Recent content by EhlJay

With Halloween in the near future, I've managed to put some hours in on the suit, getting two shoulder pieces done, knee pads, and finished painting everything. Once I drop by my local hardware store and pick up a new glue gun, I'll be diving back into building the shoes, waist armor, and back...

Firstly, let me get this out of the way before you move onto the pictures and start going to town on inaccuracy. This isn't really supposed to be a specific suit from any of the Halo games. That being said, let's move onto the actual interesting stuff! This build is, as the title says, my...

If I focus really really hard and clench my face muscles, I can make it hover in front of my face. ;) Yeah, it's missing straps, but I'm hoping to pick some up later today, and fix that issue.

After attending a small hometown film fest/convention last year in November, my interest in actually getting out and filming something has grown. But if you're going to film something, you need a genre. Seeing as I'm a normal guy, and I love action movies, that one was a bit of a no-brainer...

Yeehaw. That's majorly impressive! Now all you need to do is run into Mr. Thorson at a convention! That'd be a photoshoot of epic proportions.

Apologies in advance if this isn't the place for this thread, but I'm thinking it'd be useful for newbies to the propmaking scene. I've looked through the forums, but I haven't seen anything specific to this question. What are the differences between Aqua and Polyester resin? I've got a...

I got my HJC visor in the mail today, and with a little help from Eric's tutorial on how to install it. I've got a rather awesome looking helmet! Once I've finished reveling in the beauty of it, I've got get back to work on the leg pieces.

Well, that's all sorts of nifty!

Cheers mate! I'm pretty happy with how it's coming along so far! As a matter of fact, I just finished putting the final touches on the body armor! Still need to work on an undersuit, but I think it's complete enough to share a picture or two!

Way too many hours of sanding later, I've got the armor piece primed and painted silver. Once the silver coat dries completely, I'm going to do a black wash coat, and then toothpaste the parts I want to damaged. Then comes the fun part, masking and painting with this suit's signature colors...

Not as much progress as I'd like at this posting, but it's coming together steadily for me being a complete noob to this kind of thing! I've got the Chestpiece bondo'ed and I'm working on the sanding/Spot-filling phase. I may have to go in and resin the inside a bit more, as a couple spots are...

Cheers mate! The armor is coming along great so far! I've got the chest plate, a thigh piece, and one of the shoulder plates finished (strangely enough, the shoulder was unfolded inside out, so the lines and numbers were on the inside). Just waiting for a non-rainy day to work on resining...

AND WE'RE OFFICIALLY DONE! After way too many hours of sanding and painting, I've got the helmet pretty much finished! I need to get my hands on a gold/silver visor and install that and some padding, but besides that, it's done. Next comes the armor, which I'll be posting in the...

I'll throw a bit of info out here. I actually built the helmet in question a couple weeks back, and the printer re-sized it as you mentioned above, way too small to even come close to beign accurate. In the end, I had to just scrap the project, because the way the pep file was unfolded...

Quick and dirty paint mock-up, just to see if it would look good as I'm imagining it. I'm looking for a good visor for the helmet as well. I hear the HJC Gold ones are phenomenal for relatively cheap. Any tips would be much appreciated!