Hello 405th! It's been a bit since I have last posted into my forum! Since last posting, we had went through the holiday season which for many I know must have gotten busy- of which the same had occurred to me on my end. I had been attempting to finish the Anubis Helmet in November and get it ready as a gift for one of my best friends. Well, as this suggests... I did not get to do this. I had been working alot more recently and if wasn't working I was taking care of a lot more family time. During this period of attempting to print the pieces, something had gone on with my printer which was causing issues with my prints. I tried to diagnose and fix it but everytime I fixed one issue another would pop up- so with less time to work on it, I got behind on schedule. I had nearly fixed my Ender 3 when I was fortunate enough to obtain a K2 Plus as a late Christmas gift. I had been working on it, fixing issues that occurred even there, and suddenly have a properly working and more importantly larger printer. I have done multiple projects with it and proceeded to test out again- why not going back to my classic and try to perform an actual full size ODST helmet. After working out the kinks, I have successfully gotten a full ODST helmet printed out- so happy not needing to solder the pieces together that fits even my large enough head. So taking my measurements, having the proper full file, and ensuring everything is fine- I had continued working on the Anubis helmet. Thankfully I might be able to finish this one to gift it for AIT graduation instead!
Once these prints are completed and I finish with fully finishing the helmets, I am hoping to get proper measurements to start the full build of my Mark V armor to get my Spartan's look in even more hopes to join everyone for events like Halo Fest 2026!
Any questions or feedback always appreciative! Happy to be back to share with everyone!
And finally, the print is now off the bed. I had screwed up a bit though. I forgot to add proper supporting for the interior just under the "ear-muffs" of the helmet which caused two small openings on equal side, and I forgot the support for a bit on the bottom so just print overhang. But!! I am going to see about printing out little inserts or something if I design them off of CAD and then solder them in to fix the hole part and just focus on cleaning up the bottom part. Trial and error. More work but I am not complaining- just ensures I know what I did wrong when working with a different program and manually designing all my supports recently. Other than that- the helmet is perfect. Which will lead towards.....
PHASE 2!!!!
I am making sure I have all my tools ready, I might need to grab some more sandpaper and filler primer tonight when I run out to ensure I got supplies for incoming snowstorm but I intend on doing all these helmets and going step-by-step with all of them from the RAW prints they are to full 405th worthy helmets!
I am happy to have most of these off and to keep on! At some point during these phases I am gonna have to construct my vacuum form chamber so I can get more detailed visors ready (as EOD is simple and don't need all the extra details in it).
Other than that, more updates to come for the helmets and hopefully can start a new thread for my Mark V soon enough!