Reach and mass effects, its been awhile for me

[timecon]

thanks guys and gals I think that I've finished building the chest I now have to seal it and paint I really would like to air brush it but I dont have the system so I'm going to see if there is something cheap that might do the job also I got my el wires today and already put it in the back pack thingy and added some of my own artisticness to it.

[JediStumpy]

Looking really good Tim! Did you free hand the reach chest or use a pep template? Also where did you buy your foam at? online or at a sports store?

This is newer technique to the 405th. I have seen this done on before with "soft" costumes armor but your reach chest looks very solid and metal-like.

[timecon]

the foam was purchased at harbor freight, and this is very cool way to do things I only came across it recently on the rpf forum and thought I give it a try, as for the template yes about 40% pep and 60% coming up with my own stuff to put it together. but I've only ben working on it for 2 days now and I've already gotten done more than what it would have taking me almost 6 weeks, granted its not as clean as that type of work but it cheap fast and comfortable, weighs less than 5 lbs.

[mkshane81]

I just like everything about this. As for the N7, I think the foam worked perfect for that, especially when looking at some of the reference pics. The foam helps to give that "manufactured, carbon fiber" type look that the N7 armor has. On the MKV chest piece, I like how you use the different faces of the foam to allow for different textures on the armor. Again, love everything about it. Top notch Tim!!

-Matt

[smick6]

Love the Mass Effect suit, looks great.
Testors and badger has some decent cheap airbrush kits. They have cans of propellant you can use instead of a compressor also.

[Rhinoc]

I dub thee... AWESOME SAUCE MASTA!!!!
Those look great Tim!!!!

[Condor4]

first off, I gotta say, that is freaking insane!!!!!!!!!!!!! second, is there any way you can show us how to create something like this out of foam? maybe if you have any free time? I know Im asking a lot and i know your probly busy, but we would really enjoy knowing in depth how you created this masterpiece!!!!

[Minkyboi]

where have you been! i miss seeing your amazing builds!

[eternallydusk]

That's a really awesome new way of armor-making I've seen spring up recently. The results are fantastic. It seems hard to work with, though. There any chance you'll help us out with a tutorial sometime? I tried to follow the blog for BioWeapons.com, but they kind of assume you know more about the whole process than the average costume maker.

Er, sorry. It's awesome! The lightweight factor and expedience makes it really appealing. Keep up the good work!

[timecon]

on the contrary eternallydusk I have never ever used foam before and when I found bioweapons, even though he doesn't say a lot if you study the pictures its quite easy to figure out how he did it. I found the website on a wed night, found were he bought the foam at on by reading his thread on the rpf which is harbor freight for those wondering, bought it the next day and started building, of course another member/friend on here was kind enough to lend me his pattern for some parts and I modified it to my liking, so that did save some time. but he doest want me to release it and that will be up to him when he is ready, so please don't ask me for them as I want to respect his wishes, however I will share his blog to give him the credit he deserves, http://www.yodajammies.com/2010_07_01_archive.html

as for a tutorial on my reach armor I really cant provide one at this time, all I can say is I took a pep model, took out the bigger pieces and muddled through the rest as you don't need a lot of the smaller pieces, I used a dremal for all the shaping of parts, I used hot glue, exact o knife, ruler, and pen, I also used .25 in foam and the standard thin sheets of black for detail stuff. but I can show you some of the pieces