Recent content by Zarnel

Lit Blade, Rant Guess what I've been doing for the last few months. . . This piece has given my a LOT of trouble. What is pictured here is the fourth iteration of the blade. Finding the right shade of green to go with the rest of my Spartan's armor and weapons was difficult and expensive...

Very nice! Glad to see some one else making a spartan laser, and so detailed too! Can't wait to see it finished.

Bondo and sanding completed. All that's left is cutting and lighting the blade, and then the paint-job. I'll wait until the rest of my armor is finished, then paint everything all at once.

I tried using pink insulating foam for some vac molds but it just melted and collapsed from the heat and suction. Try a scrap block before you commit to using something that you put a lot of work into. My recommendation would be to use molding rubber to make a mold and then slush cast a copy...

If other people want my needlers I may go back and remake some of my vacuform bucks. (Switch from foam to MDF) Pay for the plastic and my time, and I'll pull the pieces for you.

The current blade is just for testing, roughly cut from sheet styrene. The final blade will be laser cut from clear acrylic, lightly airbrushed, and lit with tiny LED's along the edge. (The LEDs come from a strand of battery operated Christmas lights, and are some of the smallest LED's I've...

Well spotted: the in-game blade does in fact come out of the elite's hand plate. I had to trade a little accuracy for the effect of having a retractable blade. The Elite Officer forearm was the only one big enough to fit the entire mechanism for both making the blade move and having it light...

Here you go . . . If it looks a little too big on me, that's because I deliberately kept the scale for Elite to human arm the same. (Plus having a bigger gauntlet means I can fit a bigger blade inside.) And to answer your question, SpartanT117, I played with both Legos and K'nex. I still...

Dual Wielding Needlers that light up and fire. _______________ Foam Model to get component parts right. _____________ Vacuformed components _____________ Cobbled together a system for getting the light and sounds of a needler firing: Motor Spins a gear which spins a lever which strikes a...

Truly awesome, now I want to build a ghost. My recommendation for getting this airborne: get a Giant Clear Blimp Envelope and sling the banshee underneath as the cockpit. For propulsion use Model Airplane Jet Engines.

Very nice. To solve your Gold visor problems I recommend using Sheet Window Tint. Check Out : http://store.diyhut.com/carwindowtint.html and look at the X"-Roll-Per-Foot section. You can buy just enough to cover your visor area. I recommend applying the sheet to a flat piece of clear...

Working on a new armor segment. I put it in a new thread because of how . . . different it is. Go check out my Elite Assassination Blade Gauntlet

This post is reserved for progress updates . . .

Continued . . . ______________ Attachment points for bottom plate added More to come!