JUSTINIAN 117's MARK V BUILD

[Whosupforpaintball]

Halo ce in the background... Nice. And btw the suit is looking terrific may be the first of it's kind actually!

 

[JUSTINIAN 117]

Thanks. I am making some progress on the forearms. An update soon to follow.

 

[Russett]

mmm, im jealous! nice work

 

[cory045]

new right out of the armory eh

 

[JUSTINIAN 117]

After a long month of working on the forearms, I finally had a breakthrough.

I made just abouth every pep model I could find, just to have as a reference:

I decided that I didn't think that any of the angular models looked quite right, and I decided that it should look more rounded.

So I used different sizes of PVC pipe for most of it. For the front part I cut it into sections and sanded the edges, and superglued them back together to give it grooves:

Once I had the top and bottom PVC sections cut out, I super glued a strip of plastic to hold them together:

Then I took some strips of paper and glued them to the inside of the pipes, and then brushed on some resin to harden the paper:

Then I covered it in Bondo, and started to sand and shape it the way I wanted it to look.
After many layers and a lot of sanding I got the shape I wanted:

Then I moved on to the elbow section that sticks out, and some more detailed bondo and sanding:

I will be priming it and painting within the next few days, so stay tuned.

 

[killjoy95]

This looks awesome, also its a very imaginative idea for the forearms.

 

[Russett]

wow! that looks way better than the original, keep goin!

i dont know if you seen this before, but i extracted some Bitmaps from Halo PC for reference (i used to skin),
and i thought i'd share

Cyborg Hands

Cyborg

and this just for sh*ts

http://flyingspartan.webs.com/Redflag.png

 

[JUSTINIAN 117]

Thanks guys.

Flying Spartan - thanks for the skins. They could have been really helpful last month but I can use them for the other parts.


Just getting ready to sart painting.... Be back soon with amazing updates.

 

[rvb18]

when this is done it will be right up there with matth's suit.

 

[JUSTINIAN 117]

Thanks guys.

Here it is with the primer coat:

The final paint job should be done within the next day or so.

 

[JUSTINIAN 117]

I bought some Dye elbow pads for paintball, and I thought they looked pretty good for undersuit material.

I have the forearms painted and finished after way too much time spent on them.

On to the next part... the legs and boots.

 

[Rosh]

Those forearms look great-those protectors are great undersuit material too. After seeing those, I may pick some up for myself. Good use of pvc btw.

 

[0235]

holy!! the forearms are soooo smooth, how... thats amazing

 

[JUSTINIAN 117]

holy!! the forearms are soooo smooth, how... thats amazing

It is a months worth of bondo and sanding.


Rosh - the elbow pads do work great, they hold the forearms on very tight. They are a little too detailed for this suit, but it is a great temporary fix until I can make a high quality Blue Realm undersuit.

Thanks for the compliments, guys.

 

[rvb18]

make a mold already.

 

[matth101]

make a mold already.

^^^ what he said!!! this build makes me want to throw mine in the garbage :\

 

[JUSTINIAN 117]

I'm not familiar with mold making at all. If I get a large enough response I may consider making a mold.

Right now I am experimenting with making a simple mold for the game accurate soles of the shoes (thanks for the inspiration Throssoli). If it is a success I will post it up soon.

 

[LoneKiller1992]

Loving your progress! The gauntlets especially!

Keep it up

 

[JUSTINIAN 117]

Thanks, LoneKiller.

In other news I have been hard at work on making a mold for the shoe soles. I should have some pictures up within a few days.

 

[LoneKiller1992]

Look forward to it!