How to custom paint a Misspent Summers themed mtb helmet!

This collaboration had been an idea in the back of my mind for ages before I finally clicked with a concept and knew I had to make it happen. Mike Rose (ex-Dirt Mag editor extraordinaire) sorted an awesome @foxmtb Proframe helmet to use as a canvas and I went to work.
Unsurprisingly, it turns out repeating the @misspentsummers logo approximately 69,000 times is easy enough in Adobe Illustrator, much less so on the complex curved shape of a bike helmet. More than 48 hours of solid masking and de-masking later and the idea had started to come to life. In all seriousness, this one nearly broke me!
A few rushed coats of clearcoat later, and still not fully cured, I balanced it precariously in the footwell of my car and drove the 1100 miles to Finale Ligure for delivery (may or may not have been going for the EWS anyway...). I've known Misspent Summers chief dropout James McKnight since 2007, and I couldn't imagine anyone more deserving of having a cool custom helmet, repping the awesome company he is part of.
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