Thank you SO much for sharing this! The chroming is something I hadn't seen before and is such a good idea, I was worried how I'd navigate a con floor wearing the tali cosplay im trying to make 😭❤🙌
Awh you’re so welcome! I was worried about it too and was just thankful this worked because if it didn’t ... I had no idea what else to do :) good luck on your build!!! The world needs more Tali’s
Thank you so much! I got the idea for using a face shield off another Tali cosplayer, I would have never though to use it before! Saved me a ton of headache trying to vacuu-form one
This is fantastic!! I looked up Quarian cosplay and your video was the first one that popped up. I am impressed by the time that went into this, and how it looks. Due to the troubling nature of health safety in the 2020's I said that we are going to turn into Quarians in a matter of time. This makes me happy that artists are in fact make Quarian masks during the current time period and it feels topical. Thank you for sharing this amazing process!!
hahaha, thank you! this was honestly one of the reasons it felt apropros to make Tali in 2020/2021 lol. I truly hope we don't come to need our own envirosuits but it did make for some morbid humor :P
I've learned so much from your videos that I came here right away after seeing the new ME teaser trailer as I want to try and work out how to make that new N7 helmet :D
I actually used these methods for work related purposes, we have gotten these hard hats that use a over the eyes plastic visor and we only got the clear ones(we work outdoors) and i have an issue wearing my sunglasses underneath them so i turned to youtube on tinting said plastic visor and found this. Upon doing so i was actually very successful and im now offering my co workers dyed visors for their hard hats as well. But i would like to add that using a black dye to tint the visors with a color and then chroming the back does not work too well especially in terms of visibility. But nonetheless this method does serve a practical use as well
Im looking at costuming full time qnd rather than buyinh expensive pre tinted and chromed pieces this will help me mass produce what i need thank you so much !
@@vaultfox hey im uploading a lets build series on my main channel is it all right if i credit you for the dye process? I just want to make sure youre ok with it before i just do it
Awesome!!! Thanks for sharing! :) I was just wondering the other day if I could use a thin layer of that mirror finish stuff to create a reflective lens/visor piece and then you proved it would work! :) Perfect! Thanks! :)
You're so welcome! I remember hearing about the stuff from Punished Props on their Samus helmet and bought it after watching their video. I had forgotten about the stuff until just now and I'm so glad it works out.
Thank you so much. I have ruined so many sheets of plexiglass trying to make the visor! I've been looking for a face shield that would work well, but none worked. Thank you sooooo much,, I'm going to purchase the shield right now.
@@vaultfox keep up the awesome vids, I wanna get back into cosplay haven't done it since like 14 and I'm a bit strapped for hobbies and this is the perfect jumping off point for me
I really needed this as I want to do a red hood cosplay of my loadout in injustuce2 and in the game his mask has no features and is just blank and I needed a way to see through the mask
hmmmm it would be hard to tint it white with dye, this method works good for darker colors. You could try transparent plastic and window cling film to make your own?
This process will work with making a halo visor right, I'm making a halo ce master chief and I'm doing the helmet last so I wanna make sure I'll be doing it all right
I've actually had a few people ask me this exact question and I'd assume it would work, but like everything I'd take a piece of scrap plastic and try it out on that before going all-in on a visor
I’ve just started making helmets, how do you accommodate glasses? I’m making my Helldivers helmet larger then padding the top, sides and back with foam.
Hello! Working on a robot cosplay myself, and this really helped! But, I do ask, before I invest in all the materials; I noticed you say that you can still faintly see the wearer inside, so what would I do to make it effectively impossible to see the wearer? Maybe a black balaclava inside of the head so there's nothing for light to reflect off? Or a thicker layer of mirror? Cheers.
a balaclava would probably help to minimize seeing the wearer ... a thicker layer of the spray would make it pretty hard to see through, at least in my opinion.
Hey this looks great! Its exactly what I was looking for in my project. Quick question, what glue did you use for your visor to bond the plastic to the rest of the helmet? I am making my helmet from eva foam btw.
