Wow, paragraphing is your friend dude
Hey, first wanted to tell you that it looks amazing! I wanted to go as a NCR Veteran Ranger to SDCC this year but didn't have a good idea of how to pull it off till know.
Good! keep an eye out for me, we can get some pics, as i'll be taking this costume with me this year.
This will also be my first time using pepakura, resin, and all the fun stuff lol so I just had a couple questions.
read up alot on it, particularly at the 405th.com, they have alot of good safety rules when using all these chemicals that you will regret not following.
Do you think bondo would have worked just as good for inside the mask instead of fiberglass,
bondo is heavy, fiberglass is much lighter.
bondo is slightly safer to use however, you will still need gloves and a mask when using it though.
a thin layer of bondo would help your papercraft resin build if you don't want to use fiberglass.
the reason i picked fiberglass is because i wanted it extra tough.
make sure to use hugh holdmans pep file, it's personally in my opinion, the best, it's got a very close shape to it, while most other builds have more of a wolf snout that i don't think looks right.
what did you end up using for the lenses so they weren't clear red because they look amazing in the final pics,
my lenses are just clear red,
i will be changing that later however, ideally i want red mirrored lenses that are one way.
i used a stocking over my face while wearing the mask for most of the photos, to obscure my eyes.
when you said you cut the shapes into foam for the chest piece and then glued them down later were the cut pieces and solid black piece you glued them onto both anti fatigue floor mating,
use a thinner foam if you can find it for the black underneath, two layers of half inch floor mat will be way too bulky.
what was the "heat" you used to shape the foam pieces,
heat gun, like a turbo powered hair dryer that can melt your flesh if your not careful.
Be very careful if your using one.
if this is my first time doing something like this would making it out of plastic like you did be easier than the whole paper pepakura stuff?
i don't like to come off as an arrogant *****, because i hate it when people who make cool things turn out to be not cool themselves, but my first pepakura was making this mask out of cardstock, i then used plastic to make it a second time.
i've built costumes before though, and i'd like to think i'm pretty decent, if this is your first time, i would encourage you to stick with just the card/paper of pepakura, rather than using plastic like i did.
Whew! Sorry for all the questions but gonna try to make this look as good as yours as I can lol and have to say again how awesome it looked.
well thank you, i'm glad i can inspire you to do this yourself, good luck!
but seriously, split your posts up into paragraphs, it's easier to read