Recent content by Northern Dragon

If you scuff it up enough initially with sandpaper, a coating of any standard wood filler putty will do just as good and sand quickly after it dries. I have used different types but one I am eager to try is Polyfilla, saw my dad using a tube of it for some work at home and it was much more...

I started with cardstock for my templates but I have been building a Foam suit because I felt I could add and subtract the details I noticed. I really wish the game files were available to us, just have to wait till the game is released (whenever that does happen)

I did sandwich the buckle but it didn't work out for me. A more hardy glue would be best for next time, along with trying to glue two flexible materials to each other not one rigid to one flexible

Watch how you glue the buckles. Last time, I used hot glue, the buckle on one side came free. The cosplay repair crew had to cable tie one side of my codpiece on. I'd recommend something with a lot more strength, if not a better attachment method then glue, foam and plastic

Short answer, you run on adrenaline and just don't. For my last under-suit was a black t-shirt and jeans I would recommend a different method for the zipper. A zipper at the waist hidden by the belt piece of armours like the Mark VI variants can make it possible to quickly drop your dacks. A...

XtremeNoob is one other dude who has been making the Infinite helmet and its just as perfect as the other one in this thread

I know this thread is basically dead but I'll throw my two cents in. I have been working through my own build and have tested cardstock versions of different parts and I can say the final armour is 70/20/10 but heavily modified. It is 70% Halo 3 armour and 20% FUD/Legends. The chest, codpiece...

If you haven't already I'd test every piece your making several times over in cardstock, thats if you have constant access to a printer. With my recent Halo Infinite build I have been scaling, testing, rescaling and then drawing all over cardstock mock-ups because buying that in bulk is cheaper...

For a first build I have to say this is pretty clean. My first build was also a Halo 3 Mark VI suit. Mine was a little crunchy and the final paint finish was a little pebbly. For your shin I think your first test was the right scale just a bit short. Pepakura is a great program for unfolding...

If your going down the foam route I'd recommend Armorsmith as your paper patterning tool, having a digital mannequin is so helpful. Apart from that I'd just say read everything you can on different builds, don't just read up on FUD builds, check out stuff like Ironman armour builds along with...

Found a more practical solution. I had an old windows laptop doing nothing but gathering dust. Downloaded pepakura to it and it works perfectly. The unfolding for the chest model...hell that took me a while to mimic a foam pattern akin to the one I had made from the Halo 3 model. Might even look...

Wine has been my go to for a long time now, the update to Catalina severed the connection between apps so I am unsure which version of Wineskin I need to use to get pepakura back up and running again. As to virtual machine's I've never used them so I do not know which is the best and safest to...

Awesomeness!!! Been looking forward to this file since you first posted about it Side note, does anyone know how to make either Armoursmith or Pepakura work on MacOS Catalina?

Managed to find an answer. Cross referenced the "Hope" trailer with the "Halo: Legends" "The Package" scene. The boots are the FUD design but with minor additions visible in Legends. The toe cap are merged with visual elements like the side wedges and the inward slop on the front. The back of...

Xtremenoob, when you modelled the boots, were they close to the FUD design or Halo 3? I have scale tested both but I could never tell for sure what design was mimicked by 343i