Hey folks! Been a while! Flyerfye back once again to work on the Reach Mark V suit I've been planning to build for LITERALLY OVER THREE YEARS. And in all that time I managed to not even build a single solitary hand plate! But time and progress march on, and after being prompted to bring out my ODST suit to a con, I got so many questions and compliments that it rekindled my interest, and here we go, my custom Mark V Reach build!
Obligatory Vanity Picture: build plan may change at any time
I've actually never done any of the more complex foam builds up until now, so my first try was on the left gauntlet (which is a relatively small piece, and any minor mistakes on the top half can be covered up by a forearm attachment. Fortunately, it wasn't actually that bad, although my results are at this point more hot glue than foam. I ended up adjusting and cutting some of the parts AFTER I put the thing together, so there's a lot of junk I'm not really happy with. Oh well, they'll work for now, I'll upgrade them later!
gross hot glue everywhere, I've smoothed this down a bit since this pic was taken
Some weird twisting happened here, but it's not really noticable from most angles.
Behold my terrible falling apart gloves. I started doing some details in craft foam, probably will look better once it's primed and all the same color (I can only hope).
Obligatory Vanity Picture: build plan may change at any time
I've actually never done any of the more complex foam builds up until now, so my first try was on the left gauntlet (which is a relatively small piece, and any minor mistakes on the top half can be covered up by a forearm attachment. Fortunately, it wasn't actually that bad, although my results are at this point more hot glue than foam. I ended up adjusting and cutting some of the parts AFTER I put the thing together, so there's a lot of junk I'm not really happy with. Oh well, they'll work for now, I'll upgrade them later!
gross hot glue everywhere, I've smoothed this down a bit since this pic was taken
Some weird twisting happened here, but it's not really noticable from most angles.
Behold my terrible falling apart gloves. I started doing some details in craft foam, probably will look better once it's primed and all the same color (I can only hope).