Some pretty decent foamsmithing on the chest this morning, I won’t really do all the fancy details since my chest attachment will be on top of it, so just doing a basic silhouette of it.
Trying out the Hobby Lobby foam and it’s very nice actually, fairly dense and very sandable and cheap! Loving it so far! This is just 10mm and 5mm foam while making my angle cuts on the back side, very simple foaming technique
Well, live and learned I tried doing my under cut/score technique, but didn’t take it account I have to curve it a little bit, so it kinda ripped at some of the seams, so this be a failed attempt, but I’ll post it anyway, making a V2 now
I’ll cut back on underscoring for V2, just this one is not as clean as I like.
Sooooo I did crank out most of the chest buuuut I scaled to my shoulders which was a mistake because apparently the widest point on the Mk VI is not the shoulders but the thrusters, which makes it a snug fit, but too snug for the undersuit bits, but I did get a pic with it on with some failed (not to my liking) shoulder and gauntlet bits from the Mk vii build, had to take the pic like 6ft away from the mirror to fit in it (need a bigger mirror)
Also in the middle of remodeling the bathroom too, so don’t judge, or no more pics.
With the bucket on I’m 6’1” without like 5’11”ish, which is kinda cool, but anyway, off to rescale probably by just 25-35mm or so should be good
Made some progress and the new scale has more room for activities (undersuit in foam with probably be between 15mm to 20mm thick)
Anyway went ahead and decided to attached the magnets too, but here are some pics of that progress, I’ll probably have the thrusters 100% done if my family people quit bugging me to help with random stuff. That’s been my whole Xmas break it seems.
I’ll make another post on the front chest bit with a larger pic, see you guys there
Anyway, some of you might have noticed my chest is missing some details for the those fancy stuff in the middle and around the front collar, because I will be frankensteining about 3 files to make a custom armored collar section, think of the Reach’s Breacher Collar and H3’s CQB chest and a touch of detail from Reach’s Grenadier
In my head should look cool but got to do it in a way my helmet won’t clip it soooo still designing it, might have a prototype done today and see how it will do, it will be a low detailed prototype of course.
Anyway, imma stalk some build and maybe type up some clever pun or something
