Hey all,
So I have been re-watching RVB and decided after I screwed up the start to my recon build that I might want to try to make filex's bad**s armor from RVB.
I have started with finding all the pep files for it which thanks to the archives on here was pretty easy(also found a bunch of other good things I may want to build). Ok so to start I wanted to build the main pieces of armor which is the soldier chest piece he uses.
Chest plate- so once i finished printing and peping this chest piece I want on to harden it but ran into some problems. So to start I read somewhere on here that the smooth-cast liquid plastic was a really good alternative to the classic resin and fiber glass. That for me at-least turned out to be completely false. I started to apply this liquid plastic to the chest plate in small batches to prevent warping and it seemed to be working and was very fast to dry so I could do a lot more work in a short period of time on this. This is when I ran into my problem! since I used packing tape to assemble my pep that may have been the problem but ya. So as I started to apply it to the pieces that go around my side the tape holding it together started to un ahead to the card stock.
That is when I realized that the chemical that made it was dissolving the adhesive on the tape. It was good I found this out early and I could save most of the work I did on the chest just not the side parts (going to rebuild them out of foam to make them more flexible.)
So not that I solved that I just went back to the classic way it looks like most people do on here which is resin. I currently just finished the first layer of resin on the outside and inside. (how many layers should you put of just the resin I was going to put 2 on the inside and 3 on the outside before adding the bondo stuff to the outside and the fiberglass to the inside)
I also have been working on some of the other stuff I will need like the venator shoulders and the gloves along with modifying some of the props I had laying around.
The shoulders are currently being covered in that bondo body filler stuff to smooth out the paper edges and I have finished the gloves along with a knife and pistol.
For the combat knife and the pistol they are both 3d printed on a makerbot replicator 2.
Original
New
For the gloves those are some gloves I found at ace and added some sheet metal plates to them.
Also been working on the throwing knifes he uses in RVB.
So I have been re-watching RVB and decided after I screwed up the start to my recon build that I might want to try to make filex's bad**s armor from RVB.
I have started with finding all the pep files for it which thanks to the archives on here was pretty easy(also found a bunch of other good things I may want to build). Ok so to start I wanted to build the main pieces of armor which is the soldier chest piece he uses.
Chest plate- so once i finished printing and peping this chest piece I want on to harden it but ran into some problems. So to start I read somewhere on here that the smooth-cast liquid plastic was a really good alternative to the classic resin and fiber glass. That for me at-least turned out to be completely false. I started to apply this liquid plastic to the chest plate in small batches to prevent warping and it seemed to be working and was very fast to dry so I could do a lot more work in a short period of time on this. This is when I ran into my problem! since I used packing tape to assemble my pep that may have been the problem but ya. So as I started to apply it to the pieces that go around my side the tape holding it together started to un ahead to the card stock.
That is when I realized that the chemical that made it was dissolving the adhesive on the tape. It was good I found this out early and I could save most of the work I did on the chest just not the side parts (going to rebuild them out of foam to make them more flexible.)
So not that I solved that I just went back to the classic way it looks like most people do on here which is resin. I currently just finished the first layer of resin on the outside and inside. (how many layers should you put of just the resin I was going to put 2 on the inside and 3 on the outside before adding the bondo stuff to the outside and the fiberglass to the inside)
I also have been working on some of the other stuff I will need like the venator shoulders and the gloves along with modifying some of the props I had laying around.
The shoulders are currently being covered in that bondo body filler stuff to smooth out the paper edges and I have finished the gloves along with a knife and pistol.
For the combat knife and the pistol they are both 3d printed on a makerbot replicator 2.
Original
New
For the gloves those are some gloves I found at ace and added some sheet metal plates to them.
Also been working on the throwing knifes he uses in RVB.