Hi, im trying to do this with a gas mask will this work with black dye. And if so do you have any suggestions what color mirrored paint to use with the black dye
I'm looking for a way to make a visor mask that has clear on the inside and color on the outside so you can see normally clear inside but outside you see color visor do you have any ideas.
no, everything you use in the pot (including what you stir with) should only be used for dyeing. I got a cheaper pot from Goodwill to serve as my dye pot
the curve of this visor was tricky to use stick on film with, I actually tried something similar and didn't have great results (but I'm also impatient when it comes to application of that kinda stuff)
@@vaultfox thanks for the answer. Im going to make sunglasses but the lenses have some aggressive curves and some shallow corners, i expect the film to be a more complete cant-see-through mirror, but i didnt even know they made spray like that so thanks!
Old video, new comment! Great video btw. I tried doing this to my welding helmet visor. I tried twice!!! The problem is, it came off every time i dipped it in cold water.
@@vaultfox yeah, i tested it on my safety glasses first, and bam!!! worked first try. i tried washing the visor first. still no. i am just going to use car tint. oh well. again, nice vid. thx
Hello! I will be painting the back of two petg lenses with thin layers of chrome only to give them a shiny effect. A friend of mine who used this method told me that due to the collection of humidity inside the mask, when he accidentally touched the lenses the paint (duralumen sprayed with airbrush) got wiped off. My friend recommended me to simply spray the front of those back lenses (think of the build as outer PETG lenses and inner painted PETG lenses with a fabric mesh sandwiched in between), but from my understanding the shiny effect only appears on the opposite side of where you've sprayed, while the sprayed surface retains some visibility. I was thinking of using a chrome dye for a pot (if those even exist), or to apply a clear antifog film like the ones used for mirrors in the inner surface of the sprayed lens, if that won't ruin the way the chrome reflects. What do you think? What dye type should i be looking for? Because i might even try to paint the petg white.
Very cool video. I'm trying to make just a silver mirrored face shield, would this work you think? I'm not even sure what colors would make it work to be silver
Thanks! Unfortunately I don't think that this would work for a silver shield, only because I use a pretty light layer of the spray and I think to get it as opaque as you need it would have to be thicker and you wouldn't be able to see through it
Do you have any idea how to do this for a Halo 2 ODST visor? I don’t want them to see me but I want to see them. It’s supposed to be either dark purple or silver.
Purple would be easier to achieve with the method I showed in this video, you'd just want to dye your plastic with a dark purple and spray lightly with the spaz-stick mirror chrome. You can also look for pre-dyed acrylic (though you'd have to manipulate that yourself with a heat gun and is a bit more difficult to get such a complex curve as on the ODST)
Dude that's awesome! As for the look you'd need for a protogen, I wonder if dyeing it a really dark green might work (but it would need to be very dark, so you don't see through). I'm not 100% on this tho!
@@vaultfox awesome thank you!! Also no way, I've never met someone with the same spelling! The fact that I've also cosplayed Shep kinda makes It funnier, that's so cool!!
I'd recommend using a red dye closer to what you're looking for but typically for a more saturated color, yes you'd want to keep it in longer. But I def recommend having a small test piece to check coloring
Great video & quite helpful. Would you say that clear visor you show that is from Amazon would work as a visor part of G.I. Joe's Cobra Commander visor? It been tricky for me to find a full face visor from middle of forehead to my chin. Since I'm working on the new figure of him "Snake Supreme Cobra Commander" from the G.I. Joe Classified, what would you suggest to get to add gold color to the visor? Since he seem to have light gold if you look at the action figure of him. Thanks. Also, a friend will work on making a 3D print of the helmet part once he get the visor first. :)
Thank you! I don't really have much experience dying visors outside of this one I did for Tali, but I would assume dying a visor yellow would work in a similar way ... you might just need to experiment with different shades and dying times as I feel like yellow would be harder to get a deep, saturated color for? Though like I said, I'm not entirely sure.
You're welcome. I find it interesting how spraying the inside of the shield that go on your face, you can't see the face from the front outer of it. I thought the spray paint would make it look silver like it is, not just make it you can't see the face from it. Very cool.
@@vaultfox Awesome, thanks. I have an excessivly sensitive sense of smell so I worry about these kinds of things. If the smell is too much, I'll plop it in a bucket of baking soda to see what happens (after it cures!).
