3D Printed Halo 3 Marine

[PolikarpovKhair]

Hi finally making the thread post about the Marine cosplay.
My main idea is a combat engineer equiped with a Shotgun and a Magnum, a backpack with blowtorch, Mines and this sort of things a Combat Engineer can usually use in his "Job"
the Main chest plate its going to have some shotgun shell holders

right now Im printing the chest piece in 4 parts (I have a small 3D printer)
the Magnum is finished and almost fully sanded

also I have some frag grenades printed, but I don't know how I can carry it

next thing, received the Helmet and the Shin pieces

When I have more updates, Im going to reply it here
see u soon
Cheers

 

[PolikarpovKhair]

an small update around here

some Aliexpress parts just arrived, and some 3D printed parts are almost finished

the entire chesplate is finished waiting for sanding

with some dummy shotgun shells looks amazing

the drop leg armors just arrived this afternoon


not soo much advanced but well, Slow but steady

 

[Arc64]

Armor is looking good so far! I think I purchased that same folding shovel for my upcoming Spartan build.

For the frags, I'd recommend a belt or thigh loop attachment of some kind. Maybe drill through the top of the grenades and use some key rings or wire to loop them through your belt or add some kind of rig to another piece of armor. The nice thing about these builds is that you really can get pretty creative. Looking forward to seeing more!

 

[L337 H473R]

This is looking good so far, keep up the hard work and keep us updated please!

 

[PolikarpovKhair]

hi!
Looks like I have an small progress Buuuut, I have almost all the armor printed and some are to received paint

Im going to use a combat A-Tacs FG uniform as base
I think Im going to wear it on my next convention, october 9 in girocomic

more updates soon

 

[Reclaimara]

I LOVE YOUR CAMO CHOICE!
A-tacs is my favorite camo and if I'd be doing Marine it'd be the only choice as well.
Nice to see printing progress and now the hard part for you - endless sanding haha.

 

[PolikarpovKhair]

I LOVE YOUR CAMO CHOICE!
A-tacs is my favorite camo and if I'd be doing Marine it'd be the only choice as well.
Nice to see printing progress and now the hard part for you - endless sanding haha.

well Im used to sand 3D printed parts, also I have a mandalorian armor and it was a pain in the ass to sand

 

[PolikarpovKhair]

well well well... an small update but a very important, the entire armor set is at home and waiting to be sanded, theres some pieces sanded and painted, im thinking to paint some "vietnam style" phrases like: Covenant Scum or Born to kill brutes or anything like that, my favorite is: Born in earth, killed at the ark

cheers, next update soon

 

[pippon]

Which files are you using for your build? or did you make em yourself?
Looking to do a halo 3 marine after my ODST is done and you seem to be doing a cracking job with these!

 

[PolikarpovKhair]

Which files are you using for your build? or did you make em yourself?
Looking to do a halo 3 marine after my ODST is done and you seem to be doing a cracking job with these!

Im using Moesizzlac files from thingiverse, that are a 3D model of a Pepakura files from this forum

 

[ODSTCody]

well well well... an small update but a very important, the entire armor set is at home and waiting to be sanded, theres some pieces sanded and painted, im thinking to paint some "vietnam style" phrases like: Covenant Scum or Born to kill brutes or anything like that, my favorite is: Born in earth, killed at the ark
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cheers, next update soon

PLEASE do this (the Vietnam-style armor personalization phrases)! I love seeing that sort of thing on people's armor, especially since with the UNSC Marines (being based on the Colonial Marines from Aliens, who had personalized armor) in the games having identical armor (likely due to resource constraints in development, especially since it would be pointless to make 101 armor decals and quotes on the armor of redshirts), it would stand out and look even cooler. I also remember some of the Marines in the motion comic of The Mona Lisa from Halo: Evolutions having markings on their armor, so at least in canon, that's a thing.

In writing my response, I just got an idea for such a line for my own costume, so thank you for inspiring me.

 

[PolikarpovKhair]

this project its almost complete.

tomorrow I received the last pieces of this big puzzle, Im soo happy with the results of this cosplay
next update tomorrow, cheers

 

[DireWolf111]

Love the little messages. Something marines would say lol

 

[ODSTCody]

That is absolutely magnificent, man. I agree with DireWolf111 regarding the messages written on the armor - they fit the general shared attitude/personality of the UNSC Marines like a glove and make your costume much more unique.

 

[PlanetAlexander]

"Don't follow me, I'm lost too"
I need this on a T-shirt.

 

[ODSTCody]

"Don't follow me, I'm lost too"
I need this on a T-shirt.

So that's what that one message said. I couldn't really make it out that well. But yeah, that would be hilarious to have on a shirt.

 

[Arc64]

You've made incredibly quick work of this build, nice job!

 

[Shirou]

So excited to see the amazing result in person this Sunday! We're gonna rock this con

 

[DeltaAlphaZulu]

Looks great! Your finishing work on the 3D prints looks really clean. Hope everyone at the convention you're going to is as blown away by the final product as all of us in the community are!

 

[PolikarpovKhair]

The "final" product is Here

I had to change the base camo to DDPM, I dont really like how it looks, but is more accured-ish to the white camo the original Marines had