Sealgair's road to Recon WIP *pic heavy*

[rainbow dash]

Codpiece sieht gut aus, soweit man das bei der kleinen Bildgröße sagen kann.
Freu mich schon auf weitere Bilder von dir.

Codpiece looks great, can't wait for further progress.

 

[MuffinMICHI]

Ja da scheint wirklich sehr sauber gearbeitet worden zu sein.
...bin schon gespannt auf weiter Bilder

Very nice and clean work. Looking forward to see more pics

 

[Sealgair]

Jungs sorry, habe gar nicht mehr reingeschaut! Danke für Eure Kommentare ich werd gleich mal die ersten Gehversuche mit dem Harzen wagen! Später gibts Bilder, je nach dem, wie weit ich komme.

Sorry guys, i haven't been checking the thread lately. Thanks for your comments! I'm gonna start off with the first baby steps in resining. I'll post pics later on too, depending on how much progress there'll be.

 

[gliderx64]

Wow! great pep work, nice and tight with crisp lines. Don't worry about what parts your using, I like to mix and match, be unique

 

[Sealgair]

Thanks very much buddy. I'll try my best in being as unique as possible

 

[Sealgair]

Update time:

I started resining all the pieces i have so far. I was a little too careful on the first layer so it got very thin but i put a second layer on everything after letting it cure for a night. I use a summer hardener that hardens super fast when exposed to heat or direct sunlight. As it has been in the 30°C in Germany on the weekend (which is around in the high 80s Fahrenheit) i have been able to accomplish several pieces. I'm gonna post pics later on maybe with some fiberglassing results too. Stay tuned

 

[rainbow dash]

Glad to see you come along nice and fast with your armor. How many parts do you have so far? Better too careful than beeing too careless, you can always put a second layer on, but if you use to much resin at the first time it will probably warp and you may have to do the whole piece again, not funny I can tell from experience. Also glad too see you managed to handle the resin properly.

 

[Sealgair]

I am still to pep the chest piece(s) and the legs. Yeah, i did not encounter too many problems yet AND i have no warping up to this point *knock on wood* but we'll see. I'm kinda suspicious on how smooth everything is going so far. There's gotta be something i'm missing or so. Maybe you guys can tell me when you see something, it is greatly appreciated. And with the resin, i figured i'd just give it a shot as i like to try things out.

Here are two pics on what i'm durrently doing. I have no idea if i'm doing it all wrong or even correct What i did so far on all my pieces was (as described earlier) i applied a first coat of resin on the outside, let that cure one night and applied a second one. It seems as two is enough already. I started fiberglassing the inside of one handplate and one shoulderpiece to see how it works out: I apply one layer of resin on the inside and cover those with small squares of fibermat. Then i press them in place using the paintbrush and apply another layer of resin to cover them using typing motions (is that correct? Does everyone understand what i want to say? Don't know the english term atm ).

I haven't finished the shoulder yet, probably will tomorrow.

Let me know what you think!

I switched back to using bigger pics again. I they are too big please let me know. Stay tuned!

 

[Z0M8I3]

Great job

One thing that I learned when fiber glassing is to use some spray adhesive on the piece you're going to fiberglass, then lay down a layer of precut fiberglass on that. Spray some more adhesive and add more glass to the thin areas and when you get it all covered in glass, go ahead and resin it. This works very well to keep plenty of time to work with the resin so you don't have to lay the glass WHILE you're applying the resin. I've done this on my current project and I couldn't imagine doing it any other way now.

 

[Sealgair]

Thanks man what adhesive are you referring to?

 

[Z0M8I3]

My Pleasure


This is what I use but any brand will work. It's just spray on glue in a can for crafts and things. LINK

 

[Macattack64]

I've used the spray adhesive method once before and it gets messy and sticky as well as can cause air bubbles. Another tip, let the fiberglass go over the edge a little bit and trip it later. That way you have a strong edge to the piece instead of it being sort of weak. Similar to what it looks like on the top of the bicep. It looks like there isn't any fiberglass behind it.

I've found it better to lay some resin down inside the piece, stick the fiberglass cloth section to it, and then doing the patting with the brush to let the cloth piece get saturated with resin to be a better method. You'll work your way down a piece as you go while overlapping previous sections of cloth.

Also, if you need any help with your road to Recon.. I just found the end of my road to Recon ;D

 

[rainbow dash]

Instead of using the spray adhesive just take your airbrush and cover the whole piece with a little layer of resin, really not much, just enough so the fiberglass-pieces will stick on it. That's how I roll
I agree with Macattack64, don't forget to cover the edges, it's no problem if something goes over the edge, you can remove that later easily with the dremel.

 

[Sealgair]

Thanks guys, i appreciate your comments. I'll keep the hints in mind when i start working on the stuff next time

 

[TheRabbit]

What I've been doing so far is just sticking the pieces of fiberglass in there, and if there isn't enough "tackiness" to hold it, use a super small dab of superglue to hold it in place. Seems to be working really well, especially in the really contoured areas that have a lot of tight curves, the superglue holds it tight.

 

[Sealgair]

Also, if you need any help with your road to Recon.. I just found the end of my road to Recon ;D

Dude, i will definitely get back to you. Thank you so much!


Update: here's what i did today for all you Recon addicts out there, this is what you've been waiting for right? The Recon parts

 

[gliderx64]

Your doing great man!!! I like zom8ies idea on fiberglass but the way your doing it is right too, by putting resin down first your getting the mat to stick to the piece. I think zom8ie is using a spray adheisive to keep the fiberglass from pulling away from the piece.

 

[Sealgair]

Your doing great man!!! I like zom8ies idea on fiberglass but the way your doing it is right too, by putting resin down first your getting the mat to stick to the piece. I think zom8ie is using a spray adheisive to keep the fiberglass from pulling away from the piece.

Thanks buddy! yeah, what i'm doing is tapping a layer of resin onto the fiberglass with the brush which has the same effect. I'm gonna try his method at some point though to see how it works.

 

[Sealgair]

Not a real update but some in-depth information to be given today. After seeing the so called "valley-fold-issue" that comes up from time to time, i decided on doing a really small tutorial on that. I hope carpathiavh99 won't mind, cause he came up with the very same idea.

The way i'm doing valley folds is pretty simple. The piece thats shown in the pics is from the MkVI HD Chest. As you can see, i like to score all the mountain folds first to have some orientation on how the piece is gonna look like.

Sometimes the valley folding lines end on a straight side of the piece. So i mark the endings on the print side of the piece with the exacto knife.

The result looks like this (hope you can see it, cause i had to take the pics with my cell phone)

Almost done. Now I just link the two dots on either side of the piece and voilà: nice and clean valley fold

I hope that helped a bit. As always, comments are appreciated. Stay tuned!

 

[PigBenis]

Gut gemacht

Ich selbst schneide und peppe freihand zumal es dabei schneller geht und meine präzision ist auch nicht ohne. bist ca doppelt so schnell nur mit nem stanley halt =D