Starting on cheap armor

[Double H]

Thanks! Fella?

Sorry, just something I say, comes to me without thinking sometimes.

 

[bendrago]

Looking good and original, have a fun vacation and when you return ... we, the public, demand more pictures !!

 

[serenity1]

looks awesome

 

[kala]

This is looking so good! And you asked about it waaaaay earlier in the thread but to heat the small thin foamies you can do it with a hair blow dryer. It might take a little longer but I've heard it works just the same! Keep up the good work!

 

[Valkyrja]

Thanks for the feedback everyone and I am still amazed at all of the originality that I see in other builds. The alien exoskeleton armor sounds pretty wild.

I am kind of stuck on what to do next with the bio paint job. Add a clan symbol? Different color for the rest of the eye? Starburst on that eye or the tears I have been thinking about (ala Cry for Dawn)? I know I want to add a bit of grey and black to the connector on one side and blacken the part around the targeting system.

Also stumped on my plasma caster. Not too thrilled on how that is turning out.

 

[Valkyrja]

An update stating no update due to no work being completed while on vacation. There was an ocean and I had to do everything I could to try and tame it for my own amusement.

 

[Double H]

An update stating no update due to no work being completed while on vacation. There was an ocean and I had to do everything I could to try and tame it for my own amusement.

Sounds like you had a good time. May I be the first to say welcome back to the jungle....

 

[Valkyrja]

Thank ya!

I have a question for those who still might be popping into here.

My bio. I plan to attach it to a helmet (human in pred gear so no pred mask) and was thinking about using earth magnets. Anyone try this before? I want a pretty solid fit and will use foam to buffer out the lower part of the bio. I plan on either just painting the helmet the same colour or cutting out octagon squares, gluing them to the helmet, and then adding colour (in story she will be fashioning items from left over shuttle parts like the heat shields).

 

[Lflank]

Thank ya!

I have a question for those who still might be popping into here.

My bio. I plan to attach it to a helmet (human in pred gear so no pred mask) and was thinking about using earth magnets. Anyone try this before? I want a pretty solid fit and will use foam to buffer out the lower part of the bio. I plan on either just painting the helmet the same colour or cutting out octagon squares, gluing them to the helmet, and then adding colour (in story she will be fashioning items from left over shuttle parts like the heat shields).

I've used magnets. I attached one set to the inside of the bio and the other set to the inside of the mask--they'll hold each other right through the latex.

 

[Valkyrja]

I am not going with a latex face due to being a human fighting with the preds (ala Machiko). Maybe one day I will do a full suit. Maybe.

Update:

Trying to run the wires and set the switch for the LEDs I had a wire break off at a solder joint. I had been trying to run them in a few different ways and the back and forth must have been a bit much. Digging around my stuff and hoping that I packed my soldering iron when I moved so I can fix it. Once I have that decided then all I have to do is finish the mounting of the LEDs and doing a temp mock up for the foam inserts to keep the mask away from my face a bit. Then the helmet and magnets and all done except for some painting.

As for the armor, the soda bottle idea may actually pan out. It is thin material to use and roughing it up in order to use glue can result in putting some tears and holes in the material. Must give it loving abuse. My plans for Halloween have changed so much that I have not focused on this at all and I have been sidetracked by work and another hobby project: building a small, linear particle accelerator in my livingroom. Oh and painting my two extra bedrooms.

For the magnets: actually thinking about mounting them in the foam to make future re-arranging easier. I would rather replace foam than try to fix the bio.

 

[Lflank]

building a small, linear particle accelerator in my livingroom.

I recall seeing plans years ago to build a homemade cosmic-ray bubble chamber using dry ice. I never gave it a try, though.

So are you of the Copenhagen Interpretation school of quantum physics or the many-worlds school or what? And whaddya think of the whole "neutrinos travel faster than light" thingie?

 

[Valkyrja]

Well, to be fair, if you have an old CRT monitor laying around you have a basic linear accelerator anyway. I just want something... bigger. Fortunately I have a friend who is a bit more knowledgeable about x-rays and what I am doing should not put out much.

The FTL thing... part of me really wants it to be proven true. The rest though thinks that it will not or that we will end up with a slightly different number, kind of how Pi is recalculated or in the way that certain units of measurement (like amperes) have finally been given a number due to the fact that our tools and methods have become more precise.

As for quantum theories I am more in the relational camp.

 

[Lflank]

The FTL thing... part of me really wants it to be proven true. The rest though thinks that it will not or that we will end up with a slightly different number, kind of how Pi is recalculated or in the way that certain units of measurement (like amperes) have finally been given a number due to the fact that our tools and methods have become more precise.

Yep---I think we question relativity theory at our peril. It'd take a heck of a load of evidence to convince me it's wrong.