Takanuva
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I absolutely love the 343i MJOLNIR designs, and want to build a Master Chief suit, it looks like a proper hulking tank of a suit, aside from the lack of a cod piece. I've read through LilTyrant's build thread, and numerous tutorials on pepakura suits on sites like Instructables, and have some experience with Pepakura (2 mask props from Bionicle, Kanohi Avokhii, and Kanohi Kakama, masks of Takanuva, my namesake, and Pohatu, one of the origInal 6 Toa Mata, for any curious fans).
From what I can tell, the only really difficult parts of the build should be the helmet and codpiece, which I plan to take from the Halo 3 pepakura files. The main problem is most of the links I've found on here for Halo 4 Mk IV, most of them are either HD files, which I'm scared to touch, especially after seeing Robot Chicken's ultimate H3 build he's doing for his son, or expired links.
I have a few more questions: What's the best way to scale it to my body and proportions? I'm kinda built-fat, and have some similar proportions and muscularity to John, aside from height. I'm 5'4, 5'5 with boots, and have a 36" chest,32" waist, 13" biceps, and I haven't measured my calves, thighs, or forearms.
And how durable is fiberglass armor? I haven't had good experiences with foam in the past, though I do like the durability. Can you army crawl, go prone, run, and jump in fiberglass armor? Can you sit down normally? Are there any alternate ways of reinforcing pepakura for those qualities, without sacrificing rigidity, like foam?
I'm a bit of a fanatic when it comes to form/functionality, and I love to have some sort of durability, or practicality in props and costumes, like the one guy here making a metal set of Iron Man armor. Any reccomended tutorials for making an undersuit? Any answers would be appreciated, thank you.
From what I can tell, the only really difficult parts of the build should be the helmet and codpiece, which I plan to take from the Halo 3 pepakura files. The main problem is most of the links I've found on here for Halo 4 Mk IV, most of them are either HD files, which I'm scared to touch, especially after seeing Robot Chicken's ultimate H3 build he's doing for his son, or expired links.
I have a few more questions: What's the best way to scale it to my body and proportions? I'm kinda built-fat, and have some similar proportions and muscularity to John, aside from height. I'm 5'4, 5'5 with boots, and have a 36" chest,32" waist, 13" biceps, and I haven't measured my calves, thighs, or forearms.
And how durable is fiberglass armor? I haven't had good experiences with foam in the past, though I do like the durability. Can you army crawl, go prone, run, and jump in fiberglass armor? Can you sit down normally? Are there any alternate ways of reinforcing pepakura for those qualities, without sacrificing rigidity, like foam?
I'm a bit of a fanatic when it comes to form/functionality, and I love to have some sort of durability, or practicality in props and costumes, like the one guy here making a metal set of Iron Man armor. Any reccomended tutorials for making an undersuit? Any answers would be appreciated, thank you.
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