My Iron Man/War Machine WIP: My learning experience

silentd3at4 said:

Hey mike what I have to do is rotate the pieces put em on angles and what not to fit them on one page. Other times there is no way around splitting the piece (depending on the size) you will have to to separate the pieces onto separate pages and then print them. but DONT just have them overlay onto another page. There is a button with a zipper in the upper left corner. Click this then the piece to "slice" the piece and it will create tabs on the 2 halves of the piece and of course move accordingly to fit both halves on same page or separate pages.

EDIT: Dont feel like your hijacking. Your questions help me, or can help others and I want this to be a comprehensive iron man help as well as my wip thread. So ask away!

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mike8213 said:

Thx, I finally got some war machine files and started messing with them yesterday. I got the War Machine helmet tester file from Dubean's movie accurate thread. I decided to go ahead and scale it up, printed it and spent about 2 hours cutting it out last night. From what I've noticed so far it seems that some folds are so tiny that they aren't really worth the time. I didn't know about the "Join Adjacent Edges" until I checked today, or I would have done that first. I guess in the end it's just a tester to check sizing issues before doing the HD helmet, so no sense getting crazy with accuracy.

I was originally going to settle for doing some halo peping but then I found this iron man stuff and I got really excited! I will probably do the Hayabusa build for Halo though, that stuff def looks awesome.

About the bondo thing, I have no idea yet because I see people who say just put some on where you will need to add detail, and some who say schmear it from left to right. In my case, I don't think I will cover the entire peice with bondo, just where I will need to add detail, so I'll still add 3 layers or so of resin. May want to do that either way though because the stronger the base peice is, the more resistant to twisting it is, so the less likely the bondo top layer will crack or damage. Thats just a pure guess though.

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mike8213 said:

Nice work thus far. Are you using "Join Adjacent Edges" at all on your printouts? As per the helmet, I have a rather large head IMO and also in the opinion of hat makers everywhere, so I scaled my size tester helmet to 1.27 and then spent about 3 hours last night folding it up. I think spending that much time on a size tester was a waste, but its the very first thing I pepped at all, so gave me a little experience.

Anyways, because I just checked I'll post my measurements on head.
24'' Measuring from right above ear
26'' From line where neck and lower jaw meet, up around middle of top of head, going in front of the ears)
22'' From chin cleft, between the eyes, over the top of the head, to the "nugget" of bone in the back of my head

None of those probably make sense, so when I figure out a finished helmet I'll post my measurements again, along with scale used, and also a diagram of how I measure head . If I had a password for pepakura I could export the files and measure them in 3dsMax.

Also, yeah, sounds like a good idea working on different things. Between my 60 hours a week at work, and prego wife, and rowdy child I don't get much time to work on this stuff. Actually aside from that I do a lot of exercise, side jobs, soccer games, hiking, etc. so I'll be lucky to get this done by next halloween .

Noticed in the "Sizing" thread you asked about head tester. I am referring to the size tester, it's the low def/detail model someone made for checking proper scaling on the helmet. It's only on that peice though.

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J326 said:

pep's look good. You planning to build the mini gun too?

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