So cool!!! I've been thinking about doing a Revan mask, so this was really helpful! Did the plastic warp at all with the heat from dying? Or does that depend on the hardness of the plastic? Great video! 😊
Thank you so much! So, the visor that I used was pretty thick and was already curved, so I wasn't worried about it warping in the dye bath. For thinner pieces of plastic I'd def be careful and test out smaller pieces to see how it reacts to the heat
You might not take suggestions but I think it would be cool to make a fire nation cosplay... weither it be Azula or fire nation armour I think it would be cool...
Very cool! I’ve been needing a method to properly dye and chrome-out a visor, especially since I’ve been wanting to do a Gigan cosplay recently. Just one question: was the pot safe to cook from again afterward?
Thank you! And no, I would not advise cooking from it after. This is actually a cheap pot I bought at goodwill to serve as my strict dye pot (same goes for whatever you stir with)
I am looking at making a Cobra Commander Retaliation helmet. The face mask is chrome. I was wondering if I would have to paint a base color prior to spraying the face mask with the spray chrome you used? Thank you
Thank you SO much for sharing this! The chroming is something I hadn't seen before and is such a good idea, I was worried how I'd navigate a con floor wearing the tali cosplay im trying to make 😭❤🙌
Awh you’re so welcome! I was worried about it too and was just thankful this worked because if it didn’t ... I had no idea what else to do :) good luck on your build!!! The world needs more Tali’s
This is awesome! Thanks so much for sharing. The only visor's I have used so far are just thin plastic but this is next level! Well done.
Thank you so much! I got the idea for using a face shield off another Tali cosplayer, I would have never though to use it before! Saved me a ton of headache trying to vacuu-form one
This is perfect for my build. Haven't been able to find anything. Thanks!
Oh that’s awesome!!! You’re so welcome, good luck with your build!
This is fantastic!! I looked up Quarian cosplay and your video was the first one that popped up. I am impressed by the time that went into this, and how it looks. Due to the troubling nature of health safety in the 2020's I said that we are going to turn into Quarians in a matter of time. This makes me happy that artists are in fact make Quarian masks during the current time period and it feels topical.
Thank you for sharing this amazing process!!
hahaha, thank you! this was honestly one of the reasons it felt apropros to make Tali in 2020/2021 lol. I truly hope we don't come to need our own envirosuits but it did make for some morbid humor :P
This tutorial is just what i needed since years ago! A lot of thanks :))
You're welcome!!! Let me know how it goes, I'm curious how the dyeing would go for lighter colors like yellow/golds
I've learned so much from your videos that I came here right away after seeing the new ME teaser trailer as I want to try and work out how to make that new N7 helmet :D
You had me with the dye job, but misting on the chrome - whoa! I'm going to need to do this to my full-face respirator, just because. LOL
amazing video i look forward to getting a visor and dying it in the future . Great video!
Thank you you’ve just help me learn how to tint my clear football visor 👍🏾
I actually used these methods for work related purposes, we have gotten these hard hats that use a over the eyes plastic visor and we only got the clear ones(we work outdoors) and i have an issue wearing my sunglasses underneath them so i turned to youtube on tinting said plastic visor and found this. Upon doing so i was actually very successful and im now offering my co workers dyed visors for their hard hats as well. But i would like to add that using a black dye to tint the visors with a color and then chroming the back does not work too well especially in terms of visibility. But nonetheless this method does serve a practical use as well
Im looking at costuming full time qnd rather than buyinh expensive pre tinted and chromed pieces this will help me mass produce what i need thank you so much !
you're welcome! good luck with it all
@@vaultfox hey im uploading a lets build series on my main channel is it all right if i credit you for the dye process? I just want to make sure youre ok with it before i just do it
Depending on material you might get cracks shock-frosting it from hot to supercold. There is no reason to rush and use ice :p cold water will do.
Glad to see its going well!
ill be sure to join the stream
thanks! and yeah, I'm just glad it ended up working ... pretty much at every step I wasn't sure it would work out lol
Hahaha it looked cool!
That looks amazing!!!
Thank you!
