Halo 3 Master Chief of foam (Heavy Pic)

Rodolfo · Mar 30, 2013

Hello, yes, this is another Halo 3 Master Chief costume! But I like this character so much and allways wanted to make this armor.
So I decided to make my own armor out of foam. This gonna be a long time project since I want this for the next year. I´ll try to work every weekend on this.

First I want to thank again to all the people that make this possible. The modelers, the unfolders and the ones that make fantastic tutorials!! Without them I couldn´t make this.

This time I made the unfold of the files to be foam frendly.
I contacted with the modeler (jtm) of the helmet and he said I can share the helmet file. You can downloaded it here.

Ok here are some pics of my progress.

This is my scheme to keep the progress

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Anyway I´m redoing the helmet again but in a smaller size!! Hope this one is the right!!

Any comment will be appreciated.

Rodolfo · Apr 7, 2013

Okay as I said I was redoing the helmet again. I did it this weekend.
This time I´ll put less photos of the process (It´s the same as the other

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a picture of both helmets! There are a huge diference!
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Now it fits better!
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charlie88 · May 14, 2013

The helmet is awesomely perfect keep it up!!!!

El casco esta brutalmente perfect sigue asi!!!!!

Rodolfo · May 15, 2013

charlie88 said:
The helmet is awesomely perfect keep it up!!!!

El casco esta brutalmente perfect sigue asi!!!!!

Thanks!! I´m glad you like it!

I should put some updates from the forearms, the biceps and shoulder soon, but I didn´t have time!!

Rodolfo · Jun 3, 2013

Hello!
Sorry for the lack of updates but was busy since a few friends decided to join me in this build. I spent a lot of time explaining the things I know so far and helping with their build.
Anyway I have some updates from my owm build and the build of my friends.

Well, after I made the second helmet I made the details but I didn´t glue them yet. I made a tamplate that will help me to put those details on the rigth place.

After the details I made the HD forearm, it came out real good, but even I measured my forearm like 5 or 6 times it was too big!!! It had the size of a shin!! :-(

So I remade the forearm, but this time with a better size and the LR file. I decided it´s faster to build and I´ll add the details once I build it.

Here you can see the deferences of sizes.

This size was perfect so I made the other forearm but I reduce the pieces and made more simple templates.

Here they are.

Then added some details to the forearms.

I made the biceps and the shoulders too but I just relized that I didn´t make any picturesView attachment 193063. But I have a picture of the build of one friend, and the templates are the same.

Rodolfo · Jun 3, 2013

Well I don´t know why I couldn´t put all the pictures in the other post. I think there was to many!!

Here are some pictures of the progress of my friends.
Some have only started to draw the pieces, other allready have the helmet done and other has the same pieces I have.

This is other helmet I made, gonna try to convince my wife to wear one of this with me!!

And this is a template made of papaer to see if the size of the chest is right. It looks good, but I´m afraid i won´t know if its ok till I build it! :cry

Drack · Jun 24, 2013

Off to a great start on this one. Going to be watching this seeing as I am a fellow foam Halo MK VI owner

Rodolfo · Jun 29, 2013

Drack said:
Off to a great start on this one. Going to be watching this seeing as I am a fellow foam Halo MK VI owner

Thanks! I saw your videos with your armor!! Nice one!! And thanks for the tutorias!!!

Drack · Jun 29, 2013

Rodolfo said:
Thanks! I saw your videos with your armor!! Nice one!! And thanks for the tutorias!!!

No worries man. I feel bad I didn't get the videos done I promised for so long that I'd do but you know how it is. Its just good knowing that I have helped out there in some way. Once I finally decide on what armour I will be plastic coating I will do tutorials on that because no one has. I know its been explained how and I have tested it my self and been successful so when I do get round to it will definitely do some vids of that.

Anyways looking forward to the next update.

