Why you made your armor...

[link4044]

my friend asked me to make the helmet and that lead to the whole suit and weapons

 

[Skullcandy Girl]

Ohhh a couple reasons for me

I too saw NAS armor and I knew since I put my resources into my profession I'd never be able to afford it, and it was a few years ago.

Then I was surfing around last yea to see what was out there, and i happened on the 405th and with everyone being so nice and the information and an alternative to casting, I was as happy as a clam

Well I think MC has one of the most gorgeous designs, and it's a really nice way to get away from my computer since I work on one all day. I also love learning about new forms of art

 

[SPARTAN II]

Ah yes, it is a great feeling indeed. Except I don't have a moderately completed suit yet. I made about half of the H2 files, then got a girlfriend , then the Beta files came out, so thats what I'm working on now.

Same here. All I have at this point is the helmet, but I do hope to have the rest of the armour put together and ready for show before next Hallowe'en. I think I'd have the most bad-@$$ costume around these parts, heh heh.

The helmet I've been working on is actually an earlier Pep file from HALO 2, made by JediFraz. I downloaded it from the "How to use Pepakura" tutorial thread when I first joined this site.

I built and started working on layering it with styrene before many of the more detailed files by Slyfo, Fyling Squirrel, Robogenesis and others came out. Since I was already that far into it, I decided I might as well just stick with what I had.

Of course, due to the HALO 2 file's lack of detail, I've had to work some of the finer details into the basic model (ie. recessed nose piece, top-front indents on the crown, top vents, etc.).

Despite the added work involved using a less-detailed model, I'm very pleased with what I've accomplished thus far.

Not having a girlfriend to devote a lot of my spare time to probably also helps... lol

 

[stichedskater]

well as for me i love halo... i even have the trading cards, long story. lol
i saw my bro make the master cheif helmet and i was like how did you do that he simply replied out of paper... wtf!!! i said
then he showed me the site and i making my own now...

 

[SPARTAN II]

Ah... so your brother's a 405th member?

 

[Garland]

I saw the NAS armour, but it was expensive and production had already ended. I looked around and saw a tut on HBO and started working on a cardboard suit. I got halfway through the handplates and a toe piece and lost interest and gave up. Close to the Halo 3 launch I got interested and started looking around for armour. Google brought me to mjolnirarmor.com, and that brought me to these forums.

 

[stichedskater]

yeah his name is hillhopper

 

[volkov]

I always thought armor was badass, but I always felt that if I ever got into it I would fall into a pit of insanity and never come out. (my best friend when I was little went star wars crazy and the height of his life was seeing "slave princess leia" costumes at the fan gatherings). He kind of lost touch with reality.. did stuff like wear jedi robes when it was freezing and muttered "a jedi does not feel cold" to himself again and again when he was freezing to death.. We were still friends though, but then his parents split and he left my school and I kind of lost touch with him.. Anyway I kind of avoided the whole deal after that even though I really wanted to have stormtrooper armor..

Then I started making a crappy MC suit for halloween, just a cheap creation made mainly from fiberglass and car floor mats (no pep or anything, I just sanded fiberglass blocks down).. Thought I'd spend 100$ max.. dang I was wrong. Then I found this website and I guess there was no turning back. Turns out I havn't gone nuts yet tryng to save the world from the sith so I guess everythings ok, and I finally have a suit of armor like I always wanted.

As for my friend, last I heard he's loving life going around and being a super nerd, and lives more in a galaxy far far away then here.. But he's a much happier person then most of us "normal" people. So I guess he won at life so far. Good for him ^^

 

[Vexona]

I originally saw Chris Bryan's armor on HBO years ago. Tried making my own by layering posterboard, gave up. Discovered the 405th last fall, been here since.

Same here. I saw it in the archive last fall and knew I had to make some armor.

 

[Sean Bradley]

I made a suit for myself for Halloween in 2005 after seeing Chris Bryans suit on HBO. I rushed the project and wasn't very happy with the results so I became determined to improve the suit to the best of my abilities for the next year. Researching the Halo costumes that others made connected me with a whole community of sculptors, costumers, and cool people that I had alot in common with.

