Reclaimara
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Sarah Palmer. Commander Sarah Palmer. I lead all Fireteams onboard Infinity.
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Hi there and welcome to my first build.
As it's my first costume, please be understanding if it isn't perfect - I'm doing my best here on all levels.
MJOLNIER GEN2 SCOUT variant painted with Commander Palmer's scheme (+ some personal details).
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// If you're interested in some origins and the story of the costume, here you go //
I love Halo since years - I've gotten an Xbox with Halo game for my birthday just after it came out. Back then I didn't even know what Xbox or Halo was, but I fell in love at the first sight.
Since then Halo never left me.
I never was into costuming - always thought it looked cool, but I never trusted myself into making one.
This year, after watching E3 and gamescom and all the nice pictures and videos I suddenly gotten a nice kick of inspiration and motivation to finally make my own costume.
Soo... Of course I wanted to make the armor I like most - GEN2 SCOUT variant. Also, I already knew what color scheme I want light/dark gray with some red details.
I've been rocking such color scheme in Halo games, and also as a nice coincidence character Sarah Palmer is wearing same armor and pretty much the same colors.
At first I didn't want to make Palmer cosplay. Why?
I know many people dislike her, no idea why, because I really like her as character.
This was the reason why I was afraid of turning this build into a cosplay - I respect her character (a lot) and because of that if I were to make a Palmer cosplay, I wanted it to be good. Best even.
I was afraid I won't be good enough and I won't live up to the expectations. (and simply I thought I'm not good enough)
Anyway, like I said - after watching the conferences online and all the Halo 5 hype, end of September came and I finally started the build.
I printed the pepakura files - BIG THANK YOU to the masterbuilder for the AMAZING files. I can't thank you enough, you did great and I loved working with them.
First, I didn't even know that I had to scale these.
I was a total n00b.
My first pepped thing were boots - I didn't even have the thicker cardstock just very default printing paper... I learned first lesson - buy thicker card stock AND you have to scale parts... Well, the shoes and everything was scaled for a 2meter tall person, while I'm shorter... So the boots and shins I pepped were scrapped.
The beginning was hard, a lot of trial and error - I ended up pepping most of the armor pieces even up to 5 times to get the scale alright and everything.
I started this thread in middle of November. By that time I had majority of the costume already pepped.
Why didn't I start this thread immediately after I began working on the costume?
I wasn't sure if I'll make it, if I won't stop and throw everything away.
I also didn't want to start the thread and then just disappear if it didn't work out.
To me, starting a thread is kind of responsibility - I wouldn't want to just disappear - as you see I update frequently, I share things so maybe they help you and I like to share the progress, it's a motivation for me as well.
Anyway, after many many wasted sheets of paper, glue and my time - I finally had everything pepped and in the meantime I started to harden the parts.
I might have chosen the worst time to work on the costume, because resin doesn't like winter and low temperatures and it was the time I was doing all of this.
However, I made progress hardening most of the armor pieces.
As I previously wrote, it's my first costume, so it isn't perfect. I don't aim for perfection anyway, because I know I won't be able to achieve that - well, maybe if I had unlimited budget and resources like 3D printer and a lot more.
However, honestly I enjoy building it all by hand. I enjoy it A LOT.
If you want to see more - please read through the whole thread.
Here is the first picture back when I started this thread:
// CURRENT STATE OF THE BUILD //
TO DO:
- shoulders
- chest
- boots
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- INSTRUCTIONAL VIDEOS, TUTORIALS & WALKTHROUGHS -
How I paint and weather my armor pieces:
Adding details and raised areas to armor:
Cut and assemble pepakura pieces fast and easy:
Glove - trigger finger detail:
My dual-layer visor:
// MATERIALS USED //
For the starting part I used cardstock 250g and while I was pepping, I glued the parts with super glue.
I wouldn't recommend hot glue - super glue is super fast and after it's hardened, it's way easier to sand it down.
It is understandable, that I used resin and body filler as well, however I prefer a lot more to use the rondo mix.
My undersuit is a morphsuit. Zentai-thingy. Standard black.
// CREDITS //
masterbuilder for the amazing female Spartan Scout / Palmer pepakura files
HEX-VISOR MATERIAL IS BY AWESOME ICON PROPS
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Hi there and welcome to my first build.
