Rook's ODST buildup...

[Rook3]

My ODST build uses the armor kit made by a great board member.

Last night I finished the helmet. All that remains is some minor trimming of the interior visor and adding padding to the helmet.

Here's my build in progress...

9/10/2010

Did a couple coats of black primer...

Then painted a coat (and a half) of silver on the helmet and
a clear coat as well. Added resin reenforcing to some of the armor
interior. A couple pieces have two coats, but most still need a second coat.

About half the pieces have one coat right now.

I also augered out the cheek "vents" on the helmet...

...and added vents to the back. Should help with overheating.

I think I'm going to go with an OD Green stripe on top. I may take a hammer and bust the visor on the left side. Haven't completely decided if I'm going to go that psycho or not yet.

I'm thinking my ODST "Character" has taken a severe blow to the head.
Beam Rifle or Gravity Hammer... I haven't decided yet.

9/21/2010

Last week got a couple coats of gunmetal on the helmet.

"All" that's left to do is:
-Add color stripe on dome.
-Add weathering.
-Add "damage" (Boom! Headshot!)
-Add mesh to front and rear vent holes.
-Mount exterior and interior visors.
-Add padding.

And then get back to working on the actual armor.

 

[Rook3]

Finally last night I "finished" the helmet. I still need to sew the padding, and do a little trimming of the interior
visor but I think it turned out okay. I decided to just grind the "close call" on the side of the helmet. It could
be better, but it is what it is.

Ground off the moulded in screw heads and replaced them with black metal hex bolts. They seemed to work...
even if they're not "screen accurate." What I did the last couple days was get the visor fitted and mounted
using two chicago post screws, one at each temple. I also mounted the screens in the chin guard and the back
(did 3 of them just last night) and weathered it yesterday afternoon.

The colored stripe on top is an OD Green/Italian Olive combo... because the OD didn't look like it was
covering like I wanted it to. It changes to some really wierd color under a flash, but looks perfectly green
without the flash.

The exterior visor is blue, the interior is smoke and is held in place by 3 small strips of velcro. With the
internal visor in place you totally can't be seen from the outside. :mrgreen:

And... PICS!

 

[Rook3]

 

[Kommissar]

looking great so far,
i plan to get one of these myself

 

[insanetrooper]

great job on the paint, looking forward to seeing how the rest turns out

 

[Rook3]

Thanks! I have about half of the armor parts reenforced, and half of those need a second coat.
Then it's on to trimming, paint, etc. I hope to have it done by Halloween, but we'll see since I
mostly just have one day a week to work on things. The kit itself is quite nice and worth the
money in my opinion.