HANS device & helmet 1:24 scale

I just finished my first attempts on making my own HANS / Helmet-combination in 1:24 scale.
Accompanying to my Porsche GT3R project, just to have something to lay on the car’s roof once when the car is finished (together with my gloves).
The basic HANS device is made out of cutted brass sheet, after several attempts I got it. It looks a bit like a tuning fork (Y-shaped). It took me hours and hours to sand, rework, cut, sand again……
Then the shoulder pads are sculpted with magic sculp and some pieces of plastic sheet were added to enforce the backside of the “head rest” and the surfaces of the brackets. I don’t know if its 100% in scale. I hope so. It has to work with the helmet (a GF-models-product), hollowed out (a ghoulish duty by the way……………) and abraded completely to make my own detailings.
The hardest thing was to make the maskings for the helmet……..uff. The design is pure fantasy. The coloring of the helmet is in contrast to the car’s livery later on.
The project isn’t finished yet. The helmet has to be fixed to the structure. The small belts between the helmet and the HANS device are still missing so as the bolts and some other small details. Will be a pleasure to complete it over the next couple of days.
Please let me know what you think! All comments are very welcome.

...and don't think your eyes are playing tricks on you. The helmet is a bit aslope on the column.
http://i471.photobucket.com/albums/rr79/gulf009/HANS%20and%20Helmet/hans002jk-1.jpg

http://i471.photobucket.com/albums/rr79/gulf009/HANS%20and%20Helmet/hans005jk.jpg

http://i471.photobucket.com/albums/rr79/gulf009/HANS%20and%20Helmet/hans01jk.jpg

http://i471.photobucket.com/albums/rr79/gulf009/HANS%20and%20Helmet/hans03jk.jpg

http://i471.photobucket.com/albums/rr79/gulf009/HANS%20and%20Helmet/hans05jk.jpg

http://i471.photobucket.com/albums/rr79/gulf009/HANS%20and%20Helmet/hans07jk.jpg

http://i471.photobucket.com/albums/rr79/gulf009/HANS%20and%20Helmet/hans08jk.jpg

http://i471.photobucket.com/albums/rr79/gulf009/HANS%20and%20Helmet/helm001jkd.jpg

http://i471.photobucket.com/albums/rr79/gulf009/HANS%20and%20Helmet/helm002jkc.jpg

http://i471.photobucket.com/albums/rr79/gulf009/HANS%20and%20Helmet/helm1jk.jpg

http://i471.photobucket.com/albums/rr79/gulf009/HANS%20and%20Helmet/helm1ajk.jpg

http://i471.photobucket.com/albums/rr79/gulf009/HANS%20and%20Helmet/helm2jk.jpg

http://i471.photobucket.com/albums/rr79/gulf009/HANS%20and%20Helmet/helm2bjk.jpg

http://i471.photobucket.com/albums/rr79/gulf009/HANS%20and%20Helmet/helm2djk.jpg

http://i471.photobucket.com/albums/rr79/gulf009/HANS%20and%20Helmet/helm2fjk.jpg

http://i471.photobucket.com/albums/rr79/gulf009/HANS%20and%20Helmet/helm2hjk.jpg

All the best, next update with the completed thing.

Yours
jochen

Nice work Jochen!

Not nice work... AWESOME WORK!!!!!! And congratulations for your patience with that work. I'm sure it was a greatful lovely pain to do such work...

Simply amazing Jochen. Hats off to mask this tiny helmet.

CAVEAT: I work for HANS Performance Products, makers of the HANS Device.

Great work Jochen! I also scratch built a device but in 1/12 scale to go with a Tamiya F1 Williams model. I made mine in plastic then covered it with carbon foil. Here's a photo.

Thank you.

First of all, thanks a lot for your kind words! I appreciate that!

Professor HANS, thanks!! That confirmed me.

Let me close that chapter………it took me quite some nerves due to the tininess of that whole thing. I have another problem by now, guess which one!?
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Yes, right, I don’t know how to handle that thing. It’s made out of round about 30 parts now and fragile like nothing I’ve done before. I think I put in a safe now…;-)

Call the result sketchy, i apologize but i complied with a lots of pics. BUT in the end the look as a miniature is what counts. At least from my point of view….to quote Francois Verlinden, the Belgian godfather of military modelling, it’s “GUESS WORK” (but somehow also real).

