Recent content by FoamAndFoundry

Alright, here's the rest of the major armor pieces! The left shoulder bottom piece is just a mirror of Shoulder R Bottom.

Here's the forearm! This one's the right arm, the left is the same but mirrored and with a different device thing in place of the Overlay for the right. The Outside piece works best if you tape the templates together and then fold instead of cutting out three pieces and gluing them together, I...

Sure thing! Here it is: Grapple Pilot Helmet Base Shell LMK if it doesn't work or if the model is broken somehow

There should be a link to a helmet file that works with some minor scaling to fit up above in this thread, just without any of the lights or rails (I stripped them off to make the base shell easier to work with). It might work for what you're looking for

Here's templates for the main back armor, based off a Sketchup model instead of the game assets. The bevels and notches stuff are not on the templates and you'll need to look at a reference photo to figure out where they go. As with the last, scale might need adjusting when you go to transfer to...

I might try epoxy or another type of superglue, but I think I'm going to try and just weld the heck out of it and not worry about how it looks, then clean it up in post processing with some bondo and sanding. As far as bracers, I'd like to add them in future builds but I'd like to save as many...

Update re: weld strength - idk if this is entirely a failure of welding as a principle or just how bad I am at doing it but take it as you will

I've got some decent progress done on my ODST already but I figured I'd start a thread so it's documented somewhere. It's foam with the smaller torso bits 3d-printed, and probably the helmet as well. I was thinking of charcoal gray with olive green accents for the color scheme, with either OD...

The only stupid question is the one you don't ask! For shins, I like to put elastic straps either on the inside or the outside, with their resting point being where the two halves of the shin armor meet. That way, you can put your foot through them and they pull apart, but as soon as your foot...

Here's some rough unfolds of the Grapple Pilot shins! I'm going to test them against my freehand templates and if I find I like those better, I'll upload those as well. These are scaled for a 290mm long shin so you may have to do some mental math to scale them up onto foam (I am shorter than...

Wonderful technique and tutorial, thanks for sharing it! I'm definitely going to have to use this in the future, I've been searching for new ways to connect my Marine shoulders without straps and I need to start thinking about how to set up my ODST. Just a thought, but for printed armor, would...

I used a soldering iron to essentially melt and re-solidify the plastic on the seam edges, I forget whose video it was but I got the technique from a youtube tutorial. You're right about it being PLA, I haven't tested it with PETG yet. I'm not sure exactly how strong the welds are as the parts...

I finally got around to welding all the parts together, and aside from buying the pipe for the barrel, it's just about ready for sanding and painting

It looks great! The amount of weathering really comes down to personal preference as well as the story you want your costume to tell, i.e. how much action they've seen, what type of combat they get into, etc. I'm a big proponent of heavy weathering myself because a) I think it looks good...

I gave up on unfolding and instead started making my own templates using Kamui Cosplay's Saran wrap and tape method, and looking at game screenshots; I've only done the shin pieces but so far it's a success. Once I get all the parts done, I'll find a way to digitize them and upload them here!