My First Build, Let's Start Small... (Jorge DONE, Heavy Machine Gun WIP, Pic Heavy)

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Man just saw the armor, thats freakin great man!i like the cardboard reinforcing. . .never thought about it, never saw it applied! i like it.and i read the part when the plaster stuff ate away at the foam. you should probably look up all the things that do that, cuz alot of things eat at foam. and just one point criticism, the shoulder pieces, well your left one, look a little low. easily fixed right?

More like what doesn't eat away at styrofoam. It seems like everything does. I did get a tip from Evilpenguin to use powdered filler and pva glue. I've yet to try it since I no longer have any exposed foam, but I did start making my backpack out of the stuff, so I'll probably test it out on that if I ever come back to it.

As for the shoulder pieces, they tend to slide down my arm, so I'm hoping to rig up some straps that would attach to my chest to keep them up.

i like those twists that make it not game exact, gives it character, and some personality

Yeah, I usually have "meh, close enough" attitude anyway, so it doesn't really bother me.

Wow, dude, just wow. It's looking great, and make me want to do some more touch ups on mine!

I like what you did with the visor, and the extra little pieces is a great idea. Mind if I "borrow" it? :)

So did the tooth paste method work well for the painting? How did you get them to look more like irregular paint chips with rough edges as opposed to blobs?

If you have the extra pieces to do the visor thing then I'd say go for it. I don't know if it would be worth buying another visor just to do it though.

I used my finger to apply vaseline and tried to keep putting it on in varied amounts and at different angles so it wouldn't all look the same. I was surprised at how well it turned out because I hadn't practiced on anything else first. I'd say it's a technique anyone can pull off, and it looks great.

Hahaha. Awww he should of just wear it for the heck of it. Join in the fun yknow? We'll have to wait and see. As of right now im hauling arse to get things done since this was last minute for me, but nonthe less im making pretty smooth progress. :D Can't wait.

I think the main thing about his build is he never could figure out how to do the visor. I now know about vacuforming, but I don't know if he'd be confident to try it, plus he'd need to build the table for it first. I think the look he has right now is like when their visors are see though so it's fine, but he may think differently.

loving your build! It really is looking epic!

I like the t-shirt idea... might have to use that on my security helm vents.

Keep it up!!!

Thanks, Matronoke. Hopefully the t-shirt vents do what they're supposed to. I'll let you know how it works out at the expo.

Helmet turned out looking great.

Thanks, Thorn. It's a little rough around the edges, but it looks a lot better to me now than when I first painted it. I don't know why. I guess it's just the satisfaction of having it "done" (though there are a few details that I'd still like to add to it later).

Great job Jonus! Your project is really coming along well. Keep 'er cranking!

Thanks, Satchmo. I'm in the home stretch. I'm trying not to lose any steam.

I finished pepping my second shin last night, and I sprayed them both with a base coat of my rubber spray. I think these will be the trickiest to reinforce with cardboard, but I think I might take a new approach to it. I'm going to just do cardboard corners instead of faces. I think it'll make them much stronger than how I've been doing them. What's the point of having an extra layer on the face if the glue comes undone on a corner? Hopefully this will make a nice sturdy frame, then I'll add foam to the faces to fill it in. These things are huge, but rightfully so. Jorge's look very heavily armoured. I'm still not sure what I'm going to do about boots. I might just have to look for something to buy that look army enough that don't stand out too much. I'm sure I'll have a bit of extra time to put something on them...

Also, this thread has hit 100 replies! Woohoo!
 
Just a quick note on the fans.... you may want to put one over the visor blowing down on it, you are going to find your biggest enemy is the fogging up of your visor. Not sure if one on the back will be all that effective unless you have a bit of space for air flow. :)
 
Carboard Reinforcement and Kudos.

Ok Man First off....*Inhales deeply* AWESOME BUILD!!! d >u< b!! *Exhales* Ok now that that is out of the way, lol. I Wish to say Thank ou for Your idea (Or wherever you got it from) Of cardboard reinforcement, I myself am too a Big Guy, 6 1 360+ pounds so a few spots on my chest are really flimsy and for the life of me i never would have thought of using cardboard. Secondly, Again awesome build. I am FINALLY getting my hands on some resin tomorrow, and i couldnt agree more with the Person above me in the fact that i too am pumped up with Motovation. So Thank you and keep building 405th RT Out. >:I MOTIVATION!!! BLARG!
 
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Just a quick note on the fans.... you may want to put one over the visor blowing down on it, you are going to find your biggest enemy is the fogging up of your visor. Not sure if one on the back will be all that effective unless you have a bit of space for air flow. :)

The little vents I have are pretty effective, but I do still get a bit of fog. If I change my breathing a bit it goes away.

Urrrraaaaaaghhhhhh sooo much more motivation now!

