Recent content by Malico

I thought about it... it being my first piece I didn't want to push it. That and I have a big head, was already having to scale it up and there is zero room to spare.

I coded my own from scratch. I did it for nothing other than learning how to code it and think the flicker on looks cool. Know it is not entirely movie accurate, but neat effect.

I 3D printed plugs that I designed using Sketchup. I made them available on Thingiverse. https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2877751

This is my first build ever. I had planned to do the whole suit, but I seriously under estimated the time this takes. That and being a perfectionist, I went towards top quality and really getting the fine details. First time doing pep, though having had experience with Bondo and paint work...

Exciting day as I finally got to put some paint on this helmet after some painstaking fine sanding work! Now just have to wait a few days for it all to cure up to do the red.

Thanks, leaning to that one myself. It seems the best match

In my build I am going for movie accurate and quality, so I wanted it to look at matching as possible. When you can't find something they way you want it online, time to engineer some! I took this high res photo I found online of the helmet screw and created my own from it. Here is my 3D...

Now granted the cardboard I painted it on has some bearing on the color, but it gives the idea. I am very torn on which of the gold colors to do, thoughts?

I ended up going the 3D printed route, made my own. I am going to put up a little post about it here to help others along with the files to print their own.

Getting close to putting some primer on this thing, still have several hours of final detailing. I am debating if I want to do the screw details or not and I have not seen any good guides on it. Anyone have any insight on how they did theirs?

Second was the use of a 3D printed light strip. In the previous version I just glued the LEDs to the bottom across the eye, now they are embedded in a 3D printed strip. This way I glue them to the strip, then flex it over the lens. It makes for a nice even install, but the translucent...

First off, I must give props to XRobot on his eye build here, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHcH60giVys&list=PL1AF6F24238DB27EA - It is an absolutely brilliant design and frankly I would not have thought of it myself without his video on it. I built one based off of his, overall happy with...

Hey all, I found this forum in doing some research on the suit I am working on, lots of great information here that has been very valuable! Look forward to spending time here. I figured I would share my bit with people who can appreciate it as my wife likes to call me a nerd lol :) For my...