Welcome. That armor looks awesome. how long have you been working with metal?

Dude, you where in Red Dwarf! you are now a god. The best damn show ever. "Stoke Me A Clipper" episode, right?


Anyways, the iron man pep looks good, did you use tape on it?

The Mid Evil armor looks good as well did you make that too?

I have been bending metal ever since I left school but the armour stuff was only in the last 22 years

Spot on, if you look at the scene where the crowd part and Lister walks through with the Lady in hand I'm the tall guy to the right in Green with the hair down to his belt, admitedly that was a few years ago now and my hair is a LOT shorter, in fact I use a no.2 clipper these days

Just to hold the face plate to the rest of the helmet, the Pep was put together with PVA which is kind of like wood glue but a lot cheaper as it's unbranded.

Yep, I made everything apart from the sword (that's a skilled trade I don't dare touch!) even the chainmail gloves were assembled by my own hands from 6mm Spring Washers.

Welcome to the 405th. That is an excellent way to start out. The modelers around here really do make everything we do possible, at least those of us who must start with pap and lack the faculties to sculpt.

welcome to 405th
nice to see a fellow english prop builder .
ZZOMG YOU WERE RED DWARF OMFG MY FAV SHOW ,did you get to meet the cast?

LOL actually I did, I met Craig Charles in a strip club in Vauxhall two days after he was released during that whole rape scandle thing and I met him again with Bob (robert llewellyn) while they were cooling off in the trailer during the show filming, they are really nice people if you ignore that whole star persona you see on the TV

wow i envy you man

No pictures yet but I've completed the Faceplate, Chin section and most of the base of the skull sections of the Sharkhead IM MKIII helmet. As soon as I get the camera working again I'll upload a photo or two of my progress

Good to have you on the boards Cyberpaddy.
I would be interested in learning your chainmail techniques.

Craig is a great lad, I lived down the road from him for a while (yeh! I'm Scouse), but didnt know him then because he was my brothers age and they didnt hang with "little kids" lol
but I did have a coffee with him at Alexi Sayles mums house once in the lates 80's just after Red dwarf started, with him and Alexi.

Shame I don't live in the UK anymore, otherwise I would have been keen to see your armour.

I do also have to thank you guys for this forum. Not only is this website an amazing Halo cosplay forum, but also a great place to share all projects. I know of no other websites like this and that is why I am here.

@Cyberpaddy66: I am also a reenactor of english warfare, just a different era. I'll post a pic of me reenacting

It's a really simple 4 into 1 deal, I close up about half the rings and dump them into a box then I open up a ring and drop two closed rings onto that... make a long chain like that and then I start folding the chain in half and joining the adjasent links together (tricky but easily doable with two pairs of long nose mole grips). When that bit is done I start again and when I have two pieces the same I join them by the same method... repeat ad nausium LOL

I'll try to do a quick video when my camera's working again

Now I'm the jealous one

Next time your visiting our little corner of the world let me know and you can even try some of it on if you like, I promise not to hit you too hard

Please do, it's nice to see what's happening in the 'real' world

OK peeps I have a bit of a chaotic update for you all...

WIP PICTURES...



That's the first helmet I pepped and I didn't like the contours which will need a lot more filler so I decided to make a different one...




I much prefer the shape of that helmet and please don't mind about the tape it's just to seal it so I can get on with the next step and strengthen it with PVA which I will try out opn the first helmet I made... I'll let you know how that goes next time!

I decided to continue with that build set and I'll pep up as much as I can before I so anything else so the neck is next...





I even put the left glove together but I still have the right glove to do yet but I've already printed out the Pep files for that one...





PEPKURA FILES...

Well that's all the Pep's I've built for now but I did notice the Pep set I'm using is missing some very important files so I had to have a go at unfolding them myself using Dancing Fools Pep files as a basis, could anyone who has used the designer before PLEASE let me know how well my unfolds have turned out?

http://www.4shared.com/file/2SEFp4Z7...ing_Fool_.html
http://www.4shared.com/file/giOaLoCH...ed_by_Dan.html
http://www.4shared.com/file/xp-MgWL5...ncing_Foo.html
http://www.4shared.com/file/4Qjq9gqN...Dancing_F.html

I really hope I did the Side Abs right but until I build them I'm not going to know for sure if I flipped the 2nd side correctly

I should point out I'm not sure of the scaling of those Pep files as I had to guess where they would fit on my 6'1" frame so you will probably have to re-scale them to fit, if anyone knows what size they should be I can re-do them and post the new links

OK, just a quick update as I've only pepped a few bits since the last time namely a single elbow, a pair of upper forearms and a pair of biceps...



Also I thought you might like to see some more pics of my medieval armour (warning it's rusty as hell)...




I'm hopeing some of what I know about the joints of my metal armour will help me with the joints on the IM costume, at the very least it should give me something to work on while I save the money for the interior foam filler and car body filler.