Well howdy y'all!
It's Mrs. Chief again. You guys remember how I asked for advice a few days back on what armor I should make? Well, I decided I'm going to do my Noble Six/Spartan-III from Reach. Here's some beautiful pictures of my beautiful girl. (taken on my phone from my TV because my dang capture card died. I'm salty, lol)
Since I'm a perfectionist, I knew that I want a game-accurate undersuit to go with, or as screen accurate as I can make. So I began Sunday with sketching out the undersuit in Photoshop (thanks to the thousands of references pictures I've saved over the years), and then I began roughly taping up my dress form to match.
Also, this is where I officially apologize for all the Snapchat pictures. I constantly forget to take progress pictures, but I do put a lot of it on my Snap story so....yeah.
(Also, say hello to my dress form, John)
Sunday night into Monday morning, I began mocking out a pattern in paper. When the paper got overly frustrating (working with curves and paper is just not a good mix), I switched to mocking the undersuit in this hideous flower fabric I have like ten yards of. I ended my Monday with roughly 80% of the torso mocked out.
Today, I finished mocking out the rest of the torso, then tried my hand at some of the padded bits on the abs and hips. I was originally going to do it in EVA foam, but after wasting one entire puzzle piece, an entire stick of hot glue, and seriously wanting to give up entirely after trying to bevel the foam how I originally planned, I went to my ever-intelligent brother and he suggested just layering it with packing foam. So I mocked out the padded bits in it and I seriously love it! It's a bit...thick and doesn't have the bevel I'm looking for (the middle piece and bottom piece are supposed to be one, with the lower half having a very shallow slope down to nothing....if that explains it at all lol) but it's a start, and I'm still really happy with how it currently looks!
Tomorrow, I'm going to be doing the final patterns for the fabric parts of the torso with the help of my new tracing wheel. I also picked up this new friend at JoAnn's, along with a yard of some test vinyl:
(my mom thinks it's John just because he's green. lol. I am taking name suggestions though!)
Any help or comments are much appreciated, and I can't wait to keep building with the 405th!
Hugs and plasma cannons,
Mrs. Chief
It's Mrs. Chief again. You guys remember how I asked for advice a few days back on what armor I should make? Well, I decided I'm going to do my Noble Six/Spartan-III from Reach. Here's some beautiful pictures of my beautiful girl. (taken on my phone from my TV because my dang capture card died. I'm salty, lol)
Since I'm a perfectionist, I knew that I want a game-accurate undersuit to go with, or as screen accurate as I can make. So I began Sunday with sketching out the undersuit in Photoshop (thanks to the thousands of references pictures I've saved over the years), and then I began roughly taping up my dress form to match.
Also, this is where I officially apologize for all the Snapchat pictures. I constantly forget to take progress pictures, but I do put a lot of it on my Snap story so....yeah.
(Also, say hello to my dress form, John)
Sunday night into Monday morning, I began mocking out a pattern in paper. When the paper got overly frustrating (working with curves and paper is just not a good mix), I switched to mocking the undersuit in this hideous flower fabric I have like ten yards of. I ended my Monday with roughly 80% of the torso mocked out.
Today, I finished mocking out the rest of the torso, then tried my hand at some of the padded bits on the abs and hips. I was originally going to do it in EVA foam, but after wasting one entire puzzle piece, an entire stick of hot glue, and seriously wanting to give up entirely after trying to bevel the foam how I originally planned, I went to my ever-intelligent brother and he suggested just layering it with packing foam. So I mocked out the padded bits in it and I seriously love it! It's a bit...thick and doesn't have the bevel I'm looking for (the middle piece and bottom piece are supposed to be one, with the lower half having a very shallow slope down to nothing....if that explains it at all lol) but it's a start, and I'm still really happy with how it currently looks!
Tomorrow, I'm going to be doing the final patterns for the fabric parts of the torso with the help of my new tracing wheel. I also picked up this new friend at JoAnn's, along with a yard of some test vinyl:
(my mom thinks it's John just because he's green. lol. I am taking name suggestions though!)
Any help or comments are much appreciated, and I can't wait to keep building with the 405th!
Hugs and plasma cannons,
Mrs. Chief