Recent content by Jcobb117

I think your best bet with the sword would honestly be taking referance pictures from online or from theatre, and sculpt it or do a wood build. weapons have never come out good for me in pep form, ive always had to cut them down the middle to glass them and the insides tend to warp when dryin...

well , i spend a crap load of time at work so i squeeze it in when i have a chance but i do this mostly for fun i dont really want any credit for what i do. personally, we are all artitsts and we are here to share our artwork nothing more nothing less. i think that the 405th community is great...

yes it is on you tube under Jcobb117

yeah at first i struggled with good techniques on making a visor and for this helmet, which is now been further smoothed with cleanclay and the visor shaped more(its too ugly to show yet lol) i used really thin plixi glass and trace the unfolded visor from the pep model and bent it, then i...

i used the pepakura technique with heavy cardstock then, i fiberglassed the inside using fiberglass resin and strips of the fiber glass cloth. then i smoothed it all out using bondo. the picture is of the helmet before it was cast as a referance to just what it is as a finished piece.

Hhahahahah thats cool man how did you know. lol. yeah i have been posting so much crap on youtube that i have been neglecting my forum posts, but im putting in work now lol.

First off let me say that i have been actively participating in armor making for about three years and ill be the first to say that in that time i have had alot,ALOT OF TRIAL AND MOSTLY ERROR. however i had not known about the 405th until i found a painting tutorial by Adam which made me want to...