Freez89
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Thats looks realy good work cant wait to put this all together now
The Martian Space Suit
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Thats looks realy good work cant wait to put this all together now
Andreas Persson
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Very nice work Captain April, but there's one little detail bugging me and it's the text on the back of the helmet that is molded underneath the left and right valves saying "EMERGENCY OXYGEN". Although not practical to print in lower detail, a high res print from a professional company like Shapeways a member here was going to get could be good enough to capture that detail.
Riceball
Master Member
Has anyone made a positive ID on the cameras on the side of the helmet yet? I ask because there's a possibility that they might not be cameras at all but golf rangefinders. I happened to be at a big box golf shop this weekend and in the front of the store they had a whole bunch of digital rangefinders on display and a couple of them had white bodies and looked to be about the right size as the 'camera' on the side of the helmet. Unfortunately, I didn't think to take a picture nor do I remember the brand but I'm sure that a quick search online will turn up something.
Andreas Persson
Active Member
I don't know if they are custom or not but in the film they're only used as lights.
While they look like they were modeled off of the look of the range finders, I think they were totally custom like basically everything else on the suit. We found the buckles and the harness, and I think that's all there is. I have given up looking for everything else, and I am betting they were printed / cast.
A few reasons I am going with this conclusion:
They are a similar material style to the rest of the helmet.
They posted pictures of the 3d designs including the lights on the sides.
They are actually hollowed under the silver piece on the side (as per the photos from the theater). It wasn't just tacked on to a pre-built part.
They are mirror images of each other on either side of the helmet. A single range finder / camera would be identical.
A few reasons I am going with this conclusion:
They are a similar material style to the rest of the helmet.
They posted pictures of the 3d designs including the lights on the sides.
They are actually hollowed under the silver piece on the side (as per the photos from the theater). It wasn't just tacked on to a pre-built part.
They are mirror images of each other on either side of the helmet. A single range finder / camera would be identical.
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Based on the CAD/CAM illustrations and when I saw the suit in person, I'm quite confident that the side lights are custom designed along with the helmet.
BlkMesaHero
New Member
I would like to add one thing to Helmet light discussion. While watching The Martian, I noticed that the blue/purple lighting effect on the back of the units seemed to be coming from the light at the front of the unit. Allow me to elaborate. Some Light bulb shrouds are just glass and have reflective material sprayed onto the bottom, like bulbs used in track lighting. I believe the blue/purple light is a result of light bleeding through the reflective material and becoming visible from the back. This translates into less wiring need and fewer light sources for us to worry about, when we source the housing or replicate the housing.
Captain April
Sr Member
Has anyone identified the font used on the rear of the helmet?
I can easily add this detail to my model.
I can easily add this detail to my model.
http://www.dafont.com/nasalization.font?text=NASA
Looks perfect as long as you use the lowercase "m". Only thing I can't tell if right are the G's
MaarekSteele
Member
looks like the nasalization font,. or one of the other "nasa like" fonts.
http://www.dafont.com/nasalization.font?text=emergenzy+oxygen
look at the m and n,. but the e and y seems a bit rounder on the helmet,. but that could be due to the engraving,.
close enough?
WBE beat me to it,. I thought I just refreshed?
http://www.dafont.com/nasalization.font?text=emergenzy+oxygen
look at the m and n,. but the e and y seems a bit rounder on the helmet,. but that could be due to the engraving,.
close enough?
WBE beat me to it,. I thought I just refreshed?
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MaarekSteele
Member
WBE lol
just ordered the dog collar, and patches,. Just gotta lose some weight and get into astronaut shape
Just found this site
https://www.slantnews.com/story/201...antly-shows-why-humans-are-not-ready-for-mars
has a rotating gif
https://cdn.slantnews.com/articles/...edia_620960b0-615e-11e5-aa3d-95f81cdc5bb7.gif
Seems like a lowrez 3d scan for the Degrasse Tyson video,.. but the rotation is not in the video,. maybe it could be helpfull to make the armour? Although we do have lots and lots of reference for it now
just ordered the dog collar, and patches,. Just gotta lose some weight and get into astronaut shape
Just found this site
https://www.slantnews.com/story/201...antly-shows-why-humans-are-not-ready-for-mars
has a rotating gif
https://cdn.slantnews.com/articles/...edia_620960b0-615e-11e5-aa3d-95f81cdc5bb7.gif
Seems like a lowrez 3d scan for the Degrasse Tyson video,.. but the rotation is not in the video,. maybe it could be helpfull to make the armour? Although we do have lots and lots of reference for it now
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antila
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https://www.flickr.com/photos/jdecker/22056051546/in/album-72157659290766588/
This looks like some sort of coaxial connector.
This looks like some sort of coaxial connector.
So I did a little experiment running some dye through my airbrush. This is obviously the wrong model. But I can offer the 28mm buckles in orange if anyone is interested.
I'll post more about this in my patch thread.
I'll post more about this in my patch thread.
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=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByIGfquakAu5NXpYVnFnTVFaRWM/view?usp=sharing
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Oooo! Where did you find that!
It could probably be lightly painted. What size is it?
Oh, yeah forgot to say, that's their 45mm selection. Asked a manufacturer what they had that was close, and that looks like what they have. Think its pretty close to what Soulinertia already got. But figured its worth looking for another source. His 100 yards can only go so far.
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