Awesome!!! Thanks for sharing! :) I was just wondering the other day if I could use a thin layer of that mirror finish stuff to create a reflective lens/visor piece and then you proved it would work! :) Perfect! Thanks! :)
You're so welcome! I remember hearing about the stuff from Punished Props on their Samus helmet and bought it after watching their video. I had forgotten about the stuff until just now and I'm so glad it works out.
Thank you so much. I have ruined so many sheets of plexiglass trying to make the visor! I've been looking for a face shield that would work well, but none worked. Thank you sooooo much,, I'm going to purchase the shield right now.
You're welcome! I hope it works out for your project
Thank you for sharing this!!
you're welcome! hope it helped
I need to fix a power Ranger helmet visor and this was so helpful!!!
You’re so welcome! Good luck on your visor
@@vaultfox thx! I just saw your other video about using the wielding visor so I'm pretty much set thx to you!
This is perfect
thanks!
@@vaultfox keep up the awesome vids, I wanna get back into cosplay haven't done it since like 14 and I'm a bit strapped for hobbies and this is the perfect jumping off point for me
You saved my life🤩
glad to help!!
you will go far on youtube keep up the good work and you wll be able to do many things
oh my goodness, thank you so much for this. I appreciate the kind words!
I really needed this as I want to do a red hood cosplay of my loadout in injustuce2 and in the game his mask has no features and is just blank and I needed a way to see through the mask
that sounds like a really fun build! hope it works out for ya
do you think this would work with white? im making a star wars helmet and iv been struggling to find a white tint option that i can still see through
hmmmm it would be hard to tint it white with dye, this method works good for darker colors. You could try transparent plastic and window cling film to make your own?
@@vaultfox I've tried that. I only found the perforated vinyl. I thought it would work but it looked meh at best.
would this work with any colour and still be see-through? (specifically black)
I can't say for certain it would work with black unfortuantely
This process will work with making a halo visor right, I'm making a halo ce master chief and I'm doing the helmet last so I wanna make sure I'll be doing it all right
I've actually had a few people ask me this exact question and I'd assume it would work, but like everything I'd take a piece of scrap plastic and try it out on that before going all-in on a visor
@@vaultfox alrighty thank you, I'm looking forward to trying it out
I’ve just started making helmets, how do you accommodate glasses? I’m making my Helldivers helmet larger then padding the top, sides and back with foam.
Hello! Working on a robot cosplay myself, and this really helped! But, I do ask, before I invest in all the materials; I noticed you say that you can still faintly see the wearer inside, so what would I do to make it effectively impossible to see the wearer? Maybe a black balaclava inside of the head so there's nothing for light to reflect off? Or a thicker layer of mirror? Cheers.
a balaclava would probably help to minimize seeing the wearer ... a thicker layer of the spray would make it pretty hard to see through, at least in my opinion.
@@vaultfox Thank you! This'll really help :D
Ghank you for the video
I would like to ask you please
Which type of colour was used here ..
Aqueous colour or oily colour .?
Hey this looks great! Its exactly what I was looking for in my project. Quick question, what glue did you use for your visor to bond the plastic to the rest of the helmet? I am making my helmet from eva foam btw.
Nice job!!!! 💯💯💯💯🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽
thank you so much!
Hi, im trying to do this with a gas mask will this work with black dye. And if so do you have any suggestions what color mirrored paint to use with the black dye
Thank you! I'm trying to do masterchief and I'm like how do I do the visor?
you're welcome!! hope it works out for you, I'm curious how it works on lighter colors like that!
I'm looking for a way to make a visor mask that has clear on the inside and color on the outside so you can see normally clear inside but outside you see color visor do you have any ideas.
Am I able to cut the plastic without it cracking?
with the specific visor I used, it was a bit thicker so I'd be careful cutting it with something like tin snips or heavy duty scissors
Quick question, how do you dispose of the dye when done?-
can you still use pot for food after using it for this?
no, everything you use in the pot (including what you stir with) should only be used for dyeing. I got a cheaper pot from Goodwill to serve as my dye pot
@@vaultfox thank! Never considered getting stuff from goodwill
Is there a reason you chose the spray method over a stick on film? Does this give a better reflection or is it mainly for color control?
the curve of this visor was tricky to use stick on film with, I actually tried something similar and didn't have great results (but I'm also impatient when it comes to application of that kinda stuff)
@@vaultfox thanks for the answer. Im going to make sunglasses but the lenses have some aggressive curves and some shallow corners, i expect the film to be a more complete cant-see-through mirror, but i didnt even know they made spray like that so thanks!
