Greetings all and welcome to my pepakura Mk VI build! I have spent a lot of time lurking and reading up on these forums and dove head-first into building a suit of Mk VI armor. I'll say up front that I am not a gamer - have maybe played Halo for about 30 minutes on my desktop - but have always thought the armor was extremely cool. I am a TK in the 501st, and my first troop with them was RTX in Austin earlier this year. Naturally, the 405th was in attendance and I was extremely impressed. You may recognize yourselves in this picture if you were there:
Anyways, my first helmet is in progress, using one of the Robogenesis pep files. It was quite a learning experience, as I'm sure you all know. I think it took me ~12 hrs to score & cut the pieces. Gluing went pretty quick, but as this was my first experience with pepakura, I made some mistakes along the way...which I hopefully can compensate for once I get to the bondo phase.
Here's the progression:
And finally completion (of the pep phase):
Although I think I went a little too big on my scaling...
Regardless, I'm going to see this one all the way through. I've already started scoring/cutting the Flying Squirrel HD helmet, properly sized - we're in a cold snap here in Austin, so I'm keeping busy. I did manage to get it resined & fiberglassed before the weather went south, though:
You can see I had some trouble sizing my handplate...won't be using this in my build...should probably just send it to Master Chief himself to see if it will fit him!
But, it's 99% glassed inside and I'm going to pour some rondo inside as well (when it warms up). Here's a comparison to my TK helmet:
I already have some of the $7.95 "gold" (if you look at them in the right light/angle...) visors which I'll be doing the cut-outs on one of them over the weekend. Not going to invest in the HJC's just yet... I held them up to my helmet and I think they might be kinda small for the oversized bucket I have created, but we'll see how it looks once the pepakura visor is cut out. There is always Bondo to fill the gaps, right?
A big thanks to everyone who has made tutorals and those who post their WIP builds - I'm always learning everytime I sit down and peruse the boards. I'll post updates as they happen - just cutting little pieces of the 2nd helmet - not exciting so no pix...stay tuned!
Anyways, my first helmet is in progress, using one of the Robogenesis pep files. It was quite a learning experience, as I'm sure you all know. I think it took me ~12 hrs to score & cut the pieces. Gluing went pretty quick, but as this was my first experience with pepakura, I made some mistakes along the way...which I hopefully can compensate for once I get to the bondo phase.
Here's the progression:
And finally completion (of the pep phase):
Although I think I went a little too big on my scaling...
Regardless, I'm going to see this one all the way through. I've already started scoring/cutting the Flying Squirrel HD helmet, properly sized - we're in a cold snap here in Austin, so I'm keeping busy. I did manage to get it resined & fiberglassed before the weather went south, though:
You can see I had some trouble sizing my handplate...won't be using this in my build...should probably just send it to Master Chief himself to see if it will fit him!
But, it's 99% glassed inside and I'm going to pour some rondo inside as well (when it warms up). Here's a comparison to my TK helmet:
I already have some of the $7.95 "gold" (if you look at them in the right light/angle...) visors which I'll be doing the cut-outs on one of them over the weekend. Not going to invest in the HJC's just yet... I held them up to my helmet and I think they might be kinda small for the oversized bucket I have created, but we'll see how it looks once the pepakura visor is cut out. There is always Bondo to fill the gaps, right?
A big thanks to everyone who has made tutorals and those who post their WIP builds - I'm always learning everytime I sit down and peruse the boards. I'll post updates as they happen - just cutting little pieces of the 2nd helmet - not exciting so no pix...stay tuned!