Thanks buddy, after doing a fair bit of searching there isn't really a lot of foam templates for halo gear but theres a ton of it for Ironman! so all my stuff that i've used templates for i've had to modify the file myself to work for foam.
It takes some patience to sit in pep designer and go through the entire file, loosing all the small fiddly bits that are irrelevant to foam work and there is the aspect of "will i need that or should I just loose it?" over time as you get better with foam you'll notice an ability to just look at a model and think yep I know what needs doing; but if you don't feel confident just scale the file to the right size print everything and start building you'll soon realise what you don't need. That way when yu come back to doing another build from pep files you'll know what your looking for in terms of usable parts for foam.
one other thing I do is just keep the files for one side e.g. a helmet is symmetrical (same on both sides) so draw a line down the middle and loose all the templates for the right half say and thn just work with what you have left for the left side. Its another trick to help cut down on ink and paper use. But also make what your looking at a lot easier.
If I had the patience I'd start a halo foam database but it just takes so long to do.
Hope that answers the question for you.
mike
