Halo 3 - Custom High Detail Models

[SpartanJhon117]

hey i think thats too difficult ill try to make the typical one.

 

[raven2751]

hey i think thats too difficult ill try to make the typical one.

i would say it's not a good idea for your first pep model cause it's so detailed, but i did the last one and it came out pretty good and that was my first try at anything in pep. have a look at it or try a few of the other pep models. you'll learn from any mistakes you make like i did, but don't give up.

 

[Belakor]

Not sure if anyone else has posted photos a completed torso built from your file but just in case they haven't... I finished this and started resining yesterday

It's a monster of a build but totally worth it I'm going to have a hard time covering this with the Recon chest, it just looks so cool

 

[bevbor]

Not sure if anyone else has posted photos a completed torso built from your file but just in case they haven't... I finished this and started resining yesterday

It's a monster of a build but totally worth it I'm going to have a hard time covering this with the Recon chest, it just looks so cool

Looks awesome!
Please Please Please!
Tell us your height and torso width!
Thanks!
P.S. And please... photo of the back side, can you?
Are you edited parts yourself disjoining faces or just printed some existing unfolded?

 

[Ral Partha]

Not sure if anyone else has posted photos a completed torso built from your file but just in case they haven't... I finished this and started resining yesterday

I believe you're the first one to complete it. I've only finished the lower half of the front part of the torso. That is one purty-looking armor piece.

 

[crackhead09]

i finished mine no pics as of yet because its 9:30 over here and i mean paper wise all it needs is the supports and i left out most of the tiny ones and even cut off some tabs because it was too encumbersome

 

[Belakor]

Looks awesome!
Please Please Please!
Tell us your height and torso width!
Thanks!
P.S. And please... photo of the back side, can you?
Are you edited parts yourself disjoining faces or just printed some existing unfolded?

Thanks

I used the first unfolded file by Ral Partha (the original A4 sized one)
I'm 5'11" and scaled it to a heigh of 41.5cm and, according to Pep Designer, the width is 38.8cm.

As soon as this last coat of resin dries I'll get some photos of the back and post them here

 

[Skullcandy Girl]

Not sure if anyone else has posted photos a completed torso built from your file but just in case they haven't... I finished this and started resining yesterday

It's a monster of a build but totally worth it I'm going to have a hard time covering this with the Recon chest, it just looks so cool

THAT IS AWESOME!!! Wow!! I can't wait to start mine Awesome work Belakor!!

 

[kupokitty]

If I try building the armor from these files, I won't have ANY money this summer. o___o Looks snazzy, though. Thanks for uploading the files.

 

[flying squirl]

FS, are you try'n to kill me? I mean I've added some of this but GEEEZZZZ. The word OVERACHIEVER mean any thing to you. No you rock keep it up, I wanna see alot more helmets better than mine.

I've place my visor so it's back to your torso. BTW I built your first torso and was wondering if the scaling is the same?

Thanx as alway you #1 fan, DoC

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heh, yea, sorry. i promise, this is the last one, i sware (i can quit anytime i want, honest). as far as the scaling of the torso, im not sure but i think its the same, i dont rember ajusting the scale as i went along... then again my memory has gone on strike for better pay and is currently at home playing halo, lazy bugger. wow, ive got fans?! kewl, ill never go over heated again! wait... #1 fan?! what are you doin with that sledge hammer?!!!

the helmet looks amazing bdw! how did you do that to the visor?

*Hits Doc with a sock full of quarters and steals all his stuff* YEEEEAH! *trips*

*trips... over my foot* BWAAAAHAHAHAHA! *catches helmet on its way down & runs* *slips on spilt quaters*

Sc G:
I swear your posts make me literally l o l at work at least every other day.

Nice job on the helm, doc! Looks great!

