Another Metroid Varia Suit Build

[JimB162]

Hi,

I've started building Samus' Varia Suit from Metroid Prime 2/3 (the most common one) a few months ago. So far I'm slowly learning how to handle the foam material which I'm using as the main material for this build (at least that's the plan so far). Maybe some 3D prints come later, but I don't have a printer yet and most of the armor seems to be doable in foam.

While I was looking for some WIP reports on the internet for similar builds to learn from I found this forum and I thought this might be a good place to post and share my own progress every once in a while. Else I'm mainly active on Instagram, but I keep my stories and posts there in german.

Let me finish this opening post with a picture of a poster that is hanging in my room for over a decade now. The cosplay shown there is in a completely different style than I plan to craft for myself, but it shows the right kind of Varia Suit.

Next post will show some helmet progress.

 

[greenmachines]

There are quite a few threads here on 3d printing. I just recently got mine and it is still in the box so I am not the fount of knowledge but have seen a lot of helpful posts here so just look around. Same goes for the foam.

You might want this to be in Replica costumes if it is going to be a complete build rather than a single object. You can just message a mod or even post it here and ask for the move. Totally up to you. Good luck on the build.