Halo Reach M6B CNC build

[spartanx360]

hi,

i'm going to tell about my CNC build of the magnum from halo reach.

first thing that I did was open an hi-res pepakura of the M6B.
I exported it to an .obj where I could open it in CUT3D

I sliced the magnum in 2 halfs, because my machine can only do 1 side at a time.
From there I created a path for the cnc machine to cut out the M6B.

Some progress from the cnc machine

 

[sildeo]

wow thats really interesting what is it cut out of?

 

[spartanx360]

it's a hard foam specially made for cnc freesmachines. its hard but also soft, so you can sand it with your finger, and the drill smoothly goes trough it, even on the lowest stand

 

[spartanx360]

update

nearly finished

after I sanded the foam a little bit. I began to warm up the thermoplastic machine

it has a 30 Min warm up, then I took a sheet of 2 mm thick plastic.

when the plastic began to be more flexible, I pushed the foam up and sucked out all the vacuum between it. now we have 2 perfect halfs.

after cutting all the excess plastic it was time to sand it.

then I glued the 2 halfs toghether and painted it with a spray bondo, for protection and its easyer to paint over it.

after painting I made it shiny and waterproof with a "carbon vernis" (don't know the english word )

the finished M6B will follow later

 

[spartanx360]

the paint just dried.

here is the final result, it took about 2 days to make this

 

[Yodajammies]

Where do you get your tooling board from? I've yet to find a reliable distributor.

 

[Serepheth]

That's awesome, i wish i had that, would make my life so much easier lol. Congrats though bro, nice work.

 

[TD2253]

Wow that turned out really nice Spartanx! I downloaded a trial version of Vectric Cut3D about two years ago for my home made CNC machine which I still need to finish. I like the fact that you can CNC with 1" inch layers at a time for a model that is over 5" high like a helmet per se. I can't wait to try this it out!

 

[66atsalinas]

if you have the tools and plenty of imagination then you can do anything... and you have them both!!!! awesome!!!

 

[Spitfire22V]

For 2 days work, it looks really good. Looks like a great starting point for a really nice Magnum.

 

[spartanx360]

Where do you get your tooling board from? I've yet to find a reliable distributor.

what do you mean with tooling board?

and thanks for the nice comments