And FS... how is anyone supposed to finish a full suit if we're just constantly building the new and improved FS helmets?
Looks awesome, I'll end up making it just to see if it's better than the last one of yours I made... and the one before that...

heh, yea me too. doesnt it just?! this is definatly the last one, honnest. thats why im going so mad with the betas and the finding out whats wrong with em. wow, i think i might be partialy responsibly for the loss of an entire forrest of paper. :/

Not sure if anyone else has posted photos a completed torso built from your file but just in case they haven't... I finished this and started resining yesterday

It's a monster of a build but totally worth it I'm going to have a hard time covering this with the Recon chest, it just looks so cool

wow!thats was faster then expected. your the first so...

heres an e-cookie! hows that recon set coming bdw? do you have any progress pics of the torso?

I believe you're the first one to complete it. I've only finished the lower half of the front part of the torso. That is one purty-looking armor piece.

kewl! any pics?

i finished mine no pics as of yet because its 9:30 over here and i mean paper wise all it needs is the supports and i left out most of the tiny ones and even cut off some tabs because it was too encumbersome

yea i think i know the tabs you mean. teeny little buggers.

Thanks

I used the first unfolded file by Ral Partha (the original A4 sized one)
I'm 5'11" and scaled it to a heigh of 41.5cm and, according to Pep Designer, the width is 38.8cm.

As soon as this last coat of resin dries I'll get some photos of the back and post them here

oh, you answered there, never mind. cant wait to see what the back realy looks like.

If I try building the armor from these files, I won't have ANY money this summer. o___o Looks snazzy, though. Thanks for uploading the files.

heh, yea, i know how you feel. no problem, glad you like em.

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any answers for the eirlier questions?
any wip pics?

just to let you know, i wont be able to work on this over the weekend unfortunatly, ive got a deadline on monday morning which ive been ignoring because i love the wooshng noise they make as they go by.

any problems gimme a shout

FS

 

[LastSpartan]

Hey FS , love the work , me and a friend are trying it out soon , i know its off topic but i was just curious cuz i believe your signaure is from fight club? lol good movie

Are you talking of me? :rolleyes

 

[Skullcandy Girl]

Yeah FS that's what you get! HAH! *cries* You stole the helmet I stole!

Oh maybe I'll start some mo' pepakura this weekend if I get all my stuff out of the way Maybe...

 

[docbytes]

heh, yea, sorry. i promise, this is the last one, i sware (i can quit anytime i want, honest). as far as the scaling of the torso, im not sure but i think its the same, i dont rember ajusting the scale as i went along... then again my memory has gone on strike for better pay and is currently at home playing halo, lazy bugger. wow, ive got fans?! kewl, ill never go over heated again! wait... #1 fan?! what are you doin with that sledge hammer?!!!

the helmet looks amazing bdw! how did you do that to the visor?

FS

I cut the visor outlines with a vinyl cutter, if ya need one I have two version and I'm willing to send you a copy for free!

anyone else there not free...... BUT VERY CHEAP
I'm doing them as a favor to the 405ths out there!

(can resize to fit any size with measurements!

 

[docbytes]

heh, yea, sorry. i promise, this is the last one, i sware (i can quit anytime i want, honest). as far as the scaling of the torso, im not sure but i think its the same, i dont rember ajusting the scale as i went along... then again my memory has gone on strike for better pay and is currently at home playing halo, lazy bugger. wow, ive got fans?! kewl, ill never go over heated again! wait... #1 fan?! what are you doin with that sledge hammer?!!!

the helmet looks amazing bdw! how did you do that to the visor?
*trips... over my foot* BWAAAAHAHAHAHA! *catches helmet on its way down & runs* *slips on spilt quaters*

What hammer? hehehe. I can't have a hammer cuz Doom would smit me
So your safe

*catches helmet with one hand, laughs and runs away screaming* "Fast as fast can be, you'll never catch me! *turns to look back and runs into a light pole.*

 

[bugman72]

I just got started on the torso and decided to start with the neck opening. Belakor, at your scale are you going to have to cut your head hole larger? It appears that my 4yr old daughter could barely get her head through the opening I've got right now. I used the unfolded letter-sized model and didn't change the scale (40.3cm high), as I am about the same size (5'-9"). There would be NO way I could get my head through the current opening. I don't consider myself to have a large cranium either (size 7 1/8). At the default scale, the width of the head opening is right about 11.5 cm from shoulder to shoulder and from front to back is 17.5cm. Does this correspond fairly closely to what you got, Belakor? I know you increased your size, but that won't have a HUGE impact on the head hole size.

