Ok so i was talking with my daughter about her costume that she wanted for Dragon-con and since me her mother and big brother were all going as reach characters she wanted something different. SOOOO I started pulling up pictures of different characters from not only Halo but other things. Of all things my daughter saw a grunt and started jumping up and down that was what she wanted to be..
I started looking at pep files for grunts and there was not much to choose from. what i did find i liked the chest piece but did not really like the helmet / gas mask piece. as i was looking i also noticed that the eyes were on the side of the head. I started asking myself how i was going to do this and my daughter be able to see where the heck she was going. as i was looking i got to thinking. what if i made the gas mask big enough to pretty much cover my daughters face and put tinted plexiglass in places on the gas mask (which will be painted black) so she could see. i started taking some measurements of my daughters face and drawing it out. (needed a break from the Kat build for a few)...
I decided on a scratch build due to no real pep files for what i wanted to do. I sat down and started sketching and measuring and scratching the top of my head. after i had a plan i decided i was going to try and make it out of foam. This should be fun... I have been playing with the foam on my Kat build and felt confident i could get the results i wanted. after about 6 hours of fighting the foam and allot of head scratching i got to a point that i felt i could do it.
I started looking at pep files for grunts and there was not much to choose from. what i did find i liked the chest piece but did not really like the helmet / gas mask piece. as i was looking i also noticed that the eyes were on the side of the head. I started asking myself how i was going to do this and my daughter be able to see where the heck she was going. as i was looking i got to thinking. what if i made the gas mask big enough to pretty much cover my daughters face and put tinted plexiglass in places on the gas mask (which will be painted black) so she could see. i started taking some measurements of my daughters face and drawing it out. (needed a break from the Kat build for a few)...
I decided on a scratch build due to no real pep files for what i wanted to do. I sat down and started sketching and measuring and scratching the top of my head. after i had a plan i decided i was going to try and make it out of foam. This should be fun... I have been playing with the foam on my Kat build and felt confident i could get the results i wanted. after about 6 hours of fighting the foam and allot of head scratching i got to a point that i felt i could do it.