Old video, new comment! Great video btw. I tried doing this to my welding helmet visor. I tried twice!!! The problem is, it came off every time i dipped it in cold water.
blehhh that sucks, sorry to hear that! it does seem to need a specific type of material to work. I can only really speak to the visor I used
@@vaultfox yeah, i tested it on my safety glasses first, and bam!!! worked first try. i tried washing the visor first. still no. i am just going to use car tint. oh well. again, nice vid. thx
I got the same visor you did, I noticed you cut some of yours off, did you do that by hand or with like an electric Dremel or something?
I used a cutting tool and blade on my dremel
Hello! I will be painting the back of two petg lenses with thin layers of chrome only to give them a shiny effect. A friend of mine who used this method told me that due to the collection of humidity inside the mask, when he accidentally touched the lenses the paint (duralumen sprayed with airbrush) got wiped off. My friend recommended me to simply spray the front of those back lenses (think of the build as outer PETG lenses and inner painted PETG lenses with a fabric mesh sandwiched in between), but from my understanding the shiny effect only appears on the opposite side of where you've sprayed, while the sprayed surface retains some visibility. I was thinking of using a chrome dye for a pot (if those even exist), or to apply a clear antifog film like the ones used for mirrors in the inner surface of the sprayed lens, if that won't ruin the way the chrome reflects. What do you think? What dye type should i be looking for? Because i might even try to paint the petg white.
Very cool video. I'm trying to make just a silver mirrored face shield, would this work you think? I'm not even sure what colors would make it work to be silver
Thanks! Unfortunately I don't think that this would work for a silver shield, only because I use a pretty light layer of the spray and I think to get it as opaque as you need it would have to be thicker and you wouldn't be able to see through it
Do you have any idea how to do this for a Halo 2 ODST visor? I don’t want them to see me but I want to see them. It’s supposed to be either dark purple or silver.
Purple would be easier to achieve with the method I showed in this video, you'd just want to dye your plastic with a dark purple and spray lightly with the spaz-stick mirror chrome. You can also look for pre-dyed acrylic (though you'd have to manipulate that yourself with a heat gun and is a bit more difficult to get such a complex curve as on the ODST)
is there a way that people cant see you but you can see them and that there are lights showing through? (aka im making a protogen)
Dude that's awesome! As for the look you'd need for a protogen, I wonder if dyeing it a really dark green might work (but it would need to be very dark, so you don't see through). I'm not 100% on this tho!
@@vaultfox okay thanks!😁
I’m either going Master Chief or Arkham knight’s Batman Beyond, this looks like it’ll actually work.
nice! hope it works out for your project
@@vaultfox thx m8
Can you try this on football visors
I don't see why not
Is there a way to have it be matte but still be able to see through it?
That I'm not sure of, unfortunately. You could possibly sand down the plastic a bit with sandpaper, but not sure how that would affect the dye
Hi!! I noticed in the video you had the "anti fog" visor highlighted, is this the one you got?
Pretty sure that was the one! Tho one without the coating probably takes better to dye
(also nice way of spelling Robyn, that’s my name too!)
@@vaultfox awesome thank you!! Also no way, I've never met someone with the same spelling! The fact that I've also cosplayed Shep kinda makes It funnier, that's so cool!!
Can plexiglass be done this way successfully ??
Question does this work on all types of Visors or Lenses?
Should I do mine for longer since I want mine to be red instead of pink?
I'd recommend using a red dye closer to what you're looking for but typically for a more saturated color, yes you'd want to keep it in longer. But I def recommend having a small test piece to check coloring
@@vaultfox alr, ty!
Do you have any other content (IG or FB) about this cosplay character being built?
