Re: Fallout 3 - T-51b Power Armor Helmet from 3d Printed Master
I'll let my brain stew on hoses. I'm sure they wouldn't have to be custom made, nor overly expensive.
Visors, would vacforming work?
One of the biggest reasons I'll be custom making the hoses is to achieve complete and total onscreen accuracy. This has been my goal with all the helmets, all along. For some helmets, like the Hellfire helmet, the cost of onscreen accuracy is the inability to actually wear it (thankfully not the case with this one). While many have made awesome builds using various real hoses, those hoses never match the geometries of the hoses in the game. I've never been able to find or source anything that looks even remotely close, the closest thing being the type of hose that runs from your car door to the car cabin itself, sort of an accordion-like hose. These are never long at all, and wouldn't be very affordable anyways.
It's really not a big deal at all to make them from a printed master, you see. Just another part. The undetermined part of that equation is
what I cast them in. I'd love for them to be rubber, and to be stiff enough to hold shape. I've even thought about how I could cast them hollow, so the weight does not cause sagging in the hose line. Really, it's likely going to be a trial and error sort of thing. I suspect I'll experiment with a couple different options.
As for the visors.........well, yes vacuum forming would be a good option. I just don't have access to one. It seems it would be less expensive for everyone all around if I made them in house, so I'll likely cast them up the same as everything else. I have two pressure pots, so I figured it would be easier to cast them.
Got you down. :thumbsup
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