Recent content by Hikuro

Well I'm back to the drawing board on this build. I've been looking at other people's projects and making some side notes along the way as I'm still not 100% happy with how my build has come along. Worst part was that I had actually planned to wear this next weekend for the first time at a...

I'm not 100% sure if I can get up in that direction. I've lived in TX for 4 years but have never been to Dallas or anywhere remotely north. But I'm more on a budget than anything. If I can go it'll be just the Saturday only.

Even with a cheap airbrush with one of those electric compressors I had way to many issues with the bondo spray method he suggested. Plus it did a lot of damage to the airbrush in the end cause of the acetone. What I actually do instead is use a cheap chip brush. You can get a handful of those...

Update: If you guys scroll a little further up on my last post you'll see a pretty good photo of the chest piece sitting pretty high up butting up against my front collar armor. This made things very uncomfortable cause not only was the front riding back up and hitting against my chin, but it...

thanks for the support. If there's any info you guys wanna contribute to help push this to be a better looking suit please lemme know. I've been going over accessories for it like what kind of weapon he'll be having we've got two options, while I'd like to do the MA5B, the variant I have is...

Welcome to the newest addition to the Leo arsenal! This'll try to be a comprehensible tutorial to building a marine suit of armor. Now you might be asking, "Why a marine?" Why not? The Marines in Halo might of been the background and cannon fodder of the series but they had heart and were...

Today I call a success, like SpaceX blowing up Starship kind of success! Today was fittings and testing...I started by playing around with the visor to get it more tacted down. Sadly no matter what I tried I couldn't get it to hold in place without assistance. I ended up just using masking...

an entire day to go from that to this but I'm very pleased with how it looks overall. The mag is removable but I fixed the suppressor and stock in place. I also did not add the trigger for "safety" reasons if I were to take it to a con. I was hoping to do a few other things today but I never...

Good news! My idea on the rucksack worked. I grabbed some of my thicker EVA foam and cut it roughly to shape. I picked up some really strong 5min epoxy and used some left over pricks as weight. The last two panels have been applied and are holding well. The tac vest is on it's final coat of...

Alright sorry for the lateness on any updates I've had a heck of a weekend followed by a week that's been a little odd. I got a tactical airsoft vest I plan to repaint with fabric spray paint this weekend, sorta add some extra detail and depth to the suit overall. It's a pretty good vest, nice...

Alright sadly did not finish like I had intended, I hit some snags which have required me to go back and fix some stuff! Not that big of a deal quite honestly. I took a test fitting just to see how things were coming along, and as you can see, I lost a shoulder lol. During suit up the elastic...

I'm not sure I'll get much done today but lets share what I did accomplish. These are interceptor brand boots, you can find them over at just about any Walmart for around $35 with size depending availability...I had to go a size down from what I'm normally comfortable with and seeing how these...

Not a ton to report....so I've had trouble trying to find an appropriate tool belt like what's used in the instruction manual...so I've layered 2 inch webbing with 1 inch above that to create my layer on top of the padded fabric shoulder harness. It looks okay. But I've noticed the buckles given...

I'm gonna share a pretty big picture update end of the week, but I'll just quickly go over what's been done these last 2 days. The pattern on the shoulder had been cut on the thinner EVA foam, it was recommended to do 1'' thick but I felt it would been to much for me and I wanted to go thinner...

Not much today, for the soft goods I'm going with black coveralls, I know BDU's are the prefered style but I never feel comfortable in them versus coveralls...and seeing how much is covered up in armor parts what's the dif? I'll be getting a cheap airsoft vest from amazon and the cheapest...