Modernizing the MICH 2000 Full Airsoft Helmet Build

[Music] d [Music] what's up explorers to I have a DIY project for you I working on a new helmet setup and I already have a tan and a black setup and both of those Creations were documented so this is along the same lines but I'm building a green setup cuz I want to have a kid for indoors playing tside desert marad all that stuff and then having a green setup for whenever I'm on a Green Team makes perfect sense right of course you could always just use helmet covers but this gives me an opportunity to build something and I like that so I partnered up with Lancer tactical and they sent me two helmets as you can see here's a traditional bump helmet that everyone's using fast style and here is the Mish 2000 which is a really cool looking helmet that has sort of been forgotten and this one has the rails built into it already so it's a little bit more modern ized but what I want to do is modernize it even further and I'm going to call it the Mitch 2016 my first order of business is to take the mounting system from here that holds the helmet on your head and if you ever use one of these it has a little crank on the back that tightens everything and you can get a really nice comfortable fit where it's still kind of floating off your head you get good ventilation and it's really comfortable it's not sitting too low and it's not just sitting on the tip of your head uh what these have is this typical padding and when I actually first started playing Airsoft I used the Mish 2000 style helmet and I remember it was being really hot and minimal adjustability because the pads are there and whichever way it lands on your head that's sort of the way it's going to sit this actually fits me pretty well so not too many complaints there but I really want to modernize it so luckily I have two helmets from Lancer and big shout out to them for that this will be the donor where we take the the suspension system from and put it in here I have no idea if this will work or if this will require a ton of new holes and new openings for me to drill in this one or if it'll just hook up straightforward and it'll be a real simple project so you could learn from my experimentation here so that's step one I'm going to do that next after that's all figured out I'm going to then put in the pads and then I'm going to give this a slightly more green paint job just like a little snakes skin green pattern because it's a little more grayish foilage which is cool but I want to kind of bring it more online with the the gear I'm using so that's the head gear for the eye protection I'm going to use these esss goggles which I have been using on my black build and they work really well they vent well they're comfortable I'm trying to little something different here this is their pivot system and I already have part of it installed here it simply clips into the arc Rail and then on there you could clip on these goggles in the field and their straps are adjustable and they're real easy to clip in where you you don't have to look at what you're doing it's kind of similar to what I did on my tan system but professionally manufactured and with a little bit more adjustability onto that I'm going to clip on standard uh mesh mask I might cut it down a little bit make it a little more low profile so it doesn't get away with my chin we'll see how that goes and on the back I'm adding this Milson West battery pouch that's going to hold my GoPro battery so let's get started we're going to tear this one up insert the stuff in here and and see how that [Music] goes [Music] [Music] all [Music] [Applause] [Music] a [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] oh [Music] [Music] [Music] all right guys so part one is complete I have successfully moved the head strap system from this fast helmet onto this m 2000 it wasn't exactly easy I ran into a couple of problems one being it seemed like when I put this system in here the helmet felt smaller even though before I transferred the straps from here when I tried this helmet on the way it was intended to be it fit me really well so if you end up doing this maybe pick up a larger size version of the helmet you're transferring to I think the two helmets were the same size and like I said they both fit me prior but the system is designed um differently so you need a bigger helmet for it so in order to make that work as you saw I shaved off the front of this foam pad that goes in here and that just gave me a little bit more room up here and it felt more comfortable on my head the way I slimm down the foam here is I use the it's like a foam cutter I'll have a link to it in the description but it's just a hot metal electric wire that just cuts through a foam like butter it makes it a lot easier you can do this with a sharp knife it's just a little tougher because foam you know if you ever cut this type of stuff style foam it doesn't want to be cut easily and it could break as well if you put too much pressure in so that's a really good tool for something like this it's not a lot of applications for it but this was one one of those times where was the perfect tool for the job and I had to open up the holes a little bit for the screws the way these two helmets are they're not meant to Interchange so the holes didn't line up a little bit so instead of