StayFrosty
Jr Member
Awesome, It's been awhile since I've seen a foam DMR 'round these parts.
Schankerz' First Halo Reach Foam Build
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Well here she is, spread out on a desk of utter filth and disorganization...
One cool thing about the sliced DMR file is it shows how to make the mag removable if you so please, so of course I did and it sticks in there really nicely and isn't too difficult to take out.
One cool thing about the sliced DMR file is it shows how to make the mag removable if you so please, so of course I did and it sticks in there really nicely and isn't too difficult to take out.
Thom A293
Active Member
Great job on the armor! Cant wait to see when you start painting it all 
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Yeah I don't think HALO nerds will critique you on the pistol if it wasn't being used back in reach, even if so, I am pretty sure Spartans would have access to experimental weapons. DMR is lookin good, I bet doing to sliced version is way easier than doing one that is more like a pep build.
.Yeah I don't think HALO nerds will critique you on the pistol if it wasn't being used back in reach, even if so, I am pretty sure Spartans would have access to experimental weapons. DMR is lookin good, I bet doing to sliced version is way easier than doing one that is more like a pep build.
mblackwell1002
Sr Member
Nice magnum! very well detailed!
Nice DMR! cool removeable mag!
Nice suit! it's a clean build
Nice Christmas Tree! it's shorter than you are, though...
your desk isn't that messy...Err, maybe it is...
now, put a visor in that helmet, Spartan Schankerz...and Quit smiling...
no Spartan ever smiles..
Do the true Spartan face: nah, just teasing.
Hehe, this is a great build! I'm looking forward to seeing another great tool of destruction!
Nice DMR! cool removeable mag!
Nice suit! it's a clean build
Nice Christmas Tree! it's shorter than you are, though...
your desk isn't that messy...Err, maybe it is...
now, put a visor in that helmet, Spartan Schankerz...and Quit smiling...
no Spartan ever smiles..
Do the true Spartan face:
nah, just teasing.Hehe, this is a great build! I'm looking forward to seeing another great tool of destruction!
vivalablake89
Active Member
YASSS first test fit is always my favorite part and seeing it all come together. Looks great dude! And as I said before that magnum is awesome and can't wait to see more of that DMR best of luck with it bro!
Thanks guys! And mblackwell1002 I've had the same tree for about 10 years so I've had time to outgrow it a bit, and I'll be sure to give you a good scowl next time I take a helmet pic.
Thought I'd show what I've got done with the DMR over the past few days, I'm trying to go all out on the detail with this thing and it has A LOT of it. But all that's really left now is a few more details, that section that goes on top of the gun near the butt end, scope and the barrel which I'm making out of wood.
Thought I'd show what I've got done with the DMR over the past few days, I'm trying to go all out on the detail with this thing and it has A LOT of it. But all that's really left now is a few more details, that section that goes on top of the gun near the butt end, scope and the barrel which I'm making out of wood.
mblackwell1002
Sr Member
Oh, Man! niiiiiceee!
that's one pretty piece of foam!
and, yeah, turn that smile upside down
Oh-hoh this is a great build!
now that I've buttered you up,
I'm actually quite interested in making a marksman rifle myself...and yours looks awesome!
could you explain how you did yours? templates?
that's one pretty piece of foam!
and, yeah, turn that smile upside down
Oh-hoh this is a great build!
now that I've buttered you up,
I'm actually quite interested in making a marksman rifle myself...and yours looks awesome!
could you explain how you did yours? templates?
Well my friend, since you did ask so nicely I'll attempt to give you something of a tutorial on how I did this, although I must warn you most of what I did was free handed while looking at reference pictures so expect to be doing a lot of that yourself.
Schankerz' Super Rad Halo Reach DMR Tutorial
So the file I used was the sliced DMR file, if you look up "DMR" in the file archive (it's still there on the old site I checked) it's the "Halo Reach M329 DMR (Sliced)" It's pretty hard to miss it.
Now when you take a gander at the file it looks like this:
But you only need a few of the pieces from this file, I've circled the ones you need in red, the rest you can just move off to the side.
Now once you have these pieces organize them so they look like this, the reason being so you can scale the gun to your liking.
