Ok, so here we go. I'm making both a Mark 6 - Recon and an ODST costume build. I will be molding both at the end for me and my friends to have some fun with.
Step One:
Cut a crapload of pieces of paper out.
After this part, find some pieces that look like they match, and fold them. Here you see my very expensive tools that I use. Some piece of plastic that I found, and a blue and black pen (so that I can tell the lines apart).
Once you get those pieces folded start gluing them together. I personally like hot glue. It dries almost instantly and is super cheap. I think I got my gun for 3 bucks, and a buttload of glue sticks for about 6 bucks.
Here is my pep finished mark 6 helm. I am awaiting on my smooth cast 300 to make a quick inside mold of it. It is a hell of a lot easier to do that rather than the fiberglass. I'm not planning on wearing this helm so I don't want to waste a ton of time with it. I will resin/bondo the outside to get it nice and smooth and the corners the way I like them.
this is Dannyfood4less's helmet.
I am now working on making the Recon helm, I've built a few of the chest pieces for the ODST. A lot of them are some SUPER tiny cut outs, would be MUCH easier to just make out of clay and cast, so looks like I will be doing that in the future.
Once I finish my Recon helm I will start work on the mark 6 suit, or the ODST suit, whatever I feel like, we'll see.
Step One:
Cut a crapload of pieces of paper out.
After this part, find some pieces that look like they match, and fold them. Here you see my very expensive tools that I use. Some piece of plastic that I found, and a blue and black pen (so that I can tell the lines apart).
Once you get those pieces folded start gluing them together. I personally like hot glue. It dries almost instantly and is super cheap. I think I got my gun for 3 bucks, and a buttload of glue sticks for about 6 bucks.
Here is my pep finished mark 6 helm. I am awaiting on my smooth cast 300 to make a quick inside mold of it. It is a hell of a lot easier to do that rather than the fiberglass. I'm not planning on wearing this helm so I don't want to waste a ton of time with it. I will resin/bondo the outside to get it nice and smooth and the corners the way I like them.
this is Dannyfood4less's helmet.
I am now working on making the Recon helm, I've built a few of the chest pieces for the ODST. A lot of them are some SUPER tiny cut outs, would be MUCH easier to just make out of clay and cast, so looks like I will be doing that in the future.
Once I finish my Recon helm I will start work on the mark 6 suit, or the ODST suit, whatever I feel like, we'll see.
, are you making the smooth recon by any chance?