drilling new holes on the helmet I ended up opening the hole on the plastic support system moving it forward so I opened each one up towards the front towards the the center of the helmet and it was tough tight to fit and I had to shave away some of the foam but I got it all together it's on there really nice and tight everything works really well the back piece went into the existing holes so nothing to cut there I ended up mixing some of the pads I took some from the donor helmet some from the helmet that I started with uh just whatever works I kind of kept going and trying it on over and over and then padding where I needed to go and removing some of the unnecessary velcro that was on there uh most of the padding is front top and back the sides is very minimal it's pretty open it actually feels really nice I just tried on my tan helmet that I had done a couple years ago and that thing feels really claustrophobic compared to this this is nice and open the ears are open I can hear stuff the whole point of doing this obviously is to bring the system in here I got it as you could see I could tighten it or loosen it as need be and it's got a lot of leeway actually so that's the smallest as it goes and I could back it out all the way to I mean crazy sizes so I I did what I set out to do uh move the system here and it now makes this helmet more modern where it's adjustable it's a little more breathable as it turns out and the strap is a little more sturdy but I think that's more of a this being a high quality helmet that the donor Parts came from so next step is I'm going to give it a little bit of a green paint job and then I'm going to tie in the mesh mask into the goggles and pretty much complete this build so let's get to phase two one eternity later all right guys so the project is complete and it was pretty uh timec consuming I'm not going to lie but I love doing this stuff so it didn't really feel like work after I got the helmet set up to what I called the Mish 2016 configuration Next Step was to incorporate the goggles and the mesh as well as has the battery compartment uh I started there this milsim West pouch uh has velcro that attaches to the helmet but it's kind of flimsy because it's a curved surface but you're attaching a flat pouch so there's the contact area is um decent and it probably would hold up but just to be certain I decided to recycle the little bungees that usually go in the front that hold your nvg Hardware in place and I put them through the hole that already existed on the rail here in the back so I put it in there tight a knot so it can back out and then screwed the rails back on so I put one on each side and what I do is run him through the inside of the pouch crisscross and then hook it to this oval slot that you can find on each Rail and that takes care of any possibility with falling off during running or snagging on something next after I got that figured out I wanted to paint the helmet it was a little too blue gray for me that's the foilage color which I actually like but I want to tie it more with my gear so I gave it a little real subtle snake skin paint job with some light green color and then this kind of dark OD forest green color and I moved some of the velcro patches around because they were a little crooked right off the factory once the helmet was painted and the pouch was on there I put on the goggles and that's a real simple system I really like what es did here with this pivot system system it's um I guess I don't know a five-part system if you consider the goggles and the strap as one part um there's a little bracket there that you slide in for me I went from the back because I'm mounting the goggles almost all the way to the last um hole that you could lock it into so you slide in this close Pin looking thing it locks in and then in there you mount this uh little stump here that the goggles attached to real simple it's got adjustability we could move it up and down the rail so do that on both sides and that gets your goggles on there I like it because it keeps it on Tangle keeps it clean no straps going around nothing to invent it's real straightforward really good idea I'm guessing this is where the future of goggles lays uh they're probably all going this way so once the goggles were on I started trying out on the mask this was a standard Airsoft mask the the minimal one but it's still not very minimal when I put everything on with the chin strap and the side protection here it was awkward it was sticking out past the straps and then the chin was sticking down below which actually is a gripe of mine with these masks I'm always bumping into my gear especially if I have like stuff stacked up all the way up my chest like a mags up here or a grenade or something or even just patches just the vest itself looking down I'll start running into it so I definitely knew I wanted to shave this down but when I put the whole thing on the natural path of the straps kind of gave me a shape I wanted to create so I went ahead and put it on I looked myself in the mirror and then I kind of marked uh where the straps fell so sort of a natural progression and first I went a little conservative so it was still sticking out it won't go too small but it didn't really make any sense kind of the way it all went together so I went and shorten it even more so to do that