Duke's Custom Reach Suit Pep +photos!! *COMPLETE*

[SI3RRA 117]

I have the worst luck with this shotgun.
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The glue held up fine, but the integrity of the print couldn't handle being moved around in my car. Word to new cosplayers, cars are the bane of costumes! When it is getting melted from the heat, getting crushed when you close the door or simply giving it that last little nudge to fit.

The guy who printed it for me did so a year ago and I know he would have done things differently now. The problem here is the wall thickness on the ends (seams of the gun) they are so thin that they don't really have much holding them on. So the seam is still glued together, the plastic just broke off of one side. This would have been fixed with thicker seam walls and I think it needs thicker infill too. But I'll make it work.

Wish me luck as I start painting this weekend.


Thanks Asgardianhammer ! I'd love to see a close-up of the side of your forearms. It looks like you tried to make the clasps. I wasn't sure if I should make it or just paint it to look like clasps.

Sorry duke seems like you’ve got the worst luck when it comes your costumes and cars. From the photo I’d agree, that shotgun looks like a weak print. Thin walls little infill. You can get away with less infill if you compensate with wall thickness but that print was bound to break

 

[PerniciousDuke]

Update:

And the Duke said, "let there be color" and so there was color (and also colour).

This is all of the painting done (except the black and brown wash).


Here is the same pieces, but with only the base coat on.


First I painted most of the outside with a "hammered" silver spray paint. Then I sprayed the inside of everything with black primer. Then I filled trash bags with crumbled paper and put that on the inside so my outside layers wouldn't ruin my nice black interior.


Then I used Vaseline anywhere the silver hammer looked good, that way when I paint it and wipe off the Vaseline it will look like chipped paint with bare metal underneath.


I didn't worry about painting parts I knew would receive a different color.


Once dried (four hours) I started taping off where I wanted a secondary color (according to my screenshots). My technique is one layer of painter's tape to give the edges, then put or wrap the piece in a trash bag and use one more layer (away from the paint edge) to hold down the bag leaving no holes.


The only complication I ran into came from earlier. When I was drilling holes I used a black sharpie to mark some of them, thinking the paint would just cover them up.

Clearly not the case. Somehow black plus white equals pink. Lol. My parent's gave me a primer called killz-it which is designed for this situation. I'll just paint a little on and call it good.


Now to get ready for the weathering next weekend. (I'm gonna try to film it, trust me I'll make sure it's not as boring as it sounds.. think Pollock)

 

[Fallen]

This is really coming out amazing.

 

[Dirtdives2424]

Actually PerniciousDuke, I think the last time was you just left your prop in the car.......and it bent from the heat alone......no doors necessary. Wow Duke.........build is AMAZING!!!!

 

[SI3RRA 117]

Awesome duke.... things are looking great

 

[mblackwell1002]

That looks amazing! Keep up the awesome work! You're in the home stretch!

 

[PerniciousDuke]

Thanks so much everyone. It is a really fun feeling to get this far! But don't worry I've got plenty more to show you.

Dirtdives - the bruteshot did warp in my car, but then when I tried to take it over to a friend's house I laid it in the back seat and shut the door. Apparently it's longer than my back seat and the end snapped off. Lol.


Update:

I finished the armadillo thighs.

The plan was to make them out of thin plastic so they are more flexible than the rest of the pep. Then wrap them in vinyl to look like the game.

I used an .020 acrylic that I got for free. First, I printed out the pep to give a rough idea of how it should be. Then I cut a large piece of vinyl so that I could have something strong and flexible to draw on.


With a few trials and some tape I managed to cut out three pieces of acrylic.
I forgot to take a picture of it, but you can see it here hanging out the box top right.


From here I heated up new pieces of vinyl with a heat gun and wrapped it around the acrylic securing it with Locktite gel.


And there were have it.



Next I had to secure the knee to the shin.
The goal is to have something rigid enough to stand straight up, but flexible in case I find a way to kneel. Lol.

