After playing Reach (my first halo experience too) I've become a little obsessed and decided to make some armour. My plan is to make the standard Noble Six armour to start with and then as and when I get time make add ons like the UA hemet upgrade or various shoulder upgrades (most likely the recon or para ones) which attach with magnets (or hot glue:rolleyes)
So far I've got my helmet pepped but it's my first time using stiff card stock as I usually just pep small stuff out of 110gsm paper rather than the 200+ gsm which I have used for this.
I'm just a little worried that it hasn't turned out very well and isn't worth carrying on to the resin stage so could anyone give my any advice as to if it is worth carrying on or would it be better in the long run if I binned this helmet and chalked it up to experience and tried again taking much more care.
Here's an overall pic.
And the bits I'm worried about.
It's quite bowed inwards here, it's the same on the other side too.
This part sticks out to a sharp point at the top of the indent.
on the visor seems to bow inwards and looks a little crooked to me as well.
There are also quite a few places where the edges don't quite line up properly either from when I was using my glue gun and the glue cooled while it was still quite thick or from when I swapped over to super glue and it moved slightly while it was drying.
I've also got another quick question. There's a lot of talk about using glue guns (which I tried).
Which type are people using as I have one which takes the 11mm sticks which I use for DIY but when I tried it out for this the glue was just too thick and tended to just come out of the gun in big gloopy lumps which is ok for DIY but isn't too good for this application.
Thanks in advance for any tips and advice anyone can give me,
Rick.
So far I've got my helmet pepped but it's my first time using stiff card stock as I usually just pep small stuff out of 110gsm paper rather than the 200+ gsm which I have used for this.
I'm just a little worried that it hasn't turned out very well and isn't worth carrying on to the resin stage so could anyone give my any advice as to if it is worth carrying on or would it be better in the long run if I binned this helmet and chalked it up to experience and tried again taking much more care.
Here's an overall pic.
And the bits I'm worried about.
It's quite bowed inwards here, it's the same on the other side too.
This part sticks out to a sharp point at the top of the indent.
on the visor seems to bow inwards and looks a little crooked to me as well.
There are also quite a few places where the edges don't quite line up properly either from when I was using my glue gun and the glue cooled while it was still quite thick or from when I swapped over to super glue and it moved slightly while it was drying.
I've also got another quick question. There's a lot of talk about using glue guns (which I tried).
Which type are people using as I have one which takes the 11mm sticks which I use for DIY but when I tried it out for this the glue was just too thick and tended to just come out of the gun in big gloopy lumps which is ok for DIY but isn't too good for this application.
Thanks in advance for any tips and advice anyone can give me,
Rick.