I love, love, love that I can use my GF to make costume pieces. I used a pattern from Lost Wax (DIY Deep Sea Diver Costume Helmet. Making a Vintage Diving Helmet! — Lost Wax). This is the same designer that made the pattern for the Steampunk Mechanical Arm that I made. I was able to cut all but a handful of pieces using my Glowforge. A few were too big for the bed size.
This was made using an antifatigue mat from a hardware store - 8mm thick EVA foam. The helmet was sprayed with two coats of PlastiDip and then painted using acrylics and Rub N Buff.
Yes! You should do it. I put the link to Lost Wax in my description. He does videos to show you how to construct and finish all the patterns as well. He mainly does steampunk stuff but he recently released a suit of armor pattern for EVA foam!
I actually bought a beekeeper suit from Amazon to act as my dive suit and I’m going to fashion some torso weights and boot weights out of EVA foam as well. I need to figure out a hose too…
you know, it’s funny, i saw a real vintage dive helmet on some TV show recently. it was at a garage/estate sale on a folding table outside while someone was looking through stuff and i told my wife, “if i saw that on a table and it wasn’t outrageous, i have no idea what i’d do with it, but i think i’d have to buy it, just cuz.”
