CybranKNight
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Hey everyone! Now that I got things kinda sorted out with my Vacuum Former I can start shifting focus to things I'm gonna make with it, which is kinda of a a bit of an odd thing.
See, I'm about 5' 11.5"(I just say 6' for simplicity) and only about 140lbs so I'm pretty tall-ish and pretty darn skinny which can make it a bit off for choosing a costume and what not as I like to "Fit" as much as possible in as many ways as possible. Considering that it can be kinda tough for me to pick something and before the last 6 months or so I've also needed to stay away from things like armor focused builds due to a lack of pretty much everything required to do those well! In fact I've always not wanted to attempt something I didn't think I could accomplish to a decent degree of.....accuracy is the closest word but it's not really accurate. Looking forward I realize I do need to relax my "standards" for myself in order for me to accomplish....well anything really, after all it is REALLY hard to know everything you need to do something without actually doing it!
So to that end I've picked something that should be pretty easy but should still give me a lot of opportunity to learn and figure things out;
MegaMan Volnutt from MegaMan Legends
It's a bit of an odd choice, it's basically one of the most "out there" of the megaman games being that it is essentially an AU outside of the Main storyline but for me, it was something I had rented one time way back when renting N64s and PS1s was the thing to do, aside from owning the console of course, and it just kinda stuck with me for all these years and only recently have I been to/remember to able to play it again fully and despite how rough everything felt about it for me it just had this great charm or something.
Now of course, the thing is that these days we have it really lucky when it comes to games and recreating things from them because almost everything is just so damned details in regards to in-game models and such. But for Megaman Legends well....lets just say it's not much of an exaggeration to say he was basically made out of cubes;
Luckily we can still infer a pretty decent amount and we also have drawn references as well;
But even these aren't perfect either! So we need to kind of mix and match a bit.
Overall color scheme from A
Torso and Shoulders* from B
Crotch, Forearms and Hands from A
Legs from A
Feet from B
BackPack from A
I stayed away form C mostly because it's a fairly large departure in terms of style in some areas and while strictly speaking it might be the easiest it isn't quite the Megaman I like.
But even then there are still some questions that need to be answered, like what does his blaster actually look like? You see it in game opf course but it's just a grey tip to teh rectangle that makes up his forearm so it's not all that much to go on really. I will probably spend a fair bit of creative time on this because it's something I want to both be easy to swap out so I don't lose my hand when I'm wearing it but still look like it fits with everything else.
Aside form thinking about tall this, I haven't done too much actual work yet, I've been stressing out a bit about my Vacuum Former the last week but now I can really dig into this so last night I decided to start in somewhat of an odd place, the backpack!
Obviously it's missing a few bits, namely the round button-ish things(I hate doing round things out of pepakura) but I think this is a pretty logical starting place due to how it has to connect with the back of the torso and because not only do I want it to be detachable, I also want to be able to open and let me actually put stuff in there! Not sure how I'm gonna do that yet....it doesn't even seem like it was designed to open to begin with so I'll definitely need to get pretty creative. I think I've got a pretty good scale but I'll need a hand from one of my roommates to check it properly.
In the meantime I think I'll start working on the forearm and work my way up to the shoulder, there will be lots of trial and error with getting the sizes right I imagine.
See, I'm about 5' 11.5"(I just say 6' for simplicity) and only about 140lbs so I'm pretty tall-ish and pretty darn skinny which can make it a bit off for choosing a costume and what not as I like to "Fit" as much as possible in as many ways as possible. Considering that it can be kinda tough for me to pick something and before the last 6 months or so I've also needed to stay away from things like armor focused builds due to a lack of pretty much everything required to do those well! In fact I've always not wanted to attempt something I didn't think I could accomplish to a decent degree of.....accuracy is the closest word but it's not really accurate. Looking forward I realize I do need to relax my "standards" for myself in order for me to accomplish....well anything really, after all it is REALLY hard to know everything you need to do something without actually doing it!
So to that end I've picked something that should be pretty easy but should still give me a lot of opportunity to learn and figure things out;
MegaMan Volnutt from MegaMan Legends
It's a bit of an odd choice, it's basically one of the most "out there" of the megaman games being that it is essentially an AU outside of the Main storyline but for me, it was something I had rented one time way back when renting N64s and PS1s was the thing to do, aside from owning the console of course, and it just kinda stuck with me for all these years and only recently have I been to/remember to able to play it again fully and despite how rough everything felt about it for me it just had this great charm or something.
Now of course, the thing is that these days we have it really lucky when it comes to games and recreating things from them because almost everything is just so damned details in regards to in-game models and such. But for Megaman Legends well....lets just say it's not much of an exaggeration to say he was basically made out of cubes;
Luckily we can still infer a pretty decent amount and we also have drawn references as well;
But even these aren't perfect either! So we need to kind of mix and match a bit.
Overall color scheme from A
Torso and Shoulders* from B
Crotch, Forearms and Hands from A
Legs from A
Feet from B
BackPack from A
I stayed away form C mostly because it's a fairly large departure in terms of style in some areas and while strictly speaking it might be the easiest it isn't quite the Megaman I like.
But even then there are still some questions that need to be answered, like what does his blaster actually look like? You see it in game opf course but it's just a grey tip to teh rectangle that makes up his forearm so it's not all that much to go on really. I will probably spend a fair bit of creative time on this because it's something I want to both be easy to swap out so I don't lose my hand when I'm wearing it but still look like it fits with everything else.
Aside form thinking about tall this, I haven't done too much actual work yet, I've been stressing out a bit about my Vacuum Former the last week but now I can really dig into this so last night I decided to start in somewhat of an odd place, the backpack!
Obviously it's missing a few bits, namely the round button-ish things(I hate doing round things out of pepakura) but I think this is a pretty logical starting place due to how it has to connect with the back of the torso and because not only do I want it to be detachable, I also want to be able to open and let me actually put stuff in there! Not sure how I'm gonna do that yet....it doesn't even seem like it was designed to open to begin with so I'll definitely need to get pretty creative. I think I've got a pretty good scale but I'll need a hand from one of my roommates to check it properly.
In the meantime I think I'll start working on the forearm and work my way up to the shoulder, there will be lots of trial and error with getting the sizes right I imagine.
