Halo Reach Carter build version 2.0-3.0 something extremely pic heavy!

Hello 405th I have returned sorry I havent been updating in a while got pretty carried away with my builds.

First off I had been working on updating and redoing parts to my halo reach Carter costume for those of you who don't remember this is what it originally looked like



So if you notice there are several things here out of place one is the shoes thier way off at the toe and that had bugged me for a while problem was finding a file that had the complete boot so I could make it out of foam another was the shins and thighs both of which werent quite accurate I mean they looked good but they were off from alot of the other 405thmemeber I saw at comic con . and of course my biceps were too small and also not the correct file.

So my first objective was to fix my shins and thighs I surfed around for a bit and managed to find the right files for them . Big thanks to my friend Nick Knack Patty wack for giving me his old shins that he semi finished he had stopped cause they were too small for his gargantuan muscled calves as he puts it, only thing was missing was the back parts which I'll admit I got lazy and just cut off the backs of my old shins and slapped them on the new shins for halloween ( but dont worry I put the right ones on just havent took a pic yet)





I made the thighs out of foam (couldnt find a foam mat that was all the same color)


Also i had been rolling an idea in my head for a while to have a gun that can attach to my costume with magnets my asault rifle made from styrene and a nerf gun was way too heavy so I decided to make a DMR for SDCC and have it attach to my back, here's where I ran into some problems.

1 my computer went on the fritz two weeks before SDCC so I had no access to pepekura so I could build a DMR so I scratch built one basing it off my Carter toy.


and it took me a while to realize that I made it WAY too big


so I figured it's too close to SDCC for a rebuild I'll just run with it and I think some of you noticed it lol.



So I decided to make a second DMR this one was made from a sliced DMR file and I used foam board styrene foamies and pvc pipe I was determined to make it light enough to attach to my armor.







At this point I kinda noticed the Barrel was too big but I left it like that and painted it yellow that way LAPD won't think I'm some kind of Armored Terrorist ( went to hollywood on halloween and they were still looking a bit jumpy when I walked by) but now for the big test the magnets.



SUCCESS! although I had to reposition the magnets a few times but there was the end result




the gun held up pefectly just as long as no one bumped into me it took a little practice to take if off and put in on again in costume but I got the hang of it so all that was left was to go to a Halloween party .......



and PWN!!

However I did not stop there for another suit was being made deep within the bowels of my bedroom I had begun constructing a new torso and biceps for my Carter outfit one that was going to be better detailed than my previous one with better detail using a combination of Foam mats and Foamies, and I set it up to have atleast 20 LED lights in it to look like the game armor.

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so as soon as I get my LED's in the mail I'll be able to wire this armor in time for Anime L.A. havent put up any pics of the biceps yet but I did do them also there are two awesome additions to this build one of them being a voice amplifier so I can talk with the helmet on and people can hear me and another caught me completely by surprise.........


went to my friend Nick Knack Patty wack's house and this was waiting for me as a christmas gift made by Blackula himself!

my brain exploded... my old helmet had me at a disadvantage cuase I couldnt wear it with my glasses on so i was blind throughout all SDCC. However this glorious masterpiece that is a gift from the GODS! allows me to wear my glasses in it and my bluetooth headset! no more blind spartan.

so naturally I took it home and gave it tender loving care




and there you have it my rebuild is 99.8% complete I'm doing the new attachments now int time for ALA next saturday this costume is going to be epic and it'll be my last Halo costume for I have a new project I'm going to try to attempt for 2012-2013


until next time thanks for reading and Happy New Year!

that looks awesome. If you don't mind me asking, what did you use for your DMR scope?

I had a left over piece from a nerf cs6 recon gun it was some laser pointer thing it looked like a DMR scope I i gutted it and glued it on

Looks awesome! Great work

Looks great man, Nice Job

so nearing the final stages of my suit build and I noticed that I didnt like my old attachments so I made new ones





and I decided to go a different route of the paint job courtesy of Nick Nack Patty wack instead of the unsc symbol I went the odst route and put my blood type and my birthdate age adn year of completion on the right side of the shoulder gaurd

I love how sad Master Chief looks next to you.

Great rig, man. Love it.

thanks man it was hilarious the guy saw me and immediately took his costume off

now for another update

chest attachments are attached and painted I almost didnt want to do it I liked the chest the way it was but well you know had to go with costume accuracy


I just wanna know what the hell does Carter use these for?

next up an idea I had been rolling in my head I've included a voice amplifier for my costume so I could talk with the helmet on I tried to match my voice to the voice actor of Carter but my vocal cords arent was gruff


also a bt of a set back I can't seem to put my helmet on with my glasses on cause the helmet needs padding to stablize so return of the blind spartan once again




hopefully I should get some LED's in time for saturday

well so far so good I have a lil snag with all armor pieces on I cant get the gun to attach to the back my arm wont reach that far ( ha get it? REACH! ) so i'll try to re-adjust the magnets on the gun see if that works I can't adjust the suit magnets cause I stupidly embbeded them into the foam itself but yea here ya go

on a side not I just noticed my roommate is terrible with a camera sorry for the blurry-ness

Well my LED's finally came in



and the wiring has begun



looks like a hot mess back there doesnt it? been working on it so long that I actually caught a cold while doing it but the end result







was GLORIOUS ! I can't even begin to tell you how much of a pain in the ass this was but I did it. phew

Love the lighting.

The lighting... so pretty.

Love the lighting, looks really good. Do you need a soldering iron to do the wiring for lights? I want to put some lights on my Emile costume, but I don't have a soldering iron...

Deadpool5 said:

Love the lighting, looks really good. Do you need a soldering iron to do the wiring for lights? I want to put some lights on my Emile costume, but I don't have a soldering iron...

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thanks yes you do need a soldering iron and solder to wire also with the LED"s its a good idea to get capacitors to solder to the positive side of the lights to prevent them from burning out

Galvatron said:

thanks yes you do need a soldering iron and solder to wire also with the LED"s its a good idea to get capacitors to solder to the positive side of the lights to prevent them from burning out

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Dang! I really wanted lights!

you can still get lights you can get a soldering Iron at your local radio shack for like 15 bucks or you can find something on Ebay it's real easy to do just remember red to red black to black and have a good power source

Galvatron said:

you can still get lights you can get a soldering Iron at your local radio shack for like 15 bucks or you can find something on Ebay it's real easy to do just remember red to red black to black and have a good power source

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Thanks! I didn't think they were that cheap...

epic lighting. any background experience with them, or did you just learn? I wanted to get some of those $1 reading lights like in the tutorial on here, but if it's somewhat easy to do, I'd rather have it lookin complex for the same effect, you know?