Painting my goalie mask. First Timer

dylan · 06-01-2008, 08:07 PM

was bored this weekend, so I decided to paint my Eddy Custom Kevlar in my favorite scheme of all-time. Felix Potvin. Only trouble was deciding the color combo

Since I just got brand new Vaughn 8600's leg pads, T5500 Catch and B7400 Blocker in a matching White, Black, and Silver scheme....decided to replace the "Toronto Blue" with a silver color

I already had the airbrush and compressor from my days moddeling glue-together airplanes, so it was a trip to the Automotive Paint store in search of a good Black and the perfect Silver.Looking through the books I setteled on a Honda color called "Desert Mist". Had the guy mix up a 2oz. bottle of the Silver, and one of the black, bought some urathane reducer and a can of two-part clear and headed home.

First mistake: Even though I thoroughly cleaned the mask, COMPLETELY forgot to rough up the gel-coat with some scotch-brite. Not doing this makes it a pain in the *** for the new paint to adhere to the surface of the mask.

I have a really good pic of the Potvin Mask on my laptop, so I took the polished cage and all hardware off, masked off the entire inside of the mask as well as vent holes, bought a 12'er of cheap beer, and proceeded to mask off the design.

While I was painting the mask, I dropped the cage off at a local powder coating shop to get the polished cage turned to white.

Mask in original state:

masking stage:

dylan · 06-01-2008, 08:08 PM

First coat of Silver:

Unmasking exept for Eyes and Cage Border:

Time for Black:

The biggest thing I f'd up on was the eyes: white part a little too long (extending too far aft towards back-plate)

Comments, feedback, and suggestions appreciated as this was my first time.

Dylan

dylan · 06-01-2008, 08:09 PM

Finished Product:

Photo of Felix's real mask I used for refference:

Materials:

The mask turned out alot better than expected, but clearing it was a pain. After the first coat, the unthinkable happened: Accidentally knocked the mask off the table and onto the dirty concrete floor. A couple dings, some dirt and that was about it. But it would have been perfect otherwise.

Total in parts:
2oz. bottle of Black-$10.00
2oz. bottle of Silver-$10.00
Urathane reducer-$12.00
2-part Clearcoat-$18.00

Grand total of $50 bucks.
Mask painters wanted $450.00 to $550.00

It was very tedious, but the end result is OK.

Roarer · 06-01-2008, 08:30 PM

That looks really cool! I know almost nothing about Ice Hokey, so that is quite interesting to me.

You must be really pleased with it!

And not a fat arm or a can of Heiniken in sight either!!

Bill-ay · 06-01-2008, 10:18 PM

Damn nice job Dylan! Thats sweet!

Horizon CRJ700 · 06-01-2008, 10:49 PM

Cool looks like the witch king of angmar from LOTR.

MarinerOne · 06-19-2008, 12:44 AM

OUTSTANDING work Dylan ... thanks for sharing your project!

gospodin · 06-19-2008, 01:00 AM

$450-$550?! To paint a mask?! Jeez, I could get one of these cheesy body shops out here to do a crappy job on my truck for that. Looks really good, Dylan. Now go out and scare the poop out of somebody on the ice.