godproject
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So, I've been a lurker on this site for awhile. Dreamt of building my own Master Chief suit sometime ago and found the 405th. Got excited and went and got a printer and some thick paper and printed a pistol...6 months later I'd cut out about two of the pages for that pistol and probably lost a good portion of the rest. It's lost to posterity now. I built a few little things with my girlfriend and we had fun with it one night collect cool pepakuras and stowing them away for a rainy day. Those were mostly spent being naughty or on netflix. So then I decided I was going to find a way to make an iron man suit....and found this site. For three weeks straight anytime I was home I scoured through this forum....gathering information and ideas.
While this project started as something much more grandiose (and I wouldn't count that out just yet) I scaled it down a bit to be at least more feasible and to see some results. Well, I've done a bit on this project and that all should've probably been in my introduction speech in the sticky thread but here it is. But I digress.
I've been working on this sword for about maybe 6 hours in total so far. I ripped the files from the game and exported from 3DS Max into pepakura designer and unfolded it. Then I cut out the hilt and pieced it together and gave it some stability by placing a trimmed broom stick I had laying around down the paper hilt. Now it's a Low-polygon model that is meant to be used in the game so it has no real detail so to speak other than giving me a reference for size, shape, placement, etc. So tonight I started working with sculpey to get the details in and I was so proud of my results. Also, I'm eager to bounce my process off the other amazing and talented craftsmen/women and artists here so I'm posting my first build thread. Cue confetti and balloons. What? No confetti. Okay then...
This is the sword I'm making.... frostmourne
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100_0471 by trickoftheiprod, on Flickr[/IMG]
And here's the main goat heads skull I sculpted tonight...
I also have the work I've done on the hilt and blade...
[/url] 100_0467 by trickoftheiprod, on Flickr[/IMG]
[/url] 100_0466 by trickoftheiprod, on Flickr[/IMG]
[/url] 100_0468 by trickoftheiprod, on Flickr[/IMG]
[/url] overhedskullbasenhndgrd by trickoftheiprod, on Flickr[/IMG]
[/url] handguarddetail by trickoftheiprod, on Flickr[/IMG]
[/url] ovrhedswordprog by trickoftheiprod, on Flickr[/IMG]
Here's the work I've done. You can see how it will all fit together eventually. The handguard itself is solid sculpey. I do want to try to hollow it out and reinforce it so I can salvage some of the sculpey as it is damn expensive for the amount you get, but I like it...I plan on adding more detail after I bake it, with a hand-pick and possibly a dremel. The base for the sword is foamboard pieces stacked on each other and sculpey to make the bevel and eventually the runes inset.
While this project started as something much more grandiose (and I wouldn't count that out just yet) I scaled it down a bit to be at least more feasible and to see some results. Well, I've done a bit on this project and that all should've probably been in my introduction speech in the sticky thread but here it is. But I digress.
I've been working on this sword for about maybe 6 hours in total so far. I ripped the files from the game and exported from 3DS Max into pepakura designer and unfolded it. Then I cut out the hilt and pieced it together and gave it some stability by placing a trimmed broom stick I had laying around down the paper hilt. Now it's a Low-polygon model that is meant to be used in the game so it has no real detail so to speak other than giving me a reference for size, shape, placement, etc. So tonight I started working with sculpey to get the details in and I was so proud of my results. Also, I'm eager to bounce my process off the other amazing and talented craftsmen/women and artists here so I'm posting my first build thread. Cue confetti and balloons. What? No confetti. Okay then...
This is the sword I'm making.... frostmourne
100_0471 by trickoftheiprod, on Flickr[/IMG]
And here's the main goat heads skull I sculpted tonight...
I also have the work I've done on the hilt and blade...
Here's the work I've done. You can see how it will all fit together eventually. The handguard itself is solid sculpey. I do want to try to hollow it out and reinforce it so I can salvage some of the sculpey as it is damn expensive for the amount you get, but I like it...I plan on adding more detail after I bake it, with a hand-pick and possibly a dremel. The base for the sword is foamboard pieces stacked on each other and sculpey to make the bevel and eventually the runes inset.
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