Belakor's Mjolnir Armor Build Thread

[Outlaw Tiger]

it goes where the red area is

it was for a diffrent recon pdo that didnt have that part

oh, ok then, that makes more sense now =D lol. i had a hunch that, that was the case, but i wasn't sure

 

[cholo71796]

it goes where the red area is

it was for a diffrent recon pdo that didnt have that part

Thanks!

oh, ok then, that makes more sense now =D lol. i had a hunch that, that was the case, but i wasn't sure

lol, Same here, I wasn't sure if the visor opening could really get a whole lot smaller considering how small it was already.

 

[ka5p3r]

i was wondering with the recon armor being the first thing talked about here. Are most you building the recon armor attaching it to the MKVI chest plate. i was thinking about not but i want it to look like it is suppose to and the pics i have seen you cant really tell

 

[Outlaw Tiger]

i was wondering with the recon armor being the first thing talked about here. Are most you building the recon armor attaching it to the MKVI chest plate. i was thinking about not but i want it to look like it is suppose to and the pics i have seen you cant really tell

i am making a full recon, and i asked around with the same question like a month and bit ago, i was told that the chest peace just goes right over top the mark VI, and the little side plates attach along the little under-arm thingy of the mark VI armour as well, the only thing that you don't just place the recon permutation over, is the shoulder part... you know how on the mark VI its this little diamondish type thing ? well that diamond shaped part gets totally replaced with the recon box shoulder, but ONLY that little diamond shaped thing.

did that make any sense ? / help you out ?

if i'm wrong, PLEASE someone correct me... haha for both mine AND Kasper's benefit lol

 

[ka5p3r]

i am making a full recon, and i asked around with the same question like a month and bit ago, i was told that the chest peace just goes right over top the mark VI, and the little side plates attach along the little under-arm thingy of the mark VI armour as well, the only thing that you don't just place the recon permutation over, is the shoulder part... you know how on the mark VI its this little diamondish type thing ? well that diamond shaped part gets totally replaced with the recon box shoulder, but ONLY that little diamond shaped thing.

did that make any sense ? / help you out ?

if i'm wrong, PLEASE someone correct me... haha for both mine AND Kasper's benefit lol

uh yeah that helped, i guess i should finish the chest peice then for my recon chest peice and figure out exactly how to get this to work

 

[Outlaw Tiger]

uh yeah that helped, i guess i should finish the chest peice then for my recon chest peice and figure out exactly how to get this to work

haha yeah, sorry if that was a bit vague... i have only been able to get 3 hours of sleep a night for a month now cause of university... but basically the recon chest peace just rests directly on top of the Mk VI... there are a lot of good reference pictures in the gallery section for how the recon chest should look when its all put together. so as long as the end result of the combination of the two peaces looks like it dose in the pictures... then you are good to go =D

 

[Privateer]

That face add on had me buffallowed for a while I eventually Pitched it and sculpted most of the face and visor area from fiberglass and bondo.

Cheers!

 

[Outlaw Tiger]

hey guys, i was just doing some day dreaming in class, and i got to wondering, when those of you who have made recon armour, more specifically, the chest peace, how did you go about making it ?

1) did you resin and fiberglass the inside of the of the recon chest part separately before attaching it to the Mk VI chest peace ?

or

2) did you just attach it all together in the pep stage and just resin and fiberglass the thing as a whole ?

and secondly, would it be a smarter idea to built the chest peace the way option #1 describes ?

 

[sarge5020]

great job cant wait to see it

 

[donutman123]

hey if anyone could contact Hugget. Tell him to make another visor for the security helmet please! The helmet and the visor don't fit together. Please and thank you!

 

[bobbio555]

Wow, Recon looks awesome when finished! maybe I'll do that next. Someone needs to make a fan film with armor perms actually fulfilling their nomenclature: CQB gets sent into a bunker with a shotgun and SMGs to clear it out, Recon sneaks around gathering intel, EOD is the bomb squad...

There's a series of machinimas like that.

 

[justanotherhalofan]

What is the scale on your green and black helmet?

 

[Skullcandy Girl]

Belakor doesn't come here much if at all...

 

[Bloodl3tt3r]

Belakor doesn't come here much if at all...

That's because he's working on something else that will just blow us all away. Watch, three months from now, you're going to come into this thread and be like w8wut because he'll have figured out a working shield system. XD

 

[rowan]

He still works on stuff, if you know where to look you can see some of his latest work.

 

[Belakor]

He still works on stuff, if you know where to look you can see some of his latest work.

Lots of stuff in fact, Flickr and Twitter are the two best places to look if I'm not on a forum



Just finishing this up at the moment, almost two years in the making:







(Click to enlarge)



I do lots of 3D work now too, mostly in Solidworks... most of which I'll be using with my soon-to-be-purchased rapid prototyper



I can post up other stuff if people are interested.



