Skupilkinson said:
Thanks for the juicy post Spartan II! I love it when you get an email notifying you of a reply, and then you come to read it and it actually has substance! Not just, "Looks good." or something.
I'm glad you like it, I've had this one planned for a while now. I started with the chest and then for the helmet I asked Ruze789 if he'd help me with plans of this helmet. He obliged, did n amazing job too which made the modeling easier.
I don't plan on doing the shoulders since there are already a pair of those in the WIKI.
That's where you can find my chest too, so when you're ready you can come back for it.
It is indeed intended to fit over an existing MkVI chest, thoguh it hasn't been tested on anything other than a low detail chest so far. To my knowledge anyway.
Those pink lines will indeed be the fold lines on the Pepakura version. Though some will be hidden as they won't be needed for the build. I post pics that way so that potential builders can get an idea of what they'll have to deal with to build one of my designs.
And thank YOU for the prompt response to my "juicy post", lol. Ask anyone here who knows me, and they'll tell you that when I post something, it's always something of substance. I've done the same thing with my own Mk VI progress thread even (which I understand can be kind of annoying for those who just want to see the pics), lol. I'm not much on small posts, so when I speak up on something, I speak
up
I'm very glad to see that others are finally starting to take a stab at the Hyabusa perms. I love the look of it, but as I have no skill or experience at 3-D modelling myself (never used any of the programs some have used here for this sort of thing) I could never hope to model it myself, lol.
I am a rather artistically-inclined and creative person by nature, and have an eye for graphics work, but I'm more apt with pen-to-paper drawing, not on a computer screen.
So, I'm extremely thankful of folks like you who have the know-how to do such things, as it helps make it possible for others like myself who have the hands-on prop-building skill to bring it to life in a "real" manner. Now I'll have a couple options for putting this helmet together, one for myself and one for a friend here.
Btw, thanks for confirming on where to download this, and also where I can get a set of the shoulder plates to match. I, of course, first need to actually
finish my standard Mk VI armour before I can even contemplate incorporating a permutation into it, but when I'm at that point this is going to be one of the first, heh.
As for the contour/fold lines, I thought that might be the case. From what I understand, according to the few previous attempts made here the general rule of thumb is that the Hyabusa helmet is by far one of the more complicated builds due to all of its folds. As such, I kinda expected there'd be a lot of fold lines present in your model, which makes sense if you want to retain the same "curvature" to the surface of the helmet.
Thanks again for the information, dude. I'm most definately looking forward to seeing more progress on this!
