Foam Mk VI Gen 3 Custom

[Zackurai]

Over the past month, I have fallen in love with the design of the Mk VI Gen 3 (Chief’s armor) all thanks to the helmet I picked up at GameStop, and I love the angles and thckness of the armor itself soooo time to make it and cross core it of course. I was originally just gonna use it with my Mk VII, but I changed my mind, in favor of the a Mk VI Gen 3 armor, I think this will be a very cool build, I am fairly warmed up with my foam skills lately( Finished building my nieces and nephews mandos). So let’s see if I can do it justice, well I guess the first part will be me tackling the helmet, just suck a nice piece to really kick off the build with.

 

[Zackurai]

Dibs on the first post, anyway I took these photos a month ago. I managed to grab this on clearance from GameStop for like $40, I love it.

This be the Spartan Collection Mk VI Gen 3 helmet from Jazzwares.





Also took it apart a month ago too, well mostly.



This is gonna be so cool!

 

[Zackurai]

So yesterday I went ahead and filled in the mold lines and I would guess injection points too.



I’ll probably wet sand the top portions and sand the lower portion regularly-ish, don’t want to compromise the lights ya know, I’ll probably try to see if I can take them out, but don’t see any accessible screws and really don’t want to break the precious.

 

[Zackurai]

Also I will be scribing this thing too, just to make masking and painting easier, mostly just “bill” section and rear sections.



Also been playing with some new paints I picked up for airbrushing, but just barely used some on my old brush and tried out some weathering.



And this is paint I used, it went on fairly well with just a dab on the napkin, not sure what black magic they used, but hey, I love it. So I’ll give it the full image treatment.

 

[Zackurai]

Alrighty peeps, got it all scribed up and sanded and wet sanded, now it be primed.



Now everybody’s favorite, a nice primer coat, gonna wet sand smooth and should be ready for paints.

Anyway back to it

 

[Zackurai]

I’ll be skipping around while playing BF6

 

[sir howard]

Also decided to finally finished my Mk V(B) build as well so I’ll be skipping around while playing BF6

BF6 does look like a good time.. be sure to set a timer so you dont forget about your armor!

 

[Zackurai]

Photo likely coming in later, busy doing stuff

 

[Zackurai]

During my downtime from Battlefield 6(recharging headsets and controllers) manage to get the black base coat down and tested some chrome paint to make it a shinier metal color, that is about it.



The chrome paint looks white but it does have a nice metallic sheen to it, I’ll show it off when the sun comes back out, but that is it for my amazing progress ( pffft, not really, got distracted)

 

[Zackurai]

I should really start getting more progress done, oh welll

 

[Zackurai]

Goooood morning all, come on in, got a photo dump for ya.



Going to try to mimic my current colors on Infinite with a bit of Reach influence ( Just loved that black “bill”)

I do have more pics in a moment, but that is the current step

 

[Zackurai]

As promised took some more glamour shots:



You know, kinda want to see it with the visor in.

Buuut still have some weathering and wanting to a stripe in the middle.

 

[Zackurai]

Know what I’ll just tape the visor in just to see, might look good or horrendous.

Also disclaimer, full size pics coming in:

I will probably tackle the weathering when at least the chest, shoulders, and arms are done, I like to put it on the mannequin and plan out the weathering ya know, anyway, later nerds