New Chest Piece Method?

[Warpath5150]

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Okay! If you know me, im building a scratch build Reach suit, and I need MAJOR help on scratchbuilding the chest.

Ive had many ideas, untested, failiures, and 0 have worked. I want to know how I can build a chestpiece (NO PEPAKURA AT ALL) piece by piece, to make it wearable, sturdy, and on a "lower budjet"




So far, Ive thought of making the front and back seperate, then connecting somehow, but that Idea has flaws in my eyes, so I wanna see what this forum draws up.

A untested idea, I think is my best bet just need help, is to build a undersuit vest, and attatch the actuall parts to it, then make it seprable and for "plating" make it velcroable on, and move along like that. no ideas for a base though, maybe, just maaayyybbbee alot of cardboard?

 

[AI Blue Fox]

Foamedy foamedy foamedy foaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaam!

 

[sandy1973]

Cardboard and lots of hot glue.

 

[Hyokenseisou]

I know you don't want to do pep, but my chest is pep, and I have it in two pieces, connected with velcro, and I haven't had any problems with it.

 

[King Ramna]

Go Foam or go home

 

[BenStreeper]

basically you are describing the method used by cpu64 (Chris Bryan)of this forum. He was the first to ever create a wearable suit of halo armor and did so with cardboard, no pep. Sean bradley has also done this as well as myself and several other older members of the forum (from the days it was http://www.mjolnirarmor.com/)

 

[zwave343]

Couldnt you just use a simplified version of the foam templates but with cardboard? Reckon that would be cheap and easy.

 

[Warpath5150]

basically you are describing the method used by cpu64 (Chris Bryan)of this forum. He was the first to ever create a wearable suit of halo armor and did so with cardboard, no pep. Sean bradley has also done this as well as myself and several other older members of the forum (from the days it was http://www.mjolnirarmor.com/)

I went to the link, nothing to help me, but nice pics and suit

I know you don't want to do pep, but my chest is pep, and I have it in two pieces, connected with velcro, and I haven't had any problems with it.

That is a good idea, im probably going to use some clips instead of velcro

Cardboard and lots of hot glue.

im using a combo of foam board and foamboard, and making it more fortefied with god knows what

 

[Warpath5150]

okay, decided on using some old hockey padding I got, then building off of it (in my elite build, Spartan kinda died)

 

[matth101]

dunno about your budget, but like everyone else said foam would be the best way for that plus ive read that its nice and comfy

if you're looking for ways to get in to a solid chest piece made from pep and fiberglass/rondo, check out this thread by Boukie12345
http://www.405th.com/showthread.php/30111-Reach-Mark-V/page2
he has a video and pics of how he hinged the bottom parts of the chest piece so it is basically one solid piece. That's the method I'm going to try, looks promising

 

[CPU64]

basically you are describing the method used by cpu64 (Chris Bryan)of this forum. He was the first to ever create a wearable suit of halo armor and did so with cardboard, no pep. Sean bradley has also done this as well as myself and several other older members of the forum (from the days it was http://www.mjolnirarmor.com/)

Major WOOT for the plug!!.