I wish I knew what this material was, but it's prefect! My mom saved it, she said it was used as a packing material, some kind of lining in a box. (She saves everything). If I could describe it to you... it's like a synthetic tooling leather.



Put 'am all together and what do you get?

 

[Dirtdives2424]

A large leg w/ grey socks.......? PerniciousDuke the amount of time you put in on this is really showing. Truly top shelf. Pretty soon you'll be able to change the title from WIP to WC.....

 

[SI3RRA 117]

A large leg w/ grey socks.......? PerniciousDuke the amount of time you put in on this is really showing. Truly top shelf. Pretty soon you'll be able to change the title from WIP to WC.....

WC is just a myth

 

[Electraknite]

Dirtdives You can change the title of a thread?

Man I hope mine turns out as good as yours PerniciousDuke

 

[PerniciousDuke]

I just followed Cereal Killer's techniques. I think you'll get it too electricknite . You go up near the thread title and click "thread tools" > edit title

 

[Dirtdives2424]

electricknite, just remember, you can only change a thread title that you created....not someone else's.

 

[PerniciousDuke]

Weathering and decals are coming along nice. I like the police\swat look this chest is getting.

Next is the black wash. Then the plan is to have my mom throw brown paints at me suited up while my dad video tapes.

 

[SI3RRA 117]

Look forward to the black wash...... it’s amazing the realism it adds. Especially to light colors such as white and orange

 

[PerniciousDuke]

Is this sexiness what you had in mind SI3RRA 117 ?


Hahaha, I'm just messing. I suck at blackwashing. I get this water stain look to it. When I go to wipe it off... all the black comes off too. So I'll have to let it dry like that, like with my helmet, and wet sand to get my colors back.


Turns out it's not me, it was the paint. After I got through the bottle of black, I opened a different brand of acrylic craft paint and the weathering turned out so much better. I'm still going to wet sand though to bring more of the colors back.


Update:

Still lots more painting/weathering to do but this was my first full test fitting and I was pretty excited. I guess my parents were too because it was midnight and they took pictures for me instead of sleeping.

 

[SI3RRA 117]

Is this sexiness what you had in mind SI3RRA 117 ?

Uuummmm......... ........uuummmmm......I think something went wrong!?lol I think if you would have just lightly wiped that with a clean cloth most of it would have come off but it would stayed in all the low spots. I do like 10 layers of black and brown I alternate the colors a bit. It’s just a little at a time, let it dry and it’ll build. Each coat you’ll see it getting darker. Maybe it was your paint the rest does look much better........ I bet it feels pretty awesome to get it this far. Suit looks great even with the little blackswash incident. Where’s the visor? Not suppose to see a Spartans eyes! Lol. Anyway awesome job duke look forward to seeing the finishing touches

 

[Schankerz]

Ah I love that colour scheme! It’s looking so good as you teach the end!! Get er done dude get er done!

 

[PerniciousDuke]

I do like 10 layers of black and brown I alternate the colors a bit. It’s just a little at a time, let it dry and it’ll build. Each coat you’ll see it getting darker.

10 layers!? Ain't nobody got time for that!

I can't find my visor paint. :/

I was planning to wet sand outside today ...this was unexpected.

Oh well, what's war without a little frostbite.


Thanks Schankerz ! I just realized we're like ying and yang with our color schemes, how you have black and orange.

 

[Bobby Boucher]

Just read your "time spent" section in your info post. . . . Geez. That's some dedication right there! Nice job

 

[SI3RRA 117]

10 layers!? Ain't nobody got time for that!

I can't find my visor paint. :/

I was planning to wet sand outside today ...this was unexpected.
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Oh well, what's war without a little frostbite.


Thanks Schankerz ! I just realized we're like ying and yang with our color schemes, how you have black and orange.

Ok I may have exaggerated a bit with the 10 lol. But I do a few anyway with some dark browns and black