Question for all

[Panton6]

For everyone I know here at 405th, I wanna ask you guys, did you guys make your good looking plastic molded helmets at start from pepakaura?

Spase:your helmet always made me wonder if it was first pep than molded.

Did you guys follow Adams painting tutorial? or did you paint your helmet on your own? Where adam put the hammered spray on the edges, did you do the same with your helmet?

 

[AoBfrost]

Adam's method taught many of us our own basics, but we just go with the flow and do our own designs.

Spase, DOc Bytes, and many others molded their helmets from a pepakura helmet that was bondo'd and smoothed.

 

[Adam]

armor has to be unique to each one.. we all help each other learn.

 

[Sean Bradley]

armor has to be unique to each one.. we all help each other learn.

QFT. I made my armor before joining this site in Nov. 2006. True that seeing all the work being done here has improved my armor, but I figured it out for myself and then came here to try to help others. Pepakura is just the fastest way to get people started, much better than the homemade paper patterns I used to make my suit.

Theres really no one way to do it. Build on your skills and see which method you prefer.

 

[rvb4life]

spoken like a true genius


yeah, pepakura can look totally awesome when its completley done. just look at Belakor's recon helmet. that is totally GODLY.


and im still at the assembling stage, too many updated models being released every day....so i have to be done by the summer to glass+bondo.

 

[scandomfo]

im new to the whole armor building and i find that pep armor is pretty easy for new people like myself. i just finished my mc helm but then i found out its too big. though it wasnt a very high detailed one but it was 10 hours of work.

 

[Panton6]

im new to the whole armor building and i find that pep armor is pretty easy for new people like myself. i just finished my mc helm but then i found out its too big. though it wasnt a very high detailed one but it was 10 hours of work.

Its not so easy actually for me, I meen look at NZ-TK's ODST, I wanna make it but boy its gonna get frustrating. I meen all that cutting folding then gluing and ect. It just makes me wanna quit and start a easier project...

 

[scandomfo]

Its not so easy actually for me, I meen look at NZ-TK's ODST, I wanna make it but boy its gonna get frustrating. I meen all that cutting folding then gluing and ect. It just makes me wanna quit and start a easier project...

hahah you have no idea on how many times i would like to stop what im doing while building the helm and just start one of the body pieces. it seems so much easier than the helm since it seems like it needs full attention

 

[NZTK]

I meen look at NZ-TK's ODST, I wanna make it but boy its gonna get frustrating. I meen all that cutting folding then gluing and ect. It just makes me wanna quit and start a easier project...

In my opinion the pepakura part is the easy bit, its only requires time and patience, Its the sculpting and finishing that requires skill and is far more difficult.

 

[Sigma LS]

In my opinion the pepakura part is the easy bit, its only requires time and patience, Its the sculpting and finishing that requires skill and is far more difficult.

QFT

Technically you had to sculpt it twice for the ODST. Once digitally and once after the pepakura is built.

The rest of us just got to mooch off your awesome models.

 

[NZTK]

The rest of us just got to mooch off your awesome models

Honestly, anyone can push points around on a screen, It just takes time to learn a modelling interface, the rest is perseverance. Glad you like them though

 

[Spartan 051]

Its not so easy actually for me, I meen look at NZ-TK's ODST, I wanna make it but boy its gonna get frustrating. I meen all that cutting folding then gluing and ect. It just makes me wanna quit and start a easier project...

took me about 40+ hours and i cant wait till the winter is over so i can put more resin and fiberglass

Putting the visor in it will be a pain. It took me like an hour just to fit the one i have in there and it still not correct

the only big problem i had with it was that it "rolled" like it looked like a tub when i was done (It took me like 10 hours to work on the top)

I think when you build it you need supports like FS models do to that "rolling" but that just me

The bottom picture is with the odst and slyfo h3 Mark VI

 

[James Falcon]

Ok, call me a noob for asking this, but I've always been too much of a molded armor guy to bother following along with the pep process.

Where do you get these pep templates? They always seems to be premade and just cut and assembled piece by piece.

 

[Keegan]

What does QFT mean!? I have been seeing it everywhere and Its been urging me to ask all this time, so now I have.

 

[NZTK]

Quote For Truth.

 

[tonsofhoopla]

armor has to be unique to each one.. we all help each other learn.

Well said

-Justin

 

[Keegan]

Quote For Truth.

QFT, haha. Thanks.

 

[mumstheword]

i use pepakura, and i think it is the best option for teenagers who don't have access to all the molding materials and stuff, and until i found pep, i was just blindly searching the site for any possible way to make a suit, and adam's stuff costs a ton of money (people like me have no way of making money), and with pep, you dont even have to resin or fiberglas, you can just use hot glue and krylon!


p.s. adam, you rule, and you're armor is the best ever