Looks good for a start, your folds are very crisp. This should turn out to be a good build.

Good luck

ViZiONEER!

Welcome to the 405th community. Your in the right place for learning and posting your build.

Your off to and excellent start with documenting your build.

Looking forward to seeing more.

Cheers!

looking great! yeah, the hand is a little too big, i did the same thing myself! haha, my only advice for pepping, measure and size the chest by width! and the boots by your shoe size! other than that, welcome to the community and keep up the good work!

Pep work so far looks crisp! What kind of glue is that? I used rubber cement which is quick, but it doesnt hold super well, so I'm always looking for a good alternative. Can't wait to see more!

i use scotch brand scrap booking glue. it permanently bonds paper, and rubs off of anything else really easy! it does take about ten seconds to start holding in place, hope this helps!

Hello and welcome to the 405th, as to you're first build you're off to a great start. You're build page layout is clean and well set up. I look forward to seeing more.

Here is the product information at the manufacturers homepage -> http://bit.ly/JW6SEf
It is an ordinary glue, the same my boys use at school. They have dozens of other adhesive products at UHU, guess they even have better ones than this one for the purpose of glueing our pep-files. But I feel comfortable with it.

@Darthoblivious: Scaling the pep files is one thing i feel a bit of afraid of. Thanks for your advice!

Thanks everyone for your kind words. I keep on building this one as exact as possible.
Update with pictures to follow soon!

CeeYa!

Had a really busy time since my last post, but unfortunately no update on the armor.
I turned a old and shabby bench into a like brand new one.
Here the bench before...


And after...


For sure, I had to buy some new wooden planks. Well, I've increased my lvl of sanding by 2 after that. :-) Had to do this from 09:30 am, to 07:00 pm... phew. But it paid off.

Now continuing on the armor. Stay tuned.

Little update.

Time for an update. Still pepping the helmet.

These little parts are really tiny, it is hard to draw the fold lines and to get them accurate on the folding stage.


The smallest parts of the helmet, thanks to god my hands are sized like the ones of a woman, also small. It was still hard to glue them. But at least i ended up with a result I am satisfied with.


This front part of the helmet has very small folds and surfaces, I wonder if anyone else had troubles glueing it together in a clean way.


Due to the small distance of the folding lines this spot lacks detail. Hope to fix this at the bondo stage with the dremel.


I am trying to build the helmet out of two pieces. One starting at the bottom, the other on the brim of the helmet. Built it from front to back. Hope to get the finished parts together in a clean way.


I've also added the paper visor from flyingsquirrel's pep-file of the HD-helmet. I think it might add to stability and prevent it from warping. I'll also add the supports before resin and fiberglassing the helmet. Size seems to be perfect, tried the two single parts on my head.


A bit off-topic: I changed the image host from imageshack to photobucket, way better since they don't have a limitation on total files. I also changed from my Nokia Lumia 800 to my old Sony DSC-W50 pocket cam, has great macro-mode-capabilities.

Hope to get the helmet together within the next few days.

Stay tuned!

Looks amazing. Your work is very neat, all the lines are crisp and the folds are great. And you're obviously a perfectionist, worrying over what seems to be a minute detail, which you shouldn't because it looks great. Can't wait to see the whole thing finished.

Thanks a lot SquishyShoes. When I craft something I always try to get out the best result my skills enable me to creat. Patience paired with perfection and progress then usually ends up in something I can be satisfied with.

I just read your post where you made it to some science lesson in the end with a half finished suit. Any actual progress on this or a new suit? I loved it until the point your chest warped. I'm very sorry for you.

good work so far

it looks to me like the helmet is to big but that might just be the camra

Thanks!

No that suit is pretty much scrapped. I still have the helmet and a handful of other pieces at home, but for now I'm mostly projectless. Although, that's not to say that I don't have plans or anything :P

And the chest warping thing, you just gotta take the good with the bad, worse things have happened to people on this site and it was fixed so no need to feel sorry.

Just take your time, enjoy your build and this will turn out to be one hell of a suit.

Whoop whoop! I did it!

I felt a bit confused if it was a good idea to build the helmet out of two main parts. I had to get these two parts together.


Did a little break and had a coffee to get my brain clear. And it worked out well.




I am still really overwhelmed by the quality of my helmet, my first real try on pepakura. Feel like Master Chief Junior already a bit. And the size? It just fits perfect. It really pays off not to hurry and work as accurate as possible. Summing up right from scaling, printing, doing the folds, cutting and glueing the helmet took about 15 - 20 hours to look the way it does right now.


I just have to add the supports and then it is time to resin it. I didn't glue the upper edge of the visor by now as i think some supports also have to be glued in there.

I also have a question on this: The visor doesn't have flaps all around. So won't I have to glue it to the other parts of the helmet to prevent damage? And what about the little holes between the folds? Do they also need to be closed?

The bad news that doesn't annoy me that much at the moment is, that my PC prompted me to instert a boot disk into floppy drive A: ... both HDDs don't show up in the BIOS, so i guess it is the SATA-controller on the mainboard which gave up. At least all my data should be still there.

I am now off to a short weekend vacation with my colleagues. So no updates until next week.