Recent content by ThermalSoarer

Reading about all these cons in the US implementing prop bans makes me all the more impressed with the way the show staff at MCM handled London Comic Con at the end of May. Bearing-in-mind that there was a terrorist attack in Manchester just a week before, they decided to maintain the prop...

I've been working slowly on getting the mods done to the helmet. I've got a few done already, and am about halfway through doing them. I was going to just layer up the card around the cut out parts to make them solid, but then realised just how long that would take to do! Instead, I've...

OK, the pepping is more-or-less done now. The only part left to finish is the neck seal. I'm going to leave off the neck seal for now as I want to leave myself easier access for the various mods I'm planning to make now to add more detail and accuracy into the helmet. I figure it'll be...

Thanks, jsg6! I've been making some more progress today. I've got most of the visor area done now, so just need to work on the sides next and then the neckseal. And here it is next to my X-Wing helmet for size comparison (note, the X-Wing helmet is actually slightly too big for me)...

No more pics right now, but plenty of progress. I continued the build yesterday and, after doing most of the visor area, realised that it would be a bit too small as I was worried about, though not so much in width as height. As a result, I ended up spending the rest of yesterday afternoon...

So I forgot just how slow a process Pepakura building can be. I've spent pretty much all of today working on my helmet (about 9 hours total) and I reckon I'm probably about a third of the way through. So far I've been focusing on the top of the helmet, working my way down. One thing I'm...

Today I managed to make the first progress on the helmet. I had some trouble at first getting my Silhouette to work as it seems either I've mis-configured the software somehow, or my inkjet printer is slightly mis-aligned. Either way, I couldn't get the Silhouette to recognise the registration...

I know, I can't wait to get my hands on it! Today, the first part of my costume arrived! They're weight lifting gloves I found on Amazon. I picked them out because they seemed to be the best base glove that I could find, plus the hex pattern padding on the palm I thought would fit in well...

OK, so after putting this costume on hold for various reasons, I'm finally able to get back to building this. I've got 2 weeks off work coming up from this coming Friday, so I'm planning to blitz it as much as I can in that time. I've spent most of my spare time over the last month researching...

Yeah, I'm aware of the limited quality of game models and the reliance on post-processing effects to add the details in. I was hoping that someone would have already created some high-res models somewhere and made them available but unfortunately that does not appear to be the case, hence why...

For my X-Wing pilot helmet and chest box I used Revell Aqua Colour, which is an acrylic paint, that I airbrushed on then sealed with a layer of Humbrol acrylic varnish. The advantage of doing that over getting a spray can of paint is that with airbrushing you can mix the paints as you wish...

Wow, wasn't quite expecting this much response. Thanks! Yeah, that is one of the things that quite appeals to me about 3D printing is how it is still relatively new to the cosplay/prop making space, especially coming from the Star Wars Cosplay community where nothing except the odd prop...

So following a long time lurking here, as well as seeing pics of all the 405th members at Gamescom this weekend, I thought I might as well start up a thread and finally get going on my own Halo armour build. After a lot of changing my mind between whether to do Halo 3 Master Chief or a custom...

When I saw this I got quite excited, but it turns out I have basically all of those files already (from my time searching thoroughly through 4Shared last year). I'll be eagerly anticipating the re-unfolded versions as I agree that these ones don't look the best to try to make.

Unfortunately Star Wars pep files are quite hard to find right now. I'm working on Phase I Clone Pilot armour right now and I've decided to ditch Pepakura because there are no decent files available (at least not for what I want). Instead, I've begun working on my own templates from scratch...