Loess' Landfall Odst

[Loess]

Wow, thanks, high praise from one of the masters of ODST.

By the way, does anyone know how well pepakura plays with solid modeling? I have a student version of Pro/Engineer that I got when my employer sent me to PTC training. Some of the file types that pro can save as can be imported to pep. (specifically .obj)

Can't wait for the rest of the ODST files, your work is freekin sweet. :not worthy:

 

[LastSpartan]

Wow! Nice Job Loess

 

[seven]

Good jorb! Looking forward to seeing the progress of your helmet!

 

[Loess]

I didn't get much done on anything this weekend. My dad pulled me off of my projects to help with farm work.
He had me build a nursery pen for some lambs, which ate up most of saturday and sunday.

The farm work isn't terrible, though. That's why I get access to a really nice heated woodshop and the steel shop.
I did manage to get the visor, and put one thin coat of mud on the top of the helm though.

The layer of mud is very thin, and I sanded through it in spots while smoothing out the helm, but I'm still learning how to work with it.

Hopefully, next weekend includes fewer sheep and more armor.

 

[Roodkill]

I didn't get much done on anything this weekend. My dad pulled me off of my projects to help with farm work.
He had me build a nursery pen for some lambs, which ate up most of saturday and sunday.

Hopefully, next weekend includes fewer sheep and more armor.

That's a thin layer you're putting on. Perhaps thats the best way to do it, working up in layers. I didn't do that when I first did my infected flood. ( you know, the retarded sperm ones)

 

[smilie120]

Nice. If I were you i'd prime the helm to pick you the areas that need more sanding. Your making good progress with this. Keep it up

 

[volkov]

I didn't get much done on anything this weekend. My dad pulled me off of my projects to help with farm work.
He had me build a nursery pen for some lambs, which ate up most of saturday and sunday.

The farm work isn't terrible, though. That's why I get access to a really nice heated woodshop and the steel shop.
I did manage to get the visor, and put one thin coat of mud on the top of the helm though.

The layer of mud is very thin, and I sanded through it in spots while smoothing out the helm, but I'm still learning how to work with it.

Hopefully, next weekend includes fewer sheep and more armor.

That's amazing looking, good job keeping the mud thin to keep the detail

 

[richiedude]

great pep nice job

 

[Loess]

Finally have some progress to show, the top is smoothed and I have the first coat of filler primer on it. I haven't gotten to the jaw yet, but after working on it all weekend, I needed to see real evidence of progress. I still need to sand down the primer and get some spot putty on the low spots.

I took a file to the details to sharpen them up a bit.

I'll post more as I get closer to finished.

 

[LastSpartan]

That's AMAZING!

Is the filler primer really filling? ^^

 

[Loess]

It did build up a bit, but only for really shallow dings. I'll be coming back with spot putty for most of the low spots that show up after I sand the primer.

 

[NZTK]

Well done, I think this is the most complete one of my ODST peps I've seen so far, keep it up

 

[Crossfire]

Wow, great helmet
What type of bondo did you use. and what is filler primer.

 

[Sigma LS]

This is awesome, truly beautiful work. Great job, I love the detailing! Keep us updated.

 

[Loess]

WOW, compliments from masters.....

I used mud for smoothing this (Thanks, Sigma), I have some pics of my method that I'll put up as soon as I can organize them.
The filler primer was dupli-color gray high-build primer from the automotive section at wal-mart

 

[Loess]

(I was going to add this to my last post, but it got a bit long)

Here's my mud technique:

You need a measuring cup that's accurate to 1/4 ounces,

Scoop about 1/4 ounce of bondo into a cut-down party cup,

Pour 1/4 ounce of resin into the bondo, stir till the mud is nice and mixed, let it sit for a minute to let the air you mixed in bubble out,

Add hardener according to instructions (the resin I used said 12 drops per ounce of hardener, 1/4 ounce resin + 1/4 ounce bondo = 1/2 ounce mud = 6 or 7 drops of hardener)

Have your pep piece propped up so that the surfaces that you'll be applying mud to are horizontal,

Since this makes such a small amount of mud, and the mud hardens fast, you can work without building dams, and even on vertical faces,

Keep pushing the mud back up to where you want it with a squeegee until it sets.

You can go on to cover more areas while the mud you just applied finishes curing. By the time you're ready to add hardener to another batch, you can reset your pep piece without worrying about messing up the mud

 

[Hackmandude12]

That's hard to believe its pep. Awesome.

 

[Spartan104]

Did you layer the inside with cloth,mat, anything? Looks great.

 

[Spartan 051]

nice job i did the same with resining the jaw i skipped it and parts worped on me

 

[Loess]

There's 1 layer of fiberglass cloth inside most of it, and a second layer in the jaw and up in the brow and around the opening. I did resin the jaw, but not till last so that it was flexible enough to pull it straight.