Kirk0
Active Member
Hi all, I'm fairly new here and discovered Pepakura in August while looking for a way to make a shredder helmet 1990's cartoon Shredder helmet (never did find one).
Since then I think I've become a little addicted! I'm fortunate enough to be self employed, I run a small pet shop and in my quiet time for the last 2 months I've been pepping.
I started my MKIV build midway through August using JFS foam unfolds ater watching many videos and reading many build threads, I estimate it took me around 175 hours total, here are the pics:
First part I built was the chest, abs, then back, then shoulders, I replaced the chest eventually as, as I got used to pepping with foam I realised it was a pretty rubbish chest and the foam I used was no good.
This is when I decied a new chest was needed, I also puchased a custom made Arc Reactor on eBay for £15.
I then spent a full Sunday painting with my brother.
I've since bought a second skin red suit and red strapping to build a garter belt type support for the legs, when I eventually do this and suit up for the parties I'm attending over Halloween I'll post some pics.
So.... because I now had a pretty awesome Halloween costume my wife wanted something a group of us had discussed going as Power Rangers to some events next year so we decided we would make her a Pink Ranger costume.
I found some pep files made by dungbeetle and EyeofSauron and attempted to convert the pink to foam and built it out of some left over 5mm foam I had, it came out pretty poor:
So I posted in JFs thread and he kindly converted the Pink and Green helmets for me so I built the Pink (I have also started on the Green a little) this one came out much better:
The red and black lines at the joints are pen, not gaps.
For a Visor I had some left over strips of flexible plastic, the kind used in cold stores these are perfect for visors, they are clear and super flexible like rubber, I'm going to cover these with car black out window film.
So now we needed some boots and a suit, I ordered the Rubies 20th anniversary pink ranger suit, and for the money its pretty nice, and it has a nice morpher on the belt:
For the boots I ordered some cheap white leather boots of Amazon and have glues pink foam diamonds to them using foam I had left over from my Iron Man finger armour:
So now we needed a Power bow! This isn't accurate but it will do, I may make it again at a later date and include the curves to make it more accurate. To build this I found a template on google and printed it off (my wife is short so I made the bow to scale for here).
I cut all these out and then cut a strip in the middle of the middle piece to glue metal supports into to stop the foam from bending.
I then added more of the left over thin foam to the edges to cover the joints:
And that is where I am up to so far with the Pink Ranger build, the helmet should be finished with sealing and ready for painting on Friday/Saturday.
I'll update when I make more progress on the painting.
Since then I think I've become a little addicted! I'm fortunate enough to be self employed, I run a small pet shop and in my quiet time for the last 2 months I've been pepping.
I started my MKIV build midway through August using JFS foam unfolds ater watching many videos and reading many build threads, I estimate it took me around 175 hours total, here are the pics:
First part I built was the chest, abs, then back, then shoulders, I replaced the chest eventually as, as I got used to pepping with foam I realised it was a pretty rubbish chest and the foam I used was no good.
This is when I decied a new chest was needed, I also puchased a custom made Arc Reactor on eBay for £15.
I then spent a full Sunday painting with my brother.
I've since bought a second skin red suit and red strapping to build a garter belt type support for the legs, when I eventually do this and suit up for the parties I'm attending over Halloween I'll post some pics.
So.... because I now had a pretty awesome Halloween costume my wife wanted something a group of us had discussed going as Power Rangers to some events next year so we decided we would make her a Pink Ranger costume.
I found some pep files made by dungbeetle and EyeofSauron and attempted to convert the pink to foam and built it out of some left over 5mm foam I had, it came out pretty poor:
So I posted in JFs thread and he kindly converted the Pink and Green helmets for me so I built the Pink (I have also started on the Green a little) this one came out much better:
The red and black lines at the joints are pen, not gaps.
For a Visor I had some left over strips of flexible plastic, the kind used in cold stores these are perfect for visors, they are clear and super flexible like rubber, I'm going to cover these with car black out window film.
So now we needed some boots and a suit, I ordered the Rubies 20th anniversary pink ranger suit, and for the money its pretty nice, and it has a nice morpher on the belt:
For the boots I ordered some cheap white leather boots of Amazon and have glues pink foam diamonds to them using foam I had left over from my Iron Man finger armour:
So now we needed a Power bow! This isn't accurate but it will do, I may make it again at a later date and include the curves to make it more accurate. To build this I found a template on google and printed it off (my wife is short so I made the bow to scale for here).
I cut all these out and then cut a strip in the middle of the middle piece to glue metal supports into to stop the foam from bending.
I then added more of the left over thin foam to the edges to cover the joints:
And that is where I am up to so far with the Pink Ranger build, the helmet should be finished with sealing and ready for painting on Friday/Saturday.
I'll update when I make more progress on the painting.
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it needs touching up in a few places where the pink leaked under the tape but I will do that when I do the same touch ups to my MKIV suit.