Now if your thinking why I onlt have one section of the gun shown here is becasue you're going to use those two front pieces (mid and forward sections) three times, the hollow back section once, and the full back section twice. This gives the gun it's thickness and leaves that hollow space in the middle for your removable mag. shown here:
(side note: That rectangular hole in the front section where the barrel goes is only for the middle section, for the two outer sections just keep drawing straight over that part so it looks like it does in this picture)
Once they're printed just tape it back together to form the full template so you can trace it onto your foam, but do tape the handle guard piece to the full template, that gets added on separately since its a smaller thickness than the gun. It's instead a thickness of two, not three:
Also before you trace the template onto the foam *IMPORTANT* make sure to cut off this top section of the gun shown by the red line here:
It's not accurate to what that section looks like in-game and honestly makes it a lot easier to just add that section later as a separate piece. (you will not be using that cut off template later so you can just toss that away) You can see what that top section looks like in this picture, note that's just the basic shape of it without any details yet, and when you do make that part the thickness I had for it was two, you can change it if you want but that's how i did it.
Now if I've told you how to do this correctly you can start adding a more 3D look to the gun, starting with looking at the above shown picture with the long rectangle piece that covers the length of the gun. It just takes some measuring at refrence pictures to figure out that piece so I won't stay on it too long, just make sure you leave room to put on that butt section at the very end of the gun, again just look at your pictures and trace out where everything goes on the basic template before you start going all willy-nilly with the add on sections.
Now for the bottom front section of the gun, the part where you place your other hand, to make it pop out more you're going to cut that whole bottom part out along these lines:
You're then going to add a fourth layer to your cut out section, then glue it back in place. Now if perhaps you want to make this easier or don't have a good craft blade you can cut that section out of the paper template beforehand then add the section in later but this is how I did it so to each his own.
Now assuming you're still following me heres a few more things to know:
This is the magazine, it's really simple and assuming you do it right it should come in and out of its slot with relative ease once you've done it a few times.
Also I didn't realize this when I first started but the section of the template where the trigger is is a bit off from what it looks like in game. It was a relatively easy fix but if you want to avoid making these changes yourself just update your template accordingly so it looks more like this:
Now for the rest of this I'm going to leave pictures of what I have so far so you guys can figure out the rest, by following these pictures and your own reference pictures it's relatively easy to figure out. Word of advice though, keep those paper templates with you for the whole build, they come in handy when your trying to figure out where details should go.
Again I will tell you mostly everything here was free handed using reference pictures, when doing this yourself I highly recommend getting A LOT of reference pics, they're pivotal in the making of this gun.
Items used so far: EVA foam, craft foam, contact cement, markers, craft knife, dremel, heat gun.
Now of course since this not yet a finished product I can update this tutorial once new progress is made and if there's anything else you want me to add or want to know I will add it in as well.
Thanks for reading everybody and I hope some of you find this useful!
Take care all.
Schankerz' Super Rad Halo Reach DMR Tutorial
So the file I used was the sliced DMR file, if you look up "DMR" in the file archive (it's still there on the old site I checked) it's the "Halo Reach M329 DMR (Sliced)" It's pretty hard to miss it.
Now when you take a gander at the file it looks like this:
But you only need a few of the pieces from this file, I've circled the ones you need in red, the rest you can just move off to the side.
Now once you have these pieces organize them so they look like this, the reason being so you can scale the gun to your liking.
Now if your thinking why I onlt have one section of the gun shown here is becasue you're going to use those two front pieces (mid and forward sections) three times, the hollow back section once, and the full back section twice. This gives the gun it's thickness and leaves that hollow space in the middle for your removable mag. shown here:
(side note: That rectangular hole in the front section where the barrel goes is only for the middle section, for the two outer sections just keep drawing straight over that part so it looks like it does in this picture)
Once they're printed just tape it back together to form the full template so you can trace it onto your foam, but do tape the handle guard piece to the full template, that gets added on separately since its a smaller thickness than the gun. It's instead a thickness of two, not three:
Also before you trace the template onto the foam *IMPORTANT* make sure to cut off this top section of the gun shown by the red line here:
It's not accurate to what that section looks like in-game and honestly makes it a lot easier to just add that section later as a separate piece. (you will not be using that cut off template later so you can just toss that away) You can see what that top section looks like in this picture, note that's just the basic shape of it without any details yet, and when you do make that part the thickness I had for it was two, you can change it if you want but that's how i did it.
Now if I've told you how to do this correctly you can start adding a more 3D look to the gun, starting with looking at the above shown picture with the long rectangle piece that covers the length of the gun. It just takes some measuring at refrence pictures to figure out that piece so I won't stay on it too long, just make sure you leave room to put on that butt section at the very end of the gun, again just look at your pictures and trace out where everything goes on the basic template before you start going all willy-nilly with the add on sections.
