Halo Reach - Carter Noble 1 Build - New Member

[BIgManDoThings]

Hello everyone!

New member as of 16/06/2025 and I am starting the process of building my very first suit of spartan armor! Specifically the leader of Noble Team, Commander Carter from Halo Reach. Finally fulfilling my childhood/teenage fantasy with the help of 3D printing and foam, primarily focusing on the 3D printing aspect. I've only just started so I'll try and keep things up to date as I progress through the entire build.

More than happy to hear any recommendations, tips, tricks, or if you're feeling generous, some encouragement!

 

[marinesniper]

check out this build may have some good tips and tricks in it for ya. just type this in the search bar and you will find it

Halo Reach Carter Build - Going for T3​

 

[BIgManDoThings]

Thanks, but I cant seem to find anything. Unless I'm doing wrong?

 

[SgtSaint]

The default for the search box is `This Thread`. Try changing that to `Everywhere`.

Which should get yet a link for this build thread:

Foam - Halo Reach Carter Build - Going for T3

Introduction When I joined the 405th back in 2015 with grand ideas of the Spartan suit I wanted to make I knew absolutely nothing about how to build a suit. The first piece I ever made was a Mark VI helmet using the pepakura method that was too small and where I was too impatient during the...

www.405th.com

 

[Show]

Hello everyone!

New member as of 16/06/2025 and I am starting the process of building my very first suit of spartan armor! Specifically the leader of Noble Team, Commander Carter from Halo Reach. Finally fulfilling my childhood/teenage fantasy with the help of 3D printing and foam, primarily focusing on the 3D printing aspect. I've only just started so I'll try and keep things up to date as I progress through the entire build.

More than happy to hear any recommendations, tips, tricks, or if you're feeling generous, some encouragement!

Welcome, friend, to the power fantasy. Hope you settle in nicely to your new armor.

 

[BIgManDoThings]

The default for the search box is `This Thread`. Try changing that to `Everywhere`.
View attachment 363173

Which should get yet a link for this build thread:

Foam - Halo Reach Carter Build - Going for T3

Introduction When I joined the 405th back in 2015 with grand ideas of the Spartan suit I wanted to make I knew absolutely nothing about how to build a suit. The first piece I ever made was a Mark VI helmet using the pepakura method that was too small and where I was too impatient during the...

www.405th.com

Thanks!

 

[BIgManDoThings]

Welcome, friend, to the power fantasy. Hope you settle in nicely to your new armor.

Thank you! I hope I can make a suit worthy of Carter

 

[BIgManDoThings]

The only progress I have made on the suit so far is pretty minimal. Got one bicep piece down for the right arm and the other piece for the left arm approaching print completion.

I initially started planning to make an ODST suit and actually printed out individual helmet pieces but then I changed my mind and figured that if I'm going to make a suit, I might as well go all out. I'm treating the helmet as a practice piece, I'm still going to go through the process of making it look good but it's not really the best looking thing (right now), also for some reason when I split the files, I guess something went wrong? Some of the pieces aren't lined up and I'm not really too sure why. I split the file in "3D Object" program that comes with Windows so maybe that could be it? (my cat does not seem impressed)

 

[Show]

Sometimes it's cool to just collect helmets. It's what I do, and in future, I plan to make costumes out of all of them once I get my grasp on a printer.

 

[SgtSaint]

Please don't be offended:
I'd strongly urge you to work on getting your printer better dialed-in/tuned-up and get your settings dialed in.
That Elegoo should be producing so much better than that, without all the bumps and problems. That looks a lot like over extrusion.

Some of your sizing issues could be from mismatched orienations. The front was clearly 90° from the back and material shrinkage will come in to play there, as well as dimensional accuracy. For example: If you print an XYZ cube that 100x100x100, do you get a finished cube that 100x100x100?

What I'm driving at is a weekend spent dialing in the quality of the prints will save you 10x that in your first big project alone.

Did you do the eSteps calibration?
Did you do the PiD tuning?
Did you do the flow % tuning
Did you do a temp tower for that material?
Did you do a retraction test for that material?
Did you tune for dimensional accuracy? 40x40 cube is really 40x40
Did you print a fleet of Benchys one at a time, tuning various settings as needed?

So far this is one of the best and most comprehensive tune-up and profiling videos I've seen yet. Goes from doing eSteps all the way through dialing in a specific material for a specific need.

Then a good "all in one" test print for overhangs, stringing and bridging.
Complete 3D Printer test all in one (stress test, bed level test, retraction test, calibration test, tolerance test, support test) by Gabbox3D | Download free STL model | Printables.com

 

[Show]

Please don't be offended:
I'd strongly urge you to work on getting your printer better dialed-in/tuned-up and get your settings dialed in.
That Elegoo should be producing so much better than that, without all the bumps and problems. That looks a lot like over extrusion.

Some of your sizing issues could be from mismatched orienations. The front was clearly 90° from the back and material shrinkage will come in to play there, as well as dimensional accuracy. For example: If you print an XYZ cube that 100x100x100, do you get a finished cube that 100x100x100?

What I'm driving at is a weekend spent dialing in the quality of the prints will save you 10x that in your first big project alone.



Then a good "all in one" test print for overhangs, stringing and bridging.
Complete 3D Printer test all in one (stress test, bed level test, retraction test, calibration test, tolerance test, support test) by Gabbox3D | Download free STL model | Printables.com

I appreciate this as well, gathering information for the future and what not. Knowing what the people like is always better for following the path