Grenadier Spartan III
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I'm so hyped for this suit. Lookin great!
tahu505
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After messing around with the shoulder and magnet for a bit I noticed that while the tensile strength of the magnets was good, the shear and torsion was a little too weak. To add a bit more resistance in those directions I quickly designed and printed this piece that I call the GSAP (Grenadier Shoulder Attachment Point)
Just hot glued the GSAP on at first to test if my idea would even work.
Once the glue was dried I did a movement test. I feel like it definitely helps and I can see myself casually walking around a con all day with this now.
Just hot glued the GSAP on at first to test if my idea would even work.
Once the glue was dried I did a movement test. I feel like it definitely helps and I can see myself casually walking around a con all day with this now.
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This guy's an engineer. He's going to NASA.
tahu505
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If someone from NASA is reading this build thread for some reason, please hire me
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The suit is looking great so far! If the rest of it turns out as good as the helmet you brought to FanExpo it'll be awesome!
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I think I'm working on painting the same knife right now to get me back in the swing of making things, I think you could do some weathering on it to make it a feature not an accident!
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Absolutely! I've been sanding it down a bit because all the layers of paint made it a tight fit. That's been revealing some of my orange pla so I might trying making it look like hunters blood is stained on there
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That's a really cool idea! What colors were you thinking of doing? I'm going a bit flashy on my paint job so I'm dreading weathering it. My fiancé usually weathers my gear so I hope I don't mess it up too much!
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I'm doing the Reach brick and gold colors, which are already mostly painted on my armor. Still need to make the boots and weather everything outside the helmet. I chose the colors to be slightly more vibrant than in game to account for weathering. That's why right now it looks kinda like a hotdog or McDonald's sponsorship lol but it will look a bit closer to in game after weathering
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It's definitely a good color combo, I can't wait to see it finished.
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Got some new magnets in. These already feel a but stronger than the ones on the grenadier shoulder, so I might redo that after the commando. But for now I wanted to get my chest piece together.
I used a trick I learned from MDBDesigns where I attached the magnets to one side, place clear wrap on top of it, place the other magnet on top, then adhered the 2nd magnet to the other side. That way i can get the magnets lined up and adhered to their respective armor pieces but not each other.
It holds up pretty well!
Testing it with some other armor pieces
I used a trick I learned from MDBDesigns where I attached the magnets to one side, place clear wrap on top of it, place the other magnet on top, then adhered the 2nd magnet to the other side. That way i can get the magnets lined up and adhered to their respective armor pieces but not each other.
It holds up pretty well!
Testing it with some other armor pieces
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That's a great idea for the magnets! The suit is looking great too!
Ender Of Time
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Helmet looks amazing
tahu505
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Thx! I've remade the helmet at this point but I still have and love that old one!
Ender Of Time
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That is sweet! any pics of the new one
tahu505
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Yes, all of my recent pics in this thread have the new one!
Ender Of Time
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My bad. I am terrible about actually reading the whole thread
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