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MikyVengeance

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So far I have:

Helmet [x]
Chest Piece [x]
Stomach Plate [x]
Left Upper Arm [x]
Right Upper Arm [x]
Left ODST Shoulder [x]
Right ODST SHoulder [x]
Left Lower Arm [x]
Right Lower Arm [x]
Left Lower Arm Attachment [x]
Left Handplate [ ]
Right Handplate [ ]
Pelvis Piece [x]
Left Thigh [x]
Right Thigh [x]
Left Shin [x]
Right Shin [x]
Left Boot [ ]
Right Boot [ ]





Hello once again, I have finished my Halo Reach smooth helmet!



The File name is ReachWOutSmoother ( Im not sure who created it )

it was quite the fun build, alittle bit of a challenge, but I love challenges ;)

this is my first time building a "smooth" file and I think it came out quite nice!



I'm planning to resin this, use rondo, sand the helmet down, add a visor, fans and LED's!

but I have some questions.



First: is the visor gold or silver? I saw some pictures of the visor being silver so I just want to make sure.



Second: Where would the LED's go? :S I know I have room for them but I'm not sure where they are.



I'm also planning to paint this helmet the same as Noble Six, the Halo Reach " Rookie".



Here is a timelapse on my progress :$



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Later On...



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And Then: Finish :cool



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This is how it fit's on my head :cool


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it's alittle big but nothing alittle padding can't fix :p



I'm waiting for Tuesday and Wednesday for the really nice weather so show up so I can start resining :)



any tips, positive comments and advice are much appreciated :p

thanks for looking!



more pictures are on the way once I get some more progress.
 
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Nice! Very clean pepwork. Will you be doing the whole armor, or just the helmet?



I think the unfold was by MrOreo123, and I'm pretty sure the visor is a silvery shade of blue.
 
Nice! Very clean pepwork. Will you be doing the whole armor, or just the helmet?



I think the unfold was by MrOreo123, and I'm pretty sure the visor is a silvery shade of blue.

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thank you ;)

I'm only going to make the helmet for the launch :p

I've seen different colors of the visor so Im pretty confused.

like in the "Meet Noble Team" trailer, the visor was gold.

oh well, I still have alot of time until I get to the end of this.

thanks with the help ;)



@ Alex spartan117: Thank you :cool



oh, by the way guys, I left out the "ear" details for room for the batteries.
 
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Nice looks about like what mine turned out like still need to finish the circles on the ears then its done! Either way looks great. I think Gold would be a good visor for it! I think that is what I plan to do with mine!
 
Nice looks about like what mine turned out like still need to finish the circles on the ears then its done! Either way looks great. I think Gold would be a good visor for it! I think that is what I plan to do with mine!

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thank you! :p

gold it is :cool

I'm going to leave the ear pieces flat to keep my batteries in there for things such as fans and lights.
 
Update!

I resined the helmet yesterday!

and today I rondo-ed the helmet.



Resined:



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Rondo-ed:



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I didn't finish covering the entire outside because I ran out of bondo :p



I bought a 12 V fan, 9 V battery, some battery connectors.



tomorrow, I'm buying a mouse sander, some 80 grit sandpaper because the outside is really rough.



I have a good dremel tool so the details aren't a problem.



maybe I will cut out the visor tomorrow.



I have ALOT of sanding to do haha D:
 
Kamaro said:
looks good so far! where do you plan to install the fans?



Thank you :)

I plan to install the fans behind the vent area.

I will definatly show some pics when I get to it :)



Chrissern :

thanks! After trying rondo, I'm now in love with it. The helmet is rock solid and it took less than a hour.
 
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Its looking good so far Miky. As far as the unfold, that would be from yours truly. In answer to your questions in the OP, the visor is gold, and we haven't seen any screen or ref pics that show any lights, so you can take some artistic license at this point. My guess would be on the forward facing flat piece of the swoop below the circle on the ear. Just my thinking. I would be easy to create the detail there, just use some plexiglass or acrylic and etc the back and that should give you the right effect.
 
Update!



alright guys, today I cut out the visor, rondo-ed the outside back and reinforced some patches in the inside.

I also dremel sanded the whole thing to the smoothest I can for now.

here are some pictures:



General Pictures:



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Here's The Back:



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The Inside ( ew lol )



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@ Brandon McClain:

thank you very much :)

that's exactly where I'm planning to add the lights :p



what do you mean with the whole Plexi glass thing? :S

I was thinking about just putting the LED bulb on the outside.

hmmm no idea haha
 
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What I meant by the plexiglass deal, is that you cut a piece of plexiglass to shape, and use some fine grit sandpaper to rasp one side, just enough to opaque the plexi. You can check reference pics and make sure the plexi is the right shape. When you put an LED behind the smoked plexiglass, it diffuses the light. You drill a hole that will fit the led, and use hot glue to attach the plexi with the unrasped side exposed over the countersunk LED. Hope that helps!!
 
UPDATE!



kay, holy, I haven't updated this thread for a long time, mostly because I know people didn't really care lol

I want to just put these pictures up as progress of my Halo Reach helmet, I've been working on it quite hard for the past 2 days.



Patched up!



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Primered:



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Painted:



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I painted the inside black, added padding to secure it to my head, it's attached by velcro so it's removable.



I bought the 2 fans, switches and such and will hopefully install very soon.



I'm going to paint details in with some black spray paint and a cloth.



1) does anyone know where I could get a gold visor for my helmet?



I looked around the interwebs and I found a ton of different ones but not sure which one's are alright.
 
MikyVengeance said:
1) does anyone know where I could get a gold visor for my helmet?



I looked around the interwebs and I found a ton of different ones but not sure which one's are alright.

I plan on using this one. My Helmet is still in the resin phase right now, but this will most likely be the one I use.
 
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Can someone point me to this file? Its not on the Reach directory and I want to do this helm really bad.

Btw, Great work!
 
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