Oh boy. The second I saw it hit August 1st my mind went like so:
"OH GODOHGOD ONLY 30 DAYS OH GOD!!!!!!"
Freaked out for an hour before work and went through things in my head before calming down about 2%.
So tonight I battened down the hatches, left Netflix off and finally finished both the forearms
and the chest mount!
Detailing is done, elbow guards are attached and their horrible method of mounting is hidden behind a thin flexible layer of craft foam. Its a technique that surely will cause you expert foamsmiths to groan in agony but the screaming Toad in my head forced me...30 days man, 30 days!!
The chest piece makes me laugh at how hard it is to get into... With the cuff I added, it made the already kind of tight neck hole into one that is
way too tight. When I put on the chest its like squeezing frozen ketchup through a tiny bottle hole... I can still get in at least *shrugs*
I tacked the plate onto the chest, climbed into my ODST sweat pants and put full power to the awkwardness laser banks for this:
My first taped together fitting! Sans the smaller bits that I didn't want to tape on...
I'm glad I'm not one who is claustrophobic as I feel like a walking brick wrapped in more bricks, minus the weight. I have such a weird range of movement just for how the upper arms were sitting and rubbing against the forearms. Everything is just sitting under their own weight so
hopefully when the strapping is done up things will look more crisp and straight (I'm picking up the strapping soon I promise!)
This was a massive morale boost for me despite the major issue glaring at me right now: The chest plate looks far too tall in my eyes, I feel it should be squished down a tad... I want to remake it but I don't at the same time. One pro for it is that it didn't take too long to make, about an hour or so with my perfect (not) level of focus. Con: I would have to remake it... What do you all think?
Parts list is nearly all checked off save for the crotch plate, boot covers and helmet, which I'm printing the plans off tomorrow for it. I was going to remake the belt buckle but I held it up against the stomach pieces and felt it was just fine.
I also have hit up the barber to get that scraggly beard of mine down to a shorter length to hide it underneath the upcoming to-be-made skull bucket. You can see how small the DFT helmet was as I didn't upsize the PDFs (oops) and how much my beard pops out from it. Haven't been dragged into any sanders at work so I'm ok for now!
*distant sounds of incredible amounts of DAP being purchased are heard*