As it's my first costume, please be understanding if it isn't perfect - I'm doing my best here on all levels.
MJOLNIER GEN2 SCOUT variant painted with Commander Palmer's scheme (+ some personal details).
---
// If you're interested in some origins and the story of the costume, here you go //
I love Halo since years - I've gotten an Xbox with Halo game for my birthday just after it came out. Back then I didn't even know what Xbox or Halo was, but I fell in love at the first sight.
Since then Halo never left me.
I never was into costuming - always thought it looked cool, but I never trusted myself into making one.
This year, after watching E3 and gamescom and all the nice pictures and videos I suddenly gotten a nice kick of inspiration and motivation to finally make my own costume.
Soo... Of course I wanted to make the armor I like most - GEN2 SCOUT variant. Also, I already knew what color scheme I want light/dark gray with some red details.
I've been rocking such color scheme in Halo games, and also as a nice coincidence character Sarah Palmer is wearing same armor and pretty much the same colors.
At first I didn't want to make Palmer cosplay. Why?
I know many people dislike her, no idea why, because I really like her as character.
This was the reason why I was afraid of turning this build into a cosplay - I respect her character (a lot) and because of that if I were to make a Palmer cosplay, I wanted it to be good. Best even.
I was afraid I won't be good enough and I won't live up to the expectations. (and simply I thought I'm not good enough)
Anyway, like I said - after watching the conferences online and all the Halo 5 hype, end of September came and I finally started the build.
I printed the pepakura files - BIG THANK YOU to the masterbuilder for the AMAZING files. I can't thank you enough, you did great and I loved working with them.
First, I didn't even know that I had to scale these.
I was a total n00b.
My first pepped thing were boots - I didn't even have the thicker cardstock just very default printing paper... I learned first lesson - buy thicker card stock AND you have to scale parts... Well, the shoes and everything was scaled for a 2meter tall person, while I'm shorter... So the boots and shins I pepped were scrapped.
The beginning was hard, a lot of trial and error - I ended up pepping most of the armor pieces even up to 5 times to get the scale alright and everything.
I started this thread in middle of November. By that time I had majority of the costume already pepped.
Why didn't I start this thread immediately after I began working on the costume?
I wasn't sure if I'll make it, if I won't stop and throw everything away.
I also didn't want to start the thread and then just disappear if it didn't work out.
To me, starting a thread is kind of responsibility - I wouldn't want to just disappear - as you see I update frequently, I share things so maybe they help you and I like to share the progress, it's a motivation for me as well.
Anyway, after many many wasted sheets of paper, glue and my time - I finally had everything pepped and in the meantime I started to harden the parts.
I might have chosen the worst time to work on the costume, because resin doesn't like winter and low temperatures and it was the time I was doing all of this.
However, I made progress hardening most of the armor pieces.
As I previously wrote, it's my first costume, so it isn't perfect. I don't aim for perfection anyway, because I know I won't be able to achieve that - well, maybe if I had unlimited budget and resources like 3D printer and a lot more.
However, honestly I enjoy building it all by hand. I enjoy it A LOT.
If you want to see more - please read through the whole thread.
Here is the first picture back when I started this thread:
// CURRENT STATE OF THE BUILD //
TO DO:
- shoulders
- chest
- boots
---
- INSTRUCTIONAL VIDEOS, TUTORIALS & WALKTHROUGHS -
How I paint and weather my armor pieces:
Adding details and raised areas to armor:
Cut and assemble pepakura pieces fast and easy:
Glove - trigger finger detail:
My dual-layer visor:
// MATERIALS USED //
For the starting part I used cardstock 250g and while I was pepping, I glued the parts with super glue.
I wouldn't recommend hot glue - super glue is super fast and after it's hardened, it's way easier to sand it down.
It is understandable, that I used resin and body filler as well, however I prefer a lot more to use the rondo mix.
My undersuit is a morphsuit. Zentai-thingy. Standard black.
// CREDITS //
masterbuilder for the amazing female Spartan Scout / Palmer pepakura files
HEX-VISOR MATERIAL IS BY AWESOME ICON PROPS
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