Ladman's Patriot Warmachine Build

ladman · Feb 11, 2013

Hello to all,

This is just a thread to show the progress of my build. I cant thank jackie and everyone else who has worked so hard to create these files for everyone to use. One to the Build!!!

Chest piece Progress. This piece was hard to make, but i was given some advice that helped me out a lot, since this is my first build, ill take all i can get. I cut out all the pieces for the foam templates, and then put a lot of them together to make large pieces. I think when i was done doing that, it came out to be only 7 large pieces, that made up about 90% of the entire chest. Then it was just all the little pieces after that. The most difficult part i would say was the inset U shape in the back where the cannon can move from side to side on a rail. My advice on that piece is to put the back together and leave out the Small U shaped center. after you have assembled the back, put one big piece of foam, i would say a 1\8 inch thick piece would be sufficient, and then glue the small U shape center piece on top of that. I did not think of doing that until i had already struggled with trying to put it together with all the little inset pieces:cry Anyway, enough talk, here are some pictures of what i have so far of the chest. I have 3D printed detail pieces being made for the rest of the Chest.

P4r4dox86 · Feb 11, 2013

Looking good for a first timer mate. The only tip I'd give is to try and minimise how much glue gets on the outside of the seams as it makes your life harder when you're coating/painting etc. Use less glue on the seams themselves and always put the pieces together with the outer edge first, and then sandwich them together so any excess glue squirts on the INSIDE of the seam. Then once that is dry and holding, add more glue to the back of the seam across the seam itself onto both of the pieces to add more solidity.

ladman · Feb 12, 2013

thanks for the tips man. i was wondering on how people were getting such nice seems.

ladman · Feb 12, 2013

Cut of the pieces for the lower torso last night. Here is what i have so far.

peruski · Feb 12, 2013

Looking good!

jackieisrockin · Feb 12, 2013

Its coming out great! Keep up the good work

laellee · Feb 12, 2013

:thumbsup Subscribed! :thumbsup

ladman · Feb 12, 2013

peruski said:
Looking good!

Thanks Man!!

jackieisrockin said:
Its coming out great! Keep up the good work

If it was not for you, this would not be possible, Thanks for all your hard work you did and are still doing on these files.

laellee said:
:thumbsup Subscribed! :thumbsup

Thank you for Subscribing man, and also Thank You to you as well. I know you have been working hard on the V2 Cannon. Cant wait to get it up and running. I hope you don't mind, i designed my own servo system for the V2 cannon.

laellee · Feb 12, 2013

Thank you for Subscribing man, and also Thank You to you as well. I know you have been working hard on the V2 Cannon. Cant wait to get it up and running. I hope you don't mind, i designed my own servo system for the V2 cannon.[/QUOTE]

No worries, I want to see what people come up with

thumbsup Half my stuff I can't post up because it's too hard to explain :lol Good luck with your build!

Murdoch · Feb 13, 2013

A nice start. Hopefully starting mine on the weekend. I too have have subscribed...GM

ladman · Feb 13, 2013

Got a chance to work on the Lower Torso last night.

One question, How are the center of the abbs supposed to be connected? are they to be left free floating or attached to one and other?

laellee · Feb 13, 2013

I left mine free floating, but with a strip connecting them from the inside along the spine

ladman · Feb 19, 2013

Finally had more time to work on the Lower Torso.

Im not sure what im doing wrong with my pieces, but for some reason even after i followed my templates exactly and cut them perfectly, my pieces still seem to come out too long or too short. I have had to modify pieces to fit. Not sure what im doing wrong.

For example: The pieces that are on the side of the abbs, for some reason they don't fit? i have to go and make smaller ones to put into those areas. Its not a big deal, they still came out ok, but i just don't know why that happened.

Here are some update Pictures:

P4r4dox86 · Feb 19, 2013

Nice man. I like the cardboard mockup of the neck in that last pic lol. Also, are those some of those clear bra straps attached to the shoulder pieces? Or is that just some weird camera thing?

P.S, your mirror needs a clean

laellee · Feb 19, 2013

You might be just better off to section either your sides or the center to make them fit rather than starting over? Also, those sections are REAAAALLLLLLY EASY to get flipped upside-down, especially the side-pieces in relation to the front. When I built my first set of IP abs, I already had the entire ab rings assembled, I just had to stack the pieces in the correct order with the correct side up, and I couldn't do it without the file in front of me. Nothing sticks out with your build as being goofy though piece-wise. (except for the gaps obviously)

ladman · Feb 20, 2013

P4r4dox86 said:
Nice man. I like the cardboard mockup of the neck in that last pic lol. Also, are those some of those clear bra straps attached to the shoulder pieces? Or is that just some weird camera thing?

P.S, your mirror needs a clean

Lol, thats not bra string, its the coat hanger. again, lol.

laellee said:
You might be just better off to section either your sides or the center to make them fit rather than starting over? Also, those sections are REAAAALLLLLLY EASY to get flipped upside-down, especially the side-pieces in relation to the front. When I built my first set of IP abs, I already had the entire ab rings assembled, I just had to stack the pieces in the correct order with the correct side up, and I couldn't do it without the file in front of me. Nothing sticks out with your build as being goofy though piece-wise. (except for the gaps obviously)

Thanks man, I picked up some paint-able flexible calk today to take care of all the imperfections in the suit.

Murdoch · Feb 20, 2013

This is starting to look quite nice. You're making good progress. I'm still working on the upper torso with a couple of mods. Looking forward to seeing this to the end...GM

ladman · Feb 21, 2013

murdoch said:
This is starting to look quite nice. You're making good progress. I'm still working on the upper torso with a couple of mods. Looking forward to seeing this to the end...GM

Thanks Man:thumbsup

I found this product called plastiDip yesterday at Homedepot. It is a rubberized coating. I tested it on a piece of my foam. I used two coats Plastidip and two coats of white primer. it came out not half bad. It did not leave any holes and was quite smooth. I might go with this instead of using the StyroSpry1000. It is only 6 bucks a can, and the 2 gallons of SS1000 would have been 120. Here are some pics of the test i did.

I think if i use the plastiDip on this build, depending on how the it comes out. Then if in not happy with the results, ill do SS1000 on the next one.

laellee · Feb 21, 2013

Nice, I thought it was more expensive than that. I've used their stuff to dip parts, but I was afraid the aerosol would give too much of a bubbled 'undercoat' finish. Thanks for posting those pictures :thumbsup

ladman · Feb 22, 2013

I was also surprised on how cheap it was. I heard it was a lot more expensive.

I did look closer at the test piece and noticed that there were some little imperfections in the pieces. Here is a picture that shows them.

It was not exactly warm in my basement when i did this so that could have contributed to this, anyway, its nothing a little caulk cant fix.

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