RoboTrap
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I've finally resurrected my old RoboCop project, and decided to give the RPF a taste of where I'm sitting right now! When I started these files, the idea was to go the Pepakura route due to never in a million years being able to afford 3D printing. As the model has become more complex - and 3D printing more feasible - I finally made the decision to go full bore and make these the most detailed, complete files I can possibly make them, right down to the individual nuts and bolts (literally, I modeled the hardware!) since I can always scale back on the detail later if my bank account decides Pepakura is still the way this is going to happen. My positively insane goal is to have a wearable suit by Halloween this year. I don't know if I can do it, but I've wanted this my whole life; it's worth a shot!
And because someone's gonna be wondering about the thread title: GQ was the nickname given to the five hero suits on RoboCop 2, to separate them from the four stunt suits.
This model is specifically emulating the RoboCop 2 hero suit, my favorite version of the suit. But with a couple of modifications to the thighs and collar and some latch swapping, it instantly becomes a RoboCop 3/Series suit (as the existing RoboSuits were simply modified for Burke on Robo3, with only one new piece made to accommodate his different dimensions) and with even further work could become a Robo1 suit, but... fav movie of all time or no, that's the most impractical thing on the planet!
Nothing has been prettied up. The only changes made to the design have been some minor corrections in symmetry, with every instance carefully weighed and reasoned out as to which side should be mirrored or whether to combine the two details, or in a few instances actually kept as long as I deemed them to be intentional design details and not faults in execution.
There are a couple of areas where details are still missing, such as the chest and calves; these areas have such particular and uncompromising curves that I want to ensure everything is perfect before I start laying down all that additional detail, which would only serve to mask defects instead of emphasizing them.
Every. Single. Detail. Is here. From rarely seen details tucked in hidden corners, to never seen details that were never, not once, shown on screen... my obsessive self has put all of it here because it... it just has to be. This needs to be perfect. It has to be 100% indistinguishable from an RC2 suit unless Pawlik himself got his hands on it and said "Hey, wait a minute..."
Even the collar, hidden beneath that gargantuan helmet, has been fully detailed. This is usually the most of what you can see...
This is what I've done
The midsection is fully detailed as well, from the latch recess on the side, all the way to, yes... I modeled the cord supporting the midsection rings. No, I haven't gotten around to modeling the allen screws that secured them. Yes, I plan on doing that.
(And yes, I know I'm missing the recessed detail on the front of the midsection tank)
The geometry, unfortunately, is still not adequate enough to capture all the nuance, and I'll be bumping all of this up when I'm assured I've got the curvature and detail placement as good as I can possibly get it.
And a few anti-aliased renders of this thing!
In a nutshell, I'm making the most detailed/accurate RC2 GQ RoboSuit model ever in order to create the most detailed/accurate RC2 GQ RoboSuit replica ever!
What do you all think?
And because someone's gonna be wondering about the thread title: GQ was the nickname given to the five hero suits on RoboCop 2, to separate them from the four stunt suits.
This model is specifically emulating the RoboCop 2 hero suit, my favorite version of the suit. But with a couple of modifications to the thighs and collar and some latch swapping, it instantly becomes a RoboCop 3/Series suit (as the existing RoboSuits were simply modified for Burke on Robo3, with only one new piece made to accommodate his different dimensions) and with even further work could become a Robo1 suit, but... fav movie of all time or no, that's the most impractical thing on the planet!
Nothing has been prettied up. The only changes made to the design have been some minor corrections in symmetry, with every instance carefully weighed and reasoned out as to which side should be mirrored or whether to combine the two details, or in a few instances actually kept as long as I deemed them to be intentional design details and not faults in execution.
There are a couple of areas where details are still missing, such as the chest and calves; these areas have such particular and uncompromising curves that I want to ensure everything is perfect before I start laying down all that additional detail, which would only serve to mask defects instead of emphasizing them.
Every. Single. Detail. Is here. From rarely seen details tucked in hidden corners, to never seen details that were never, not once, shown on screen... my obsessive self has put all of it here because it... it just has to be. This needs to be perfect. It has to be 100% indistinguishable from an RC2 suit unless Pawlik himself got his hands on it and said "Hey, wait a minute..."
Even the collar, hidden beneath that gargantuan helmet, has been fully detailed. This is usually the most of what you can see...
This is what I've done
The midsection is fully detailed as well, from the latch recess on the side, all the way to, yes... I modeled the cord supporting the midsection rings. No, I haven't gotten around to modeling the allen screws that secured them. Yes, I plan on doing that.
(And yes, I know I'm missing the recessed detail on the front of the midsection tank)
The geometry, unfortunately, is still not adequate enough to capture all the nuance, and I'll be bumping all of this up when I'm assured I've got the curvature and detail placement as good as I can possibly get it.
And a few anti-aliased renders of this thing!
In a nutshell, I'm making the most detailed/accurate RC2 GQ RoboSuit model ever in order to create the most detailed/accurate RC2 GQ RoboSuit replica ever!
What do you all think?
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