Ballistic Fist Update:
So, it's been a while since I was able to work more on my Ballistic Fist. Money was a good bit tight, so the last few little things I need had to wait. That said, I've been able to put a little more time into it, and I'm pretty happy with how things are looking.
So, originally my plan was to use a standard G.I. wool glove insert as my base glove. The reason for this was because I was using the lower res texture, the texture used on the world object, as my reference. I, at the time, did not realize that the first person textures were so much clearer, nor did I realize the correct model to apply them to. Long story short, there are two sets of models in the game files, "world object" and first person". The first person model comes in two pieces (separate files) which is the hand in the front, then the back gauntlet part. The world object is the whole thing as one model. Anyways, using the first person texture showed that I was off in thinking on using a standard wool glove. In the higher res texture, it doesn't look like loose knit wool at all.


So, with that, I search for what will be as close to accurate as I can. Something that could be made as close as I can get it to screen accuracy. In that search, I tried three different pairs of gloves. The first pair, which were made by the Hatch company, didn't even look remotely close to the picture in the ad, the color was way off and not what I saw in the ad when I bought them. Aside from that, the gloves were too thin, I really didn't feel that they were worth the cost and so I sent them back. Second I tried a pair from HWI, model number CG400G. These were not as bad as the Hatch gloves, but the color was once again not as shown in the ad. These gloves seem to have some variation in their colors from batch to batch. The HWI gloves were not as thin, but still not thick as I was hoping. As a whole, I decided to keep them as shooting gloves, so I didn't send them back, but they won't be used for this build.
Finally, we get to these. The ANSELL ActivArmr series of gloves seem to be what I'm looking for. You'll notice the texture to the darker patches seems very similar to those in the game model render above. The colors looks as they were when I bought them, and they have the two tone color as it is on the game glove. The patch orientation
is not perfectly accurate, I know, but it's as close as your gonna get. Pretty much all of these gloves have the leather finger tips (game glove doesn't) but I'm not really sweating it. Another thing I loved about these gloves is that they are nice and thick. They feel much more durable than the previous two.
So, funny thing. My gloves arrived, faded to hell! You can see in the pic just how badly. While the gloves were new sealed in the wrap, they must have sat in the sun for some time. The funny thing about it is the damage looks GREAT for what I'm doing with the glove. Putting a nice fresh clean glove on the rusty Ballistic Fist will obviously not look right, and aging and weather techniques will need to be employed. Yet, a good bit of the "aging" was already done, and it actually does look more "in place" than the newer looking glove. So..............sweet. Lemons into lemonade.
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Here's the pics with the HWI gloves. Close, but no cigar. Will be good glove to take to the range though.
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And here's with the ANSELL gloves. Both the texture for the patches and the glove fabric look very much similar to those on the game model renders. I could add the finger top patches, but honestly I'm not sure if I want to bother. I'm pretty happy with it as it is, glove wise that is.
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Now, again, I know the glove isn't spot on accurate at all. But it just
feels like it's the right one for the build. Maybe I'll modify it, but even then it'll only be closer, never 100 percent accurate. But, I like it.
Obviously the glove and the gauntlet still need a bit more weathering. I used my current method of blackwashing the gauntlet, but that didn't leave enough grime. Gonna dirty the gauntlet, as well as the glove, up a bit more before calling the detailing done. Other than that, just need some flat head rivets, and to connect up the wires between the fist trigger and the gauntlet, and lastly the bigger slotted screws in the wrist area. I'm using very good advise from
@Skruffy to use furniture foam as my padding inside, and the fit is nice and snug. With the glove on, the whole assembly stays on my arm just fine. I have to say I ultra happy with the fit and feel of the whole thing. So, just need to finish this up, and then I have
two more Ballistic Fists to get assembled and finished.
In other news, I got some black light led bases for my Quantum builds. Got a nice new bottle capper, right now I'm looking into possible screen printing options for all my bottles (not the Sunset bottles, though). With all that I became excited to try out the Tonic water method, using a UV light to illuminate it. As you can see, it works pretty good. Will have more to show on the Nuka's soon.
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