Oh yeah, I did this quick (and pretty crap) video yesterday using most of the photos from the build/sculpt:

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxDwP4YuNas[/media]

 

[rowan]

YOUR BACK!!!! haha, welcome back mate! Sent ya a PM

Very nice work on the recon! Can we expect casts being available in the near future?

 

[DYSTORTED INC]

I was wondering if we would ever see you again, glad to see you're still around. You're an inspiration to us all.



What kind of rapid prototyper are you going to get?

 

[Belakor]

YOUR BACK!!!! haha, welcome back mate! Sent ya a PM

Very nice work on the recon! Can we expect casts being available in the near future?

Yeah I was bored and figured I should probably update this since I've just about finished the helmet Will reply to your PM as soon as I can



At this stage I won't be doing any casts to sell. To start with I'm just doing three (two for me and one as a gift*) but I'll see what happens after I get those done, if I do it'd be a very limited run (15 max, possibly less).

I'm waiting to hear back about the moulding right now, I probably could do it myself without too much drama but I'd rather get some help just to make sure nothing goes wrong... since I've put so much time into it







*Probably DARE, standard green Halo 3 Recon and my own custom version... with a few non-canon bits and pieces

I was wondering if we would ever see you again, glad to see you're still around. You're an inspiration to us all.



What kind of rapid prototyper are you going to get?

It's been a busy 10 months but I have poked my head in from time to time, it's just a matter of finding the time these days :unsure

It's good to know people like this stuff and find it helpful (for inspiration, reference or whatever), hopefully some of the other stuff I've done will be of the same use





This is what I'm getting, just waiting for ordering to open up again:

Cupcake CNC

Obviously it's not a high end RP or anything, I don't have that kind of money , but it's still pretty awesome.

I'm looking at using the cupcake to help build a RepRap when I'm done as well.

That's the truly awesome thing about both machines, once you have one you can use it to build more machines

 

[Belakor]

Answering some of the old questions I missed, most have probably been answered anyway but I just like to stay on top of things when I can

... I like the design and tried to nab the pep files, but they seem to be private or some such thing. Are they not currently being shared?...

That was something wrong on my end, must have happened when I shifted the files around, should be fixed now for anyone else wondering.

This doesn't really count as a necro because this is in the Elite Showcase, right? Anyway, I was looking at the recon(naissance) pep files on the wiki and saw the two helmet details. I figured out that one of them goes on the top, but where does the "Face_Add-on" go? TIA

As others have posted since you posted this, that add-on was for Slyfo's Recon pep file, for people that had already built his helmet but wanted to fill in the face that he had removed on his. Otherwise it's useless.

hey guys, i was just doing some day dreaming in class, and i got to wondering, when those of you who have made recon armour, more specifically, the chest peace, how did you go about making it ?



1) did you resin and fiberglass the inside of the of the recon chest part separately before attaching it to the Mk VI chest peace ?



or



2) did you just attach it all together in the pep stage and just resin and fiberglass the thing as a whole ?



and secondly, would it be a smarter idea to built the chest peace the way option #1 describes ?

What I did was build the standard Mk VI chest, got it all sanded and whatnot, and then attached the pep Recon chest to it to be resined. Once its hard enough you can carefully cut the add-on off (I used small dabs of hot glue to secure it, much like spot welding) and resin/fiberglass the inside of the add-on.



Another thing you can do, which I have on all my chest perms, is to cover the front of the Mk VI chest with something like packing tape, attach the chest perm you're building with hot glue (again like spot welding), and then fill the cavity between the two pieces with expanding foam.

Once you've got the foam in there you can put some weight on it to keep them together and seperate the pieces once the foam cures. That way you end up with a chest perm that will lock on to the standard chest and not wiggle 'round. You still need to secure it with magnets or screws but it fits together much better.



I'll see if I can get some photos of the CQB that I did this way if people want to see it.

hey if anyone could contact Hugget. Tell him to make another visor for the security helmet please! The helmet and the visor don't fit together. Please and thank you!

The Security visor does fit, you just have to modify it a little. What I did was glue the top center of the visor to the correct place on the helmet and work my way around with hot glue, when you get most of it fitted you'll need to cut some of the side of the visor to get it to fit but it will get there in the end.

What is the scale on your green and black helmet?

The scale for that is 26cm, which is the default for my file. Having said that it was probably more like 24cm after shrinkage caused by the fiberglassing. The clay helmet now is probably back up to 26cm, maybe a little more.

That's because he's working on something else that will just blow us all away. Watch, three months from now, you're going to come into this thread and be like w8wut because he'll have figured out a working shield system. XD

Oi! You'll spoil the surprise!!

Actually I did/do have a shield on my armour, the handplate specifically, but you can't really see it in photos and even up close it's hard to see... I really need to perfect it one of these days...