swisherteets
Jr Member
I am fairly new to the site I have been lurking for a couple of months reading up on the stickies and browsing threads of other peoples work before I started my own.
I found you guys through you tube. I saw some videos of armor there and thought it could make for a fun hobby.
I have posted in the introduce yourself thread also
As far as my build goes I plan to start with a Master chief build first. I chose to start in a different spot than others: the undersuit. (As I was waiting on my craftrobo to show up (which I am having a few issues with now that it has but I will post a help needed thread for that) and I wanted to be sure that I could make a decent undersuit to go with the armor. Here are some initial pictures of the work I have done. Some parts are a little crude the way I do them but it seems to be working out so far.
So here goes:
Before anything if you do not have a sewing machine dont even try this. It would be a nightmare to hand sew and you really couldnt super glue an entire suit it just wouldnt work lol
The first thing I did was find a shirt that was old and kind of tight that I could destroy.
I drew out roughly what I was looking for in the undersuit patterns.
Then cut it in half
Then I cut up the patterns and laid them out on tagboard (folders) and traced them out (these are great because you can use the fold in them to cut out the symetrical pieces)
I then took those patterns and traced them out on the back of the material I am using. I used a "pleather"/vinyl that I found from Walmart. I had gotten some at Jo'Ann fabrics but it was expensive and really really heavy. this stuff was like a tenth of the cost lighter and looked the same.
Make sure that you also rough out a "border" around each piece and cut on those lines not the actual size of the piece. This is so that you have tabs to sew (or superglue) the piece to the chest.(you will see what I mean later on)
I then found another donor shirt and cut it up as seen below then used that to cut out the main section of the undersuit and sewed it as seen below
i will be posting more soon, If you guys have any questions please feel free to ask, I dont have any patterns electronically unfortunately.
it is nice to finally be posting some progress
thanks
I found you guys through you tube. I saw some videos of armor there and thought it could make for a fun hobby.
I have posted in the introduce yourself thread also
As far as my build goes I plan to start with a Master chief build first. I chose to start in a different spot than others: the undersuit. (As I was waiting on my craftrobo to show up (which I am having a few issues with now that it has but I will post a help needed thread for that) and I wanted to be sure that I could make a decent undersuit to go with the armor. Here are some initial pictures of the work I have done. Some parts are a little crude the way I do them but it seems to be working out so far.
So here goes:
Before anything if you do not have a sewing machine dont even try this. It would be a nightmare to hand sew and you really couldnt super glue an entire suit it just wouldnt work lol
The first thing I did was find a shirt that was old and kind of tight that I could destroy.
I drew out roughly what I was looking for in the undersuit patterns.
Then cut it in half
Then I cut up the patterns and laid them out on tagboard (folders) and traced them out (these are great because you can use the fold in them to cut out the symetrical pieces)
I then took those patterns and traced them out on the back of the material I am using. I used a "pleather"/vinyl that I found from Walmart. I had gotten some at Jo'Ann fabrics but it was expensive and really really heavy. this stuff was like a tenth of the cost lighter and looked the same.
Make sure that you also rough out a "border" around each piece and cut on those lines not the actual size of the piece. This is so that you have tabs to sew (or superglue) the piece to the chest.(you will see what I mean later on)
I then found another donor shirt and cut it up as seen below then used that to cut out the main section of the undersuit and sewed it as seen below
i will be posting more soon, If you guys have any questions please feel free to ask, I dont have any patterns electronically unfortunately.
it is nice to finally be posting some progress
thanks