you undo the the shrimp that goes around the mask it's hot glued on there so it's easy to take apart kind of once you break the connection with the two ends meet up which is behind one of these um velcro straps then you could kind of tear it apart just by hand if not use some pliers maybe you could probably heat it up if you wanted to that might break the Bond as well I didn't try that I was able to Simply tear it apart so I went from basically where the bottom of the goggle frame end took all that down and and then started trimming and trying it on you don't want to take off too much you know you could always remove more but you can't add more usually so just kept trimming and trimming till I got it to where it basically was filling in the negative space between the uh the straps that came off your temples here and the chin that made sense to me it protects the mouth protects the nose the front kind of sensitive areas it does leave your jaw a little more exposed which is good for cheek weld when you're looking down the sides it's probably not good if you get shot there but it's one of those areas that you're unlikely to get shot in because if you're in a CQB situation you're probably going to be looking at the person so I just kept doing that once I was happy with it I then ran the trim back around hot glued it back in the same way that they had it at that point the mask I could just butt it up to my goggles and hold it down with the strap that was enough it was pretty sturdy once I was happy with the shape of the Mask I took it outdoors and gave it a green paint job to match the helmet same colors I tried it on on it was a little Bland looking with just all green so I ran a couple of strips of tape following the shape of the nose bridge and just extending it all the way down and then painted that darker green again from the scheme color scheme I used on the helmet and a little bit of black just to kind of Shadow it a little more I think it breaks it up makes it look a little more interesting still keeps in the Green family but gives it a little slightly unique look so I wanted to permanently attach it to the goggles so I could simply select SL the goggles down put the strap around and call it a day so what I did was I drilled a hole in the goggle lens right down the middle I removed the little plastic piece in there that you'll see if you look in there and then poke the hole down through the bottom of the goggles and then ran that same uh zip tie through the mask and tied it on the inside here and trimmed away the excess so that gives guarantees perfect alignment every time minimal gapping between the mask and the goggles to be extra certain this is kind of an optional step I then did the same thing but with a tiny zip tie on the sides here ran it through the mask and around the little vents on the goggles to reduce the possibility of fogging I removed all the foam all around there's a strip of foam that goes around the goggles that's there to keep dust and sand out for me i' rather risk getting a little duster sand than getting fogged on the field so took that out and I've done that on my other goggles and it seems to do the job putting all that together gave me the complete system I really like it getting a really good cheek weld with the minimal mesh mask and the open sides here I also like the fact that it's open air so I can hear really well I don't need um ear protection uh unfortunate side is I can't really use this at some fields around here that require ear protection it does have the helmet does come down halfway out down the ears but I almost 100% certain that that's not going to be sufficient enough for these fields the one issue I did discover after kind of completing the project is the Buckle it's really thick and um it's more designed to be used on your face obviously not on a mesh mask so that kind of thickens it even further by putting another layer of hard metal underneath the problem with that is when you go to shoot off your left hand side the Buckle ends up right there on the stock and that does not give you a good position it keeps wobbling around you want to slide either under or over and what you really want to do is be right there where the Buckle is so I'm thinking I might switch that out to a simple velcro tab because that will keep it flat and it won't get in the way big shout out to Lancer Tactical for supplying me with two helmets uh I ended up using a lot of the parts from the the donor helmet so I feel like I used like one and a half helmets because it's a kind of a hybrid job I think it's a pretty cool idea this modernized kind of older style helmet I think a lot of people go for that that so maybe they'll consider putting this kind of design into actual production hopefully you guys get some ideas get inspired to do something like this on your own um maybe you feel a little more confident cutting the mesh mask or spray painting whatever was kind of holding you back and making that system that works well for you and if you like this consider subscribing I got way more DIY stuff 3D printing stuff and gameplay stuff including with this guy and the GoPro here 5 coming up very soon so thanks for watching and I'll see you on the next [Music] 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Length: 20min 56sec (1256 seconds)

Published: Thu Oct 27 2016