Hey 405th members!
Just wanted to use this thread as a means to introduce myself as well as my work. I've actually been trolling the internet for a couple of years (even back when 405th was still MJOLNIRarmor) on how to come-by a suit of the armour, a beautiful set of armour which has captured my imagination since I first saw the MKV in Halo: CE. Call it nerdy if you want, but I've always been big on mechanized, robotic looking things so it was love at first sight. In any case, I was looking through some of my super old computers (talkin' P II's here) and went scrolling through the old bookmarks I had left and when I tried to access a page on mjolnirarmor via a bookmark, it actually ended up re-directing me to here. LO AND BEHOLD!! I stumbled across an armour-making HEAVEN.
So, after stumbling upon this website, several months later (I think a literal seven months) I have a fair share of progress to show you guys as an offering in order for you to welcome me with open arms into your great forum (intimidating considering the kind of work going on around here, to say the least). To date, I've completed about half of a MK VI Suit (pepped so far), some helmet permutations, parts of an ODST suit and a Marine chestpiece. I'll add a couple of pictures now to tease you guys with, but deliberately leave the rest of them until tomorrow so I can learn how exactly to edit a post and avoid being shafted for double-posting haha. Without further ado!
--> The overall proportions of the MK VI pieces I've been working on:
--> Just some assorted parts: You can see the Hayabusa and ODST buckets, completed thigh piece, battle rifle, and mk VI chest (which, btw, drives me nuts everytime I even just THINK about assembling)
--> More assorted parts: Completed thigh and shin, boot still in progress (you can see it placed around a pair of Timberland 6-inch boots. Probably not the boots I'm actually going to use, but a good gauge nonetheless), battle rifle again, a thigh that was too small (damn you pepakura scaling!!) and the mk VI chest again.
--> and a bonus! ODST helmet with back of the marine chest piece.. playing piano! Debussy's 1st Arabesque if anyone's curious, great arrangement.
aaaaaaand more to come eventually, I'll maybe take some more pictures tomorrow but I'm not too big on in progress shots a.k.a. stopping work to have to take pictures of stuff. If I don't get anything up tomorrow, it just means I was doing more work on my pieces . To be fair, I've started resining my ODST helmet so I'll at least try to get pictures of that.
P.S. In the future, I will try to avoid rambling while making posts. Also, don't be afraid to critique!
Edit: I was too curious to not try to edit now so I shall edit. Just as a quick add-on, things you don't see here are a completed recon helmet, rogue helmet (way too big), mk VI helmet (a little too big), ODST shin, ODST smooth chest piece and DOZENS OF FAILED ATTEMPTS! As they say though, s'all good. Hopefully I'll get some pictures of those aforementioned items (minus the failed attempts, those are in the garbage) up tomorrow.
Just wanted to use this thread as a means to introduce myself as well as my work. I've actually been trolling the internet for a couple of years (even back when 405th was still MJOLNIRarmor) on how to come-by a suit of the armour, a beautiful set of armour which has captured my imagination since I first saw the MKV in Halo: CE. Call it nerdy if you want, but I've always been big on mechanized, robotic looking things so it was love at first sight. In any case, I was looking through some of my super old computers (talkin' P II's here) and went scrolling through the old bookmarks I had left and when I tried to access a page on mjolnirarmor via a bookmark, it actually ended up re-directing me to here. LO AND BEHOLD!! I stumbled across an armour-making HEAVEN.
So, after stumbling upon this website, several months later (I think a literal seven months) I have a fair share of progress to show you guys as an offering in order for you to welcome me with open arms into your great forum (intimidating considering the kind of work going on around here, to say the least). To date, I've completed about half of a MK VI Suit (pepped so far), some helmet permutations, parts of an ODST suit and a Marine chestpiece. I'll add a couple of pictures now to tease you guys with, but deliberately leave the rest of them until tomorrow so I can learn how exactly to edit a post and avoid being shafted for double-posting haha. Without further ado!
--> The overall proportions of the MK VI pieces I've been working on:
--> Just some assorted parts: You can see the Hayabusa and ODST buckets, completed thigh piece, battle rifle, and mk VI chest (which, btw, drives me nuts everytime I even just THINK about assembling)
--> More assorted parts: Completed thigh and shin, boot still in progress (you can see it placed around a pair of Timberland 6-inch boots. Probably not the boots I'm actually going to use, but a good gauge nonetheless), battle rifle again, a thigh that was too small (damn you pepakura scaling!!) and the mk VI chest again.
--> and a bonus! ODST helmet with back of the marine chest piece.. playing piano! Debussy's 1st Arabesque if anyone's curious, great arrangement.
aaaaaaand more to come eventually, I'll maybe take some more pictures tomorrow but I'm not too big on in progress shots a.k.a. stopping work to have to take pictures of stuff. If I don't get anything up tomorrow, it just means I was doing more work on my pieces . To be fair, I've started resining my ODST helmet so I'll at least try to get pictures of that.
P.S. In the future, I will try to avoid rambling while making posts. Also, don't be afraid to critique!
Edit: I was too curious to not try to edit now so I shall edit. Just as a quick add-on, things you don't see here are a completed recon helmet, rogue helmet (way too big), mk VI helmet (a little too big), ODST shin, ODST smooth chest piece and DOZENS OF FAILED ATTEMPTS! As they say though, s'all good. Hopefully I'll get some pictures of those aforementioned items (minus the failed attempts, those are in the garbage) up tomorrow.