When I found this site while doing a domain name search, I knew that I had finally found the home for Halo costuming on the internet and a place to share my interests.. I've made alot of good friends along the way, shared and learned alot, and found a new direction for my creative efforts that made more sense to me than anything I had done up to that point.

So thats pretty much it.. I'm a lifer now.

 

[drgon47]

Alot of my friends arnt near as happy as I am. I make enough money and i do what i enjoy doing stuff like this.

 

[Deadandbroken]

I saw a video on gizmodo.com which had adam humping ps3's at gamestop, seeing his armor so godly, I wanted a suit too, so I googled and found this site and started working on pepakura right after reading all the stickies.

Same here

 

[SPARTAN C014]

Halo is my reson

 

[Panton6]

I started,never finished haha, by finding nightmare armor and went man what a baddass suit of armor. Eventualy after months(more like weeks or days) of searching i found 405th DOT COM!!! What I meen by started but never finished was I have always started on a Halo project and never got around it and just didnt finish .

 

[rvb4life]

Really, i never intended on making my suit, or even joining this website (SHOCKER!)

I was merely surfing the web for some halo pep models to make, when BAM! i came upon this site, and was in awe with adams suit and everyone's devotion, so i HAD to start.

Plus, all the pep files i could ever ask for

 

[Newspartancreator]

Loved playing the game, even when I was get me my ass handed to me... And when the opportunity arose to have a suit, it was on from there....

 

[rowan]

Ive only been a fan of the games since i got a 360 and halo 2 (around the start of 2005/2006, i had played halo 1 on the PC a bit) ever since then I've been the most fanatic halo fan I've ever met
when i first got into halo i looked around for the armor, only found nightmare which was aw sum, but expensive. i would have bought it, but i was only 14 at the time...
between then and now i played halo, surfed the forums, got mega hyped for the halo 3 launch, didn't speak for 3 days after the halo 3 trailer because i couldn't think of any words that summed up the sheer awsumness.
And then finally thought to myself...a good year 12 DT project would be to make a suit of Mjolnir armor.. goggled it and found u guys and have never regretted it
(Adams PS3 humping sealed the deal )

 

[James Falcon]

I saw Chris Bryan's Mark VI on HBO, realized I wanted one but didn't want to spend $3500 on a slipshod knockoff version, and shot a few emails back and forth with him about the process and realized how do-able it really was.

Why a Mark V for me, though? I got strung up trying for a Mark VI because all my references sucked and I thought Mark V would be easier. I kinda got proven wrong though when I discovered my 90% perfect scaling was really an impossible model since the Mark V severely limits arm movement. Bad mistake for me....

 

[gamerguy55]

heh, the first time i saw Nightmares armor i was inspired to try to make one. That was back in like 2005, or something like that, I looked for months for references and tried to find a site that had people that made them... One day i happened to be looking for some other people that had made the suits, just to see what kind of work other people had done, and in early 2006 (or some time around there) i found This, I saw some pics of armor and thought that i had finally found a place with people who had made some great stuff.. I never noticed the forums... I went on that site very frequently, but i never really saw anything that helpful...
Throughout 2006 i tried different ways of making my armor, I tried paper, foam, cardboard, and some kind of plastic stuff, none of them worked out right.. trashed everyone of them. (kinda regret that now ) Then one day (mid 2007) i got back on that site and was looking for something else that i might have missed (even though i was pretty sure i had checked everything). I saw that there was something about forums, i clicked it...when i browsed through all the pages of info and tips, i was mad. The perfect site i had been looking for was right under my nose the whole time.
That day i started working on my first pep suit, a few weeks later, i made an account on the forums, showed my completed product and i've loved it ever since.



EDIT: ok, this is more of how i discovered the 405th, but i cant explain why i wanted to make armor without you guys.

EDIT2: i didnt really make it cause i like halo, i do like it, just not the main reason.

 

[grid 187]

POINT BLANK MASTER CHIEF IS HOTTTT!!!! THATS WHY, FOR ME!!!!!


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