ReclaimerODST
Jr Member
And the moment you’ve all been eagerly awaiting, I’m sure: actually wearing the armor!
This is obviously without any of the fancy undersuit I’ve been working on, partly to keep the final look a surprise, and partly because I don’t have a way of wearing half of it yet lol. I’m officially finished with the actual 3D printed armor (besides some little tweaks) and just need to get off my ass and see the rest of the bags. Should be maybe a month? I could probably smash them out in a week but I’m lazy.
I’ll also add this “small” footnote: A large reason I hadn’t posted a suit-up even though it’s been almost finished for like a month and a half is because I didn’t have a super secure way of wearing the legs, and especially the knees were a big issue.
Having the strap as it is in-game (all the way from the ankle to the knee pad) was perfectly easy to do, but it didn’t let me bend the knee basically at all, there was no stretch. My solution was simple but I think sorta clever! Now you probably won’t be able to see clearly in the picture so I’ll just have to badly describe it.
The shin strap is isolated, just glued inside. The strap coming from the kneepad into the shin is the same strapping, but with elastic glued to the back and that elastic extending about 2” past the bottom. I took this and passed it over the original shin strap so that they appear connected, and then glued the exposed elastic to the inside of the shin. This gives the same appearance as actually using one strap, but allows a good few inches of stretch. Now I can comfortably sit, crouch, and bend in any way and the knees and shins both stay in place and don’t interfere with eachother!
This is obviously without any of the fancy undersuit I’ve been working on, partly to keep the final look a surprise, and partly because I don’t have a way of wearing half of it yet lol. I’m officially finished with the actual 3D printed armor (besides some little tweaks) and just need to get off my ass and see the rest of the bags. Should be maybe a month? I could probably smash them out in a week but I’m lazy.
I’ll also add this “small” footnote: A large reason I hadn’t posted a suit-up even though it’s been almost finished for like a month and a half is because I didn’t have a super secure way of wearing the legs, and especially the knees were a big issue.
Having the strap as it is in-game (all the way from the ankle to the knee pad) was perfectly easy to do, but it didn’t let me bend the knee basically at all, there was no stretch. My solution was simple but I think sorta clever! Now you probably won’t be able to see clearly in the picture so I’ll just have to badly describe it.
The shin strap is isolated, just glued inside. The strap coming from the kneepad into the shin is the same strapping, but with elastic glued to the back and that elastic extending about 2” past the bottom. I took this and passed it over the original shin strap so that they appear connected, and then glued the exposed elastic to the inside of the shin. This gives the same appearance as actually using one strap, but allows a good few inches of stretch. Now I can comfortably sit, crouch, and bend in any way and the knees and shins both stay in place and don’t interfere with eachother!
