wanted to remain black. Though honestly I kind of liked the grey/silver look, if someone did this with paint instead of duct tape I think it would look really good.
this step is hella fun, took black and blue spray paint, and painted over the entire thing. I got the idea how from this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CFPg1m_Umg
another shot of the painting process
from there you peel off the tape, and I chose to redraw the symbols on there, just for funsies
from there its just a matter of touching up anywhere where the tape may have left marks. which it tends to do.
Anyways, just thought people would find this cool. thanks for your time boys and girls