Project: BLAM!!

[GMer56]

Waaay back, before Gears of War, the Xbox, and Gigabytes of Ram there was a small company known as Bungie, with their revolutionary Marathon Games. They announce a new game to be released, a third-person title known simply as Halo:

Anyway, now that I zarked your eyeballs with these pictures, you may ask yourself: "What is this 'Project: BLAM!'?"
Well, "BLAM" was the codename for Halo, the original (discarded) Halo build, also known as Halo 2000.

I love this armor. You can actually see where they store their ammo, and in an easy-to-reach area too!

What I plan to do is to make this armor, in honor of the halo that never was. I shall use pepakura parts (existing and custom) and hardening the paper with expanding foam insulation see this thread for tests:
http://www.405th.com/showthread.php/27679-Special-Mark-VI-Armor-WIP/page1

 

[Doctor Napkin]

That is really cool and the armour is so classic. This will be an amazing build. And I really want to play that.

 

[lordzoabar]

That is really cool and the armour is so classic. This will be an amazing build. And I really want to play that.

Amen to THAT! This looks so cool. Definitely NOT what I was expecting when I read the first line. Good Luck!!

 

[Templar 320]

I remember seeing this a while back. You can definitely see the Halo in it. Even mountains start as little hills.

 

[Omega Ravager]

Very cool, this should be an awesome build I'm definately keeping an eye on it.

Best of luck to you!

 

[Shade88]

I hope this works out for you. I have always liked this armour.

 

[weeds]

You can see the Halo in it. And you can see the Marathon in it to. The sharp edges, the trees, and the not to subtle coloring especially. Played a lot of Marathon back in the day....

 

[Toacrabman]

Yeah, i wonder if that thing on his shoulder is a rocket launcher. Also, theres a picture of a warthog full of MC's so i guess spartans would be as common as marines early on, maybe they're spartan I's. Also on the bottom pic i think he is holding a machete. It looks easy to make in desighn, but it still looks like there could be alot of detail, even the machine gun looks easy to build.

 

[GMer56]

Four things:

1) Methinks the launcher on the shoulder is for flares or chaff.

2) Regrettably, this version of Halo is unavailable. I wish it was, it looked like fun. All well. Guess "Breed" will have to do (that game was made to kill this uersion of halo, but Microsoft snapped up halo and breed's publishers were zarking idiots and "tweaked" the game... well... Breed was never heard of again.)

3) I love the chestpiece and the forearm! The forearm is just awesome and you can actually see where he stores all of his ammo!

4) Work begins on the armor after I return to college (Jan 18th), because I have free printing there!

 

[Roadwarrior]

Just make the parts the shapes they meant to be.

Also, in CE you can see where he keeps his ammo.

 

[GMer56]

Also, in CE you can see where he keeps his ammo.

I knew someone would mention that. But I don't like the ammo being stored on the stomach, if your stomach growls loud enough there goes all your ammo

 

[GMer56]

Been sketching the armor, regrettably the game isn't anywhere on the internet!
Still, found 2 movies I find as good references and you may find funny.

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ALL HAIL THE GRAVITY WRENCH!

 

[Trooper114]

The reason why the game is not on the internet is because it is property of Bungie, this game is Halo, it was the first concept before they finally decided on the designs that we now all know and love. This was the first working concept for Halo CE, then they got everything, worked abit more on the design, and boom Halo.

 

[GMer56]

Microsoft bought bungie and made them rebuild the game in Direct X, and gave them a choice: release the game in 5 month's or not release it at all. Microsoft was a bunch of [expletive] to the bungie team. There would have been so many more weapons if they just had more time. I was hoping there was a leaked beta of it somewhere...
All well. Anywho... Made the low Definition version of the chest.

Could someone unfold it to about 420mm? Doesn't matter which dimension you choose, it is almost perfectly cubical like that ^.^
Link to .obj file is here:
http://www.mediafire.com/?29008kmtgavk6la

 

[Carpathia]

Before you get too far, you may want to invert the faces on your pep there, since it's inside-out. In pep designer, got to "3D Menu" then "Change Coordinates" then "Invert Faces".

I'm really interested in seeing this build. I've seen some of what was Halo before the game was released, but only the E3 vid. Keep going!

 

[GMer56]

Before you get too far, you may want to invert the faces on your pep there, since it's inside-out. In pep designer, got to "3D Menu" then "Change Coordinates" then "Invert Faces".

I just took a screenshot so people could see what it looks like (it looks like crap in gmax). Although I managed to scale it to the correct size and create a microsoft XPS document (using microsoft XPS document writer, which one of the printing options) so I can print it off anytime and assemble it. Will post pics possibly later today. Already built one of the sides. Will be working on a higher definition version later.

Oh, and the AI in the E3 video was all scripted

 

[GMer56]

It's been a while...
I finally got a new keyboard (the "v" key was broken for months), so now I'm back up to 100% capacity.
It's official, I have a double dorm room to myself this semester. That gives me plenty of space to work on my armor.
I might go the foam sheet route, I dunno. I'll just have to wait and see.
On a positive note I made the forearm (It's in Pepakura because it doesn't look too froody in Gmax or Lithunwrap).

Listening to Blue Murder right now. They are epic win.

 

[GMer56]

Triple post... guess this isn't as hot as one might think...

Forearm is too small, needs to be about 200% bigger.

 

[Finelargeaxe]

Any chance of these files making their way out to the rest of the universe anytime soon? This looks like a fun one to start with.

 

[GMer56]

Any chance of these files making their way out to the rest of the universe anytime soon? This looks like a fun one to start with.

Not until I finish my suit and a gravity wrench ^.^