My Carter build

[wiyumishere]

well thank you for your rant and advice if I needed to make it over. I like the helmet as it stands right now. Today I saw Harry Potter and on the way home I got some foam mats from walmart in the sporting section for 20$. Going to remake the torso as foam I think and put plastidip on it for spray painting.

 

[wiyumishere]

been working some this weekend. A little here and there and some progress made
Removable helmet padding:

Reign resining his helmet (his second one he made because the first one was wbar) wbar stands for warped beyond all recognition.

Before shin:

After shin, thumbs up from reign:

Front of the Shin

Side of shin:

What do you all think?

 

[Reign]

Lookin' good duuuuude (also lol at the helmet picture)

 

[wiyumishere]

haha, makin multiple pieces... Gonna have to remake the other shoulder most likely

 

[J450]

I think this I my favorite Carter helmet by far great job!

 

[wiyumishere]

Thanks for your support

 

[wiyumishere]

Thanksgiving break, update time!

finished up a new torso which is much more accurate and fits a whole lot better and leaves some of my shoulders exposed. I also finish up 2 new kneecaps that I needed to resize along with finish up my left should pepping. I'll update with more pictures once I get home.

 

[lornesbored]

this stuff looks pretty quick, I'm buying my Master Chief suit I'm not going to make it... BUT I do want to modify it with some body pieces from Reach and add some stuff on, good stuffs

 

[Grave Hawk]

Looking good! Glad to see that others are taking advantage of the Thanksgiving break. I really like the paint job on that shin and your pep work looks awesome. Keep up the good work. Looking forward to more pictures.

 

[wiyumishere]

Thanks, yeah, I told my parents I wasn't going to sit here and waste time so I brought all my pepping supplies to my grandparents haha. Most of my family is pretty impressed by it all and excited with the opportunities this type of work opens up for me in the next year at college. This suit was made amazingly well and keeps it shape even without support struts. It has about 6 ovals/circles which I think I pepped nearly perfectly. I'll upload more pictures once I get home.

 

[dmango]

Wow!!! that is awesome... you did a great job on these pieces. They look authentic. i like the paint job! keep up the work, id love to see it when its done!!!

 

[Grant 117]

where did you get the visor

 

[HeavyDutyART]

damn son! you doin work. in my opinion the weathering is a bit over done but everything else is awesome!!! keep it up

 

[wiyumishere]

yeah, I would agree with you Heavy, the shin especially I overdid. But, when I'm walking around it wont matter much with all of those scratches and they light up more in different angles of light so when I took the picture it made that whole side light up. About the visor Grant here is the link http://www.amazon.com/Motorcycle-Mo...8?ie=UTF8&s=automotive&qid=1284344165&sr=8-28

 

[wiyumishere]

A big picture update

Front of the torso, a horribly warped part by the support :/

Small details number 1:

Small detail number 2:

Back of the torso with 5 ovals and circles and in laid squares/objects

cutting out some fiberglass cloth with my crazy scissors

mah heat lamp

pretty clean glassing

my paints keep growing....

wooo random stick saves the day:

soooo many pictures, hope you all like

 

[Toacrabman]

yay, i love random sticks, mostly little wooden paint stirrers, alot of them actually end up as part of the suit

 

[wiyumishere]

hahahaha, I do not intend on incorporating sticks and stones into my suit haha

 

[dmango]

I like this build, i have no doubt that when you are done, the noble teem will have a leader. it looks great, and i feel horrible asking this but that dremel you have, what is it? (dremel 4000, dremel 300, 395???) sorry but this looks great, youve really worked hard on this and it shows, Id love to see pix once ur done... and all the in between, ill be following this thread... good job!

 

[wiyumishere]

haha Thanks dmango. Great work on your build too by the way. The dremel is a 4000, and we also have a 9000 which is a big model but would not work with a wand so my dad got this one for his woodworking. Been working on the torso today, pics to come shortly, I'll edit this post with the pictures.
Beginning to work on the spinal part:

incredibly strong, picture after this one will show you why:

overall I put a total of 1 layer of rondo (2 in places it overlapped), 2 layers of fiberglass cloth (one after each section I rondoed and one after the first initial resin), 3 layers of resin = crazy strong. Any thoughts? torso still needs a lot of work.

 

[Jack7226]

Looking good there, nice pep lines and your paint scheme looks good as well, i will be following this thread . Looking foreward to seeing it complete. I am currently working on 2 suits , Just started my Carter helm last night lol