Awesome work, I've seen most people go hyper detailed or the halo 2 or modern (reach/odst etc.) route but I just love the simplistic yet stylistic feel of the classic xbox/pc model which you captured greatly.
Once again great job!
Well it's a few days after the con and photo's are casually coming in.
As promised I'll make a link here and will welcome any and all critique, however you won't see any shoulders on me mostly because my companion managed to "break" them by sitting on them in the car ride over... I'll fix them...
Things left to do:
- Attempt to craft a monkey that can help me put this on (did this alone with a auto fire camera which took 700+ awkward posed pictures) friend is coming to the next con so it aught to sit better.
- Wear black underneath, my gray shirt is showing through.
- insert...
Behold an update after a month!
Helmet has been fitted and padded, got the parts for the fans etc. just need my battery pack to arrive so I can start soldering it.
Fits good and when I shove the 4 batteries that will create the pack's power on the opposite side of the command piece the thing...
Updates, always with those pesky updates.
AR from thorssoli came in which then promptly got dragged to my sanding shed.
Meanwhile the knife and sheath got painted in their basic colors, now I just need to wrap the handle up in a leather strap (main reason why I didn't sand it straight) and...
One peping night later
Will prolly start epoxying it up this weekend.
If all goes well I might have everything assembled next weekend, just need to sand/paint the AR and mount the knife after it's pepped etc. then it's just figuring out how to avoid strapping hell.
The limit is -as wickedoffroad said- where it stops to be fun and just gives the wearer pain/frustration.
If you can and want to walk cripple for a full day/weekend in a suit then be my guest but some people can't do it so they slightly cop out.
Which is fine in my book around the point where...
So I've been a member here for quite some time, the usual lurking in the shadows with the occasional post and what have you.
Now after getting over my cold feet (partly due to the awesome blokes at the 405th) I think it's time to show my latest baby to other (halo and non halo) fans to get some...
I just read this thread (didn't even know we had a new movie on the horizon but boy does this look grim) and my only hope is that they won't pull a phantom menace on us.
BF3 on PC
Intel i5 2500K @ 4.0 Ghz (scyte mugen makes it not asplode on me).
Asrock Z68 extreme 4 mobo
A Crossfire setup with two HD 6950's (2 gb dirt 3 version).
16GB DDR3 as well.
At custom (almost everything ultimate sans a few minor things) settings I run at a smooth 60+ fps.
I love/hate...