Sort of back after my last hiatus

[Rex 084]

Well howdy! Totally awesome to have you back among us! I had been keeping track of your build build last year and was saddened when you left us. I'm looking forward to seeing you complete the build.
Welcome back to the family! ^_^

Rex out

 

[Spartan 117 JMW]

Hi Rex! Gosh, its so humbling to be missed when you are gone and find out when you get back *if that makes sense, I think that sentence is ordered wrong* lol Anyhow, I could say it a million times, its good to be back
Pepping wednesday/thursday if all goes well!!! Even if I only get things cut and folded but not glued, I'll post pics just to show you's I'm at least a little committed xD haha

Man, I think this year will be my most creative and challenging yet!!!! So many projects on the go, but thankfully, I've finished some really old ones too!!!

Hope everyone's keeping cool, I'm currently working on painting my own fancomic. If any of you are on tumblr or deviant art follow/watch me

---UPDATE---
Finished my first page of the Doujinshi, (Yes I know I made no cover page, please forgive me, I'll do that eventually) Stay tuned on Tumblr for more (and deviant art once I put up a cover page since I decided against uploading my comic there until theres a cover page to go with it)

 

[JonnyMars]

might be being blind but whats your deviantart?? Shall add you

 

[Spartan 117 JMW]

My DA is here, but I wont be updating my doujinshi there juust yet, but I will update it on my tumblr (link in my siggy)

http://cheshirevirus3.deviantart.com/

 

[Spartan 117 JMW]

Hey guys Me again, been busy back at college, already starting lab practicals in computer science, thankfully, Im a fairly confident programmer at my current level so it was fine. Also got some results back from my exams and assignments and I'm passing classes.

As a reward I got some pepping done tonight. Here are a pair of thighs (Yes I know they look HUGE but they're actually a pretty close size, scaling went well, Im sure once I have a cod piece pepped they wont look so gargantuan, I swear I don't have thunder thighs ... at least I hope not >.< I do have fatty thighs but they arent like ... grossly obese I hope ... OH GOD NOW IM SCARING MYSELF)

Okay, manic episode aside, glad to see I haven't gotten too rusty at pepping since my absence

Heres my whole armour together, helmet, chest piece, forearms and hand plates (Tucked in the sides of the chest piece, i'll take better pictures of the whole suit laid out at a later stage) and now two thigh pieces!

Close up of the thigh pieces, there are normal definition to deal with my poor balance. Until I get better balance (through therapy once I get confirmation from the hospital) Im sticking with normal definition on the lower body parts because (a), if I fall over in normal definition armour, it will take less time to rebuild or repair than higher definition and (b) I think lower detailed armour will be more accomodating to my balance, hopefully I wont fall over at all.

Maybe later I can replace these pieces with higher defintiion so the lower body can match more with the upper body which is all HD.

This is my song of the day since my string of bad luck (I had a bad day on Wednesday/Tuesday) seems to have lifted

Also, this song has been stuck in my head for the past 3 days at least! (Im not a Kpop fan, but I must admit, I love their outfits and their dancing is real cool, the songs pretty catchy too, but not what I usually listen to)

 

[Spartan 117 JMW]

Hmm ... which piece will I start working on next week (if Im not swamped with work...)

Cod piece?
Shins?
Upper arms?
Shoes?

... I think thats all I have left to do now!! WOW!!! Its amazing how quickly things can suddenly pick up in these projects. The weather is too poor here right now for fiberglass/bondo-ing so Im not in much of a rush with Pepping at the minute, but its almost spring so hopefully it will pick up soon, wouldnt it be great to jump right into the fiberglassing once the weather picks up Good weather is not for sitting inside pepping x)

 

[JonnyMars]

good weather is definitely not to be squandered! Id go with the shins, purely because the thighs are made, may as well continue your way down! good work on the thighs btw

Oh and more music, whoop!

 

[Spartan_127]

Welcome back Spartan!
Glad to hear your condition wasn't as serious as first thought and that you are looking into getting back into your armor.
Can't wait to see what will come out of it.
All your work looks great. Nice and clean. Keep up the good work!!!
All the best and cool pic with the Irish Navy boys.

 

[Tigersgrace]

Great looking pep work, your hiatus didnt stop your skill!(obviously)

 

[Spartan 117 JMW]

@Mars - Great plan, I'll work down and then back up again, so next is shins, then boots, then cod piece and upper arms!!!!

@Spartan127 and Tiger, thanks You guys are always too kind in your compliments haha, no one ever says "Ah this looks a little off" or "You could do this better another way", but it is good I guess!!! At least I'm approaching right so far!!!

@Spartan127 (Comment prt 2!!!) Thanks again Yeah its a relief to be out of constant physical therapy, I still havent gotten into the hospital for my other therapy, but I hope it will be an easier therapy and hopefully very good, for now, Im doing quite well! Not much pain at all and I'm able to do a lot of things I didn't even know I could do a few months ago!!!!

In other news!!!

