Faytleingod11
New Member
So this is my first official post here, and the second such post anywhere on my current project.
I'm currently building a full suit of power armor from fallout 4, starting with the power armor frame. I started trying to make everything from scratch, using only my skills as a maker and my will power.
I gave up after a week.
Not to say that I think it was terrible. It just was nowhere near as good as I wanted it to be. I want screen accurate. I want it to be real, not just something that was inspired by the game, like so many of the other suits I've seen.
This is what I had before I gave up.
I was actually kind of proud of the attempt. But I couldn't live with 'close enough'. And that is where I was headed.
At that point I was seriously contemplating buying a 3D printer, upscaling an in game model and printing it out one little chunk at a time.
Then I learned about Pepakura. And it was exactly what I was looking for. It allowed me to be building this project, not just assembling. And it allowed me to be as accurate as I wanted to be. Since then, I've spent several hours most days (when I'm not spending time with my wife and kids, working, sleeping or actually playing fallout) cutting and gluing the small pieces of paper together. And despite the monotony of it and the ridiculous amount of super glue that get stuck to my fingers, I've been more than a little satisfied with the work so far. I've been working for a month, with barely any progress in the grand scheme of the project, but I'm very proud of what I've gotten done thus far.
The resining and fiberglassing and bondoing of everything seem daunting, but I'm trying to just keep making progress at this point. I stopped working on the helmet because me and bondo weren't working well together. I moved from the leg to the hand before I even finished cutting out all the peices, because I've had an idea on how to articulate the fingers rattling around for like a week now. I've run a wire along the underside of the finger, and am attaching rubber bands to the back side as a kind of pull and return mechanism.
I'm hoping that posting here will keep my motivation up, as a kind of window to look back and see how far I've come, and hopefully get a few pointers from the more experienced prop makers around here.
Thank you everyone here for being awesome and creative and helping me do something that has entirely consumed my free time.
I'm currently building a full suit of power armor from fallout 4, starting with the power armor frame. I started trying to make everything from scratch, using only my skills as a maker and my will power.
I gave up after a week.
Not to say that I think it was terrible. It just was nowhere near as good as I wanted it to be. I want screen accurate. I want it to be real, not just something that was inspired by the game, like so many of the other suits I've seen.
This is what I had before I gave up.
I was actually kind of proud of the attempt. But I couldn't live with 'close enough'. And that is where I was headed.
At that point I was seriously contemplating buying a 3D printer, upscaling an in game model and printing it out one little chunk at a time.
Then I learned about Pepakura. And it was exactly what I was looking for. It allowed me to be building this project, not just assembling. And it allowed me to be as accurate as I wanted to be. Since then, I've spent several hours most days (when I'm not spending time with my wife and kids, working, sleeping or actually playing fallout) cutting and gluing the small pieces of paper together. And despite the monotony of it and the ridiculous amount of super glue that get stuck to my fingers, I've been more than a little satisfied with the work so far. I've been working for a month, with barely any progress in the grand scheme of the project, but I'm very proud of what I've gotten done thus far.
The resining and fiberglassing and bondoing of everything seem daunting, but I'm trying to just keep making progress at this point. I stopped working on the helmet because me and bondo weren't working well together. I moved from the leg to the hand before I even finished cutting out all the peices, because I've had an idea on how to articulate the fingers rattling around for like a week now. I've run a wire along the underside of the finger, and am attaching rubber bands to the back side as a kind of pull and return mechanism.
I'm hoping that posting here will keep my motivation up, as a kind of window to look back and see how far I've come, and hopefully get a few pointers from the more experienced prop makers around here.
Thank you everyone here for being awesome and creative and helping me do something that has entirely consumed my free time.