LittlePogChamp
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I will most definitely keep an eye on this, I am more or less new to EVA foam, and this makes it reasonably doable.
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3DVagabond
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The details on the suit looks pretty good! It looks like Doom Guy took a trip to hell recently.
Contributor1909
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That weathering and battle damage is glorious! Well done!!
Yelsanick0117
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This is one of the best looking Praetor suits I've seen! Your attention to detail is phenomenal! I kinda want to try and make a suit now lol
LittlePogChamp
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Also, if you weren't planning on it, I'd recommend sewing a jumpsuit sort of thing to go under the armor, you could use very thin fabric, but just so the joints and such are accurate. You already went to all this trouble to make it look accurate, why not go the extra mile and do the underlayer? Just a suggestion, but, assuming you know how to sew or have a friend who does and could teach you, it wouldn't be particularly hard.
Argent
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I have a cheapo synthetic leather jacket I'm using as an undersuit, It bunches up a bit and makes the soft sections look padded. There's some skulduggery going on in the videogame model at the joints so I don't really see another way to make those sections look quite thick enough. The wrists may require a bit of seamster-ing, but I haven't quite gotten there yet
NotYomama73
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Thank you for your detailed step by step creation. I'm going to be building this suit for my son so have been doing a load of research. Could I get a copy of the helmet design and a list of the materials you've used please?
Argent
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Sure, let me message you
Sierra Charlie
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That looks really good, and really sick, the weathering, and battle damage is on point! I actually havent seen a doom armor set up before, and this does not disappoint at all!
Argent
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Hello all,
I've been collecting long-term projects recently and this has fallen by the wayside somewhat. I figure by updating this thread I can hopefully get some momentum going and put this thing back in the rotation.
I don't have the upper body completely done, but the arms are 90% there and I've gotten everything else pretty decent. The bits I rushed through are now requiring a bunch of effort to fix up a year down the line, funny how that works...
Ex: helmet detail lines I thought I could eyeball with perfect symmetricity. I Kwik Sealed over the old indents and did a small respray+weathering to match. Not 100% mirror image, but that's a bit of a reach with foam anyway.
Here are the arms, mostly through the weathering process. I just need to put the wrist plates on and get the elbow pads to stay centered.
I will have better pics soon, but for now this is it. I need to get the arms done and then I'll do some photos from the beltline-up, this stuff was really just to see if it actually fits together correctly, which it does seem to. As always with a home scratch build (or mine anyway), some shapes aren't faithful to the model. The bit that's nagging at me most is the backplate, it is a bit "flat" for my eye... maybe I will push it outwards near the bottom to get a bit more of an angle out of it. It doesn't help that Doomguy seems to have a pretty serious forwards hunch under that armor, so the proportions are hard to match.
Aside from that, the shoulderpads are a bit asymmetrical in size, but I don't really mind that since the shapes are distinctly at odds as well.
And the back. As you can see, the symmetricity isn't quite there. Part of it is the lighting, but for sure the back and chest are not quite parallel. I tweaked a bunch after this, but the spine is still maybe 3/4 inch off center at the bottom. Not enough to stand out, but just enough to drive me nuts when I really look at it. The elbow pads are killing me as well, I might just sew velcro to the leather jacket. The whole thing is much better than I expected at this point, but that just makes the screwiness more annoying, if anything.
I've been collecting long-term projects recently and this has fallen by the wayside somewhat. I figure by updating this thread I can hopefully get some momentum going and put this thing back in the rotation.
I don't have the upper body completely done, but the arms are 90% there and I've gotten everything else pretty decent. The bits I rushed through are now requiring a bunch of effort to fix up a year down the line, funny how that works...
Ex: helmet detail lines I thought I could eyeball with perfect symmetricity. I Kwik Sealed over the old indents and did a small respray+weathering to match. Not 100% mirror image, but that's a bit of a reach with foam anyway.
Here are the arms, mostly through the weathering process. I just need to put the wrist plates on and get the elbow pads to stay centered.
I will have better pics soon, but for now this is it. I need to get the arms done and then I'll do some photos from the beltline-up, this stuff was really just to see if it actually fits together correctly, which it does seem to. As always with a home scratch build (or mine anyway), some shapes aren't faithful to the model. The bit that's nagging at me most is the backplate, it is a bit "flat" for my eye... maybe I will push it outwards near the bottom to get a bit more of an angle out of it. It doesn't help that Doomguy seems to have a pretty serious forwards hunch under that armor, so the proportions are hard to match.
Aside from that, the shoulderpads are a bit asymmetrical in size, but I don't really mind that since the shapes are distinctly at odds as well.
