Another Kat Build

[fthkinz]

Hiya guys! Well, im not really a newb to the whole building process. I attempted my hand at Samus once-upon-a-time with my old account and now im trying something new. I'm attempting to work out the kinks and find good *Unfolded already* files. Right now i've got part of the helmet done:

http://i201.photobucket.com/albums/aa145/HyperFalcon3412/100MEDIA_IMAG0022.jpg

Keep me motivated guys... i get distracted super easy XD

 

[BishopX]

That looks great so far. I've never tried the pepakura thing but that looks about on par with what I've seen others do. Keep it up.

 

[CoolC]

Looks good so far. Here's a trick I think you may find useful. Open the Pepakura viewer or designer and look at how the pieces go together. Determine which pieces are rounded. Don't bend/fold these pieces. Your end product will look much nicer and hopefully you don't have to do much bondo on the round pieces.

I've done the ODST chest pieces in my thread. You can see that they are much cleaner. I will upload my ODST helmet shortly without the bend.

 

[fthkinz]

Thanks for the suggestion! yeah i think thats what killed my samus project. She was so angular that i spent wayyyy to much money on bondo and ended up scraping the project to save my money

 

[Jico]

here is some female Spartan 3 files^^ Hope they help Im looking forward to see more progress

 

[Arioch]

Awesome! Kat always seems to come out great looking. Im sure yours will fit right in!

 

[Jack7226]

Very clean folds, Good work so far. I love the armor for Kat. So i will be following this thread. Keep up the good work

 

[Road Kill]

yah very good so far like everyone else has said, nice clean folds and pep so far keep up the good work

 

[fthkinz]

Whoops, sorry i disappeared everyone! Damn real life likes to get in the way, Anyways I have recently been able to pick it back up and I actually have the two shoulder bells fiberglassed, bondo'd and primed (note: one of them i got alittle excited with the dremel, so I decided to add scratches on that one. It will be the one i have on her robotic arm, so maybe it'll show that once apon a time she took some damage there like when she lost her arm) :

Damaged:

Handplate:

 

[BUBBENSTEIN]

Good work. shoulders look awesome

 

[Bryce Youtsey]

love the battle damaged shoulder peice

 

[Spartan Will 043]

Nice work !
Which bondo did you use? Can I buy it by internet and send it in France?

 

[spartans never die]

Great job! the pieces that are done look great. and i love the scratches, some of the best ideas come from incredible screw ups cant wait to see the finished armor

 

[fthkinz]

Alright, time for a noob question XD:
I am failing soooooo hard at scaling, is there like a magical way of doing this? Or do i have to keep on printing and scrapping the chestplate?

 

[geoat2t]

it look pretty good ....... keep us updated

 

[Hyperballistik]

Alright, time for a noob question XD:
I am failing soooooo hard at scaling, is there like a magical way of doing this? Or do i have to keep on printing and scrapping the chestplate?

try this method on this thread it work really well for the reach chest

http://www.405th.com/showthread.php/28565-Another-Reach-Mark-V-Torso

 

[Spitfire22V]

Alright, time for a noob question XD:
I am failing soooooo hard at scaling, is there like a magical way of doing this? Or do i have to keep on printing and scrapping the chestplate?

I'm kind of having the same issue. The last piece I have to scale, print, and pep is the chest piece, and I really want to get it correct the first time so I don't have to remake it!

Good job on the build so far, and great idea with the "damaged" shoulder piece.

 

[fthkinz]

try this method on this thread it work really well for the reach chest

http://www.405th.com/showthread.php/28565-Another-Reach-Mark-V-Torso

My god, you are my angel thank you sooooo0o much! I think i might use that chestplate as well, its alot less complicated than the one I have right now.

@ Spitfire & geoat~ Thankyou for the compliments

 

[fthkinz]

Okay well I tried the formula that was posted and printed it out and I can already tell that its too small. There must be something that im doing thats wrong

 

[Ral Partha]

Okay well I tried the formula that was posted and printed it out and I can already tell that its too small. There must be something that im doing thats wrong

The formula in the thread that Hyper gave you was meant for the male torso. I came up with it before the female torso model was released. But I did some calculation for another member here a couple of days ago and you can find it in this post.