Recent content by Dayereth

Just got back from the movie. Super cool. A few things I thought were notable: Also, there were a few shots where you can se how the GoPro can be stowed inside the backpack, and thers where you can see how the top left corner flipped up into the arm that holds the GoPro. The gray flight...

Re: The Martian - ARES III Mission Patch and Stickers I'm definitely interested

I would like to do a whole suit some day, but I think it will take time to find just the right stuff, and be a while untill I have the time, so Im just starting with those and I'll see how it goes, I definately think Im going to do the backpack with fiberglass though now

I think the buckles do have a cover and are just those slide release type ones. you can see from that website RiotJavelinDX just posted

No, I did it in two pieces, where I glued it to the top, thinner, hard piece, then applied hlue to the edges and pulled it over the edges seen here: Then I glued the whole thing to the foam bottom piece. I thought about using heat but I was worried it would un-stick the glue also, in person...

Heres how two of the chest pieces look after gluing on the vynel.

In this photo its really clear that the middle panel of the backpacks are all different sizes for the different actors, where the more complex two panels are the same.

So I'm going to share what Ive done so far, I recently started building the chestpiece and the backpack (they seem the lease daunting than the actual suit part) and I'm mostly using EVA foam. I edited Captain April's chest template a little and cut out the pieces from foam, I decided to try...

Tested on youtube has a video with Frank Ippolito where he demonstrates some silicone painting tecniques here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPS-W6YZFb4