There's some content on my IG from a while back, but right now I've put this costume on hold since I'm waiting for some custom fabric for her bodysuit
Well I can’t wait to see how you complete everything.
could also use 1 way mirror film on the inside, atleast thats my thinking
that was my initial idea, but getting it to sit nicely without bubbles was a bit too much fiddling for my taste
@@vaultfox i could see that, i have some flexible face shield im going to use on my mask and im wondering how the tint would work being flexible
Great video & quite helpful. Would you say that clear visor you show that is from Amazon would work as a visor part of G.I. Joe's Cobra Commander visor? It been tricky for me to find a full face visor from middle of forehead to my chin. Since I'm working on the new figure of him "Snake Supreme Cobra Commander" from the G.I. Joe Classified, what would you suggest to get to add gold color to the visor? Since he seem to have light gold if you look at the action figure of him. Thanks.
Also, a friend will work on making a 3D print of the helmet part once he get the visor first. :)
Thank you! I don't really have much experience dying visors outside of this one I did for Tali, but I would assume dying a visor yellow would work in a similar way ... you might just need to experiment with different shades and dying times as I feel like yellow would be harder to get a deep, saturated color for? Though like I said, I'm not entirely sure.
You're welcome. I find it interesting how spraying the inside of the shield that go on your face, you can't see the face from the front outer of it. I thought the spray paint would make it look silver like it is, not just make it you can't see the face from it. Very cool.
I'm worried more about the smell. How does that work out with spray tints/mirror type paints?
It obviously smells when spraying it, but once it's cured there isn't much. But as always I recommend testing things for yourself
@@vaultfox Awesome, thanks. I have an excessivly sensitive sense of smell so I worry about these kinds of things. If the smell is too much, I'll plop it in a bucket of baking soda to see what happens (after it cures!).
So cool!!! I've been thinking about doing a Revan mask, so this was really helpful! Did the plastic warp at all with the heat from dying? Or does that depend on the hardness of the plastic? Great video! 😊
Thank you so much! So, the visor that I used was pretty thick and was already curved, so I wasn't worried about it warping in the dye bath. For thinner pieces of plastic I'd def be careful and test out smaller pieces to see how it reacts to the heat
@@vaultfox Awesome, thank you!
Is there any in white?
I tried to use the same product to tint an acrylic visor but it did not work at all and I was sad
Acrylic probably needs something stronger to dye, the piece I used was a thick plastic
You might not take suggestions but I think it would be cool to make a fire nation cosplay... weither it be Azula or fire nation armour I think it would be cool...
I haven’t seen AtLA but that is on my “to eventually watch” list for sure but just lookin at that armor ... oof that’s cool!
It’s awsome, although I suggest not watching the movie... 👀😬
thanks! im doing a warhammer cosplay
you're welcome! what armor are you doing?
@@vaultfox i was thinking blood angels but i could find any red spray paint
Very cool! I’ve been needing a method to properly dye and chrome-out a visor, especially since I’ve been wanting to do a Gigan cosplay recently. Just one question: was the pot safe to cook from again afterward?
Thank you! And no, I would not advise cooking from it after. This is actually a cheap pot I bought at goodwill to serve as my strict dye pot (same goes for whatever you stir with)
What plastic do you use for the visor?
I have it linked in the description to the specific one I used
@@vaultfox oh thank you, I probobly should have checked there first👍
What would you recommend for fitting a helmet?
Not sure what you mean in terms in fitting, are you talking about sizing 3D models?
Does anyone know what to use to cut the visor to shape?
I used a cutting wheel adapter on my dremel, but just be careful as it can potentially melt the plastic.
@@vaultfox thank you
Red hood helmet here I come!
That’s awesome! Good luck :)
@@vaultfox
Thanks! Looking forward to more amazing tips and cosplay
Awesome ! Can this be done with food coloring ?
a quick google search says yes, but I've never personally tried it
@@vaultfox thank you
Nice pandemic mask from 9450
right??? lol
Thank you so much I’m working on a mask for my channel to hide my identity but I can’t find something I’m confident in
glad to help!
I am looking at making a Cobra Commander Retaliation helmet. The face mask is chrome. I was wondering if I would have to paint a base color prior to spraying the face mask with the spray chrome you used? Thank you