Starship troopers Foam MI Armor

I'm playing around with sketch up to make a possible pep file, once you got the outer shell to make a form its all cake from there. more to come on that, gotta learn Sketch up first....lol

Sorry to hear about your place, flooding sux!
 
decided to play in sketchup today, here's a little taste....now only more to learn! :p

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OK I need some help, import my sketchup to goole earth kmz, thossed it in Pepekura, and I have a couple random lines that shouldn't be there and are NOT in the original drawing, edit jsut makes lines jumpt all over. Any pep experts that can help me?


Thanks!
 
I am going to pep out the armor, resin and sand, and fill the back with rondo and use the as bucks to mold with.

I was going to cut out foam scales individually like Mike, but getting the angle correct on so many individual pieces with a hot knife of exacto knife was difficult as hell and looked terrible when I was done.
 
TrooperPX said:
Yea, you'd have to use an angle rig like one for cutting matteboard.
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I figured, but am running out of place to shove stuff and don't want to buy a one use item.

Still need pep help, when I unfold, the back plate breaks into pieces, but no tabs appear and no numbers appear. I can manually go into 2d edit and add tabs, but that gets a little time consuming quite quickly. On the tutorials I have seen on youtube, Pep appears to autmatically do the tabs, am I missing something? I am using current sketch up converted to goole earth kmz file format.
 
OK, learned some sketchup and Pep, still having trouble with making pep see joined sketchup edges, but I muttled through.


Started the buck for the backplate:


BackplateBuckstart2.jpg



BackplateBuckstart.jpg
 
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Wow! That's (no pun intended) shaping up nicely. We could easily make plaster molds from something like this. :cool
 
TrooperPX said:
Wow! That's (no pun intended) shaping up nicely. We could easily make plaster molds from something like this. :cool
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Thanx TPX, need to do some sanding and rounding, then I am hot gluing to a piece of .5 plywood. I am gonna make a master mold with Smoothon Pour in molding, using coated board on boths sides, with 1" spacers. Would Plaster work OK for a flat mould, and would it be smooth enough for casting the outer skin?

I have been experimenting with SmoothOn's FlexFoam-it 17, which has 3.5 expansion, and forms a clean flat surface on the outer skin, it's very flexible, and durable! I ran a .5" thick 5x5" test pieces and it bends perfect, and has some stretch without form or shape loss.

If I can get the backplate done i intended to pour a fullsize very soon....but of course the holidays are hitting so who knows. :p
 
I have the back plate in pep, but the front plate and shoulder plates, I am having trboule going from sketchup to pep, and having all the right edges connect so it will break apart. I am still working it, and working on a foam from SmoothOn, that hardens on the outside, but stays very flexible as a demo for the back plate....FlxFoam it.

I am doing the fair season and working on my Cavalier outfits, but will be following up on this this August time frame. sorry for delays.
 
Would you be willing to make any of your pep files available for anyone else who would like to take a crack at doing the armor?
 
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