braytaks epic noob noble 6 build..w.i.p
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BLACKULA727
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Nice job Braytak! Your bondo work is impressive. Hopefully I can make my project nice and smooth like yours. I was curious on how you plan to carve the details into the bondo when you get to that point. Keep it up the good work mang!
Hey thanks , I think first I am going to try with a xacto knife to get the basic lines and from there use the dremel but I am kinda making this all up as I go along
Maybe you could try another scaling method if your current one isn't working well for you?
only method i have is getting the length and the coverting it to inches
vshore100
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Do you have any reference pics? I find that it is best to have them to compare where it will fall on your body. Then measure as best you can from there. I also used the tut. from Xtreme TACTICS 101. It helped me quite a bit. Here is the link for you incase you haven't seen it yet. http://www.405th.com/showthread.php/25588-How-to-Scale-Your-Armour-Tutorial-V.2?highlight=scaling
Hope this helps you braytak. Have a great day man!
Hope this helps you braytak. Have a great day man!
Hey Braytak, I feel for you bro! Scaling is one of the reasons why I went the scratch build way with foam. I've printed so many armor pieces that are scaled wrong and used the back of the sheets to print the better scaled versions over and over again. Needless to say it got old, real fast. I wish you luck with vshore100's suggestion to use Xtreme Tactic's tutorial. I may try that myself.
Thanks VShore100!
Thanks VShore100!
HaloGoddess
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Your helmet is coming along nicely. I personally think that you are doing a nice job on that.
As for the chest piece...........I think it's a bit too big. You will have to probably wear A LOT of padding under it in order to have it fit a little tighter so that it doesn't move around on you. A little trick I learned, if you can fit your head through the neck area of the chest plate while it's in one piece, it's too big. I know it works that way for the MK VI torso, but I believe it's the same way for the Reach torso. After you harden and paint it, you are supposed to cut it into a front and back piece and using straps and buckles, put it together.
Also, to help with your scaling issue, look at reference pictures and look at the piece you are working on. Study how it fits the character and look to see where the armor piece seems to be. Then measure the area on yourself and take it from there. You might still want to add an inch or 2 so that you have room for padding. You don't want it to be too tight. XD
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As for the chest piece...........I think it's a bit too big. You will have to probably wear A LOT of padding under it in order to have it fit a little tighter so that it doesn't move around on you. A little trick I learned, if you can fit your head through the neck area of the chest plate while it's in one piece, it's too big. I know it works that way for the MK VI torso, but I believe it's the same way for the Reach torso. After you harden and paint it, you are supposed to cut it into a front and back piece and using straps and buckles, put it together.
Also, to help with your scaling issue, look at reference pictures and look at the piece you are working on. Study how it fits the character and look to see where the armor piece seems to be. Then measure the area on yourself and take it from there. You might still want to add an inch or 2 so that you have room for padding. You don't want it to be too tight. XD
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HaloGoddess
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Just force the visor to fit as much as possible. I don't think you will fully get the visor pressed all the way to the helmet unless you find a way to custom shape the visor for a perfect fit.
Just get the visor to fit as best as possible. It's really all you can do. I've seen plenty of helmets that don't have the visors pressed all the way up to the helmet and there are normally areas where there is a slight gap. To me, it looks like your visor fits just fine and you could probably force it a little more at the top, just be sure you don't break the visor. D:
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Just get the visor to fit as best as possible. It's really all you can do. I've seen plenty of helmets that don't have the visors pressed all the way up to the helmet and there are normally areas where there is a slight gap. To me, it looks like your visor fits just fine and you could probably force it a little more at the top, just be sure you don't break the visor. D:
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I agree. I had the same problem with my kid's helmet. Once I had the visor in I cut small strips of foam from foam tubing I bought from Home Dept and filled in the gaps. Once you have them filled, you will hardly notice the gaps.
I'm not sure if this would help. I had the same challenge. The good thing about MC helmet is there is a space on the ears. I cut two pieces of wood and resined them to the sides. I screwed the visor in using two screws. To avoid being scraped by the screw, I hot-glued a thin foam on the side. I'm sure others can provide more help. From the photo, you can see the foam piece that I used to cover the gaps.
Hi there
The way i did my visor, i would almost call cheating for attachment...
I used Gorrila tape (Same company as Gurillia glue) and just put the in small strips all along the visor edges, and attacheed it to the helmet... I find that this tape is actually stronger than Duct tape!
And for the gaps, i went from this
To this
This is RTV silicon, black. Or, the more common way of saying it is Window caulking...
Now for this, i did a really bad job becuse i forgot to tape off my visor so that it would not get any of the silicon on it... so it was a little sloppy.... But you get the idea... right?
The way i did my visor, i would almost call cheating for attachment...
I used Gorrila tape (Same company as Gurillia glue) and just put the in small strips all along the visor edges, and attacheed it to the helmet... I find that this tape is actually stronger than Duct tape!
And for the gaps, i went from this
To this
This is RTV silicon, black. Or, the more common way of saying it is Window caulking...
Now for this, i did a really bad job becuse i forgot to tape off my visor so that it would not get any of the silicon on it... so it was a little sloppy.... But you get the idea... right?
Hi there
The way i did my visor, i would almost call cheating for attachment...
I used Gorrila tape (Same company as Gurillia glue) and just put the in small strips all along the visor edges, and attacheed it to the helmet... I find that this tape is actually stronger than Duct tape!
And for the gaps, i went from this
To this
This is RTV silicon, black. Or, the more common way of saying it is Window caulking...
Now for this, i did a really bad job becuse i forgot to tape off my visor so that it would not get any of the silicon on it... so it was a little sloppy.... But you get the idea... right?
yea i was thinking about caulk but my fear was it would be to sloopy , i will figure something out i still have a ways before i attach the visor. i still have sanding and details , i am still looking for some good pics of a noble six to help me with details
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