ignition246
New Member
Hey guys! After one long hiatus, I'm back. Since it's summer break, I have a ton of free time to be working on stuff like this. I've been working on this mando build for just about 16 hours now and am still only pepping. Ran into a major setback with the helmet (It's WAY too small, and I have no clue how to scale it correctly) but everything else is looking great.
The models I'm using for this are courtesy of Arioch, over at www.405th.com/showthread.php/32294-Star-Wars-Galaxies-model-thread-Downloads-in-first-post
Pics will go on my Twitter first, but here are all that I have so far.
^ Chest Piece, Abdomen, Collarbone, etc.
^ Backplate
^ Bicep, kind of a shoulder pauldron kinda thing.
^ All together, up to this point.
Now, for my helmet dilema. As most people, I use letter size paper\cardstock (8.5 x 11). Unfortunately (for me at least) the pep files I'm using were saved in A4, which makes it hard for me to judge how exactly to scale them. When printing, I will tell it not to change the scale, but that didn't work out on the helmet. The bucket's height was 300 mm, while my head's height is only 257.25 mm. (chin to top) However, since I hadn't rescaled any of the other pieces and they fit fine, I decided to leave the helmet as is, and simply attribute this number difference to it having been saved in A4. Now, I come to find out, that the helmet is far too small, and I have wasted 12 pieces of cardstock on it (I only had 21 left) so now all I can do is make the gauntlets, before I have to buy more cardstock.
Anyways, more pics to come, and if anybody has tips on scaling between paper sizes, that'd be a lot of help, because I love these files. Haha!
The models I'm using for this are courtesy of Arioch, over at www.405th.com/showthread.php/32294-Star-Wars-Galaxies-model-thread-Downloads-in-first-post
Pics will go on my Twitter first, but here are all that I have so far.
^ Chest Piece, Abdomen, Collarbone, etc.
^ Backplate
^ Bicep, kind of a shoulder pauldron kinda thing.
^ All together, up to this point.
Now, for my helmet dilema. As most people, I use letter size paper\cardstock (8.5 x 11). Unfortunately (for me at least) the pep files I'm using were saved in A4, which makes it hard for me to judge how exactly to scale them. When printing, I will tell it not to change the scale, but that didn't work out on the helmet. The bucket's height was 300 mm, while my head's height is only 257.25 mm. (chin to top) However, since I hadn't rescaled any of the other pieces and they fit fine, I decided to leave the helmet as is, and simply attribute this number difference to it having been saved in A4. Now, I come to find out, that the helmet is far too small, and I have wasted 12 pieces of cardstock on it (I only had 21 left) so now all I can do is make the gauntlets, before I have to buy more cardstock.
Anyways, more pics to come, and if anybody has tips on scaling between paper sizes, that'd be a lot of help, because I love these files. Haha!