1st project MARK VI ( pic heavy ) update 02/September/2012

[ATA]

One of the best ways to pad the helmet, longshot x or kevin, did it and i plan to as well, is go and get a cheap motorcycle helmet and strip the padding from that. Itll be quite comfortable and almost immediately ready to attach straight to your helmet. Hope this helps
Keanu

had similar thoughts aswell on this idea .As well as the insides of a hard hat , but much to do at the moment

again all comments and ideas are welcome there is that many ways of doing things ..

[thorn696]

Helmet is looking good.

[Nogood]

I used a kids Baseball hat they use--- its got nice padding... and I simply hot glued it-- Hard to get out, but not hard enough incase you need to remove it later..

Keep up the build and you will surely finish =D

[GlazedDonutHoles]

Re: padding - I don't know if you have Play It Again Sports where you are, but a used sporting goods store has all kinds of padding, as well as guards and other equipment that you can rip the padding out of. I've had tremendous luck finding exactly what I needed for costuming projects at that kind of store. Good for things to rip apart for hardware, too. Best of all - CHEAP. Good luck!

[Cereal Killl3r]

looking good so far!
Keep it up!

[ATA]

Thanks for comments

Been working 7 day weeks so not too much going on but wanted the front armour atleast coated on the outside with resin by today as going to Greece - Kos tomorrow afternoon for 10 days

Finished my chest piece,


just front done here so sides arent wrapped around



Chest piece ready for first coat of resin and started on the helmet









10 days away then back to it..

[rickrtickr]

Thanks for comments

Been working 7 day weeks so not too much going on but wanted the front armour atleast coated on the outside with resin by today as going to Greece - Kos tomorrow afternoon for 10 days :

good job so far scaling looks pretty good

keep it up

[onmi shift]

good job so far. are you going with the standard armor or are you going to do some add ons, like the halo 3 custom pieces?

[Aster Tea]

I looked at the first pic of the chest piece and I thought that was potpourri under it. Then I thought that was a genius idea for keeping the resin and bondo smell down, hahaha.

It's looking great! I'm afraid of scaling the chest wrong and having to redo it lol.

[Darthoblivious]

looking good dude! scaling looks spot on too!

for helmet padding, i would suggest buying a cheap motorcycle helmet and gutting it! i did and it feels so good! as far as scaling, pieces like the arms and legas are easy enough, for my chest tho, i measured from the center of my sternum, to the center of my shoulder joint, then doubled the measurement. and my chest came out perfectly sized! i would also like to bring up scaling the boots. just make it to your shoe size! that way, when you wear it, you can wear comfortable shoes and look proper in them too!

also, and this is just my opinion, you might want to think about adding the ab piece to the armor and hardening it with it, so you get the proper curve and look to the entire piece. thats just my opinion, i did it and it looks great. just some food for thought!

also also, if you are going to use magnets, put some padding between them so they dont chip and break, i use velcro to pad it and to give it that extra hold just to be safe.

keep it up man! the project looks fantastic!