Recent content by Rooster

When you start a new suit, what piece does everybody prefer to start with? I find that I tend to gravitate to the helmet first, as its arguably the most labor intensive piece, but scaling it is more difficult without the other pieces to compare to.

Well, I'm not particularly experienced myself. But you really have one of two options, either continue pushing through, or take a break. There's an argument to be made for both. Personally, I prefer to take a break. Take a week and don't touch it at all, then come back to it with fresh eyes and...

Wow, I've been playing around with the idea of a live video feed to see through, I'd love love see an in-depth walkthrough of your process if you ever get the time. It looks like you're right on the edge of a finished suit! I can practically taste the anticipation in the air!

Makes sense. I'm sure once this is complete you'll get the itch again shortly. You should definitely make a trip to some comic cons once it is finished. You might win some contests and make back your investment.

Have you considered eventually motorizing individual body pieces a la the control surface check from iron man 1?

Yeah, I guess I can only take so many failures in a row before I need a real break from it. I'm not going to stop entirely,but I had been going at it for days at a time. I'm going to slow down drastically and keep the projects shorter for awhile. Thanks for all the support guys! ;)

Yep, Chernobyl nailed it. I'm guessing its the default chest on him too, its the only one with the UNSC symbol in the neck area. Also, here's a pic of the Reach helmet variants for your reference. ;)

So about a month ago I started an ODST build, beginning with Kirrou's rookie helmet. Weeks in, about halfway into bondoing, I decide to do a visual test fit, as I had been growing increasingly uneasy about the final size. Disaster. It was way too big, looking like "Big Cat" Williams' (nfl...

As other have already said, you just have to jump in knowing that mistakes will be made "Feet first into hell" Document your progress and ask questions as they come up. Not only will others be able to give you answers specific to the step you're on, but you may discover a new technique that...

Vac-form it. There's tutorials all over the place on here and, done correctly, it will give you the best results.

Well as far as where you want to put them, it's all up to your imagination. You'll notice that each character in ODST has slightly different decal placement. The only one that seems really consistent is the blood type/bar-code on the shoulder, UNSC on the center chest, and the UNSC crest on the...

There's a program called pdfcreator that I use. You just print the file to the "printer" labeled pdf creator and it automatically converts it for you.

In my opinion your best bet is to get detailed measurements of your head.For me, I used a kevlar helmet I have lying around, sized the internal band to fit correctly, and then took measurements of the band's width/length, the inside kevlar width/length, and the thickness of the kevlar. Beyond...

I've encountered the same problem with mine, I still can't pin down what causes it. Generally I just fiddle with all of the print and line settings until it goes right. However, since it appears sporadically, I've taken to converting my files to a PDF before printing since it'll show up in the...

Yep, that helmet looks nice. It's got me a little hyped to see the rest of your work.