Ok Man First off....*Inhales deeply* AWESOME BUILD!!! d >u< b!! *Exhales* Ok now that that is out of the way, lol. I Wish to say Thank ou for Your idea (Or wherever you got it from) Of cardboard reinforcement, I myself am too a Big Guy, 6 1 360+ pounds so a few spots on my chest are really flimsy and for the life of me i never would have thought of using cardboard. Secondly, Again awesome build. I am FINALLY getting my hands on some resin tomorrow, and i couldnt agree more with the Person above me in the fact that i too am pumped up with Motovation. So Thank you and keep building 405th RT Out. >:I MOTIVATION!!! BLARG!

Thanks you guys. Glad I could help give you that extra push. I haven't up loaded the pics I took of the inside of my shins, but they were the best cardboard re-enforcement I did. I do, however, have pics from this weekend....
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And the masquerade:
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And all that flexing and posing won me "Best Gun Show"
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Just wait until next year when I actually have a gun.
 
The little vents I have are pretty effective, but I do still get a bit of fog. If I change my breathing a bit it goes away.





Thanks you guys. Glad I could help give you that extra push. I haven't up loaded the pics I took of the inside of my shins, but they were the best cardboard re-enforcement I did. I do, however, have pics from this weekend....
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And the masquerade:
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And all that flexing and posing won me "Best Gun Show"
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Just wait until next year when I actually have a gun.

I Think its awesome that you won WITHOUT The gun xD ROFL. And that dude in the first pic ish ZOOMIN O-O....
 
That's freaking awesome man! It came along fantasticly! What gun are you going to make?

Thanks, man. I have a BuzzBee plasma blaster that's painted like the AR, but I totally forgot it for the expo. Since it's kind of small and the chest is so bulky it's hard to hold, so I'm just going to try to make Jorge's signature turret gun.
 
The little vents I have are pretty effective, but I do still get a bit of fog. If I change my breathing a bit it goes away.

If you wanna fully solve this problem, you could try installing mini fans in the helmet, these should stop fogging and they will be a lifesaver in the heat :D
For England: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Cooler-Mast...D34I/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1314655737&sr=8-3
For America: http://www.amazon.com/Cooler-Master...PFDE/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&qid=1314655763&sr=8-7

(just some examples) :D Good luck !!! ;)
 
LOL...I have to take the time to say congrats on you're award. Pic's look cool, and it looks like you had allot of fun.
 
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If you wanna fully solve this problem, you could try installing mini fans in the helmet, these should stop fogging and they will be a lifesaver in the heat :D
For England: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Cooler-Mast...D34I/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1314655737&sr=8-3
For America: http://www.amazon.com/Cooler-Master...PFDE/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&qid=1314655763&sr=8-7

(just some examples) :D Good luck !!! ;)

I do have a fan already, but I didn't have time to instal it. Though the suit is "done" I'll never be finished with it. There are lots of things I bypassed for time's sake.

LOL...I have to take the time to say congrats on you're award. Pic's look cool, and it looks like you had allot of fun.

It was fun... and now you can see it in a video:

As you can probably tell my right shoulder was really falling down. That's another thing I need to continue to work on: strapping. I wanted to do it with nylon straps and buckles, but I had to use velcro instead. Almost all of it ended up falling off. Oh well, for the most part everything stayed in pace. The biggest problem areas were the belt and thighs. I wanted to have them strapped to each other and then to the chest to keep them up. I'll have to do that before Halloween.
 
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Great Job Man, Really great Job. And again congrats on the award, And on hyping up the crowd that really helps show the amount of Pride and dedication you have for your armor and all the time that went into it. Kudos.
 
great work man! you were totally cheezin it up on that stage though :p but in all, heck of a job!
i did lol at the announcer though :p
"his costume was made out of paper and foam"
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"i used to have muscles like that"
*crowed laughter*
"no no, really, my muscles used to be made out of paper and foam"
 
Great Job Man, Really great Job. And again congrats on the award, And on hyping up the crowd that really helps show the amount of Pride and dedication you have for your armor and all the time that went into it. Kudos.

great work man! you were totally cheezin it up on that stage though :p but in all, heck of a job!

Yeah, I didn't really know what I was going to do up there, so I just though "maybe if I can pump up the crowd it'll win over the judges?" I wanted to have sound clips of Jorge's voice that I could "act" along with, or have Halsey's voice over about Jorge from A Spartan Will Rise, but again time was tight and I pressed on without those little bits of extra flair.

Looking good! You make an excellent Jorge. I may have missed it but have you measured how tall you are armoured up?

Thanks, and no I didn't do that. I totally should though. The boots had a decent heel on them, and I put a layer of foam in the soles of them for extra comfort and a bit of height. The helmet was very padded too and with the UA that would have added and extra inch and a half. I'm 6'3", so I'd guess I'd be around 6'6"/6'7", Spartan size, but not quite Jorge's stature.
 
haha good job on the costume hulk hogan Jorge, and for thigh strapping i use a tool belt and made nylons strap loops to attach to it to hook to the thighs which also have adjustable nylon strap and slides. you could even get suspender attachments for the belt to support it
 
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