multi21

Just wanted to share some pictures of my kids new helmet design. I asked my friend Dirk, a mechanical engineer by trade and fantastic artist with the airbrush by evening, to put some color on our big egg shell helmet.

To the horror of A. Wayne, inspiration was derived from some of Michael Schumacher's Ferrari helmets. We tried to incorporate that along with our Italian/American heritage to come up with something for the start of her 7th year in karting. Hope you like the images

paradisenb

Great looking lid. I love the back shot as it relates to F1. Grand Am, well thats another story.

Good luck to Isabella in the upcoming season.

A.Wayne

Great looking Helmet , If schumacher was a girl and his father a numbnut, i could see him wearing an helmet like that ......

Good luck Isabella, keep daddy away from your Kart if you want to win ...

Chaos

Outstanding !

jacksonrw

how did you paint that?

ltc

I wish her all the best in her karting

smlporsche

Bellissimo !
(from another Italian / American)

multi21

I don't know where to start, but the plain white was all sanded down, then the helmet was worked on section by section starting at the top. We used a lot of metalic paints and blended the blue and yellow to come up with the green. On the outer edges of the green he used more blue for effect.

On the red, the base was a flat red, then tape was put over the dried red and a metalic gold lightly sprayed on and later the tape was taken off for that effect.

The top is probably the highlight of the helmet, but I didn't see how he did it. I image it was sectioned off grid by grid with tape and then painted in with the gold faded back with the stars taped off.

Finally the white in the middle of the helmet was added back because the base white that the helmet came with was all sanded down.

He did a heck of a job. His wife had always told me about some of his artwork and then showed me a 911 he airbrushed and it literally looked like a picture. This is the first time he's ever painted a helmet.

multi21

Hey Lewis,

Did your son ever get a new helmet/paint after that incident? If so, what paint sceme did he go with?

ltc

Mr Scott Evans, who is in charge of Tech for Stars, Rotax, etc, deemed his helmet (Arai SK-5 K2005) to be unacceptable for competition use, so we ended up buying an Arai GP-5 SA2005 (which worked out well, since he needed an SA helmet with HANS anchors for the FBMW test drive).

The paint scheme was the same as his K2005, Ferrari/Kimi inspired, but the artist (Brad at Bullseye Visual) did make a few small subtle changes to make it look a bit 'faster'........oh, and he also put 'Flipper' on the back of the helmet (the team nicknamed him 'Flipper' after his roll/flip accident)......I wonder what someone behind him must be thinking when they see it.

We were fortunate enough to find the last known Caracoat Iridium Red visor in the US, looks fantastic in the pictures of him driving....too bad Caracoat went out of business.

Chaos

Post one of her in her cart!

multi21

Here you go. The first 2 are when she started in kid karts. The other 2 are from a recent race.

ltc

Fleming engine...good choice.
Nice to see she is using her nose cone as well.

multi21

Fleming engine from the beginning.

Yes, there is a fair amount of "rubbing" or is that "rub'n", bump drafting, going on with the front nose and side pods.

Sean F

oh man, that second picture is great. Taking the turn but looking at Dad with the camera.