I think this was the… 2nd… prop that I was commissioned to do for Machinima. And by commissioned, I mean just paid for materials. I was reading a lot of the 405th at the time and picked up some cool weathering and painting tricks I wanted to try out. 

This was from a time where we weren’t putting hosts’ faces on camera and inside gaming was machinima. He’d obscure his identity with the helmet. Figured it could use a face lift.