Re: Warhammer 40K Space Marine Full Scale - New at this
18.) Running out of time!
So I could keep spray painting parts at night, I put together a make shift spray booth.
19.) More mustard! At this point my fingernails are all dried blue paint and mustard.
20.) Masking off the gold sections. I'd then hit the gold overspray with the gray and alum again, before painting on the mustard. (Day before the party this pic)
21.) A couple of nights before I blew most of an evening working on the back pack. I got considerably further than this picture, but wasn't going to be happy with the materials I had scrounged up. The base is obviously insulation foam, but I had cut out a skin in flexible plastic wall panel (as used in showers in RVs), too heavy in some places and not enough in others. I decided I'd skip the pack for the party and come back to it later...Good thing I did.
22.) Am I forgetting something? Oh yeah, I have to remake the right lower leg armor.
As I'm getting it lined up with the other lower leg (already all painted), I say to my wife: "wow, this one turned out much better than the first anyway." Then I notice that something's not quite right. "It's bigger! F@#$-#$#**-F&^#!
When I had first gotten started I had printed out my first templates at a larger scale, but hadn't noticed until taping together the lower leg armor. Well for whatever reason I saved that first outta scale template. So when I went to the pile of templates, I of course grabbed that one by mistake. Time to rebuild!
23.) Here you can see the third go at the right lower leg being white glued the night before the party.
24.) At this point seeing as the party is less than 24 hours away I make the decision to not sleep. I also start taking far fewer photos. I start bouncing around from painting things when coats are dry, to rigging the suit together, to cutting out joint material and so on.
25.) Starting to destroy the house now. Getting the stilts mounted to feet (or is it the other-way-round?). Again night before, notice hockey gloves in foreground untouched
26.) To pad the bottom of the feet I grabbed some interlocking mats from the back yard.
27.) 10 in the morning! Other leg bit still not done. At this point I have the hands put together and primed, but I'm still figuring out mounting and suit adjustments.
Unfortunately that's where the WIP pics end, but mostly the parts were all done with the exception of the gloves and the one leg component. Everything else was suspenders, straps, more spring steel, button snaps and a couple of magnets.
If anyone's interested in my haphazard rigging I'm more than happy to try to get some decent pics of it.
I do plan on continuing work on this suit, though I couldn't be happier with what I did manage to get done. I'd like to finish the backpack and make a helmet as well as some weapons. I'll update when I do.