FIRST BUILD: Noble 6

[GunslingerDirge]

Good Day to you sirs.

Hi!! Im bad at giving intros but here goes... This is my first build after so many months of reading / viewing videos of all the tutorials here in 405th and in youtube. I have just finished pepping the entire armor and finished the Reach AR and the M6D pistol (im going to paint it together with the armor, to save time.) as shown below the pics, im going to start resin my armor later, and maybe will post some pics of the progress later. Big thanks to Satchmo III, because I used some of the pep files that he posted and learned from his progress. And a big thanks to the guys who made the pep files of course. And after I resin the armor I was thinking of using the rondo method on the inside and do Rondo outside the armor for detailing and smoothing, would that be ok for those who are veterans who tried this method? (P.S. Weight is not a problem for me, i think of it as a weight lifting exercise.) And is it stronger than using fiberglass? Just a noob question.

Sorry for the long intro..... Ill just post my progress pics here.
the whole set (sorry for the bad pics.)

I like the way the helmet sits perfectly on the chest piece.

another angle.

And the Reach Ar, all it needs is some additional details and some paint. (ill paint it together with the armor just to save time.)

What I did on my weapons, After I assembled the weapons piece by piece I glued Popsicle sticks for support and use epoxy on the inside before putting all the pieces together and bondo the outside. Hope this helps if you might be wondering.

sooo those are all the info that I have for this day. Big Thanks to you guys and specially 405th for helping me out for my first build. Comments and suggestions are very much welcome. Over And Out

 

[IronicTrout]

W O W. Absolutely stunning. Keep it up!

 

[TD2253]

Very clean pepakura build! This armor is going to look great when finished...congrats on the job well done!

 

[BLACKULA727]

Im going to go ahead and echo everyone else, Your pepping is da bomb! lol. Anyways, I pretty much always rondo, because it covers the hard to reach areas and covers it fast & im Lazy. With that said though, I would also back the rondo with fiberglass. I'm not sure where the idea came from that rondo alone is stronger than glass, but I have seen others state that. Don't get me wrong rondo is strong, but it will crack if you drop it. I know first hand because I dropped a helmet that was rondo only. At first it looked fine, the next day it had a crack pretty much all the way around it. I stopped the crack by backing the inside with fiberglass. I now slap fiberglass as a second layer to my rondo. Its just my way of doing it (works for me). Well anyways, it looks like you are off to a great start. keep it up!

-Tony

 

[CoolC]

Im going to go ahead and echo everyone else, Your pepping is da bomb! lol. Anyways, I pretty much always rondo, because it covers the hard to reach areas and covers it fast & im Lazy. With that said though, I would also back the rondo with fiberglass. I'm not sure where the idea came from that rondo alone is stronger than glass, but I have seen others state that. Don't get me wrong rondo is strong, but it will crack if you drop it. I know first hand because I dropped a helmet that was rondo only. At first it looked fine, the next day it had a crack pretty much all the way around it. I stopped the crack by backing the inside with fiberglass. I now slap fiberglass as a second layer to my rondo. Its just my way of doing it (works for me). Well anyways, it looks like you are off to a great start. keep it up!

-Tony

I second that. Don't use rondo alone. It is heavy once applied and it is not strong enough to take any abuse. Same as Blackula I dropped ODST gauntlet that I rondoed and it cracked.

 

[GunslingerDirge]

Thank you so much for the heads up sirs its really helpful for first time builders like me. Ill post some pics for the progress later on. keep you posted...

 

[odst fng]

wow nice work cant wait to see it finished

 

[Fudz073]

That's is one helluva way to start a thread. Awesome work!! Gonna agree with everyone else with the pepping, very very clean and well done. Can't wait to see this one come together. Keep up the great work!!

 

[thorn696]

Wow, That is a whole lot of pep for a opener. Very nice looking work. I'll echo everyone else on the rondo routine Sept, I like the Bondo glass mix in my rondo. I would also say to avoid using the fiberglass mat as a fist time, I tried it last night and have to go back and fill in air holes later on my boots.( what a mess) But that's me. I'm looking forward to seeing what you do with you're build.

