Sepheus 13
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Wow, This is looking great! I really like your lighting system, it looks fantastic!
Jun-Armor + WEP (WIP PIC HEAVY)
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MikyVengeance
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wow, I'm very impressed! I'm using the same pepakura files for my build. I'm working on my chest now and wondering how to split it. How durable is your method? Can you still be rough with it after all the weight from the bondo/fiberglass?
First thanks all for the positive feedback 
I posted some pix showing where i split it, the reason why i split it is because when you look at the inside on where i split it, the surface is almost flat, perfect for fitting something to hold it together with. The steel bolt that i use for making the chest "flush" are 8cm which is about 3,1inc....
They also have the "bolt-riffles" on them, this makes it harder to slide in and out of the steeltube, so i have "sanded" down the riffles so that its easy to slide them in and out. Since the bolt is so long, id say that about 2/3's of the bolt is stiking out and into the tube, only 1/3 is fastened in bondo and then fiberglass over the bondo. Beacuse of this all the wight of the chest is going on the bolt, rather than on the parachute-clips that hold it together. And yes the chest is heavy! I used about 1,5 squaremeter of fiberglass and 1,5 kg of resin xD then add the bondo, and all the other stuff and u got yourself a heavy but solid chest piece.
Today I also added some leds in the thigh! Cant have enough leds can you?
Took about 1hour per thigh to fit the leds, also fitted a switch on each thigh so that i can turn the leds on and off.
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Testfitting the thigh's with led
I posted some pix showing where i split it, the reason why i split it is because when you look at the inside on where i split it, the surface is almost flat, perfect for fitting something to hold it together with. The steel bolt that i use for making the chest "flush" are 8cm which is about 3,1inc....
They also have the "bolt-riffles" on them, this makes it harder to slide in and out of the steeltube, so i have "sanded" down the riffles so that its easy to slide them in and out. Since the bolt is so long, id say that about 2/3's of the bolt is stiking out and into the tube, only 1/3 is fastened in bondo and then fiberglass over the bondo. Beacuse of this all the wight of the chest is going on the bolt, rather than on the parachute-clips that hold it together. And yes the chest is heavy! I used about 1,5 squaremeter of fiberglass and 1,5 kg of resin xD then add the bondo, and all the other stuff and u got yourself a heavy but solid chest piece.
Today I also added some leds in the thigh! Cant have enough leds can you?
Took about 1hour per thigh to fit the leds, also fitted a switch on each thigh so that i can turn the leds on and off.
Edit:
Testfitting the thigh's with led
MikyVengeance
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Cool, so you use the bolt to slide into the tube which is similar to the dowel method and the parachute clips to snap it all together? I bet you have to be very precise with all the measurements. Thanks for the reply
Cool, so you use the bolt to slide into the tube which is similar to the dowel method and the parachute clips to snap it all together? I bet you have to be very precise with all the measurements. Thanks for the reply
Yea, dowel method with a bolt that slides into a steel tube
and it was so easy to fit really....i cut the chest in 2. Then set the chest upside down and use ducktape to get frond and back part to join, this is where u have to be a little percise, if u **** it up now.....then you have to do alot more work to fix it After that i just made a ball of bondo the size of a golfball maybe....devided it into 2 and applyed it to either side of the cutseem. then join the bolt and steeltube, use ducktape to hold them together and just squize it into the bondo....that way u will always have the bolt entering the tube at the same place. This way the chest wil always be joined the same way, maybe off by 1mm and the gap is like 1-3mm.....but i dont care, im going to ware a cammo-web on top anyways (sorry for the bad english here and there....)
Andrew Lambright
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i love the lighting! looks pretty great so far, cant wait to see how it will turn out!
MikyVengeance
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Yea, dowel method with a bolt that slides into a steel tube
(sorry for the bad english here and there....)
Thanks for clearing everything up with me. Huge help! Your build looks awesome by the way
Pix update
I have now done my first totalt test fit with the new chest and helmet....and i think it looks pretty darn awsome, went over to my m8's house and he just stood there grasping for air the first 3-4min scared the **** out of his mother aswell, haha
Also discovered sosme design fails, had to move the switch for the leds in the front, since the underarmor turned it off when i took a breath...so moved it a bit...
Here are the best pix i have sofar, taken with my crappy phone....