Rodolfo · Jul 2, 2013

Drack said:
No worries man. I feel bad I didn't get the videos done I promised for so long that I'd do but you know how it is. Its just good knowing that I have helped out there in some way. Once I finally decide on what armour I will be plastic coating I will do tutorials on that because no one has. I know its been explained how and I have tested it my self and been successful so when I do get round to it will definitely do some vids of that.

Anyways looking forward to the next update.

A video of that will be really appreciated!! As you say it has been explained a lot but, for people like me, that try to speak more english evey day, it´s better a video!! XP

spiderfan124 · Jul 2, 2013

How thick is your foam

Rodolfo · Jul 3, 2013

spiderfan124 said:
How thick is your foam

It is 5mm.

wickedoffroad · Aug 1, 2013

Looks good. I am going to try halo after i get my daughters Iron Princess costume done.

BBprops · Aug 2, 2013

great work so far. Can you make the foam hard or does it stay soft? I've never seen this before so it's quite interesting.

Rodolfo · Aug 4, 2013

wickedoffroad said:
Looks good. I am going to try halo after i get my daughters Iron Princess costume done.

Thanks!! I hope to see photos from that costume!

BBprops said:
great work so far. Can you make the foam hard or does it stay soft? I've never seen this before so it's quite interesting.

Thanks! Well, here are some threads where they are making the foam hard or trying to, with really good results! XRobots is making an IM suit which had started with foam, and he explains it very good. I´ll let mine in foam. The foam I´m using is strong enough to mantain the shape.

Take a look to this threads, they may help!

http://www.therpf.com/f24/how-plastic-coat-foam-costume-pieces-146539/
http://www.therpf.com/f24/docs-foam...elmet-very-detailed-chest-149883/index51.html
http://www.therpf.com/f24/im-mk3-plastic-coated-foam-wip-update-pg-10-a-175097/index10.html

Rodolfo · Aug 4, 2013

For those who are seeing this thread I want to apologize for the lack of updates!! I´ve been very busy working on the armor and tomorrow I´ll try to upload the pictures of my progress.

Rodolfo · Aug 11, 2013

Hello! Well it hasn´t been "tomorrow" but 6 days later!! :facepalm

Well I have a lot of updates, so I´ll put the differents parts in differents posts!!

I´ll continue with the chest:

I´m making the LR chest and then adding the details

I made a fit test and it results that it was too big :-(

A friend made the same mistake, we made the same file with the same measures, but then we realized that we took the wrong measures. This is his second chest:

It´s a lot better and fits really good!

Here you can see the BIG difference betwen the sizes! And in the left one it doesn´t have the low part!!

This is what we did wrong: I measure my shoulders from shoulder to shloulder:

and we should measured where the shoulder touch the trapeze (more or less):

I tryed the chest of my friend and it was to little for me, so I made the file for my measures and started again including the details:

The fit test was better than before!! XD

So I continued with the details:

(Sorry I can´t put more pics in this post, I´ll continue in the next)!! XD

Rodolfo · Aug 11, 2013

More chest pics:

I´m happy with the results so far!! XP

This is the piece that should go in the neck, but it is too big and square so I rounded it a little and made it shorter, and made the same in the front:

More details:

And adding the buckle to make it easier to put it on:

At this point I had some doubts on how to make this detail, but after asking some friends and my girlfriend all said the same the ones with the foam are better:

I went to my friend´s house to compare our chests, and I realize that his chest was more rounded than mine:

So I decided to round mine too adding some pieces:

I like it more this way. XP

Rodolfo · Aug 11, 2013

And here is the comparison:

and the result:

Those are some details of the helmet I´m working on:

I don´t know how to make the visor, I went with my friend to a lot of stores but we don´t find a cheap visor or the right vinyl for a normal visor. We´ll keep looking!

Rodolfo · Aug 11, 2013

Now with the codpiece:

Do not know why, but I had to add this piece here to make the other pieces fit:

Well this time my fiend sent me a picture of his codpiece:

and it looked different from mine:

again I made mine to square. So I added more pieces:

It looks better but I´m not convince with the result. maybe later I´ll change it again!! Let´s see how it looks with the rest of the armor!

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