Whats up y'all...finally time for my build thread to start...those that dont know me names Matt part of southern Reg.. this is my first build(note horrible pep work) and or costume i have ever done...
Decided i was gonna start this build with 3 months on the build clock before Dragon Con 2015 this year and this is my journey so far.
I wanted to do a noble 6 commando kinda style for my build and would be made out of pepakura and some pieces casted..
First huge, huge shout out to Jim McCrea of stony props for the amazing cast work on the helmet and help with the visor after melting and cracking the motorcyle lens i tried. Also shout out to both TheRedArmory and HeadShotProps
as well for casted items you guys are awesome.
now on with the pics !
Chest Piece done
biceps done
shoulders done
Knife came in and custom made a sheath for it to attach to the chest piece
update on armor belt is done and slowly coming together
Now is time for the helmet !!!
cut out the visor and side holes were i plan to put leds
little bondo work to fill in a gap and test fitted were the hidden fan will go
all cutting is done and 1st coat of primer added
now heres were i had a problem tried using a motorcyle lens and angle was to extreme for helmet and started to crack and melt when trying to heat it and bend it to fit...so plan b my advice to anyone doing a mark v (b) helmet get the mirrored film from Jim McCrea at Iconprops worked perfect because i was able to bend it any way i wanted to make it fit.
little test fit right before the lens cracked...
started the paint process thus the "20 shades of grey" i will be using !
after a little dry brush work
now on to the LEDS...after a trip to the wonderful local radioshack hardware isle.. i picked up 9vs,4 aaa battey pack with switch, some wiring, switches, 2 types of blue LEDS one round 6v
and one flat 3.8v.got a total of 6 LEDS 4 for helmet and 2 for chest piece later on.so to do the side leds ( where i cut the hole in the side) i used a piece of plexi glass i cut little bigger than a bottle cap and sanded the plexi glass for a frosted look
then used a bottle cap to keep in light/hold LED in side
.next for side vents used square piece of plexiglass and frosted it aswell and used the square LED for it.
Finished all the LEDs
I look like electro from spiderman ?
now to finish wiring up the fan
Decided i was gonna start this build with 3 months on the build clock before Dragon Con 2015 this year and this is my journey so far.
I wanted to do a noble 6 commando kinda style for my build and would be made out of pepakura and some pieces casted..
First huge, huge shout out to Jim McCrea of stony props for the amazing cast work on the helmet and help with the visor after melting and cracking the motorcyle lens i tried. Also shout out to both TheRedArmory and HeadShotProps
as well for casted items you guys are awesome.
now on with the pics !
Chest Piece done
biceps done
shoulders done
Knife came in and custom made a sheath for it to attach to the chest piece
update on armor belt is done and slowly coming together
Now is time for the helmet !!!
cut out the visor and side holes were i plan to put leds
little bondo work to fill in a gap and test fitted were the hidden fan will go
all cutting is done and 1st coat of primer added
now heres were i had a problem tried using a motorcyle lens and angle was to extreme for helmet and started to crack and melt when trying to heat it and bend it to fit...so plan b my advice to anyone doing a mark v (b) helmet get the mirrored film from Jim McCrea at Iconprops worked perfect because i was able to bend it any way i wanted to make it fit.
little test fit right before the lens cracked...
started the paint process thus the "20 shades of grey" i will be using !
after a little dry brush work
now on to the LEDS...after a trip to the wonderful local radioshack hardware isle.. i picked up 9vs,4 aaa battey pack with switch, some wiring, switches, 2 types of blue LEDS one round 6v
and one flat 3.8v.got a total of 6 LEDS 4 for helmet and 2 for chest piece later on.so to do the side leds ( where i cut the hole in the side) i used a piece of plexi glass i cut little bigger than a bottle cap and sanded the plexi glass for a frosted look
then used a bottle cap to keep in light/hold LED in side
.next for side vents used square piece of plexiglass and frosted it aswell and used the square LED for it.
Finished all the LEDs
I look like electro from spiderman ?
now to finish wiring up the fan