Calladar's Foam Carter Build

calladar · Jul 28, 2011

well i am trying to get 4 kits ready for dragon con.. Kat for my wife is done.. Grunt for my daughter is half done.. my son has been working on his Jun and getting along well. i had made it to a point with the Grunt build that i realized that it would not take long once i figured out exactly how i was going to make parts for it. so as i was sitting there thinking about it i figured i better get started on my Carter because it was going to take alot longer for it than the grunt. soo i shelved the grunt short term so i could get down to the nitty gritty on the Carter build.

well i dove hard into it and in the process of working as quickly as i could i forgot to take alot of progress pics.. sooo this thread is going to be more of a TA-DA thread. i have now been working on Carter build completely out of foam, with the exception of the helmet, for about a month now. soo here are some pics along the way.

Started with the Helmet of course:

pre-mold

pull from mold

Started Paint

Painted and putting in electronics

Done

Pack hunter · Jul 28, 2011

i wonder if you can get a maniquin in you size so at least as you build in you can have it dry on the mock up and not on table where things can warp.... anywho nice build so far man, you gonna do any drybrushing and weathering on the helmet or is it gonna be left prestine condition.... i wish i had the money to do this now, all these builds are making me really wanna build something (antsee-dance) : (

whats with the duct tape??

calladar · Jul 28, 2011

There is weathering on the helmet.. the camera is not picking it up for some reason..

now photobucket is really driving me nuts. locks up about every five minutes as i am trying to post pics.. soo here i go again trying to get pics up..

on to the chest.

Arms:

Ipod goes there.. speakers mounted in chest. loud and gonna rock it out.

calladar · Jul 28, 2011

moving on to the waist and legs..

sides on cod open up for phone and camera

and photobucket locks up again.. edit post in a min once it starts working again

try again..

pieces together:

still have one shin to do and some painting but it is getting there.. hopefully will be done in the next week.

SagittariusArt · Jul 28, 2011

Can´t find any Words for this beautiful Build

The Amount of Details, the Paintjob...just legendary!

J326 · Jul 28, 2011

dam that is good! awesome idea on the side hatch thing on the cod haha. you're painting is superb!

Toacrabman · Jul 28, 2011

This might be the first build where the little cases on the belt have been functional. I was actually planning on the same thing.
I was also going to keep a tool kit in there for fast repairs, batteries, the works.

Pack hunter · Jul 29, 2011

i got 2 say the one thing i love most about this build is the boots... i just like how you did them, from what i've seen in the figures and drawing the boots seem more like slip ons

thorn696 · Jul 29, 2011

That is one sweet looking suit. The detail work and paint are both amazing. Thank you for sharing this with us.

Prince NEO · Jul 29, 2011

Very nice, such an amazing paint job, I can't believe it's not bondo. xD

mkshane81 · Jul 29, 2011

Wow.... :eek My only thing would be, you need to space those kind of updates out man!! That is a lot of epic work to soak in at one time.

Great work man!!

-Matt

vshore100 · Jul 29, 2011

Man Calladar, you have gotten really good at this foam thing. You Carter build is flat out SICK!!!

HaloGoddess · Jul 29, 2011

That is looking really good! Yeah, I know I already commented on the pic on your facebook. XD

Anyway, I noticed you got the boots to look different and a bit better than the pair you did for your wife. I see how it is..........make the better stuff for yourself. XD haha j/k I'm guessing those were all made from foam too? How did you get it to shape so nicely like that??

BLACKULA727 · Jul 29, 2011

Awesome build! Everything looks spot on. Again, fantastic job!

SPARTANGEO76SPAIN · Jul 29, 2011

spectacular I love your work I also am doing my costume of carter, Commander first and foremost, a greeting

espectacular me encanta tu trabajo yo tambien estoy haciendo mi traje de carter, comandante ante todo , un saludo

TheBradinator · Jul 29, 2011

LEgit!!! How long did it take you?

WrathPrime · Jul 29, 2011

How long did you to make this and are your Wife and Daughter mad that you seemed to make this awesome suit for yourself and their's had taken so long? Was it easier to make it for yourself because you knew how you wanted to do it for yourself and that you could size it as you went?

Great work as always and you always get in all the details!

By the way how did you make the side cod pockets and keeps them closed? Do you have any photos of how you made the speaker set up and how you are connecting them to the wrist player?

calladar · Jul 29, 2011

HaloGoddess said:
That is looking really good! Yeah, I know I already commented on the pic on your facebook. XD

Anyway, I noticed you got the boots to look different and a bit better than the pair you did for your wife. I see how it is..........make the better stuff for yourself. XD haha j/k I'm guessing those were all made from foam too? How did you get it to shape so nicely like that??

the boots were an experiment to begin with making them out of foam.. i used a file to make my wifes and then when i was making mine i decided i could do better from scratch... what i did was take the shoes, traced them on the foam and started building around that. the toe is built up and then i went after it with a dremel to round it and smooth it out. was happy with the results. going to re-make the wifes boots since i figured that out.

TheBradinator said:
LEgit!!! How long did it take you?

has taken me about a month

WrathPrime said:
How long did you to make this and are your Wife and Daughter mad that you seemed to make this awesome suit for yourself and their's had taken so long? Was it easier to make it for yourself because you knew how you wanted to do it for yourself and that you could size it as you went?

Great work as always and you always get in all the details!

By the way how did you make the side cod pockets and keeps them closed? Do you have any photos of how you made the speaker set up and how you are connecting them to the wrist player?

it was much easier to make for myself.. knew my size and while making it i didn't have to wait to track someone down to see if i was on the right track for size.. for the side pockets i made the cod then after making the cod i put a piece of foam on the inside of the "pockets" closing them off.. i then cut the door out and used a small hinge and a magnet and a screw to hold it closed. i put the magnet in the door and the corresponding screw in the cod for the magnet to "grab" and hold the door closed.

i do not have pics of the speaker setup but will have some up here shortly.. it is all stuff i was able to get at walmart. as a preview i found a couple of battery powered small speakers that were nice and loud. mounted them to the inside of the chest in areas where i had hidden a slit for the sound to get out past the foam. and then used a 1/8 inch "headphone" wire extension to be able to reach from the ipod to the speakers (hidden within the inside of the arm pieces) and a headphone y splitter to split the signal to the speakers and plugged it all up and mounted it to the inside of the chest. have some pics up soon. gotta go to work this weekend so i will be back at it Monday.

to all thanks you for the kind comments and sorry for the (as i like to call it) Ta-Da style post.. will have some more up soon. next is going to be weapons.

Galvatron · Jul 29, 2011

wow that's awesome work right there

XxCrossFadexX · Jul 29, 2011

This is IMACULATE!!!! I haven't seen carter done this well!

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