Okay, this is one very shiny ODST but I don't care right now- my armour is almost all put together. Thats good enough for this event. Detailing, adjusting of the paint colour, weathering etc can come later.
First time with all the armour on- yes, I know, I am missing my knee plates, inner thigh pieces, gloves, crotch plate and headset, I'm holding my ab plate in place and ignore the undone shoe laces, pieces not quite centred, messily shoved up hair and the extra pouch on my belt. The belt is also used for trooping with my Reach armour and the pouch is very difficult to remove, and since I'm wearing the Reach armour Saturday and ODST on Sunday, I'd rather not remove it for trial fits.
This last week has been two steps forwards one step back, and I hands down haven't had luck with the paint. The gunmetal grey came out much lighter than I was expecting, so I'm gonna have to do more layers later and darken it. I got some vinyl paint to do the headset which stated it was charcoal grey... it's more a mid to light grey, so again not happy... but again it will have to do for now. Today I also discovered that one of my pieces- the crotch plate- got completely missed when it came to painting. It remained under a pile of stuff on my lounge and I just found it today when I went hunting for it to attach it and realised it wasn't with the painted bits. Then I thought I had enough snaps, only to find tonight that I didn't.... Sigh. The hassles of costuming!
I do need help/ opinions with a detail however. On Dare's chestplate she has the UNSC symbol but I'm having a hard time trying to identify what it is. In the promo style shots of Dare (like the one on the Halo wiki page) it appears to be the more standard one like this, but possibly with longer font and not the UNSC letters:
However when you look at in game shots, it looks more like it could be this symbol with the triangle and eye, and the font does look like it is long enough to say "Office of Naval Intelligence"
Problem is, when you zoom in on the screen shots all you get is a vague blur, and different angles make it look different- even the in game shots vs the in between mission vids shots it looks different! So I'm not sure which is the 'right' answer in this case. Any pictures I try to find online aren't detailed enough to show definitively which it is. Does anyone know the answer to this?