As I said before, I’m not quite sure about the size. I think the helmet could be more bulky BUT it is how it is (oohhoo, the red wine is taking effect again!!!).

I’ve chosen NOT to fix the cables / connectors to the helmet (as often done in real race situations by Velcro-strips) due to the somehow “small appearance” of the helmet. The loose cables help to enlarge the item. Know what I mean? Don’t know how to explain it better.

STOP talking now, holy…….

Here are the latest and last pics about this one.

http://i471.photobucket.com/albums/rr79/gulf009/HANS%20and%20Helmet/001.jpg

http://i471.photobucket.com/albums/rr79/gulf009/HANS%20and%20Helmet/003.jpg

http://i471.photobucket.com/albums/rr79/gulf009/HANS%20and%20Helmet/005.jpg

http://i471.photobucket.com/albums/rr79/gulf009/HANS%20and%20Helmet/007.jpg

http://i471.photobucket.com/albums/rr79/gulf009/HANS%20and%20Helmet/009.jpg

http://i471.photobucket.com/albums/rr79/gulf009/HANS%20and%20Helmet/013.jpg

http://i471.photobucket.com/albums/rr79/gulf009/HANS%20and%20Helmet/016.jpg

http://i471.photobucket.com/albums/rr79/gulf009/HANS%20and%20Helmet/017.jpg

http://i471.photobucket.com/albums/rr79/gulf009/HANS%20and%20Helmet/018.jpg

http://i471.photobucket.com/albums/rr79/gulf009/HANS%20and%20Helmet/019.jpg

Good fight, good night!!!
All the best

Jochen ( downed by Palo Alto, Reserva from Chile.......)

Dear Jochen,

awesome work. Congratulation to this tiny and well done model in a model ;-)

Just two words. Min. one cable you could fix on the top of the helmet.
I´ve seen it on an older helmet of Frank Biela. The cable was fixed by Velcro tape. After entering the seat and fixing the seat belt, they took then the end of the cable from the top of the helmet to put it in the socket.

And now I´m waiting for progress of the Porsche. :-)

Tschöö

Dirk

outstanding!

Fantastic! Beautiful job. The wine did its work well.

The radio wire, drink tube, HANS tethers etc. really make this a special model.

GM

Definitely a one of a kind - at least until somebody else is crazy enough to try this.

Edit: i somehow activated that thumbs down symbol???? Sorry.

Thanks a lot!
A last couple of pics to show the size.

http://i471.photobucket.com/albums/rr79/gulf009/HANS%20and%20Helmet/001-1.jpg

http://i471.photobucket.com/albums/rr79/gulf009/HANS%20and%20Helmet/003-1.jpg

http://i471.photobucket.com/albums/rr79/gulf009/HANS%20and%20Helmet/004-1.jpg

Thanks for looking!

jochen

amazing work Jochen, makes me speechless





Mike:smile:

Amazing work! :worshippy

Wow, very nice little model. Hans device and helmet look great and will definitely add to anything they are displayed with. Well done.

Mike

Amazing job!

I hadn't realized how small it was from the first pics serie till I saw the 1 euro coin pictures !!
Absolutely incredible !! Not only the fantastic paint scheme you did on it but also the connecting wire and the liquid hose !! :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

Proof that you don't necessarily have to build a complete car to create an interesting and eye-catching modelling project. Now all it needs is a matching hand-stitched helmet bag to protect it!

SB

wow. that helmet is full of epic win!

great work Jochen,gives great inspiration and is an useful detail for many many models.
Somewhere around think I saw in your pics also the little pilot gloves (dont remember where).

where did u get (or build) theme? too nice detail also that.

Very cool...nice work.

Wow, great!!!!!
Regards
HP

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Great work on this little scale, smaller than a 1 euro coin. Excellent work.

I must've opened this thread at least three times now. And am speechless everytime. Beautiful job on such a small helmet!!

Fantastic workmanship! Bravo!

Hello Jochen

I saw your Hans & helmet in an issue of Art of Modelling (nice magazine just a bit too much Panzer for my taste) and have been huntimg for the one with your Porsche GT3 project ever since. so was very pleasently surprised when I saw your post here.
Really nice job

with kind regards
Tamar

Great one!! Amazing job!

That is really cool, great job

wow...that´s awesome. Nice details... :bigthumb: