Reach Armor WIP

[Soul Drinker]

Is Smooth Cast what you did for your helmet in your avatar picture?

 

[gmstrowabarton]

Is Smooth Cast what you did for your helmet in your avatar picture?

The avatar picture is fiberglass resin and rondo, I just started trying out the smoothcast with my new armor and so far I like it only downfall I see right now is the initial cost for the smoothcast but in the long run I think it will cost less and I can do more armor with it.

 

[Road Kill]

looks like it's getting better can't wait to see it done, BTW where can you get smooth-cast 300?

 

[gmstrowabarton]

looks like it's getting better can't wait to see it done, BTW where can you get smooth-cast 300?

I got mine from a art supply store near by me, you can go to www.smooth-on.com and you can look for distributors near by you or go to www.reynoldsam.com and you can buy on-line with them.

 

[MikyVengeance]

are you willing to sell some handplates? :3

 

[gmstrowabarton]

are you willing to sell some handplates? :3

I probably will see about doing a run, the current one fit me and I wear large gloves but I will be making a smaller size for my other friend and making some Kat handplate since I am going to be having the whole team together

 

[harican89]

i think that the handplate is good enough for everyone.
its not to big and not to small... just sell it because its looks perfect and really professional
on my future reach armor i will buy one for me

 

[gmstrowabarton]

I have finished my mold of the handplate and have done my first cast of the handplate here are some pictures. It will need some clean up but it isn't to bad

I will be painting it soon it wont be Jun's colors since I don't have them yet but figured I would see how it looks with color on it

 

[thomasthebear]

What was your scale on your COD Piece compared to your waist size?

 

[Dragoman1993]

Looks great man. Could you please email me the pep files for the left thigh and the left shoulder? I would really appreciate it. sinanalpduran@hotmail.com

 

[noblegrave]

Amazing! Im new here as well, but that is an incredible start. Im totally blown away man, well done

 

[pendy]

Nice work so far. Can't wait to see the progress on the helmet

 

[gmstrowabarton]

Sorry I have been away from this but I was getting my old armor ready for Dragon con before and I have taken a little break for Halo: Reach. I will be getting back to this project soon but until that happens here are some pictures of the handplate paint with a quick paint job to show it off. I am thinking about sell some sets of them to help pay for my new armor build but this will depend on interest from people so without further a due here are the pictures.

These are size XL gloves I normally wear size L

Size Comparison to the Mark VI handplate

 

[gmstrowabarton]

So I have been slacking on armor building lately but I have started again and I decided to try the foam armor method for my new suit here is some pictures for you to see.

There is still details and clean up to be done before I am ready for painting of it but I will say this was great to work with and should more comfortable than my last suit.

 

[TheBradinator]

Looken GREAT my man!! i like what your doin with the foam, and i especialy like the hand plates.

 

[gmstrowabarton]

I had gotten the Helmet that Skylow had made a while back just haven't had the time or the good weather until now to start working on it but I have sanded it down and will be fitting a visor into it soon. I have also done some detail work to the chest piece.

 

[gmstrowabarton]

I have some new updates for my armor and I have noticed making this that I have a hard time working on one piece at a time tend to jump around. I was surprised when I was able to finish one thigh in a few hours of work it is getting much easier to work with the foam now than it was at first and I think I am going to redo the forearms unless sanding down the current one gets it to a like able point. But here are some pictures

 

[gmstrowabarton]

Here is a small update I have finished one shin and the cod

On the left I was making the shin and well I forgot the scale the pep file I was using as a pattern the right one is correct

Testing the shin and it is a perfect fit may not even need padding for it

The cod is still in need of some details but it also fits with no problems

 

[gmstrowabarton]

I didn't get too much done this weekend on my armor between having a major storm with Tornados and having friends come up for the weekend on short notice but I have some pictures of what I got done except for the helmet but I should have some soon of that.

Sanded the front sides down so they are somewhat flush to the rest still more to go on these.

Here some progress on a new forearm I decided to scrap the other one I started to make couldn't get the shape how I wanted by sanding and dremel

I completed the forearm but ran into a small issue it doesn't fit really. I can get it on but it is really tight but I am scaling it up about 10% and going with how I made this one. I also am going to play around with painting on this one and maybe I will have a girl that will want some Halo armor this will fit on.

And here is a preview at my next project. This is also a little small I guess I just couldn't size anything right this weekend but I think I know why this isn't the right size PDF files have a auto scaling feature and it was most likely still on when I printed but the plus side it wasn't my ink or paper use and it was just some extra poster board I have lying around. The black is what I am thinking for the visor area probably going to go with a sniper class Mando.

Til next update

 

[gmstrowabarton]

So I didn't get much work done on my suit last week do to a cram session for a Apple course for Mac OS X 10.6 to get certified in like 2 and half days when I have just started using Macs for work but work paid for it and I was able to pass barely. But I have started some detail work on the armor this week although I still need to make the boots. I have got the base coat on the helmet but ran into the issue of finding the right color since I plan on having the same color of Jun because I plan to convert this suit to a Jun suit for D*con maybe we will see. I tested 2 colors on some handplates and I thing the second color looks better but I would be glad to hear from others what they think of the colors.

Helmet with the gap filled between the visor and edges

Primer on the helmet

After 3 coats of matte nickel

Testing colors the one on the left was my first try but doesn't seem right to me the right is the color I like better in this pic I hadn't weathered it

Here is after some weathering on the second color let me know what you think still plan to add some silver to the edges

New forearms right size this time XD

Started on the under armor for the thigh armor

Knee parts

Started on the shoulders some more

Under Armor for the sides of the chest still have to smooth it out and add the indents it has

Just got me a big tote that will hold all my armor in it instead of having two small one oh and this one has wheels