Darkside501st's Iron Man Mk VII pepakura files - Password in First Post

omarbou1 said:

i made some pep files !
you can check them on my signature !
but darkside made the whole suit and im not done yet :/

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Doomsayer said:

Wow how have I never seen your files?! Lol. Yea I was just thinking that there are so many talented modelers here that could lighten the load for darkside. Poor dude probably gets 4647800 PM's a day about the V2 files.

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darkside501st said:

Got another piece of the puzzle done. Check it out:

[url]https://blufiles.storage.live.com/y2pEQ-6HfFPNyqxFzHbsH4XIThebzlizU0PQVlP661noyt1IAXz1Bki3bjS4PEd11D4_tkuRxgQzf0aNbksn54X2A/Mk%20VII%20Forearm.png.jpg?psid=1[/url]

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darkside501st said:

Got some other angles as it was requested a while back.. Also redid the hand and the handplate. I had to redo the whole forearm... for some reason when I saved the file it corrupted that part and the next time I opened the file it was like some kind of modern art porcupine. Anyways, here is the new one... I made sure to save it, export it, open in Pep Designer, and make a backup before I closed the program this time, lol. Click on the picture below to see more images:

[url]https://blufiles.storage.live.com/y2pZg_br2XywAqEQBIlYVEOIqvCrbOyYB_V6T-VadIx4_lyLmY84Nk3RGRwa1gNWuiBWteZfHLvCI-4quHP0dpX_A/Mk%20VII%20Glove-Gauntlet%20-%201.png.jpg?psid=1[/url]

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darkside501st said:

Got some other angles as it was requested a while back.. Also redid the hand and the handplate. I had to redo the whole forearm... for some reason when I saved the file it corrupted that part and the next time I opened the file it was like some kind of modern art porcupine. Anyways, here is the new one... I made sure to save it, export it, open in Pep Designer, and make a backup before I closed the program this time, lol. Click on the picture below to see more images:

[url]https://blufiles.storage.live.com/y2pZg_br2XywAqEQBIlYVEOIqvCrbOyYB_V6T-VadIx4_lyLmY84Nk3RGRwa1gNWuiBWteZfHLvCI-4quHP0dpX_A/Mk%20VII%20Glove-Gauntlet%20-%201.png.jpg?psid=1[/url]

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darkside501st said:

Got some other angles as it was requested a while back.. Also redid the hand and the handplate. I had to redo the whole forearm... for some reason when I saved the file it corrupted that part and the next time I opened the file it was like some kind of modern art porcupine. Anyways, here is the new one... I made sure to save it, export it, open in Pep Designer, and make a backup before I closed the program this time, lol. Click on the picture below to see more images:

[url]https://blufiles.storage.live.com/y2pZg_br2XywAqEQBIlYVEOIqvCrbOyYB_V6T-VadIx4_lyLmY84Nk3RGRwa1gNWuiBWteZfHLvCI-4quHP0dpX_A/Mk%20VII%20Glove-Gauntlet%20-%201.png.jpg?psid=1[/url]

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hammerhead159 said:

i understand that the dark filled in lines are meant to be where there are grooves (like around the side of the helmet and the cheeks). but after putting on the resin and bondo, i won't be able to see the dark lines will i? how do you guys (I've seen some awesome helmets with nice smooth grooves all the way around) know where the grooves go?

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kaffemustasj said:

I too wonder on this. Anyone?

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hammerhead159 said:

and finally! (sorry for all the noob questions) i understand that the dark filled in lines are meant to be where there are grooves (like around the side of the helmet and the cheeks). but after putting on the resin and bondo, i won't be able to see the dark lines will i? how do you guys (I've seen some awesome helmets with nice smooth grooves all the way around) know where the grooves go?

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darkside501st said:

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This has been answered before in this thread. You can reprint the pattern out with those parts that have the dark lines and then cut it out and use it as a template to trace the lines back on the helmet.

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sylvester86 said:

hey Darkside I've been a follower for a while now and I don't recall reading about this part of the build... although I'm sure it's been brought up before... just think it's nice that stuff like that gets repeated once in a while.
But I was thinking... in order to reprint the pattern we would have to print out the entire helmet because we can't move the parts around with pep viewer... a solution could be if you moved the parts needed and uploaded them with the right scales and all, and maybe renamed them groove patterns or something like that
just an idea

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darkside501st said:

Well, I finished up the biceps today and I have some more pictures to show you all. Take a look:

[url]https://blufiles.storage.live.com/y2pK855QADaFPr6tDja-luTsa-dRWYBMbyPYsRMSQjaNwciPEir4HU1fAacBraMOchyVibetoTZ3Do7S5ljSe30SQ/Mk%20VII%20Arm%20-%201.png.jpg?psid=1[/url]

So I have always been a little stumped by the elbow joint. The curved circles that are part of the biceps wrap around the arm slightly and the upper forearm butts up against the bottom of them. It doesn't really make sense for a single pivot point in the middle of the joint. It seems more like the upper forearm slides over the circumference of the circle. However, that would make building the suit very difficult. The problem is if we just put a single pivot point then the fin that comes off the upper forearm will be hitting the front and the back of the circle and this will limit mobility. So I am asking if anyone out there has any good ideas for how to make this elbow joint.

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