Summer Project

[HaloCEFan]

Hey guys, I posted on the Introduce Myself topic but I'll say a little about myself here as well. I kind of live out in the middle of nowhere and began making movies two years ago to the season. Since then I have made several costumes of armor out of cardboard which have been used in my movies. I thought it was time to upgrade by making my armor out of something harder, plastic or something. I want to make a 10 or 20 minute Halo movie, but my ability to do that all depends on if I can make a good looking suit. I want to make Master Chief armor, my first layer was going to be out of cardstalk. I heard that this place can like print pieces of armor to cut out and glue together, if someone could help me with that that'd be great. I was then going to push it into clay and mold it. I need help with that part though, is there a... like a plastic that you can pour into the mold and wait for it to dry? Some administrator here did a tutorial on how to make a gun and did something like that I think.



I am also going to try to make a costume of the Arbiter as well, I've got most of how to make him planned out, but I would like some suggestions for what to make his eyes and fingers out of.

 

[Devious]

Read all the stickies in the noob forum and the pepakura forum and you will have no more questions

 

[HaloCEFan]

I read some stickies, but have a lot to go. Thanks to one of the pepekura stickies my job in making armor just got easier.

 

[Gallard]

I you have any questions along the way everybody here is always willing to help you out,

so just give us a shout and well give you the best advice there is.(I wont, but maybe a skilled veteran )

 

[Devious]

Molding isn't the cheapest way to go, if you want good looking decently strong armor, go with the mudglassing method (do a quick search and you find out exactly how) which involves using a mix of bondo and resin instead of just putting resin on the fiberglass.