Illstartmonday
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I didn't even think of this as a solution for energy shields and weapons. This is so cool! Now ive got ideas for iterations to my suit once I get it all together.
Thank you Nimitz!
Halo The TV Series Master Chief full build
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Thank you Nimitz!
sir howard
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Looking at the convos and armor and thinking ahhh yes intersting.. scroll to the cats and just started laughing. I was not quite ready for that ahhahaha.
I mean if you end up building them mech suits keep me posted lolz
I mean if you end up building them mech suits keep me posted lolz
Nimitz
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Printer is back on line so I've completed printing the right calf armor and have all the COD pieces printed except for the butt plate which is printing now (12 hr print) ... that just leaves the chest and thighs ... and speaking of the thighs ... it's taken over 8 months and about 100 yds of fabric and another 20 do overs or more (lol) but the under suit pants are basically done. I still need to decide what I'm going to do for the waist band ... Velcro or elastic band and a couple of the side strips of Velcro from the side ribbing still needs to be sewed. However, its as close as I can do to the TV show's undersuit given how they actually did it ...
Creating the Ghoul silicon mask from scratch including my first ever creature sculpt was actually easier than these pants. ...
Reference images from the show
Creating the Ghoul silicon mask from scratch including my first ever creature sculpt was actually easier than these pants. ...
Reference images from the show
Nimitz
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. The energy sword will actual be a 1:1 scale 3D printed weapon with individually addressable RGB LED strips inside it and a micro controller so that you can have the energy sword come alive from base to tip like on the show and also some different color and flash effects ...
Nimitz
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I've had a long talk with both Orion & Rocket and given that they are Main Coon kittens (13 months old) they are up for a lot of things but sadly wearing mech suits was a hard 'no' ... they can be such party poopers at times ...
sir howard
Jr Member
yeah idk.. cats arent one for wearing clothes... use to date nice exotic dancer and she had a hard time keeping hers clothed too.
Nimitz
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Yeah I heard that could be an 'issue' with them ...
Nimitz
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ok, after spending WAY too much time getting my ETSY shop up and running and fixing my 3D printer and printing out a Vera kit for a customer I'm finally back to focusing on The MC ...
first up was finishing the pants undersuit which needed an elastic waistband so I called up my non existent sewing skills and got to work. I ended up putting a velcro tab in the front & back since the waist portion of the pants were not as conformal as i would have liked.
I also avoided having to do a major alternation of the legs ... when I first tried it on, while it fit it, the legs were very snug, more than I really wanted so I considered opening up the leg seams and adding a stretch band similar to what I had to do to for arms of my Mando jacket. however, then i remembered the plan was to wear skin tight lycra pants & top under everything and once I put that on the undersuit pant slide on quite nicely without issue.
There is one mod I may do at the very end once the leg armor is completed & fitted .... from the knees down the undersuit is not visible and currently my pants run to just above my angles so I could cut off the bottom 6" or so making the pants even more wearable since they are the tightest around my calf and the less material the cooler the oversuit will be to wear however I will need to add some foam padding to the inside of the calf armor and the undersuit acts as nice cushion so I may end up just leaving it alone. So basically the undersuit pants are complete & I can move on to getting the thigh armor sized correctly.
I've also completed resizing the COD armor & the first pierce (butt plate) is now printing ... 18 hr print. while the COD pieces are printing I'll return to completing the undersuit top. I need to come up with an attachment method for the torso laser cut foam to the vest which will likely be Velcro so that it is removable if I need to repair it. I also need to make a final decision on how the vest will open/close. right now I removed the front buttons and added a velcro strip which I think will work but I need to stare at it a little longer and work though any possible 'gotchas' in my head before fully committing.
I'm no longer really that confident I can have him complete the way I want by MegaCon 2026 in March since I'm leaving for Egypt for a couple of weeks at the end of Dec. Not really the end of teh world since I completed my Colt Severs costume I will have at least one new costume to wear regardless ... that will mean no entry into the Masters of Cosplay for 2026 but given my recent utter failure (again) of my Cooper Howard AKA: The Ghoul at the Fallout Fan Celebration in Nevada a few weeks ago I'm not sure these contests are teh best use of my time ... we'll see
first up was finishing the pants undersuit which needed an elastic waistband so I called up my non existent sewing skills and got to work. I ended up putting a velcro tab in the front & back since the waist portion of the pants were not as conformal as i would have liked.
