Foam Dire's ODST (T3-ish?)

[Dire]

Morning, I finished the cumberbonds last night along with the belt plate, easiest part of the build really, here are the pics of that.

In my reference pics, they seem to be in two pieces, so I just cut it in half rounded the edges that will be glued back and called it done, and the belt plate is just 3 pieces of foam glued together.

And that was all my progress last night.

 

[Dire]

And I think I have enough foam left to tackle the back part of the undersuit, so I'll get that made over the weekend, if I don't get lazy of course

 

[Dire]

I only got the middle part of the back piece of the undersuit detail during the weekend, just got distracted.

Also ran out of foam, I'll pick some up from Michael's and Hobby Lobby and order some of the nicer, denser stuff on, forgot the website really, some cosplay shop.

 

[Dire]

Alright, took me like 5 days to draw up some patterns for the front undersuit, but I managed to get the end result drawn out Friday and finished building it this morning, looks pretty sick and T3-ish.

And the final product.

 

[Dire]

I will trim it up to be not as tall, and I will probably use elastic straps to attach it to the main torso, and I will finish the back undersuit finished today add details to match the front undersuit .

 

[Dire]

Morning all, just want to get some input with how I should connect my chest piece, current idea is slip it over my head and use either magnets, or snaps, or buckles on the "sides" where the cumberbonds will hide the seams, any of you guys have any suggestions on how to do that with your suits, 2 years ago I used magnets on my ONI Operator that worked okay, but a bend too far forward would loosen it, so was thinks of buckles or snaps.

 

[Lukavago]

I trust snaps more than I trust magnates or velcro. That said, magnates have their place, such as alignment. A good way that I've seen done is a combo method. A snap to hold the armor to you, and a magnate on either side of the snap for alignment and ease of snapping. Buckles are also great for any armor that needs to be held up, mostly arm and leg pieces.

 

[Dire]

I trust snaps more than I trust magnates or velcro. That said, magnates have their place, such as alignment. A good way that I've seen done is a combo method. A snap to hold the armor to you, and a magnate on either side of the snap for alignment and ease of snapping. Buckles are also great for any armor that needs to be held up, mostly arm and leg pieces.

Oooooh a combo of both, thats something I didn't think of, thanks!

 

[Dire]

Decided to build the fanny psck and the "lower" plate

 

[Dire]

Alright, got the fanny pack and cod piece built yesterday, I got to pick up some fresh xacto blades to cut the details out of the fanny pack, mine can't even cut paper anymore, but here are the glamour shots.

I think after work I will work on an attachment method for getting in and out of my main torso, later!

 

[Dire]

After looking at my cod plate, decided it is not very accurate, so I'll redo that

 

[Dire]

Good evening everyone, was going to build but just had the urge to strap the chest plate, stomach plate, the side plates to to the main torso, along with the front undesuit and just got too excited and just had to post the silhouette of it. Oh and went ahead and attached the back undersuit and strapped on the fanny pack too.

Anyway, hope you guys approve of it, I think it looks damn good and aligned really well!
Anyway, have a nice evening guys!

 

[DeltaAlphaZulu]

Good evening everyone, was going to build but just had the urge to strap the chest plate, stomach plate, the side plates to to the main torso, along with the front undesuit and just got too excited and just had to post the silhouette of it. Oh and went ahead and attached the back undersuit and strapped on the fanny pack too.View attachment 327638
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Anyway, hope you guys approve of it, I think it looks damn good and aligned really well!
Anyway, have a nice evening guys!

Looking good! That's an amazing ODST chest rig!

 

[Dire]

Also of thinking of using the cumberbonds as to attach the chest all together, probably use Lukavago idea for that, I'll see what I can come up with!

 

[Dire]

Looking good! That's an amazing ODST chest rig!

Thanks man, you made my good list, I looked through your trooper too, looks amazeballs

 

[PlanetAlexander]

Good evening everyone, was going to build but just had the urge to strap the chest plate, stomach plate, the side plates to to the main torso, along with the front undesuit and just got too excited and just had to post the silhouette of it. Oh and went ahead and attached the back undersuit and strapped on the fanny pack too.View attachment 327638
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Anyway, hope you guys approve of it, I think it looks damn good and aligned really well!
Anyway, have a nice evening guys!

 

[Dire]

Do you just have that gif on a hotbar, its amazing

 

[Dire]

Silly me forgot to post a pic with the upper belt plate and cumberbonds.

Just wanted an excuse to post more pics, anyway goodnight for real!

 

[PlanetAlexander]

Do you just have that gif on a hotbar, its amazing

With very little power comes very little responsibility

 

[Dire]

Alright, thinking after work today I will do the hip plates and do a cod v2, then I was kicking the idea around of making a foam helmet, since the weather keeps fluctuating for me to do a resin cast helmt, but I have never done a helmet with foam before, so I'll keep thinking about that during the day today.