Satchmo III
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Greetings all.
INTRODUCTION
I've been a fan of the Metal Gear Solid series since the original came out for the PlayStation. I'm looking forward to the upcoming MGS5 and have recently replayed through most of the series thanks to the Legacy Collection (which ports and/or updates most of the entries for play on the PS3). In the first and second games the cyborg ninja are mysterious and skilled. They're definitely one of the coolest parts of these games and, I think, hold a special place in the hearts and minds of most MGS fans.
This thread will follow the build-out of two cyborg ninja helmets from the series. One being the helmet worn by Olga Gurlukovich (semi-spoiler) in Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty and the other being the Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance iteration of the helmet worn by Gray Fox in Metal Gear Solid. For simplicity sake I will refer to the helmets as shown below.
(Cyborg ninja from Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty) = (Olga).
(Cyborg ninja from Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance) = (GF).
The work for this build will generally follow the stages below. Once the helmets are completed I may craft one of the associated suits or a mixture of each (they're relatively similar) and a high-frequency blade.
1. Model development.
2. Paper assembly of PDO models.
3. Hardening of paper with resin/rondo.
4. Shaping and detailing.
5. Painting and finishing.
6. Molding and casting.
I'd like to thank Diegator who has a great Gray Fox build log and Darkside501st for providing the basis of the GF model. And thank you, reader, for your interest. Please post if you have any questions or comments along the way, unless asked for I won't go into great detail on specific processes in this thread.
STAGE #1: MODEL DEVELOPMENT SUMMARY
I began the Olga helmet by gathering reference photos from MGS2/the internet and then used Blender to create the model. During this process I discovered the Metal Gear Rising (which I have not played) iteration of the Gray Fox cyborg ninja helmet and decided it'd be cool to work up the two helmets together. I found Darkside501st's model rip/modification of this helmet which I simplified and restructured for this build.
I won't get in to the details but below are some images of the final Olga and GF models used for this build and a sample of the reference imagery used to prepare them. If you're interested in checking out or using the PDO files for these models please visit my portfolio thread (http://www.405th.com/showthread.php/32448-Model-portfolio-(Satchmo-III)).
OLGA HELMET MODEL
GF HELMET MODEL
STAGE #2: PAPER ASSEMBLY SUMMARY
Due to scaling issues I wound up assembling the paper for these models several times (see the image below). Each time that I decided a model's scaling wasn't correct I went back to Blender to modify that model before re-assembling it. In this way the overall shaping improved and details I wanted to focus on for the paper stage of the build were developed.
MORE PAPER ASSEMBLY ITERATIONS THAN I'D LIKE
Photos of the final assemblies of the Olga and GF helmets are below. Both helmets took a little less than seven hours each to put together. I sketched on the paper with markers to show some of the detail work that will follow in later stages of the build.
OLGA FINAL PAPER ASSEMBLED
GF FINAL PAPER ASSEMBLED
STAGE #3: HARDENING SUMMARY
I was able to do the resin work in a large open-space heated warehouse (it's still cold outside in Minnesota). I applied fiberglass resin to both the exterior and interior of each helmet and then coated the interiors with rondo. Typically I would follow the rondo with fiberglass but I've decided that the rondo is rigid enough to allow me to proceed. The photos below show the helmets following the hardening stage which took about two hours overall. It's not easy to tell by the photos but the exterior coat of resin really brought out the marker coloring.
OLGA HARDENING COMPLETED
GF HARDENING COMPLETED
This weekend I intend to proceed to the detailing stage which will include bondo-work and sanding. More on that will follow.
INTRODUCTION
I've been a fan of the Metal Gear Solid series since the original came out for the PlayStation. I'm looking forward to the upcoming MGS5 and have recently replayed through most of the series thanks to the Legacy Collection (which ports and/or updates most of the entries for play on the PS3). In the first and second games the cyborg ninja are mysterious and skilled. They're definitely one of the coolest parts of these games and, I think, hold a special place in the hearts and minds of most MGS fans.
This thread will follow the build-out of two cyborg ninja helmets from the series. One being the helmet worn by Olga Gurlukovich (semi-spoiler) in Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty and the other being the Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance iteration of the helmet worn by Gray Fox in Metal Gear Solid. For simplicity sake I will refer to the helmets as shown below.
(Cyborg ninja from Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty) = (Olga).
(Cyborg ninja from Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance) = (GF).
The work for this build will generally follow the stages below. Once the helmets are completed I may craft one of the associated suits or a mixture of each (they're relatively similar) and a high-frequency blade.
1. Model development.
2. Paper assembly of PDO models.
3. Hardening of paper with resin/rondo.
4. Shaping and detailing.
5. Painting and finishing.
6. Molding and casting.
I'd like to thank Diegator who has a great Gray Fox build log and Darkside501st for providing the basis of the GF model. And thank you, reader, for your interest. Please post if you have any questions or comments along the way, unless asked for I won't go into great detail on specific processes in this thread.
STAGE #1: MODEL DEVELOPMENT SUMMARY
I began the Olga helmet by gathering reference photos from MGS2/the internet and then used Blender to create the model. During this process I discovered the Metal Gear Rising (which I have not played) iteration of the Gray Fox cyborg ninja helmet and decided it'd be cool to work up the two helmets together. I found Darkside501st's model rip/modification of this helmet which I simplified and restructured for this build.
I won't get in to the details but below are some images of the final Olga and GF models used for this build and a sample of the reference imagery used to prepare them. If you're interested in checking out or using the PDO files for these models please visit my portfolio thread (http://www.405th.com/showthread.php/32448-Model-portfolio-(Satchmo-III)).
OLGA HELMET MODEL
GF HELMET MODEL
STAGE #2: PAPER ASSEMBLY SUMMARY
Due to scaling issues I wound up assembling the paper for these models several times (see the image below). Each time that I decided a model's scaling wasn't correct I went back to Blender to modify that model before re-assembling it. In this way the overall shaping improved and details I wanted to focus on for the paper stage of the build were developed.
MORE PAPER ASSEMBLY ITERATIONS THAN I'D LIKE
Photos of the final assemblies of the Olga and GF helmets are below. Both helmets took a little less than seven hours each to put together. I sketched on the paper with markers to show some of the detail work that will follow in later stages of the build.
OLGA FINAL PAPER ASSEMBLED
GF FINAL PAPER ASSEMBLED
STAGE #3: HARDENING SUMMARY
I was able to do the resin work in a large open-space heated warehouse (it's still cold outside in Minnesota). I applied fiberglass resin to both the exterior and interior of each helmet and then coated the interiors with rondo. Typically I would follow the rondo with fiberglass but I've decided that the rondo is rigid enough to allow me to proceed. The photos below show the helmets following the hardening stage which took about two hours overall. It's not easy to tell by the photos but the exterior coat of resin really brought out the marker coloring.
OLGA HARDENING COMPLETED
GF HARDENING COMPLETED
This weekend I intend to proceed to the detailing stage which will include bondo-work and sanding. More on that will follow.
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