Maaaaaan, it has been a LONG time since I updated this thread! This thread is so old, I used emoticons that don't even exist anymore apparently. Gotta admit, life gets in the way pretty good. Chalk it up to university to eat up all your time and homework/readings/assignments/papers to eat up all your friends =(. Either way, I've still been keeping up with the forums lately and I felt like, with the recent loss of Rube, I would put up my own ODST work in commemoration. Makes me really upset to know that he left for whatever the reason may be, the point is that he's gone now. Seeing his work was hugely inspirational and obviously my own is not up to par, but I thought I'd show it nonetheless. This is for you Rube!
Overall Shot:
-> You can see that the shins still need to be glassed and bondo'd/strapped. The gauntlets also still need to be trimmed to fit as they are huge, then glassed and so on. Also need to add the Belt plate, it's resined and stuff.. I don't know why it's not on there actually
Close-up on the "strapping" method:
-> still in its rough stages, but I've pretty much decided that I will mount it the way it's mounted.. just not with electrical tape haha. It'll be with straps, just finished the strap work with the belt and the shoulder pieces. Will replace the cardboard that is currently holding all the stomach pieces with preferably something cordura later haha.. oh cardboard.. I actually didn't want to resort to a full MOLLE or otherwise tactical vest because I felt it would look obtrusive to the overall look.
-> Just kind of wanted to highlight the shoulder straps I used here. Not to toot my own horn (TOOOOT!!) but they are the most comfortable things known to man. I picked them up from a local climbing store for about $42CDN and they are nice, thickly padded things with the single strap already sewn in = win. If you guys have local climbing stores around you and have some extra cash, ditch the backpack straps and get some of these climbing bad boys!
-> and you know me, the last one's just for good measure haha. P.S. no I'm not actually inside of the suit! I also have to fix up the paintjob on the top. stupid stripe
well that's pretty much it for now. I'll slowly try to keep up with the work in school and the work on the suit, I haven't even touched the undersuit of this but I would like to go way further on the undersuit than the plain black one I've got on there right now. I've also excluded the old chest piece (i.e. the piece that goes around the back) because it got too beat up from being on the mannequin too long. Also, I understand nightshade's put out a wonderful new one with better detail, so I'll probably be making that one.
I also can't even resin anymore because Canadian weather has taken a turn for the worst and temperatures have already dropped below good resin temps. Looks like I'll be waiting on that order of Aquaresin
. Which brings me to an important question:
Does anyone know of a body filler putty (i.e. like Bondo brand body filler.. maybe even easier to sand would be nice too!) that is non-toxic? Kind of like what Aquaresin is to normal resin? Being that the putty also needs warm temperatures to cure in but is also toxic, I wouldn't be able to bondo during the colder months.
Anyone have any non-toxic alternatives? That would be great.
Anyway, as always, you're welcome to leave comments, suggestions and questions!