WIP: Halo 3 Marines (D-con or bust!)

quick update: had some setbacks, had to cut pieces apart to get some shapes quite right- getting internal lines nice and sharp is a pain, and fighting the medium is not fun.


The shoulders are mostly done, just a couple details to add there.
A heat lamp seems to help when glassing things around midnight or later, in the nice, clammy Florida humidity.
The greave is proving to be annoying, thanks to the ambiguity of bump mapping.
 
MjolnirArmor said:
love the shoulders!
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Thanks. I'm having trouble finding the proper hinges for them, though, might have to modify some.

Let me know if you want a pair, I can see some frankensuits in the future as people upgrade and expand from the basics.
 
MjolnirArmor said:
love the shoulders! What's that on the right side?
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The most right picture is the greave. The pain of a greave, what with its indents, the sides, the game model with textures on it, just proves to have you requestion yourself everytime you start to work on it.
 
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Here's a few pictures from the last work session:




What you're looking at here is custom pepakura, with a built-up layer of casting resin inside, reinforced in a few areas by a mixture of bondo and fiberglass resin.

Sanding the paper off has been a breeze- the giant layers of cottony fluff I end up covered in after each session are pretty hilarious, though.
 
Have you tried AeroMarine Polymer Casting Resin from jgreer? That's the one PSBerreta used on the 405th forums.

Anyway, tell me later which you prefer between SC and RC :)

Looking great by the way :p
 
Okay, casting and molding supplies all ordered.
Models and pep files all updated with more reinforcement, added detail, better layouts, etc.
Now to build it all.. with the tabs on the outside. :rolleyes











 
Vrogy said:
Now to build it all.. with the tabs on the outside.
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I was wondering how this would affect your resin method... how bad was it? Is your helmet usable, or is it too much work to fill in the spaces from tabs?

I'm thinking of taking this same approach when I tackle my next projects too and I was wondering about the tabs... after I finished the pep assembly, of course.
 
So, about a week to go now.

Everything has been pepped and resined, and about half of it is slushed with black Alumilite RC-3. The sculpts for the greaves and the helmet are coming along well, aside from some bothersome delamination- we think it may be due to the damp weather down here.

The knee, bootplate, and shoulder molds are all done and functional- we've made some pulls already. Pics to come as we get an arm or leg harness painted and strapped.
 
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