VVarMonkey
New Member
Hello 405th! It's build time!
By way of introduction, JetFireRR and I (VVarMonkey) have been dating for some years now and happen to share a common interest in the Halo universe. So when he decided to build his suit in November and found the pep version didn't fit (he forgot the scaling step), I thought heck I'll try it on. Fit like a glove! Now we're both neck deep in our respective builds, and thought we'd simplify things by making one build thread for the both of them.
This is our first experience with building anything from Pepakura and thank so many here on the forum for creating so many how-to's and don't-do threads. One major issue we are battling is that we are both perfectionists and get caught up in the details a little too much... okay, WAY too much!
The goal: Two Mark VI suits, his and hers, to be completed by mid-July. Not sure if that's going to happen but heck why not? I'm starting this thread to hopefully kick our butts in gear to start rolling out the pieces and maybe float some of our more off the wall ideas to the 405th community at large. When this is all said and done we hope to have two super awesome sets of armor.
Work started on my chest first, and here are some pics on the progress that's been made:
I don't have a pic of the chest completely finished in pep stage. I'll remember to take photos of the pep work.
Here's mine after filing down some of the edges...
A little more progress!
Had some problems with warping; nothing a bit of bondo can't fix.
By way of introduction, JetFireRR and I (VVarMonkey) have been dating for some years now and happen to share a common interest in the Halo universe. So when he decided to build his suit in November and found the pep version didn't fit (he forgot the scaling step), I thought heck I'll try it on. Fit like a glove! Now we're both neck deep in our respective builds, and thought we'd simplify things by making one build thread for the both of them.
This is our first experience with building anything from Pepakura and thank so many here on the forum for creating so many how-to's and don't-do threads. One major issue we are battling is that we are both perfectionists and get caught up in the details a little too much... okay, WAY too much!
The goal: Two Mark VI suits, his and hers, to be completed by mid-July. Not sure if that's going to happen but heck why not? I'm starting this thread to hopefully kick our butts in gear to start rolling out the pieces and maybe float some of our more off the wall ideas to the 405th community at large. When this is all said and done we hope to have two super awesome sets of armor.
Work started on my chest first, and here are some pics on the progress that's been made:
I don't have a pic of the chest completely finished in pep stage. I'll remember to take photos of the pep work.
Here's mine after filing down some of the edges...
A little more progress!
Had some problems with warping; nothing a bit of bondo can't fix.
