Frizzlefry
Active Member
I hope you don't mind me posting this because it's not directly related to the Tutorial that Sean has written so far.
But to touch on that I wanted to say that I am quite impressed with what you've done Sean. I read through Chapter 2, but Chapter 3 is a bit long for me to read while I'm at work so I will probably read it when I get home later. This is really great work.
I'm posting this, however, because like Doom I am happy to provide any assistance I can for this tutorial or a seperate one if that's what you want me to make. I'm very greatful for "the team" allowing me to come in just off of me making the Pepakura tutorial. I actually enjoy writing tutorials (I frequently make tutorials here at work despite the fact I don't always need to) and would be happy to write a parallel tutorial to what Sean is doing, only involving using Pepakura for the entire thing.
I would do this only if you thought it was necessary though. I know that a tutorial that could even compare to Sean's would be a very lengthy process. There is also the fact to consider that I have not actually completed my own armor set yet outside of the Pepakura patterns that I have made, as well as the fact that my "final armor" will not likely be extremely detailed and will have a different function than conventional costumes.
I hinted before that what I was doing was a "secret." I've seen who all has access to this tutorial and I respect all of you greatly for what you can do. However you guys are also the most capable of "stealing" my idea as well since you are so good at your craft. lol Anyways, this is what my overall goal is:
A lot of people here keep mentioning that they want to go paintballing in their outfit or what not. I actually want to open a laser tag business where the laser tag outfits are semi-functional Master Chief costumes. The majority of the suit will be an overall receiver to sense lasers, the guns will feel quite real when shot (but they will just be lasers, not paintballs or airsoft bullets), and I really want to work on a functional heads up display of sorts for the inside of the helmet.
To start off, I'm 27 years old so I'm a bit past the "dreamer" age of kids just wishing and wanting. I've gone over and refined this idea for over two years and I'm ready to get to work. I have very little electronics knowledge so I'm going to be taking college courses this winter to help me out with that. My business partner and I have realized that the only way we will make this happen is to build the equipment ourselves and making the suits is the reason I am here. This is why I keep talking about wanting to "mass produce" suits despite not wanting to be a seller.
I understand that you may think I've lost it or am pushing past ability but I think overall this can be an achieved dream, and when it's realized I can't see how it could be capable of failing.
So a lot of my work I do will be parallel to yours, only I don't want to "steal" anyones molds because I do plan on one day making money off of this, so long as I can work my way around copyright problems.
To make a long story longer, I'm in this for the long haul and while I do expect my first armor to be a crash course in armor making, I plan on making a second more realistic costume, and from there I will work on making functional laser tag suits. So between my first crash course armor and my second armor, you guys have got all the help / assistance you can ask for from me. But I'll have to be hush hush on the last armor sets I am making.
Again, I apologize if this is too off topic. Feel free to delete it if you think so, but please don't move it to another forum.
But to touch on that I wanted to say that I am quite impressed with what you've done Sean. I read through Chapter 2, but Chapter 3 is a bit long for me to read while I'm at work so I will probably read it when I get home later. This is really great work.
I'm posting this, however, because like Doom I am happy to provide any assistance I can for this tutorial or a seperate one if that's what you want me to make. I'm very greatful for "the team" allowing me to come in just off of me making the Pepakura tutorial. I actually enjoy writing tutorials (I frequently make tutorials here at work despite the fact I don't always need to) and would be happy to write a parallel tutorial to what Sean is doing, only involving using Pepakura for the entire thing.
I would do this only if you thought it was necessary though. I know that a tutorial that could even compare to Sean's would be a very lengthy process. There is also the fact to consider that I have not actually completed my own armor set yet outside of the Pepakura patterns that I have made, as well as the fact that my "final armor" will not likely be extremely detailed and will have a different function than conventional costumes.
I hinted before that what I was doing was a "secret." I've seen who all has access to this tutorial and I respect all of you greatly for what you can do. However you guys are also the most capable of "stealing" my idea as well since you are so good at your craft. lol Anyways, this is what my overall goal is:
A lot of people here keep mentioning that they want to go paintballing in their outfit or what not. I actually want to open a laser tag business where the laser tag outfits are semi-functional Master Chief costumes. The majority of the suit will be an overall receiver to sense lasers, the guns will feel quite real when shot (but they will just be lasers, not paintballs or airsoft bullets), and I really want to work on a functional heads up display of sorts for the inside of the helmet.
To start off, I'm 27 years old so I'm a bit past the "dreamer" age of kids just wishing and wanting. I've gone over and refined this idea for over two years and I'm ready to get to work. I have very little electronics knowledge so I'm going to be taking college courses this winter to help me out with that. My business partner and I have realized that the only way we will make this happen is to build the equipment ourselves and making the suits is the reason I am here. This is why I keep talking about wanting to "mass produce" suits despite not wanting to be a seller.
I understand that you may think I've lost it or am pushing past ability but I think overall this can be an achieved dream, and when it's realized I can't see how it could be capable of failing.
So a lot of my work I do will be parallel to yours, only I don't want to "steal" anyones molds because I do plan on one day making money off of this, so long as I can work my way around copyright problems.
To make a long story longer, I'm in this for the long haul and while I do expect my first armor to be a crash course in armor making, I plan on making a second more realistic costume, and from there I will work on making functional laser tag suits. So between my first crash course armor and my second armor, you guys have got all the help / assistance you can ask for from me. But I'll have to be hush hush on the last armor sets I am making.
Again, I apologize if this is too off topic. Feel free to delete it if you think so, but please don't move it to another forum.