Recent content by ArBiTeR1400

Nice of 343i to go out of their way to show us the weapon decals in extreme detail. These will help massively to be recreated in Illustrator & to print them out.

Knee & shine guards. The pain trying to engineer a way to get them together, their bolted into the pants to prevent from slipping. :lol: that orange you see is just filler since I accidently dent it by dropping something on it from the cupboard when it was in the way.

Here are some decals to go on it, had been brainstorming & extensive researching these for months to see what would it look like in-universe, so I been trying to squeeze much lore-juice as possible making these. So I took the Marine decals from Reach at the end of game & Anniversary; the hexagon...

Thanks for the info, mate! :love: I'll look into something maybe a year from now after my costume is done to hopefully do something small locally, I'll run some ideas through my regiment leaders, see what we can do.

My mother has been wondering does the 405th does any charity work in any official compacity with homeless shelters or hospitals? She's aware that people in the 501st does in the US with children's hospitals, wondering if we do anything like that here? She's been wanting me to do something in...

Spinal support thingy detail on the back of the vest, sewed on & spray painted black a bit. I ain't gonna miss a detail. :lol:

This thing alone can up against Thanos with his gauntlet. :lol:

Looking good, mate :cool:. I'm very slow doing my basic marine up, been a year & I haven't started painting yet. At this rate I'm gonna need another year. :lol:

Very sorry for not keeping a regular update on my progress, given life circumstances & COVID, progress is slow. The past couple of weeks I have been test fitting some parts to get it all working such as the knee & upper shin armour pieces to go over my knee pads & the shoulder pieces to work...

Marine bois for life. :cool:

Tell me about it. I have a closet full of toy guns & replicas props alongside my unfinished future war Terminator infiltration unit cosplay that I meant to do 3 years ago, I had to give up because the silicone I was working on didn't turn out too great & being in a committed relationship at the...

Here is my latest progress. After nearly a full year carbon fibre & resin layering the back for structural strength & adding extra detail over top by adding varies thickness of EVA foam & 1mm balsa sheets where needed for elevated areas & cut into for depth elsewhere. For the knee guards, used...

Here are the latest references pics, alot better these ones.

Got two I'm saving. At this rate, I'll have a handful soon.