Before I post pictures... I have to say this first. The very reason I got into prop building was, because I always (!!!) wanted to have a Master Chief Armor! Halo introduced me to my first very own console. Before that I had always shared a SNES or a N64 wit my brother. And it brought a lot of fun, meeting up with friends to play LAN-Games and so on.
So, building this was a matter close to my heart. I had started modeling some Iron Man stuff and built quite a few suits over at the RPF. Even did some commission on suits. But I always wanted to do something Halo related. I had seen a few cool helmet builds at have bought 2(!!!) myself. But it was never quite right... and I am someone who likes to do things by himself rather than buying stuff. So, long story short... I looked at some of the Papakura files and found that Harnor's file was the closest to the new Helmets (Halo 4/5). I got in touch with him last year, and asked him if it was okay to use his file and modify it. He had no problem with that so I went ahead and used the in-game model rip to get the overall shape right, looked at a ton of reference pics and added all the small details one by one.
And then, I printed it... and not too soon because right after that my computer crashed and took all the files with it... Still trying to get the data back. But at least I got to print this one right here. Took me 160 hours of printing time.
What do you guys think? The visor will be vacuum formed and tinted gold. I am in the process of molding the helmet at the moment to make a resin copy of it.
So, building this was a matter close to my heart. I had started modeling some Iron Man stuff and built quite a few suits over at the RPF. Even did some commission on suits. But I always wanted to do something Halo related. I had seen a few cool helmet builds at have bought 2(!!!) myself. But it was never quite right... and I am someone who likes to do things by himself rather than buying stuff. So, long story short... I looked at some of the Papakura files and found that Harnor's file was the closest to the new Helmets (Halo 4/5). I got in touch with him last year, and asked him if it was okay to use his file and modify it. He had no problem with that so I went ahead and used the in-game model rip to get the overall shape right, looked at a ton of reference pics and added all the small details one by one.
And then, I printed it... and not too soon because right after that my computer crashed and took all the files with it... Still trying to get the data back. But at least I got to print this one right here. Took me 160 hours of printing time.
What do you guys think? The visor will be vacuum formed and tinted gold. I am in the process of molding the helmet at the moment to make a resin copy of it.