Hi. Noob's First ODST
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Armor Update 6) Its Done Printing
Hello everyone, I hope you're all doing well! As the title says I have completed printing out my ODST Armor!
God this was a heck of a project. Unintentionally posting this exactly 1/2 a year after my first post. I have finished printing out the entire suit, and I thought I should show off another update since it's been a bit and I'm trying to hit that 50 message requirement. So let's begin with the weapons!
(Just a quick side note, all of the items are completely unpainted. The only finishing work done was glueing the parts together when they were finished.)
In the last post I showed off that I had bought the files for some fun tools for my ODST. Well, I am glad to start showing the fruits of my labor.
Yep, this is the MA5C From Halo 3 from Galactic Armory. Files turned out amazingly! my only issue was printing the ammo counter, but thankfully one of my good friends is helping me out by resin printing the ammo counter screen in transparent so that I can rig up some glowing LEDs. As you can see it is more manageable than the (H)SMG, being a little smaller than it. This print was a ton of fun to put together, and was sliced very well. From a distance you can barely see the seem lines. As for plans for painting, I plan on doing a game accurate paint job for it, along with all my weapons that will be shown here. Next up is my M-1 Combat Knife.
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Also from Galactic armory, and I am extremely proud with how it turned out. I am still blown away with the pattern on the grip. I know its not game accurate since these were added in Reach, but I thought it would look cool on my shoulder. I will eventually make a post about the modifications / customizations that I have made for my armor but thats for another day.
Moving on from the weapons, I have also finished up printing my ODST Backpack... but have come to a weird crossroad
So when I first got the files for my backpack I thought "Wow. That thing would look great. I should scale it!" which in hindsight... was not a good idea. So this is FromTheBrink Studio's Design (Etsy) and they have a pretty good instructions for the actual build, specifying what standard size hinges, magnets, and other hardware to buy for the sections. So this one is printed in 95% scale, like the rest of my armor was, and now I'm having trouble finding all the hardware for it. I've been thinking and one of the ideas I had was to reprint it at 100% scale to save the headache of hardware searching, and to list the 95% version on the marketplace for anyone who would just like to search for hardware. If anyone has any tips or ideas on what I should do, please feel free to let me know. I haven't made any final decisions yet.
As for the future, I have started work on the finishing process of my armor. Plan is to do it all in sections, like Left Leg / Right Leg, Torso, Shoulders, etc... just so I can get a good match on the paint. For coloration I am planning on doing normal ODST base coloration with some "Rolling Surf" highlights. I've already started with some example painting. I'm currently in the work of finishing my SOCOM. I've already sanded it, I just need to fill some cracks that formed while sanding it. Otherwise, it looks amazing so far.
But yeah, that's pretty much it. I'm going to go back to watching Netflix and finishing this gun. I'll post again in like 3 months with more progress probably. I'm terrible at making promises with this stuff.
See you in the field
-YTunz
Hello everyone, I hope you're all doing well! As the title says I have completed printing out my ODST Armor!
God this was a heck of a project. Unintentionally posting this exactly 1/2 a year after my first post. I have finished printing out the entire suit, and I thought I should show off another update since it's been a bit and I'm trying to hit that 50 message requirement. So let's begin with the weapons!
(Just a quick side note, all of the items are completely unpainted. The only finishing work done was glueing the parts together when they were finished.)
In the last post I showed off that I had bought the files for some fun tools for my ODST. Well, I am glad to start showing the fruits of my labor.
Yep, this is the MA5C From Halo 3 from Galactic Armory. Files turned out amazingly! my only issue was printing the ammo counter, but thankfully one of my good friends is helping me out by resin printing the ammo counter screen in transparent so that I can rig up some glowing LEDs. As you can see it is more manageable than the (H)SMG, being a little smaller than it. This print was a ton of fun to put together, and was sliced very well. From a distance you can barely see the seem lines. As for plans for painting, I plan on doing a game accurate paint job for it, along with all my weapons that will be shown here. Next up is my M-1 Combat Knife.
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Also from Galactic armory, and I am extremely proud with how it turned out. I am still blown away with the pattern on the grip. I know its not game accurate since these were added in Reach, but I thought it would look cool on my shoulder. I will eventually make a post about the modifications / customizations that I have made for my armor but thats for another day.
Moving on from the weapons, I have also finished up printing my ODST Backpack... but have come to a weird crossroad
So when I first got the files for my backpack I thought "Wow. That thing would look great. I should scale it!" which in hindsight... was not a good idea. So this is FromTheBrink Studio's Design (Etsy) and they have a pretty good instructions for the actual build, specifying what standard size hinges, magnets, and other hardware to buy for the sections. So this one is printed in 95% scale, like the rest of my armor was, and now I'm having trouble finding all the hardware for it. I've been thinking and one of the ideas I had was to reprint it at 100% scale to save the headache of hardware searching, and to list the 95% version on the marketplace for anyone who would just like to search for hardware. If anyone has any tips or ideas on what I should do, please feel free to let me know. I haven't made any final decisions yet.
As for the future, I have started work on the finishing process of my armor. Plan is to do it all in sections, like Left Leg / Right Leg, Torso, Shoulders, etc... just so I can get a good match on the paint. For coloration I am planning on doing normal ODST base coloration with some "Rolling Surf" highlights. I've already started with some example painting. I'm currently in the work of finishing my SOCOM. I've already sanded it, I just need to fill some cracks that formed while sanding it. Otherwise, it looks amazing so far.
But yeah, that's pretty much it. I'm going to go back to watching Netflix and finishing this gun. I'll post again in like 3 months with more progress probably. I'm terrible at making promises with this stuff.
See you in the field
-YTunz
