sycospartan
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looking good fraz you have inspired me to get off my sorry backside and do something this weekend. been so busy with work and organising car club events and mothers day. lol
My Torso Armor
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WanderingRon1n
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mine definitely too small in all aspects so i might start it AGAIN tonight.
Frizzlefry
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Yeah, make sure the Paper Settings and your Printer Settings are both set to landscape. If I had to guess, I'd say it probably rescaled it to portrait width which made it smaller.
MustangMatt
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I'm working on the bicep armor right now. :birthday:
Chewdog316
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Jedis backside is huge. I mean the armor.
It looks good though.
It looks good though.
WanderingRon1n
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fraz, could you measure the width of your chest so i know if i should scale it up or down.
JediFraz
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46" all the way round.. Baby 
I finished the bicep last night and it's just a little too long. I can forsee problems with it clashing against the forearm. So I think, at least, for me, a rescale is required for the biceps and probaly the forearms too..
My Thighs are pretty big so I think If I scaled down the whole armour they'd bee too small.. So, I'm gonna continue making the different armour peices at the current scale, because 1. My mate Pug50 is a lot taller than me and the bits will probably fit him and 2. If I have a reference set at the correct scale I'll know which bits need reducing.
I finished the bicep last night and it's just a little too long. I can forsee problems with it clashing against the forearm. So I think, at least, for me, a rescale is required for the biceps and probaly the forearms too..
My Thighs are pretty big so I think If I scaled down the whole armour they'd bee too small.. So, I'm gonna continue making the different armour peices at the current scale, because 1. My mate Pug50 is a lot taller than me and the bits will probably fit him and 2. If I have a reference set at the correct scale I'll know which bits need reducing.
WanderingRon1n
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im up there with you. i think my chest is like 44 inches maybe. but yeah i think ll make each piece out of paper and after i try it on make it out of cardboard. to save me some agony. my friend wants armor also but i dont have the resources to build it right now.
Darth Malevelus
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I printed mine in portrait, since those pics looked abit huge for me.
It printed out each item broken up on two pages which isnt any big deal, but I will reprint these in landscape and make both sets, to show the difference in size.
OK, I just did a test reprint of my armor in landscape and laid out the two and notice a difference right away. Aside from wasting paper, printing in portrait will increase only the width of the printout by 1/8 inch. So your helmet will be fat ear to ear, and the correct length front to back.
So keep that in mind, I left the auto adjust off for both prints, and am using an HP Laserjet 4350 for printing. and there is a difference!
DM
It printed out each item broken up on two pages which isnt any big deal, but I will reprint these in landscape and make both sets, to show the difference in size.
OK, I just did a test reprint of my armor in landscape and laid out the two and notice a difference right away. Aside from wasting paper, printing in portrait will increase only the width of the printout by 1/8 inch. So your helmet will be fat ear to ear, and the correct length front to back.
So keep that in mind, I left the auto adjust off for both prints, and am using an HP Laserjet 4350 for printing. and there is a difference!
DM
SPARTAN 183
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looking great good luck on the other parts of armor
I just finished doing the left bicep and I am 5'11 and default seems a bit long, so i recommend scaling that down by 20%. On seperate note i am going to be playing around with resizing aspects of the armour my GF is looking at using these templates as a basis for a female suit of sparten armour and even scaled down they are still way to big for her.
LastSpartan
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Nukie, did you have to rescale other parts? (I'm 5'11" too)
pepakura hates me, im made the helmet but it was about 2 times the size of my head...now i havnt go enought card and the craft shop doesent have ne in for another week, and when i folded all the bits there were things missing like where the lights are supposed to go....and the vent thingys on the chin...
Frizzlefry
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That's because Pepakura does an exact replica of the 3d model for Master Chief's armor. The "holes for the lights" and vents and such are not actually a part of the 3d model. They are pictures that are placed on top of the 3d model to give it added dimension without having a higher polygonal count which make the game run smoother.
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