Recent content by BDUB

Your foam work is quite nice! Slow progress is still progress, keep it up!

Have you taken screenshots in character editor in the Master Chief Collection?

I am not envious of you at all haha. Looks like heaps of work. And expensive. lol. When you say truck bed liner i get a bit spooked, that stuff is so coarse. Maybe you should try stippling a texture with acrylic paint applied with a sponge on a test piece or something. That's a bit finer texture...

For the price, BambuLab's P1P is the best, easiest-to-use printer out there. This is the one I would recommend to beginners. https://us.store.bambulab.com/products/p1p?from=navigation There are cheaper printers but they require much more tinkering, trial and error, and tuning to get good...

You can tell this man is drowning in unspeakable amounts of joy On a more serious note: For your project I think a tighter-fitting suit would look much better than a baggier one. At least for the MKVII. There are some printed options (like the ones SgtSaint mentioned) that might be a good...

I like the idea of the additional stitching. IMO things like that really sell realism and texture, and add to a quality product. Watch any movie that’s known for its costumes! I remember watching the andor series a while ago and just blown away by the costumes! Textures everywhere. Just great...

I did some tests with the TPU undersuit idea. Bear with me here. i've got a good bit to cover. I'd call it pretty successful, and I had some learnings that I'd like to cover and will be implementing in the future. Here's the TPU bit. It's just a test piece with different thicknesses that I...

daang this chest piece redux is mighty fine!

Lol these are mostly self-deprecating jokes. Very dry, self deprecating jokes. I am hard on myself, but i’m actually pretty happy with the way things are looking. Good points on the harness. I’m seeing some options i like. I think with some modifications and they’d be 90% there. The lighter...

I made arms. Foam ones. My real arms are fine—thanks for asking. :p These took about 12 hours, which is 11 more than I expected and probably 10 fewer than I should’ve spent. They’re still not symmetrical, but neither am I, so… points for consistency. :lol: That means the upper body is almost...

Why don’t you 3D print your mold boxes? Might save you some time and material. You could probably use less silicone if you built registration into the printed mold boxes. I’d design it to more or less follow the contours of the part with an inch or so of space between the part and the interior...

Dig the extra effort you’re putting in for these molds. I’m curious - how is the cost of molding/casting these types of parts? I love the idea of casting my armor but i hesitate (and gravitate away from) because i know the cost is usually fairly high and, for me at least, not worthwhile unless...

I've recently moved from WA to FL - could I be added to the southern regiment please? Thanks! -BDUB

I would generally agree with this. If you intend to make a suit of armor, I would point you in the same direction that SgtSaint did. Start on the parts that are not visible and develop your technique as you work towards harder armor pieces. If you only plan on making a helmet, I'd recommend...

Dang this is sick! Your planning for layering was pretty detailed, I think it really paid off. Did you end up embedding a rod or something down the length of the barrel? Mine (over time) started to droop, but I used some cheap floor mat foam when I made this thing. I eventually sharpened an...