I also avoided having to do a major alternation of the legs ... when I first tried it on, while it fit it, the legs were very snug, more than I really wanted so I considered opening up the leg seams and adding a stretch band similar to what I had to do to for arms of my Mando jacket. however, then i remembered the plan was to wear skin tight lycra pants & top under everything and once I put that on the undersuit pant slide on quite nicely without issue.
There is one mod I may do at the very end once the leg armor is completed & fitted .... from the knees down the undersuit is not visible and currently my pants run to just above my angles so I could cut off the bottom 6" or so making the pants even more wearable since they are the tightest around my calf and the less material the cooler the oversuit will be to wear however I will need to add some foam padding to the inside of the calf armor and the undersuit acts as nice cushion so I may end up just leaving it alone. So basically the undersuit pants are complete & I can move on to getting the thigh armor sized correctly.
I've also completed resizing the COD armor & the first pierce (butt plate) is now printing ... 18 hr print. while the COD pieces are printing I'll return to completing the undersuit top. I need to come up with an attachment method for the torso laser cut foam to the vest which will likely be Velcro so that it is removable if I need to repair it. I also need to make a final decision on how the vest will open/close. right now I removed the front buttons and added a velcro strip which I think will work but I need to stare at it a little longer and work though any possible 'gotchas' in my head before fully committing.
I'm no longer really that confident I can have him complete the way I want by MegaCon 2026 in March since I'm leaving for Egypt for a couple of weeks at the end of Dec. Not really the end of teh world since I completed my Colt Severs costume I will have at least one new costume to wear regardless ... that will mean no entry into the Masters of Cosplay for 2026 but given my recent utter failure (again) of my Cooper Howard AKA: The Ghoul at the Fallout Fan Celebration in Nevada a few weeks ago I'm not sure these contests are teh best use of my time ... we'll see
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Steady progress continues ...
Both L and R calf armor is now primed and sanded and ready for paint. Also finished printing the COD armor. Since the GA files were created around a 6', 200 lb avatar and I'm 6', 190 I did my first test sizing ring at 100%. It turned out to be way too small and 8 ended up at 120% to get i5 to fit comfortably ... apparently I'm quite a bit fatter than their 6' 200 lb model ... lol.
I've also made significant progress on the undersuit vest. I've completed sewing the side ribbing as well as the shoulder ribbing and sewed on Velcro to the front to attach the foam ab panels. Came out decent for someone with no sewing skills ...particularily if you don't look too close ...
I ran out of Velcro with an adhesive backing and also need more Barge before I can finish the front ab panel but will need all that for attaching the foam back plate to the vest anyway. I've got the spine pieces 3D printed bu5 I still need to design the panel itself and then cut it out on my laser cutter.
I've also started printing some test rings for the thigh armor to get that fitted correctly. With my Prusa XL I can print the entire thigh armor as one piece except for a 1" piece at the very top ... you gotta just love big printers ...
Also decided to redo the elbow ribbing after seeing how the shoulders came out using the same 5mm cord vice the 8mm I used originally. With the 8mm the ribbing ended up quite stiff making it almost impossible to bend my arms so hopefully the smaller diameter will be more flexible so I don't look like the marshmallow man from Ghostbusters ...
Both L and R calf armor is now primed and sanded and ready for paint. Also finished printing the COD armor. Since the GA files were created around a 6', 200 lb avatar and I'm 6', 190 I did my first test sizing ring at 100%. It turned out to be way too small and 8 ended up at 120% to get i5 to fit comfortably ... apparently I'm quite a bit fatter than their 6' 200 lb model ... lol.
I've also made significant progress on the undersuit vest. I've completed sewing the side ribbing as well as the shoulder ribbing and sewed on Velcro to the front to attach the foam ab panels. Came out decent for someone with no sewing skills ...particularily if you don't look too close ...