 

[GunslingerDirge]

Thanks guys for all of the nice comments. Makes me happy. hehe.

By the way this is my progress for this week.

Helmet, shoulder pieces, hand plates, forearms and the helmet attachment. This is the pieces that I have finished dabbing resin on. But this is yesterday's work.

And this is today's work.
Finished rondo the helmet and my UNSC Knife.

What I did to my knife is that before i assembled them together i have to put a very a low-viscosity (runny) mixture of Rondo inside each pieces, and then put them back together using my sticky tape as you can see from the pic below.

Sorry I didn't have time to take pictures during this process since I put too much hardener on the mixture.

Ill post more of my progress as soon as I am done with the rest of the pieces.

 

[Hyperballistik]

Everything looks good so far, gotta love the resin process, but I have to say great job. One thing I would suggest is to wear gloves when you rondo that stuff suck when it gets on your bare skin and not to mention it can get really hot

 

[GunslingerDirge]

Thanks! Don't worry I have a box of gloves, I just removed my gloves when I took the pic because the gloves was covered with resin and i have to dispose of it. I agree Rondo is so piping hot!!! I think you can cook and egg with that mixture.

 

[Draakjuh]

such clean pepwork O_O

 

[J63]

looks excellent so far...can only hope my first build turns out this nice

 

[GunslingerDirge]

Thanks guys!!!

Here is my progress for this week...
Finished the shoulder pieces as well as the two forearms.
Don't have pictures of the finished shoulders but I have experimented on the hardening step a little bit where the left piece is fiberglassed and the right one was rondoed. Just for kicks...

But the two forearms, I used Hyokenseisou's idea using black interfacing fabric. And it was very cheap and very easy to work with. So thanks to her idea, I saved a lot of money and time. Here is the pics.

sorry again for the bad quality. I used a crappy cam but it will do.

And my almost finish helmet. all it need is a little patching up and some more sanding.

More to come... Over and out!!!

 

[thorn696]

Looking good for this stage.

 

[GunslingerDirge]

Sorry for the late late late posting, Computer and internet problems... anyway rest assured that I have been busy on my armor and this is what I have come up with...
Basically this was taken about two months ago.

I had to figure out on how to put my chest piece on because it got me stuck when I remove it. I had to let my sister help me pull out the chest piece and believe me I was stuck on it for about 15mins. So I got a hack saw and remove a piece on my chest piece and put velcro on the sides so that I could put back the piece. Here is the pic...

Here is the piece that i took out and put velcro on it.. (yeay for velcro!!!)

And this is what it looks like when i put it all together

I also glued some velcro and the other side but i didn't cut it, just to make it the same as the right side.

Speeding up the process. I didn't took some pictures on the rest of the build but i took some pictures when i finished the painting process. and here it is...

the helmet. all I need is to add color to the visor preferably gold in color, padding on the inside and electronics for the fans inside.

The chest piece.. I hope I didn't get too far on the silver highlights for the weathering effects....

The COD piece. Im going to make this as a belt type piece. Going to attach some paddings, Foam, straps and some velcroes.

And my favorite the boots... I'm still trying to figure out on how to mount them on my shoes permanently.. It looks cool though

Another last pic.

Right now Ill say its about 80% finish. Because I still have to put some paddings, foams, velcroes on all the pieces. I'm still figuring out on how to put them all together. And not to mention the under armor, I was thinking of using a wet suit or black overall, and stitch some velcroes on it to attach all of my pieces.

Looking good for this stage.

Thanks!! Hey I know has quote!!! hehehe

 

[thorn696]

Looks great. And as for you're boots....I used course drywall screws to attach my parts to a old set of work boots. Just 4 small holes and 4 screws.

 

[Metalfire]

Wow that is an amazing job. Literally amazing. I would highly NOT recommend using a wet suit for any costume. You will become a poached egg inside that. I would recommend getting a compression shirt/pants (like under armor)for your under suit. Depending on what you get, it would run you about as much as if you did buy a wet suit.

 

[vshore100]

You have been really busy! Great work on everything so far. I look forward to seeing more.