This weekend i am attending my first con, and im also entered in the contest, so well se how that goes, expecting to have lots of awsome pics next week, so watch out for a new update
I have now done my first totalt test fit with the new chest and helmet....and i think it looks pretty darn awsome, went over to my m8's house and he just stood there grasping for air the first 3-4min
scared the **** out of his mother aswell, hahaAlso discovered sosme design fails, had to move the switch for the leds in the front, since the underarmor turned it off when i took a breath...so moved it a bit...
Here are the best pix i have sofar, taken with my crappy phone....
This weekend i am attending my first con, and im also entered in the contest, so well se how that goes, expecting to have lots of awsome pics next week, so watch out for a new update
MikyVengeance
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oh man, you're definitely going to be popular at the con. Your suit looks really awesome
CON update!
So this weekend I attended my first con, Banzaicon in Larvik(Norway). Its a smal con in the way that the ticket sales was limited to only 520, but it was fun. I attended the competition and took the 3.place, and i definitivly got the most applaus from the crowd when i entered the stage in the finale with "mjolnir mix" on the speaker system and all the leds in my suit powered on. It was alot of fun. So heres some pix from the con, still waiting to get the pix from the last day tho.
On stage from the final round..
All of the ppl that made it to the final. First place went to Rakel, dressed as Fenris from Dragion Age 2 (4th from the right side), Second place went to the little girl Grethe in the white costume to my left (cant remember the name atm).
Me, Big Sister, Schookie Monster and Harley Quinn.
Lets hunt some covenant!
Made alot of new friends at the con and one of them is pretty skilled in photoshop, check it out!
So this weekend I attended my first con, Banzaicon in Larvik(Norway). Its a smal con in the way that the ticket sales was limited to only 520, but it was fun. I attended the competition and took the 3.place, and i definitivly got the most applaus from the crowd when i entered the stage in the finale with "mjolnir mix" on the speaker system and all the leds in my suit powered on. It was alot of fun. So heres some pix from the con, still waiting to get the pix from the last day tho.
On stage from the final round..
All of the ppl that made it to the final. First place went to Rakel, dressed as Fenris from Dragion Age 2 (4th from the right side), Second place went to the little girl Grethe in the white costume to my left (cant remember the name atm).
Me, Big Sister, Schookie Monster and Harley Quinn.
Lets hunt some covenant!
Made alot of new friends at the con and one of them is pretty skilled in photoshop, check it out!
MikyVengeance
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Holy crap dude, your suit looks really well done. I hope mine turns out as nice as yours! Now you have to make a sniper rifle and you can win those costume contests! congrats!
congrats!samuraiAce
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Absolutely stunning suit! Im going with MikyVengeance, u have to build a sniper
As a reply to both MikyVengeance and samuraiAce, yes I am planning on making a sniper, not shure how yet or how big i will make it, but the plan is to have it done until next con (end of jun)....
Heres a pretty cool edit vid from the con I attended and also my (crappy) stage performance from the cosplay contest.
EDITVID
CONTEST
Heres a pretty cool edit vid from the con I attended and also my (crappy) stage performance from the cosplay contest.
EDITVID
CONTEST
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yea, monster hunter thats right. Me and alot of other ppl thought my costume was better and my finnish on the suit was much much better than hers, but in the final round we were supposed to "play in character".....not so much to do as a spartan rly, not that i could come up with on the fly. But hell, im going to attend atleast one more con in this suit, so if any of you have tips to how to play "in character" plz let me know
hahahaha regardless of being such a monster hunter fan i do think that you should have won.
i mean sewing is pretty hard im sure, not disrespecting anyone but im pretty sure the hardest part of that costume build wise was probly the sword and shield. but still props to her for making the mafu mafu set XD.
LOL as far as the getting into character you might have to ask others cus im not too big into "getting into character"
good luck on other contest hope your build wins
i mean sewing is pretty hard im sure, not disrespecting anyone but im pretty sure the hardest part of that costume build wise was probly the sword and shield. but still props to her for making the mafu mafu set XD.
LOL as far as the getting into character you might have to ask others cus im not too big into "getting into character"
good luck on other contest hope your build wins
ZoidianKings
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I really like the last picture on your post #52, the lighting looks really good in that one! You did a really good job with your armor...Just thinking out loud, but I wonder if green leds would look good?
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