I ran out of Velcro with an adhesive backing and also need more Barge before I can finish the front ab panel but will need all that for attaching the foam back plate to the vest anyway. I've got the spine pieces 3D printed bu5 I still need to design the panel itself and then cut it out on my laser cutter.
I've also started printing some test rings for the thigh armor to get that fitted correctly. With my Prusa XL I can print the entire thigh armor as one piece except for a 1" piece at the very top ... you gotta just love big printers ...
Also decided to redo the elbow ribbing after seeing how the shoulders came out using the same 5mm cord vice the 8mm I used originally. With the 8mm the ribbing ended up quite stiff making it almost impossible to bend my arms so hopefully the smaller diameter will be more flexible so I don't look like the marshmallow man from Ghostbusters ...
billeybob250
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Looking good. Loving the progress.
Nimitz
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Steady progress continues ...
- Finished sewing the elbow ribbing using the smaller 5mm diameter cord. I can now bend my arm easily all the way to the front of my helmet
Next up is figuring our a way to sew it to the long sleeve Lyra shirt so that it's all just one piece like with my vest to minimize the number of costume pieces ...
- I finished adding Velcro to both the back of the front foam ab undersuit plate and rear plate
- also finished the rear undersuit back back. I sprayed the foam with black plastidip and 3D printed the spine plates, painted them black and added Velcro to them. I don't plan on removing them from the back plate but I liked this attachment method
To attach the COD pieces together and give it a little bit of flex to make it easier to twist and bend in it I used 2 pieces of 5mm Eva foam on the inside and outside to hold the connectors to the butt plate
Then I glued the hip boxes over the top of each
My cunning plan to attach the front COD is to use magnets which will allow me to step into and slip on the main assembled COD and then once it's pulled up around my hips to attach the front piece. For added support I may also add an internal belt that I can cinch up to hold it more comfortably in place .. We'll see
- although it took the better part of 2 full days fighting .... I mean working with Meshmixer and Blender I finally have perfectly fitted thigh armor...
For anyone getting ready to use the GA files the overall length of the base file was 17". I had to scale mine down to 13.5" to fit correctly. The avatar they used was supposed 6', 200 lbs and I'm 6' 195 but it was way to big at least for me ... YMMV.
Because of all the fits and starts I didn't trust my final sculpted piece so I decided to split it into 2 pieces (even though I could have printed it as one on my XL ) to ensure the first piece fit and not waste a bunch of filament if it turned out not be be correct ...
Since it was good I then jus5 mirrored the piece and printed out the R thigh in a single go ... 22 hrs.
So this just leaves the chest armor which I actually sculpted and fitted to my 3D avatar a while back and was able to successfully take the fully assembled and sculpted piece from Blender and it export back to meshmixer and separate all the pieces for printing.
What I haven't done yet is check that all the pieces import into my slicer at the right scale. This is where I ran into major issues with the thigh piece which took me forever to unravel.
So depending on what happens I may be printing the chest within a day or so or end up back fighting with Blender again ...
In either case, once complete then all that remains before final painting is to figure out the attachment system for some of the armor pieces ...
- Finished sewing the elbow ribbing using the smaller 5mm diameter cord. I can now bend my arm easily all the way to the front of my helmet
- I finished adding Velcro to both the back of the front foam ab undersuit plate and rear plate
- although it took the better part of 2 full days fighting .... I mean working with Meshmixer and Blender I finally have perfectly fitted thigh armor...
Because of all the fits and starts I didn't trust my final sculpted piece so I decided to split it into 2 pieces (even though I could have printed it as one on my XL ) to ensure the first piece fit and not waste a bunch of filament if it turned out not be be correct ...
Since it was good I then jus5 mirrored the piece and printed out the R thigh in a single go ... 22 hrs.
So this just leaves the chest armor which I actually sculpted and fitted to my 3D avatar a while back and was able to successfully take the fully assembled and sculpted piece from Blender and it export back to meshmixer and separate all the pieces for printing.
What I haven't done yet is check that all the pieces import into my slicer at the right scale. This is where I ran into major issues with the thigh piece which took me forever to unravel.
So depending on what happens I may be printing the chest within a day or so or end up back fighting with Blender again ...
In either case, once complete then all that remains before final painting is to figure out the attachment system for some of the armor pieces ...
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