Re: Ok cool lets do a build (HD mkvi Tucker)
I'm still alive and my project is too!!!!
I'm usually working on it during the summer since I'm a full time student, and last year during both the summer and fall semester I had to keep a job, too
(I'm never working at a fast food restaurant ever again)
Let me give you some
updates since this thread was probably assumed 100% done done dead:
> There are only 3 pieces left that I haven't touched since they've been resin'd ---> The back torso, and the two shin pieces
> Hand pieces, all 6 shoes pieces, front codpiece and one shoulder have all made it past final paint
>I have some shoes for the shoes, having a little trouble attaching everything. I've tried hotglue, to no avail.
I also tried loctite.
In the heat.
Like loctite says not to do.
> Helmet and that shoulder have been padded. I can raise my arm up without the shoulder piece digging into my arm and I can nod yes or no without everything slippy sliding around.
>The other shoulder piece is done with filler and I put spot putty on it and will probably sand it today
> Both forarms have gone through a round of Bondo autobody filler, but they'll need a little more before they're actually done They dont look half bad so far.
> I hate the thigh pieces????? With every fiber of my being????
> I painted the inside of a bunch of pieces so I felt like I was getting something done (i wasn't)
> Even though I got a good sander I'm still hand sanding everything because it makes my hands all jittery and I might hate myself a little bit
aaaaaaaaaaaand Pictures!
Paddings. I also plan for velcro on the undersuit so i left a little breathing room for that.
Handsies
Hands and feet when I was painting them
I added some detail to the front so it'd kinda mush around the visor.
I did this with the visor in and covered head to toe in painters tape
From when I was trying to configure the shoes.
They'll likely look something like this when they decide to cooperate.
That's that second arm that's sitting in the garage now drying from spot yesterday.
Also the forearms, how much detail is on them. I want them to be a little more rounded
even though, i put spot on some places already >>;;;;;
Spot on the helmet (Why aren't these in order?)
Helmet full and repainted and happy!!
Some painted things.
EDIT: Oh yeah I wanted to tell you guys a story about Hamacon. I missed it this year, but my last post I didn't talk about it and I wanna.
So there was a spartan there last year when I actually went, a foam builder, and he was talking so bad about resin building and this guy had no idea that I was a resin builder. I was just standing there like "uhuh, surething, yep,"
I have nothing against foam building but that guy was a lil silly
I took a picture with him, though, and his armor was super nice looking, Halo 3 standard MJOLNIR, red and white spartan.
He did says some things, of value, though. He wasn't dumb or anything, he was just kind of biased. He brought up how you cant really sit in resin armor, so I've been thinking ever since how to get around that. It's my new mission. He also complained about breaks, which I'm not sure how you could break resin armor unless you're fooling about or someone pushes you over, or unless you put stress in places that aren't meant to be stressed (ie: a non–reinforced butt piece that you sit on directly). I'm going to try and be careful, though, about what things I attempt in armor.