Ruze's Rube Odst *pic Heavy*

[Ruze789]

Several months ago I was lucky enough to get one of Rube's incredible ODST helmets, and after months of on-and-off work I've finally nearly finished working on it. I did the paintjob to match T Rymarr's helmet as closely as I could, I tried to get all the major damage spots and unique marks. Rymarr's helmet is the one that Bungie has, so all pics from Bungie tours feature this one. Eventually I got tired of matching spots and scratches and kind of fudged it.



It was painted with the layered method, I've got 4 layers of rattle-can paint on here. Primer base coat; Silver and then mask the silver; Dark gray auto primer then mask the dark gray, then flat black.



Visor is attached with binding posts so it's easily removed, as are the chin straps.



All I have left to do is some light surface damage to scuff it up, trim the strap down, interior paint, and padding.

And the Weta one for comparison's sake:

 

[angry cabbage]

I like that paint job. It says Ive been shot at by covenant but ive yet to be blown up. lol

 

[Adulese]

I must say, this helmet is one of the best ODST's I've seen. I applaud the paint job and attention to detail. Two thumbs way up.



- Adulese

 

[S1l3nt V1p3r]

DO WANT!

 

[MikyVengeance]

wowowow.

AMAZING!

how much did you pay?: O

 

[Underdogg13]

Wow, grade A job sir.

 

[Shade88]

how much did you pay?: O

MikyVengeance:



Umm, Please Pm Rube for the price, not supposed to post that information.



@Ruze: Where's the rest of the armour? Looks AWESOME!!!

 

[Ruze789]

Thanks guys, glad to know the all the work is enjoyed by others! Can't wait till it's done, it's taking forever...



@MikyVengeance: You can PM member rube for his pricing on kits, he'll let you know.



@Shade: This is still the only ODST piece I have so far, after all this time. But I'm really getting the itch to put a full one together.

 

[mightymints]

Nice work Ruze, glad to see another one out there!

 

[Loess]

:eek Wow, that's some great paint work!

 

[Ruze789]

Thanks guys!

I've received a few PMs asking about my interior, the binding posts, and the strap attachments. I don't have any pictures at the moment but I will take some when I get home tonight and upload them.

 

[mightymints]

Excellent, thanks Ruze

 

[Belakor]

Beautiful paint work Ruze! Seriously amazing! Can't wait to see what you do with the rest of the suit

 

[Ruze789]

Beautiful paint work Ruze! Seriously amazing! Can't wait to see what you do with the rest of the suit

Thanks Belakor! I can't wait to get some time free to actually work on the rest.



And now I've finally taken some interior pics! Haven't got the padding in yet, but I did get it cut tonight. It should work pretty well, I cut some foam out in the same design/ shape they used for the lids in Starship Troopers. I took measurements from a screenused SST helmet I recently acquired, drew it up in the computer, and cut it out. I'll take some pics of that soon.



Here's what I got for now, the closeups are on the Chicago Screws (sold as Binding Posts), which are held in place with Apoxie Sculpt:

 

[mkshane81]

Very nice work ruze!! I think a lot of people were probably trying to figure out how to cleanly mount the visors inside their helmets, and this makes it just perfectly clear. As for the paint job, not a whole lot of words can describe it. Absolutely spot on!!

 

[Redgeneral]

The interior picture are exactly what I needed to see. Up to this point I had no idea how I was going to fasten the visor to the helmet. Thanks!

 

[KeyPersoNELL]

wow very nice helmet



Has very good quality too :cool

 

[Skupilkinson]

Nice lid, but awesome paint there Ruze!!!

 

[GiR3892]

wow awesome work there very well done indeed love the paintjob

 

[Ruze789]

Thanks guys! :cool

Glad the interior pics were helpful. One note about the binding posts holding the visor - regular 2-part epoxy may work a little better than the epoxy putty that I used. The putty adds a little bit of depth to the post's base, so that when you put the visor in it does not sit flush against the inside of the helmet anymore. I had to add the strips of plastic to hold the visor out in the right spot.



I'll be finishing my padding this weekend so I will post that up too when it's done.