Halo 4 FOTUS + Recruit armor Pre birthday build

[Creativity4ever]

Helmet is now 100% done! Currently starting work on the recruit armor!

 

[Creativity4ever]

I finally got some time off school to work on the recruit armor this week. Deadline for my birthday is in a few weeks so I plan to finish the armor in a few weeks.

 

[Creativity4ever]

I'm having some trouble on the thruster part of the recruit chest piece. Looks like this hook part is connected to the rectangular part. I can't tell if it goes behind the hook part or on the sides

 

[Creativity4ever]

Currently working on gluing the round parts on the chest piece. Cutting parts at 45° angles with a cutting tool is a lil difficult on some parts

 

[Creativity4ever]

So far the pieces that are almost done are
Thruster part
Front chest part
And back parts
I have an idea to connect the side pieces with velcro straps soon

 

[Creativity4ever]

Break time! Break time includes reviewing the 3d models, then jamming out to music and a popcorn break

 

[MadHeartParagon]

Fantastic job on the helmet. Can't wait to see the armour come together.

 

[Creativity4ever]

Back part and chest piece almost fully done! Still figuring out which way to attach the velcro

 

[Creativity4ever]

Hmm the velcro straps don't fully connect with contact cement but hot glue holds it down well

 

[Creativity4ever]

There's this method I use when working with hot glue I call the welding technique. It's like welding metal but except with a hot glue gun. Very helpful method for strong bonds in my opinion

 

[Creativity4ever]

Well the thruster part is now attached to the back part. Luckily, the velcro straps came with glue on the undersides.
Tomorrow's goal is to finish up everything then add the last remaining details and maybe a fit test. If the velcro holds

 

[Creativity4ever]

Couldn't get everything done today. Also did a test fit. I'm was trying to figure out how to attach the velcro right....
Adding both the sticky velcro and the fuzzy velcro did the trick.

 

[Creativity4ever]

Ok now the 2nd under arm strap is connected. Tomorrow i will connect the upper parts and then add details

 

[Creativity4ever]

Did a little re work on the upper and lower right straps. Time for the finishing touches!

 

[Creativity4ever]

Chest plate details

 

[Creativity4ever]

Well I think that's it for the chest piece. Next part up is the thigh pieces after (break time)

 

[Creativity4ever]

Right now I'm cutting out the thigh patterns. It says on the file there's only a pattern for the left thigh. I'm guessing I flip the patterns around for the right one?

 

[PlanetAlexander]

Right now I'm cutting out the thigh patterns. It says on the file there's only a pattern for the left thigh. I'm guessing I flip the patterns around for the right one?

Yep! Flip the patterns, making sure to also get those bevels the right way around.

 

[Creativity4ever]

So today I took screenshots of all the pieces in every armor part to make things easier

 

[Creativity4ever]

Im going to use white foam for most of the other parts because it's easier to see the pattern markings. Is the numbers on the foam length width height or length height width? Because it's very close to 8 mm when I checked