Ghost Fett ODST

[Ghost Fett]

3d printing is done now to glue, sand and paint the SMG

 

[Ghost Fett]

I received my combat shirt, belt, and scarf in the mail.

 

[Ghost Fett]

So my worklist looks like:

Work on belt armor- work on drop cod armor( cut paint weather strap)
Attach strapping to thighs
Attach strapping to shoulders
Sand and paint smg
Attach back plate to belt

 

[Ghost Fett]

Some shoulder work

 

[Ghost Fett]

Unsc stenciled on the chest. A little sloppier than I would have liked but I’ve never stenciled.

 

[PaiganBoi]

You think it looks sloppy but, from my point of view it turned out really well.

 

[Sean Anwalt]

I agree. The stenciling is very nice. It doesn't appear to be sloppy at all.

 

[Dirtdives2424]

I think it's off-centered by 1/32nd of an inch and the left side is higher than the right by .002%....I think you should do the whole chest piece over again........

 

[Sean Anwalt]

Dirtdives must work in calibration.

Is that an Andrew DFT template for the chest?

 

[comics1996]

Nice job on the armor and especially the gun.

 

[Ghost Fett]

Thank you everybody!

 

[Ghost Fett]

Dirtdives must work in calibration.

Is that an Andrew DFT template for the chest?

Yes with some modification. But his template is the base

 

[Ghost Fett]

Everything strapped. Just a few more tweaks. I want to add a few more things like D-rings and my shins slipped down so I’m gonna add Velcro.

 

[Sean Anwalt]

That is awesome, man! Looks amazing

 

[Ghost Fett]

That is awesome, man! Looks amazing

Thanks Sean! First ever Eva project here so I’m pretty excited about everything I’ve learned here and how’s it’s turned out.

 

[Ghost Fett]

Alright strapping test 2 with some minor fixes.

 

[Dirtdives2424]

The weathering is dam good Ghost Fett!! You never described your method......care to enlighten the masses please?

 

[Ghost Fett]

The weathering is dam good Ghost Fett!! You never described your method......care to enlighten the masses please?

Thanks man! I appreciate that! It’s no big secret. I used krylon metallic “brushed nickel” as the base coat. This is a pretty basic metallic silver. Then I used Dipicolor “gunmetal” on top of that. This is where most would use the toothpaste method or something like that but I found I didn’t like that method as much just because I didn’t have the control I wanted. I let the silver dry and then sprayed the gunmetal. The gunmetal is more of a sheen than an actual color so it dries over the metallic silver with a cool silver grey color. After that I did a basic black wash with black acrylic watered down in a cup, let dry a bit and wipe. Get that black into the cracks and seams. Then once that’s dry I took a paintbrush and with the same metallic silver as the basecoat I went over it topically with a very tiny paintbrush and did all the weathering by hand. After I did that topically I went in with black acrycil not watered down and did some black splatter detail here and there. That’s about it. mostly by hand!

 

[Beemo8bit]

Can’t believe this is your first foam build, insanely cool!

 

[Ghost Fett]

Can’t believe this is your first foam build, insanely cool!

Man I really appreciate it. Just proves that you can do whatever you set your mind to. This project was an amazing opportunity to open a door into custom Eva that I’ve been really scared to try. With the dft files getting me started and learning some basic methods from his videos I was able to then go beyond his templates creating my own for the belt, ab, thighs straps and some other tweaks. It’s been a great journey. Now I honestly feel like I could try and do something more challenging with foam but I’m gonna get set for a combat drop for now.