Captain April
Sr Member
I thought the same thing but it's clearly an optical illusion, I tried building the inner shade spherically and it didn't fit or work in any way.
I've reviewed my awards screener, and I can't find any part of the scene where they show the Ares V mission logo. Suits are pretty non-descript.
That Flexo F6 is probably good enough for most people. But if the little details matter, I don't think that is the right one. If you look real the weave has multiple sizes to it on the suit, and the F6 is more uniform.
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I agree, it seems to be of some sort of weaved flat plastic fiber mesh and sewn into a tube. Looking closer at the seamline it looks like black thread instead of what I initially thought was the edge of a cable sock.
I think it's a custom modification that won't be easy to replicate so I'm willing to go for F6 as a temporary solution.
I took all of the reference photos being posted, and organized them all into a book - sorted by the various parts of the costume. Hopefully this will help during the assembly process, although I kept the original resolutions of all the images and tried to minimize cropping for layout reasons to trivial parts of the images (non-costume areas of the pictures), so you should be able to zoom in pretty far on each image while still retaining clarity, if needed. If there are any changes/additions you'd like made, let me know. I limited the content to screengrabs, publicity/production stills, and the picture dumps from @jontom and @Frank Ippolito, mainly because I wanted a guide to help me assemble and finish the costume, using other pics on this thread to identify parts. Enjoy!
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByIGfquakAu5NXpYVnFnTVFaRWM/view?usp=shaing
Awesome work! Would it be much work to make a version without spreads so that every page is a single page? There's some print on demand places that can do hardcover books, but most of them don't like spreads. Would be awesome to have it in book form.
I can do that, I'd have to add a bit of bleed also. And I totally forgot about adding the helmet reference pics @ThomasBunce took! I'll try to bang that out this weekend, because I'd like a print copy myself. Are there any print shops in particular you'd have in mind? I could look up their requirements and make any necessary changes.
Sorry if this doesn't belong here, but I just saw this on reddit.
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