long time foamsmith, first time spartan build (rvb)

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Hello everyone at the 405th! This is my first post here, happy to finally get involved in the community. Everyone here seems super cool from what lurking I've done so far

Me and my friend are going to start our first halo armor builds soon. We want to cosplay Simmons and Donut from RvB specifically. We both have cosplay experience and are used to working with both foam and 3D prints (we will eventually be posting a build update thread once we get everything ironed out here, excited for that).

We did some digging around, though, and are a little confused on WHICH VERSION of the Mark VI armor works for Red vs Blue. I know there have been multiple iterations of the characters as the games have come out. We are drawn towards the Halo 3 Mark VI design. But, Halo Infinite/Reach seems to also have these armor sets as well?

(Newer to overarching halo than rvb, please bear this in mind)

Is there somewhere we could find patterns (we plan to craft the armor out ,of foam and 3D print the helmets) for the Mark VI armor from Reach or Infinite? The reasoning for this is because those games seem to have higher res models than Halo 3 so in theory those are more detailed???????? Is this how it works?????? Is this not how it works and if we want the Halo 3 Mark VI sets we just move on over to the Armory here and call it a day?????? Because, the details on the Infinite armor sets are very nice

Attached are some images of what we liked. Any and all help is SUPER DUPER APPRECIATED!!

 

[SpartanSweed]

Welcome! We’re glad your crafting with us today!

RVB builds aren’t as often as they used to be, so it’s exciting to see more pop up nowadays.
As the series progressed, RT would begin filming in the most recent game’s multiplayer, which explains the subtle changes in character design as each game had their own style.

Halo 3 is the design most people go to for RvB builds, that armor is known as Mk6

Reach was used in Season 9, its armor is a different generation known as Mk 5B. The game only had a Mk6 prototype helmet and maybe shoulders if I remember right.

Infinite is an outlier as it has many armor cores for multiplayer, including the Mk5B from Reach. The Base model is Mk7, with there being kits of the Mk6 from Halo 2 as well as Chiefs Infinite armor.


All of that to say there is plenty of options for you to choose your version of the characters.

Foam files can be found in the Armory and are sorted by game

3d print files are found in our Index and are sorted similar to the Armory Free 3D Model Index

All our files were made by fellow members, so even if the armor is from 2007, it doesn’t mean it’s necessarily low quality here

If you have any more questions please ask! Good luck with your builds!

 

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Thank you so much!!!! We were literally losing our minds trying to puzzle this out


To the Armory!!!!

 

[OMalley]

Welcome to the 405th! Glad to see some others interested in RvB. I just started planning out a foam Grif cosplay that I can work on while my Rakshasa prints. We'll have to get group photos when we're all done!

 

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Welcome to the 405th! Glad to see some others interested in RvB. I just started planning out a foam Grif cosplay that I can work on while my Rakshasa prints. We'll have to get group photos when we're all done!

Oh, but of COURSE. This is something that has to happen. Red team sweep!!