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Definitely looking really good, my man. It's still very impressive the amount of detail and the cleanliness of your cuts on that suit. My hat comes off to you, sir.
Thanks man! That really means alot, just trying to do the cleanest work I can. My secret to clean cuts. I put away the box cutters and stopped using them a while ago. I cut everything out with me exacto knife and change blade when it starts getting difficult to pull through. Believe it or not, 1 blade last me almost one armor piece depending on size and amount of cuts.Definitely looking really good, my man. It's still very impressive the amount of detail and the cleanliness of your cuts on that suit. My hat comes off to you, sir.
That's right man, he finally figured out what he's been missing out on all this time!!Not only does the armor look ABSOLUTLY AMAZING, but apparently so does chief in crocs!
Thanks man! Don't worry I plan to nail the paint job. Going to take a while, I know, and I plan to airbrush on it too as well as dry brushing silver for scraches too. I will post up a poll of colors when the time comes. I've been playing with some beautiful metallic mixtures to give it the light changing effect that the armor has in the games. Some missions his armor looks almost a goldish tan then other missions it looks deep green. Here are some I have played with on a junk forearm piece, on the right track but not quite perfect yet. I'm liking the darker one...You better nail the paint job, or I'll be personally disappointed in you
The suit really looks like the whole thing was printed, and not made out of foam! You sir, have done a fantastic work so far. Keep it up man!
How are you mixing your colors? What paints are you using? I had taken my H3 legendary game case helmet to an automotive paint store and they matched it and put it into spray cans for me. I didn’t think it came out too shabby. Paints pretty pricey that route. So was interested in your methods
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Yes plasti dip wrinkles and spray paint cracks. I can vouch for that!! I’ll definetly be looking into these acrylics and doing some testing of my own. Thanks for the tip.That's pretty cool! Ok so this will actually be pretty mind blowing as it was for me... I was talking to Justin Branfuhr who is a professional prop builder. He swore to me that acrylics are much better to use on Eva foam as it flexes better with the foam than spray paint (whether latex or oil based) and is incredibly durable to wear. I had a hard time believing him but he gave me his list of colors and the brand he used to make his h3 chief.. and the best part, his entire suit color is brushed on with a brush and fine detail is airbrush work. So I went to the local Michaels and for about $10-$15, I stocked up and got home to start playing with mixtures and got pretty close to his color with in a couple of quick attempts. The even better part.. no fumes obviously! So I'm thinking, I see the perks already, I can do this entirely inside. Once I let it dry which it's pretty much dry in about 15 minutes and ready for use, another perk. I was shocked but it's crazy strong, flexes and I mean flexes, I stretched the crap out of that forearm piece (which still hasn't torn cause of shoe goo) not hardly a single wrinkle and what wrinkles it has is because this piece has plasti-dip which I've notice plasti-dip does wrinkle with stress, however luckily an awesome 405th member on here recommended rustoleum leak seal, he was right, far better than plasti-dip, it seriously is way stronger and does not wrinkle with extreme stress. So to summarize: I will be hand brushing this suit with a custom mixture of acrylic paints from Deco art and Leak Seal rocks! I will use my air brush for shadowing detail. Oh Btw... I scrapped this elbow piece against carpet really fast and the paint didn't even wear off down to the rubber coat. I'm impressed
Haha you like the darker one?? It's pretty cool.. definitely h2 remastered color for sure!The darker one looks more like the remastered H2 my brother showed me.
If you're looking for a place to send those "scrap" pieces, I know a place.....
Dude, I promise you will be as impressed with the durability as I am. Of course brushing takes a long time.. but I can say it's way more controllable. I quickly rush and did that forearm in abut an hour though. Not bad, didn't even break out the airbrush.Yes plasti dip wrinkles and spray paint cracks. I can vouch for that!! I’ll definetly be looking into these acrylics and doing some testing of my own. Thanks for the tip.
*sniff sniff*Sean Anwalt while we're on the topic of "trash" pieces... I decide to trash my hand plates for new 100% spot on game accurate ones I work up from my own files this afternoon.. haha check it out! I'm excited for these!
(Notice that sad little silly old one in the background with my hand pic)
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