 

[Belakor]

I believe you're the first one to complete it. I've only finished the lower half of the front part of the torso. That is one purty-looking armor piece.

Thanks surprisingly it didn't take as long as I initially thought it would, still took a good two or three days but it's totally worth it to get a base this detailed

THAT IS AWESOME!!! Wow!! I can't wait to start mine Awesome work Belakor!!

Thanks
I'm looking forward to seeing all these other FS torso's that are in progress or starting soon, I messed up some parts of mine so there's definitely room for improvement

wow!thats was faster then expected. your the first so...

heres an e-cookie! hows that recon set coming bdw? do you have any progress pics of the torso?
kewl! any pics?
... oh, you answered there, never mind. cant wait to see what the back realy looks like...

Thanks for the cookie

The Recon chest isn't looking very good at the moment, this new base chest is a little wider than the one I started with so I'm going to try sectioning the Recon in an effort to make it slightly wider... if that doesn't work I'll just print a new one
Here's a couple of photos of the back, first one is right after resining and the second is after I've started to repair some of the deformed pieces with bondo... the cardstock I used was different to my normal stuff and I don't think it likes the resin as much

I just got started on the torso and decided to start with the neck opening. Belakor, at your scale are you going to have to cut your head hole larger? It appears that my 4yr old daughter could barely get her head through the opening I've got right now. I used the unfolded letter-sized model and didn't change the scale (40.3cm high), as I am about the same size (5'-9"). There would be NO way I could get my head through the current opening. I don't consider myself to have a large cranium either (size 7 1/8). At the default scale, the width of the head opening is right about 11.5 cm from shoulder to shoulder and from front to back is 17.5cm. Does this correspond fairly closely to what you got, Belakor? I know you increased your size, but that won't have a HUGE impact on the head hole size.

Yeah I ran in to the same problem and I don't think I could really open it up enough to get my head through the opening without butchering it so what I did was spilt it on the side and shoulder "strap" pieces so the chest is now two separate pieces... here's a few photos that might help explain that a little better:


For the moment I've hot-glued the two halves back together so they don't warp while I'm finishing the fiberglassing.

I'll add some strapping to it once I'm done so I can easily get it on and off and it should be easier to transport the two halves of the chest instead of one big piece
I just did a quick measure of the neck opening and mine is about 18cm front to back and 14cm side to side, I have opened it up a bit so it would sit better and not cut in to my neck when I'm wearing it.

 

[Skullcandy Girl]

The torso is still looking sooooooooooooooooo dope I'm printing mine out.

This may sound silly, the scale equations work, but I've never measured myself in cm for seperate pieces of anything. I wanted to make sure my scale was accurate so I measured myself with a sewing tape measure since it has inches and centimeters (I mean I dont think in centimeters in terms of scale XD). I even did my noggin height. It just gave me a much better idea and peace of mind that my helmets and armor won't be off by much. Just throwin that out there incase anyone else was worried about measurements

 

[smilie120]

Ok im going to try this lol.

 

[flying squirl]

well, i see weve front paged HBO... again. thanks Xavier

link: http://halo.bungie.org/news.html?item=21623
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I cut the visor outlines with a vinyl cutter, if ya need one I have two version and I'm willing to send you a copy for free!

anyone else there not free...... BUT VERY CHEAP
I'm doing them as a favor to the 405ths out there!

(can resize to fit any size with measurements!

wow! thanks!!! ya know, i might take you up on that.

