Baseball Helmet Progess

This is coming together and will eventually join the football helmet lineup. I should have the helmet fully reverse-engineered in a few more days, and then I’ll start adding logos and making these available for download. I’ll also be able to do custom versions, and I already have a growing list of requested teams.

What you see in gray is the raw result from my 3D scan. It’s actually a really good mesh, but it isn’t a CAD model, which makes it harder to work with and nearly impossible to cleanly add logos. To solve that, I use the scan as a reference and essentially do a full 3D trace—rebuilding the helmet with clean, continuous surfaces instead of (literally) millions of tiny patch surfaces.

The light blue surfaces are the new CAD geometry. I try to get them as close to the original shape as possible. Even with good software and decades of experience, this is still a challenge and definitely time-consuming—but it’s getting there 🙂