First Build - Gen 3 Mark VI Inspired Armor; Scaling opinions?

[bearbot]

Very new here but I've been lurking for a while desperate to do my own Donut from Red vs. Blue-inspired build. I just received a 3D printer as a gift over the holidays and have been anxious to start printing since finding Moesizzlac's files on Thingiverse. I'm on a relatively tight budget so I was stoked to find free files with so much effort and attention put into them, so a huge shout out to him and all other creators in the forums who have shared so much of their talent.

After receiving my last paycheck, I went ahead and downloaded Armorsmith because I figured it would pay for itself in saved hours and misprints (as I'm definitely not numbers-savvy). I've been playing around with it for a handful of hours and find myself obsessing a bit over the scaling and how it's all coming together.

I wanted to post the screenshots of my current progress to see if anything stood out immediately as disproportionate before I finalize it and start slicing. Any advice is greatly appreciated! Looking forward to starting this journey with you all!

 

[SigmaProps]

Welcome to the 405th! Your scaling looks awesome, though the forearms might be a tad short, can't wait to see this build progress!

 

[SgtSaint]

I'd suggest you scale multi-part pieces together. You're going to want mating parts to match all your distortions or they may not fit together correctly. It looks like you've left out forearm insert, chest buckles and so on.

 

[bearbot]

Welcome to the 405th! Your scaling looks awesome, though the forearms might be a tad short, can't wait to see this build progress!

Thanks so much! I spent a lot of time using reference photos and rearranging so I'm glad it's pretty much there. I'll play around with the forearms a bit and see what I can do and will post updates as soon as I can!

 

[bearbot]

I'd suggest you scale multi-part pieces together. You're going to want mating parts to match all your distortions or they may not fit together correctly. It looks like you've left out forearm insert, chest buckles and so on.
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Great piece of advice, thank you! At this point in the process I got a tiny bit lazy and was going to just scale them to the same values as their respective pieces, but I will definitely throw them back into Armorsmith and play around a bit to make sure all is in order!

 

[SigmaProps]

Great piece of advice, thank you! At this point in the process I got a tiny bit lazy and was going to just scale them to the same values as their respective pieces, but I will definitely throw them back into Armorsmith and play around a bit to make sure all is in order!

Unless you plan on exporting the scaled models out of Armorsmith I wouldn't worry about it, just make sure the greeblies are scaled to the same size as the other parts!