What hammer? hehehe. I can't have a hammer cuz Doom would smit me
So your safe

*catches helmet with one hand, laughs and runs away screaming* "Fast as fast can be, you'll never catch me! *turns to look back and runs into a light pole.*

that slege hammer your now weilding after putting my ancles between two concreet blocks!!! (have you seen... damn, what's that movie called?) *wakes up... with headache... looks around, sees coins all over the place, two other people on the ground and wonder what the hell just happened!*

I just got started on the torso and decided to start with the neck opening. Belakor, at your scale are you going to have to cut your head hole larger? It appears that my 4yr old daughter could barely get her head through the opening I've got right now. I used the unfolded letter-sized model and didn't change the scale (40.3cm high), as I am about the same size (5'-9"). There would be NO way I could get my head through the current opening. I don't consider myself to have a large cranium either (size 7 1/8). At the default scale, the width of the head opening is right about 11.5 cm from shoulder to shoulder and from front to back is 17.5cm. Does this correspond fairly closely to what you got, Belakor? I know you increased your size, but that won't have a HUGE impact on the head hole size.

:/ ide play it safe n try the size tester first. i know its a pain in the ass but it wouldnt be as big as the pain of doing the high detail one n find its wrong, nor would it be as painful as loosing your balance at the top of a short flight of stairs and then, in a desperate bit to stay upright, forcible inviting a small table complete with pot plant along for the ride. ...yes, it was an eventful weekend.

Thanks surprisingly it didn't take as long as I initially thought it would, still took a good two or three days but it's totally worth it to get a base this detailed
I'm looking forward to seeing all these other FS torso's that are in progress or starting soon, I messed up some parts of mine so there's definitely room for improvement
Thanks for the cookie

The Recon chest isn't looking very good at the moment, this new base chest is a little wider than the one I started with so I'm going to try sectioning the Recon in an effort to make it slightly wider... if that doesn't work I'll just print a new one
Here's a couple of photos of the back, first one is right after resining and the second is after I've started to repair some of the deformed pieces with bondo... the cardstock I used was different to my normal stuff and I don't think it likes the resin as much

Yeah I ran in to the same problem and I don't think I could really open it up enough to get my head through the opening without butchering it so what I did was spilt it on the side and shoulder "strap" pieces so the chest is now two separate pieces... here's a few photos that might help explain that a little better:


For the moment I've hot-glued the two halves back together so they don't warp while I'm finishing the fiberglassing.

I'll add some strapping to it once I'm done so I can easily get it on and off and it should be easier to transport the two halves of the chest instead of one big piece
I just did a quick measure of the neck opening and mine is about 18cm front to back and 14cm side to side, I have opened it up a bit so it would sit better and not cut in to my neck when I'm wearing it.

i could put the recon chest on the file if youd like, youd have to unfold the recon bit but atleast you know its exactly the right size for the chest. its looking amazing bdw!! im amazed you got it done in 2 or 3 days too! it took me that long to put my last helmet together... which then took 3 hours for the kittens to adopt it as a base of operations and then demolish it. im glad you split the chest, i tryed to model it so it would make that easier. keep up the good work and the supply of pics!! glad you like the cookie.

The torso is still looking sooooooooooooooooo dope I'm printing mine out.

This may sound silly, the scale equations work, but I've never measured myself in cm for seperate pieces of anything. I wanted to make sure my scale was accurate so I measured myself with a sewing tape measure since it has inches and centimeters (I mean I dont think in centimeters in terms of scale XD). I even did my noggin height. It just gave me a much better idea and peace of mind that my helmets and armor won't be off by much. Just throwin that out there incase anyone else was worried about measurements

im doin the same, equasions and big numbers tend to scare me a bit so i just measured myself and went from there. im the opisite thoe, i cant think in inches and the idea of fractions of an inch hurt my head.

Ok im going to try this lol.

realy?! kewl!! well when you get time... can i haz pics?

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right well, ive bee a bit distracted by work and whatnot so no new betas im afraid. but heres a pic of whats been distracting me. its no where near finished yet but i thought you might like to see it.

hah, look at that, 400 posts.

ill be back to work on the model very soon

any problems and/or progress pics, gimme a shout

FS

EDIT: hey check it out, im the only member signed in again:

pointless i know but still, its weird.

 

[Skullcandy Girl]

Ohhhhhhh very nice exterior model and lighting (unless this is your home XP) Very cool