I think it's been two weeks since my last update? I don't feel like I have been making that much progress. Just been busy with the rest of life.
I did do a few things tho...
Did a little folding and gluing. I also took advantage of this lovely warm weather to get a first layer of resin on the outside of the chest base layer, inside of the chest plate, inside of the left cummerbund, and inside of the left ab piece.
Also, I added some black detailing to the helmet. Not sure how to weather it because canonically I don't think it's metal, more like a kevlar kind of thing I think. Anyway it looks pretty cool too.
I think I'm gonna just smudge it up with some dirt it something to make it look a little less clean.
Also, I finished reattaching the shoulder pieces together. One side I did with some jb weld tacking and the other side I just did more cloth hinges. The cloth hinges approach I think is better but it's fairly time consuming.
In other news the magnets installation failed in the helmet and I'm going a different way for visor mounting. Just haven't decided what yet. Probably going to end up permanantly gluing it in. That is all for now. I was going to work more but I got my Covid vaccine and it made me sick as a dog all day so not much progress made today.
I did do a few things tho...
Did a little folding and gluing. I also took advantage of this lovely warm weather to get a first layer of resin on the outside of the chest base layer, inside of the chest plate, inside of the left cummerbund, and inside of the left ab piece.
Also, I added some black detailing to the helmet. Not sure how to weather it because canonically I don't think it's metal, more like a kevlar kind of thing I think. Anyway it looks pretty cool too.
I think I'm gonna just smudge it up with some dirt it something to make it look a little less clean.
Also, I finished reattaching the shoulder pieces together. One side I did with some jb weld tacking and the other side I just did more cloth hinges. The cloth hinges approach I think is better but it's fairly time consuming.
In other news the magnets installation failed in the helmet and I'm going a different way for visor mounting. Just haven't decided what yet. Probably going to end up permanantly gluing it in. That is all for now. I was going to work more but I got my Covid vaccine and it made me sick as a dog all day so not much progress made today.