brychang
Jr Member
Hi, as a new recruit, i've been itching to get advice and reccomendations from you guys. Ive been stalking through the forum since the summertime, and playing around with pep files since then, but now i am nearly ready to start actually working on my armour, although i have to split my time with university and sailing 
so here we go, and ignore the duvet covers, i'm storing the pepped parts in my spare room till i get round to glassing them.
1st things 1st, is my helmet too big? the problem is i have an abnormally large head, so the few testers i did that were smaller wouldnt go over my ears.
so if it is too big, can you reccomend a way i can make a smaller on fit, maybe making it 2 piece, or selectively carving out bits once its been reinforced?
this is how it looks up close
(also if you see any charring on my sculpts, its because i tend to use my zippo to re melt and reset missaligned edges)
My chest (a little warped, i may rebuild it with supports, i forgot to print them, along with a few other sheets i think!...advice welcome)
The upper arms, (I'm actually pretty pleased with these, after the 6 attempts i had to make to get the right size!)
The gauntlets, also pretty pleased with
Handplates (I had a load of scrag ends of glue sticks and melted them into the back in an extension of the glue stick method)
The thighs (same thing as the chest piece i forget to print out the supports and they've warped, also i initially taped them when i ran out of glue sticks, then sliced the tape and glued it afterwards)
The shins.....if i never have to fold another shin again, i will be a happy perky young man!
Boots, remarkably easily done, i'm planning on putting a pair combat boots in there, then using expanding foam or something to fill out the holes once its glassed etc
And my Assault Rifle, although i'm currently thinking of scrapping pepping the weapons and making them from wood, like a couple of guys on here are doing, i think it'll give them the right weight.
and i'm curretly (as in, while i'm typing this) finishing off folding my Cod Piece (sounds seedier than it did in my head), but i'm planning on wearing this alot, and i'm trying to work out if i fibreglass/bondo it i will be able to sit in it. so maybe high density foam may be more of a winner there?
anyway, any criticsm/advice you have is more than welcome, i wont be glassing these for a little while, the only place i can do it is my garage, and in the uk right now the weather is bloody cold and raining nearly non stop, so curing time will be a total pain in the ass!
so here we go, and ignore the duvet covers, i'm storing the pepped parts in my spare room till i get round to glassing them.
1st things 1st, is my helmet too big? the problem is i have an abnormally large head, so the few testers i did that were smaller wouldnt go over my ears.
so if it is too big, can you reccomend a way i can make a smaller on fit, maybe making it 2 piece, or selectively carving out bits once its been reinforced?
this is how it looks up close
(also if you see any charring on my sculpts, its because i tend to use my zippo to re melt and reset missaligned edges)
My chest (a little warped, i may rebuild it with supports, i forgot to print them, along with a few other sheets i think!...advice welcome)
The upper arms, (I'm actually pretty pleased with these, after the 6 attempts i had to make to get the right size!)
The gauntlets, also pretty pleased with
Handplates (I had a load of scrag ends of glue sticks and melted them into the back in an extension of the glue stick method)
The thighs (same thing as the chest piece i forget to print out the supports and they've warped, also i initially taped them when i ran out of glue sticks, then sliced the tape and glued it afterwards)
The shins.....if i never have to fold another shin again, i will be a happy perky young man!
Boots, remarkably easily done, i'm planning on putting a pair combat boots in there, then using expanding foam or something to fill out the holes once its glassed etc
And my Assault Rifle, although i'm currently thinking of scrapping pepping the weapons and making them from wood, like a couple of guys on here are doing, i think it'll give them the right weight.
and i'm curretly (as in, while i'm typing this) finishing off folding my Cod Piece (sounds seedier than it did in my head), but i'm planning on wearing this alot, and i'm trying to work out if i fibreglass/bondo it i will be able to sit in it. so maybe high density foam may be more of a winner there?
anyway, any criticsm/advice you have is more than welcome, i wont be glassing these for a little while, the only place i can do it is my garage, and in the uk right now the weather is bloody cold and raining nearly non stop, so curing time will be a total pain in the ass!