I got my programming grade today and I got a first class honor so Im REALLY happy with that

Im sorting out notes and stuff tonight, and the weekend of the 22nd I'm working at Epiccon from the friday till sunday, so those days wont be very "Armour-y" also, Im getting a couple of assignments in college soon so for group projects and stuff I'll have a little less time to pep, but on the bright side, almost all the pepping is done which means i can take my time at it

 

[Rex 084]

Looking good! This is coming along quite nicely. Keep it up!

Rex out

 

[joshtried]

congratulations? on the diagnosis! not that its good, but its better to be less severe. I am glad that you have so many things to keep you going. I am a nurse state side, and too often people just quit. Keep Calm and Chive On!!!

pepping looks great, btw. I saw above you mentioned no one really critiques here. i think part of it is we dont have a 360 view with every angle of your project. from what we can see, things look great!! are there any parts in particular you may be having trouble with?

 

[blackout245]

glad to have you back on the 405th, and good pep job. As far as your xbox account goes it can be recovered you just need your gamertag, email, and password. Last i heard from a friend that works for microsoft it takes awhile for them to recycle a gamer tag. Worst case call microsoft and they may be able to help.

 

[Crimmson]

congrats on getting better and welcome back spartan 117

 

[spartan IV]

Have you considered using foam for the lower parts of your armor. It isn't all to difficult to work with and if your fears came to pass and you end up falling it will be able to cushion the blow with out breaking.

 

[ViperB77]

Hi there!

I'm kinda new... but I can't wait to see what you have in store!

 

[Spartan 117 JMW]

congratulations? on the diagnosis! not that its good, but its better to be less severe. I am glad that you have so many things to keep you going. I am a nurse state side, and too often people just quit. Keep Calm and Chive On!!!

pepping looks great, btw. I saw above you mentioned no one really critiques here. i think part of it is we dont have a 360 view with every angle of your project. from what we can see, things look great!! are there any parts in particular you may be having trouble with?

Oh it is good, its a lot more manageable, its hard to explain, if you read up a little on Ehlers Danlos Sydnrome, you'd see why I was so scared >A< but now I'm categorized as BJHS, Benign Joint Hypermobility Syndrome, like the name implies its more "Benign" than the more severe condition. Its hard to explain I'm sorry >A< but thanks so much I find, even if I still have "sick" bones and always will have, its a blessing to know that I have a better outlook now than I had a year or two ago 2 years ago I feared I'd wake up one morning and lose the ability to walk within weeks, now, I know that most likely wont happen. Its a great burden off your shoulders, but either way, we have to carry on, or Chive on as you say Regardless, despite my rediagnosis, life goes on as long as we're living

Ah and good point about the critques, I don't know anyone who manages to put up full 360 shots of armour pieces, and although I dont try show up the "best parts" and cover flaws (I literally just put the armour together and snap shots haha) i see where you are coming from when you say people might not be able to see the flaws to critique them and Yeah, I do see some things that drive me up the wall but I know I'll fix up in bondo-stage at the latest

glad to have you back on the 405th, and good pep job. As far as your xbox account goes it can be recovered you just need your gamertag, email, and password. Last i heard from a friend that works for microsoft it takes awhile for them to recycle a gamer tag. Worst case call microsoft and they may be able to help.

Thank you and Im setting up a new gamer tag once I have time (school is a pain, Im avoiding getting too into games, I got back results today, I got the highest grade type in one subject, and a pretty mediocre pass in another so I need to knuckle down a bit) I'll put up my new Gamertag once i make it here so you guys can all ad me

congrats on getting better and welcome back spartan 117

Thank you

Have you considered using foam for the lower parts of your armor. It isn't all to difficult to work with and if your fears came to pass and you end up falling it will be able to cushion the blow with out breaking.

I had considered it, but I thought it would be harder for me to work with since its thicker than the card stock Im using, I don't know if im dextrous enough to work with that kind of material, I might try using foam on weapons or another armour build depending on how this one turns out I'm kinda scared to switch to a different material incase it doesnt match up with the rest of the armour when finished >A< Im a perfectionist haha

Hi there!

I'm kinda new... but I can't wait to see what you have in store!

Hey there Viper!! Welcome to the family I have some pictures of my armour on my tumblr webpage, the link isssss
here!
http://lovethevisualsystem.tumblr.com/Halo

Anyway, got to go guys, I bought sleeping dogs for xbox ... Im gonna play for a couple of hours and eat a bucket of ice cream (and cry) for letting my grades fall so terribly >A<

Might also pep a shin tonight or tomorrow ... Even though I should work harder

 

[Spartan 117 JMW]

HAPPY VALENTINES DAY SPARTANS!!!

Love you guys

Hope everyone had a great day (I sure did!!!) what did you guys do? More costuming laterzzz maybe this weekend this week has been a blast!

 

[BeanwaterFox]

Love the valentines card!

 

[Spartan 117 JMW]

Practicing mah bass!!! I got a cable that connects my pedals to the computer wahoo, but since I dont have any decent recording software quality sucks ... oh well!! Its fun