Spartan711
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This post is a work in progress...As I come up with new ideas (not necessarily new but i'm new here and haven't read most of the posts so they are new to me, if they truly are new and they are worth telling people about then tell them) i will update this post and use is as a constructive criticism thread for my armor and also as a checklist type thing or a reminder of all the crazy stuff i'm trying to do so i don't forget while i'm making it and it doesnt' get implemented. Anyways: On with the post!!!
I am planning on making a cardboard set of armor. I would like to know what ya'll think about my idea for reinforcing it. My plan is to use the pep stuff and the models provided by jedi as a sort of pattern. I will then copy that pattern onto peices of cardboard which are roughly an 1/8th of an inch thick and pure white. In order to get the folds right i will have to use and x-acto knife or somthing similar to cut through 1/4 to 1/2 way through the board and bend it. then i will cover that with some form of hard substance (most likely fiberglass) and insulate with 1/2" think padding on the inside of all peices. The helmet will have working lights, internal fans and speakers. Fans are easy, just use the standard cpu fan. The speakers i plan to use will most likely be from a set of headphones. As i am a somewhat experienced amatuer electrician (lol i think that's an oxymoron) i can easily do this. For that set up i plan to put the speakers in the helmets "jawbone" (where the MC's jawbone would be, the place where the flashlight is on the outside) with the wires possibly going in the bottom edge and having a connector in the bottom rear of the helmet. Do ya'll think the cardboard stuff would work? Does this make any sense? Will the fiberglass go over the cardboard or seep through? Any constructive criticism is appreciated...You can be as mean as you want lol, doesn't matter, i just want to do this right.
I also need to know i kinda inexpensive way to make a visor. I don't have that much money (i'm starting my first job in a week) and i gotta buy a car and blah blah blah (main reason i'm doing this with cardboard :roll: )
I want to add a way to put on/take off the armour without screwing it up. A good thing i just thought of while looking over the crotch peices would be either velcro or snaps (buttons) on the peice that goes between your legs and on both sides where it goes on your hips (for the hips maybe one of those clips with the three prongs that go into the big slot that you push the two sides in to unclip it (don't know if they have a specific name)). I could make the peices in segments so they are somewhat flexible and attach them to a strip with the buttons or velcro. I think this would only work well with the chest peice and the crotch peice though. Thinking of a way to do for the rest...
Maybe a way to make the tint in the visor be controllable. So that it can be a full metallic reflective thing and then you can turn it down and actually see through the visor...
Don't know about the cardboard that i was planning on using...it's thick as hell and hard to cut...also the flaps from the pep thing are kinda small for for how thick the cardboard and how much it'd need to fold...might have to go buy some cardstock...
I am planning on making a cardboard set of armor. I would like to know what ya'll think about my idea for reinforcing it. My plan is to use the pep stuff and the models provided by jedi as a sort of pattern. I will then copy that pattern onto peices of cardboard which are roughly an 1/8th of an inch thick and pure white. In order to get the folds right i will have to use and x-acto knife or somthing similar to cut through 1/4 to 1/2 way through the board and bend it. then i will cover that with some form of hard substance (most likely fiberglass) and insulate with 1/2" think padding on the inside of all peices. The helmet will have working lights, internal fans and speakers. Fans are easy, just use the standard cpu fan. The speakers i plan to use will most likely be from a set of headphones. As i am a somewhat experienced amatuer electrician (lol i think that's an oxymoron) i can easily do this. For that set up i plan to put the speakers in the helmets "jawbone" (where the MC's jawbone would be, the place where the flashlight is on the outside) with the wires possibly going in the bottom edge and having a connector in the bottom rear of the helmet. Do ya'll think the cardboard stuff would work? Does this make any sense? Will the fiberglass go over the cardboard or seep through? Any constructive criticism is appreciated...You can be as mean as you want lol, doesn't matter, i just want to do this right.
I also need to know i kinda inexpensive way to make a visor. I don't have that much money (i'm starting my first job in a week) and i gotta buy a car and blah blah blah (main reason i'm doing this with cardboard :roll: )
I want to add a way to put on/take off the armour without screwing it up. A good thing i just thought of while looking over the crotch peices would be either velcro or snaps (buttons) on the peice that goes between your legs and on both sides where it goes on your hips (for the hips maybe one of those clips with the three prongs that go into the big slot that you push the two sides in to unclip it (don't know if they have a specific name)). I could make the peices in segments so they are somewhat flexible and attach them to a strip with the buttons or velcro. I think this would only work well with the chest peice and the crotch peice though. Thinking of a way to do for the rest...
Maybe a way to make the tint in the visor be controllable. So that it can be a full metallic reflective thing and then you can turn it down and actually see through the visor...
Don't know about the cardboard that i was planning on using...it's thick as hell and hard to cut...also the flaps from the pep thing are kinda small for for how thick the cardboard and how much it'd need to fold...might have to go buy some cardstock...