And the back. As you can see, the symmetricity isn't quite there. Part of it is the lighting, but for sure the back and chest are not quite parallel. I tweaked a bunch after this, but the spine is still maybe 3/4 inch off center at the bottom. Not enough to stand out, but just enough to drive me nuts when I really look at it. The elbow pads are killing me as well, I might just sew velcro to the leather jacket. The whole thing is much better than I expected at this point, but that just makes the screwiness more annoying, if anything.
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Argent
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For anyone looking to get their hands on the helmet files, talk to Tom on Etsy.
FalseShepherd
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This build is incredible. It looks amazing. I don't see any issues at all. You should be very proud!
3DVagabond
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I need to up my foamsmithing abilities. Wow!
Argent
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It's like carpentry, "Spackle and paint make a foamsmith what he aint!"
3DVagabond
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I know, but the last costume I tried to make out of foam was a total disaster. It's currently buried in the city's landfill now slowly decomposing for the next 200 years...
Argent
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Hah, I've got a fair few of those rotting away too, but I don't put them on the internet. Depending on how you work, this can be a pretty brutal hobby. The only saving grace seems to be that every time you goof up you learn something, except apparently that hot glue is hot. I've gotten that lesson a thousand times and I just keep poking at it.
OTSDerpy
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This is the most beautiful thing I have ever seen in my entire life!
Argent
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Yet more tweaks to the back, first one is the before shot:
I built up the upper back "leather" bits and shifted the panel up and outwards a bit to match the game's profile better. The interior padding structure got changed too, so now it sits a bit different and is a lot more comfortable. my posture is nearly identically in both pictures, so I'm quite happy with how much closer the modifications got it to the in-game reference. The work to correct asymmetry continues, but it's not very exciting so I didn't take pictures.
Here are more shots of the back section, it's all just foam pieces built up over the existing structure.
I still need to do weathering on the new pieces, but that can wait until this thing is ready for it too...
Right now it's a bit too sawed off, at least until I print the rest of the fore and barrels. I was going to try a heavy assault rifle until I found this model by Lilykill, and I couldn't pass up a full sized 4 bore super shogun with working break action. My ender 3 is having its bi-monthly meltdown right now, so hopefully I can get it back running soon and finish it up. It's already massive; at full length I can imagine how doomguy got so ripped for Eternal. Seriously a high quality model though, and the guy has a lot of equally cool stuff on his store. Well worth the money for sure.
Lastly, I finally figured out how to get a reliable tint on formed acrylic: stained glass spray paint. I've never been able to lay down any kind of spray without orange peel, so sure enough this required 1500 grit wet sanding and polish. I just used some headlight stuff and then glass compound I had lying around after the paper, and it worked quite nicely. There's a noticeable blue-tinted hue, maybe not quite as much as in-game but I can add to it later if I want to. Again, my phone camera's lens fisheyes out the subject.
I got a kick out of the idea that the praetor suit helmet would have a ray-bans style logo in the corner of the lens, so I put in a little slayer's mark with a paint sharpie. Although, I didn't bother to check which side they put it on and ended up guessing wrong.
Thanks for reading
I built up the upper back "leather" bits and shifted the panel up and outwards a bit to match the game's profile better. The interior padding structure got changed too, so now it sits a bit different and is a lot more comfortable. my posture is nearly identically in both pictures, so I'm quite happy with how much closer the modifications got it to the in-game reference. The work to correct asymmetry continues, but it's not very exciting so I didn't take pictures.
Here are more shots of the back section, it's all just foam pieces built up over the existing structure.
I still need to do weathering on the new pieces, but that can wait until this thing is ready for it too...
Right now it's a bit too sawed off, at least until I print the rest of the fore and barrels. I was going to try a heavy assault rifle until I found this model by Lilykill, and I couldn't pass up a full sized 4 bore super shogun with working break action. My ender 3 is having its bi-monthly meltdown right now, so hopefully I can get it back running soon and finish it up. It's already massive; at full length I can imagine how doomguy got so ripped for Eternal. Seriously a high quality model though, and the guy has a lot of equally cool stuff on his store. Well worth the money for sure.
Lastly, I finally figured out how to get a reliable tint on formed acrylic: stained glass spray paint. I've never been able to lay down any kind of spray without orange peel, so sure enough this required 1500 grit wet sanding and polish. I just used some headlight stuff and then glass compound I had lying around after the paper, and it worked quite nicely. There's a noticeable blue-tinted hue, maybe not quite as much as in-game but I can add to it later if I want to. Again, my phone camera's lens fisheyes out the subject.
I got a kick out of the idea that the praetor suit helmet would have a ray-bans style logo in the corner of the lens, so I put in a little slayer's mark with a paint sharpie. Although, I didn't bother to check which side they put it on and ended up guessing wrong.
Thanks for reading
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