Now for the bottom front section of the gun, the part where you place your other hand, to make it pop out more you're going to cut that whole bottom part out along these lines:
You're then going to add a fourth layer to your cut out section, then glue it back in place. Now if perhaps you want to make this easier or don't have a good craft blade you can cut that section out of the paper template beforehand then add the section in later but this is how I did it so to each his own.
Now assuming you're still following me heres a few more things to know:
This is the magazine, it's really simple and assuming you do it right it should come in and out of its slot with relative ease once you've done it a few times.
Also I didn't realize this when I first started but the section of the template where the trigger is is a bit off from what it looks like in game. It was a relatively easy fix but if you want to avoid making these changes yourself just update your template accordingly so it looks more like this:
Now for the rest of this I'm going to leave pictures of what I have so far so you guys can figure out the rest, by following these pictures and your own reference pictures it's relatively easy to figure out. Word of advice though, keep those paper templates with you for the whole build, they come in handy when your trying to figure out where details should go.
Again I will tell you mostly everything here was free handed using reference pictures, when doing this yourself I highly recommend getting A LOT of reference pics, they're pivotal in the making of this gun.
Items used so far: EVA foam, craft foam, contact cement, markers, craft knife, dremel, heat gun.
Now of course since this not yet a finished product I can update this tutorial once new progress is made and if there's anything else you want me to add or want to know I will add it in as well.
Thanks for reading everybody and I hope some of you find this useful!
Take care all.
mblackwell1002
Sr Member
super rad! thanks man!
you should make a .word document for the archive!
you should make a .word document for the archive!
jango3tears
New Member
the build looks great dude, it's so cool that you're breaking the norm and making part of your build the concept design for noble six's shins. also a trick i've learned is that when building foam helmets if it comes out unbalanced creating a gap of hot glue will push the part forward. (did it with my helmet on both sides, cause it was that bad, but yours shouldn't need both sides)
-Will(jango3tears)
-Will(jango3tears)
TOWLBiscuits
New Member
Great looking DMR love the detail.
ArmoredAmir
Member
I feel like you should make a post dedicated to the DMR tutorial in the Halo Props section also! (Or like what mblackwell1002 said) Keep on making amazing stuff!
vivalablake89
Active Member
Amazing Tutorial bro! When I finally get around to mine I know where I'll be referencing my information from .
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Alright, small update for you guys, I got my armour taken into my dads work shop last weekend and was able to use the paint room to seal up my armour with Plastidip.
With everything nicely sealed I'm on to paint! I've got a friend of mine working with me to make a design for the armour that goes along with the wolf design on the helmet. Once we're done drawing it out I'll be sure to give you all a peek at it!
Also some progress on the DMR, few more details as well as the scope! Only a few more details and the barrel and it's done!
I'll be sure to update my little tutorial for you all as soon as possible.
With everything nicely sealed I'm on to paint! I've got a friend of mine working with me to make a design for the armour that goes along with the wolf design on the helmet. Once we're done drawing it out I'll be sure to give you all a peek at it!
Also some progress on the DMR, few more details as well as the scope! Only a few more details and the barrel and it's done!
I'll be sure to update my little tutorial for you all as soon as possible.
mblackwell1002
Sr Member
sweet! your Dad has an AWESOME workshop!! I want a workshop that awesome!!!
nice DMR!!! everything is looking AMAZING!!
that workshop...is...so...cool...
nice DMR!!! everything is looking AMAZING!!
that workshop...is...so...cool...
vivalablake89
Active Member
Why if it isn't captain obvious and a salute, for that obviously amazing DMR!
mblackwell1002
Sr Member
oh, yeah...I haven't used a gif lately...I've got a un...un-controllable urge comingg!!!!
Ressiiiist!!! Hey, I think kylo likes your DMR, too.
Bwa-HaaA! so much fun! I feel like I haven't done that in ages!
Riding off the rails like a crazy train, YAH!!!
I need to get back on topic!
Ressiiiist!!! Hey, I think kylo likes your DMR, too.
Bwa-HaaA! so much fun! I feel like I haven't done that in ages!
Riding off the rails like a crazy train, YAH!!!
I need to get back on topic!
StayFrosty
Jr Member
You always need to get back on topic
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