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A PC with Windows 8.1. I'm pretty sure Pepakura is supposed to be for printing though... it's entire purpose is to take 3D models and make them into printable two-dimensional things for papercraft. The weirdest part is that it's so inconsistent. If I hit the print button on the regular menu...

Ok, just out of morbid curiosity, I printed from print preview into a PDF, instead of just printing directly to PDF, and for some reason THAT came out correctly in the PDF, so now I'm printing to paper from the PDF, and that's printing just fine. It makes no sense, but it's working.

I keep getting blank pages in Pepakura. Print Preview shows the colored pieces on the various pages like they should be, but when I actually printed to paper, the pages just had the corner hash-marks and the page numbers. I tried printing to PDF, to see if it was just my printer, but it prints...

That is exactly what I needed! I was trying to work out something similar on my own, but never came close to something useful. The arms and legs are much easier to sort through just by eyeballing the model, but the chest stuff was difficult, and this will help me a great deal. Thank you very...

Foam is what I plan on using. I'd tried some early paper-cut outs by hand, just using the model as a reference, but never quite got the chest how I liked... having something flattened out, even just as an easier reference would be great. :)

Is the ME1 suit (the one used for the ME2 mercenaries) on the unfolding-for-foam to-do list, by any chance? The model from the ME2 mercs that I'd managed to get is earlier in the thread, and a few people seemed interested in it, but I haven't seen an unfolded one contributed yet. I'd do it...

Has anyone seen an unfold for the original ME N7 armor, which was used as the model for the mercs in ME2? I've been slowly tinkering with an Eclipse setup, but the upper chest is a bit stressful... a lot of weird layers and things. I've got some ideas on how to structure it, but nothing I'm...

Seems like, in addition to that central bend, it ought to be cambered top to bottom. I can't find any side-views from the cartoon offhand, but as I recall, it has a sort of bubble appearance from the side, rather than being a straight line. It also appears to come inwards pretty significantly...

For my current project, I've got several pieces of foam that need to sit adjacent to one another, but retain some degree of inter-piece flexion. Backing them with more foam would make them too stiff, so I was thinking the best method would be to have a fabric-like substrate which they could...

Looks fantastic. Some really shiny mesh for between the teeth would be great.

That's really nice to hear! I'm glad it helped. :) Also, since I just realized I made no mention of it in my earlier post... very nice work on the Juggernaut costume. The foam mat and plastic helmet match up really well. I've been tinkering with some stuff in foam myself, so it's nice to see...

Nylon-spandex fades naturally though. If you've got easy access to a swimming pool, you could always dip it in the pool, rinse it out and wash it a few time and it'll softly fade each time... at least, nylon swimsuits always seem to dull in color like that.

Wow. "Back in the day"? It wasn't that long ago, was it? :lol I'm overseas for awhile and all my clone armor is stuck in storage for a few more years... I kinda miss it.

I miss that show already. Fruity samurai just aren't cutting it. Plus they keep spraying juice everywhere. That's how you get ants. I'd love to do a White Wizard costume, but I don't have any idea how to accomplish that crazy krinkled visor he had.

I've never seen that Juggernaut before... it looks amazingly like Ram Man. You could probably stick just a red tabard under it if you ever get bored of being Juggs.