Hyo's Female Reach Build - Finished

[Sidewalker4961]

I love that picture of you standing with Scott in the Marine armour. What an excellent 3:4 scale Spartan!

 

[Zachrack]

Nothing but speachlessness and smiles from me... TOTALLY AWESOME JOB HYO!!! Oh and I love the shot where you are in front of the warthog...Epic!

P.S. You got done in time! Yea!!!

 

[SpartansNeverDie]

wow! that is amazing!! GREAT BUILD!

 

[Hyokenseisou]

@Starvingartist: Haha yeah... if it was any other con which wouldn't have been as awesome, I would have taken the risk for sure. lol

@Sidewalker: I'm travel size for your convenience!

@Zachrack: Thanks! Hopefully the in studio shots I do with my photographer soon will be even more epic. And yeah, I finished it in time, but JUST barely.

@Spartansneverdie: Thanks!

 

[ACDCrockr209]

Fantastic job on the armor, dudette!

 

[Hyokenseisou]

Fantastic job on the armor, dudette!

Thank you!

 

[Shadowind]

Great job on the suit, I wonder why it took me so long to find this thread. Interesting way on doing the undersuit.

 

[Hyokenseisou]

Great job on the suit, I wonder why it took me so long to find this thread. Interesting way on doing the undersuit.

Haha well I just made this thread the other day, so that's why you couldn't find it before.

 

[scizor112]

It's... BEAUTIFUL! Amazing work!

 

[RTGCBT]

I Have been wanting to make a helmet like that for a friend of mine, she doesnt like having her face closed in at all, and i was wondering how you went about making the visor for the helmet you made? Any tips would be appreciated! d >u< b!!!

 

[Hyokenseisou]

The visor was hand molded. After the helmet was pep'd and I cut out the visor piece, I cut it into 3 pieces, heated the thermal plastic in the oven on a baking sheet, then quickly took it out of the oven and sort of pulled/pressed it over the pep'd pieces. Same idea as if you were forging a sword; heat up the material, work with it a bit, heat it back up a bit, work with it, etc. And the only reason why we had to heat/work it so much was because it was 1/8" thick plastic (already tinted a dark grey). Then just used a dremel to etch some detailing, then glued it in.

There's a couple other pilot helmets floating around on the forum, but from what I can read on them, they've all been vac-formed then spray tinted.

 

[Pack hunter]

hmm i've had a few ideas on how to make some visors real cheap, havn't had the time to try it....or the money 4 that matter, i love the suit, one hot looking spartan,

 

[sandy1973]

Where did you get the plastic for your visor.

 

[Hyokenseisou]

@Pack: Thanks.

@Sandy: Local plastic store here in Calgary called Industrial Paints and Plastic.

 

[J326]

did you spray tint it with the VHT nite shade stuff? cuz if so, how good is the visibility?

 

[Hyokenseisou]

No the plastic itself was already tinted a dark grey, so looking through it is exactly like a pair of sunglasses.

 

[Road Kill]

WOW this is amazing =D looks awesome

 

[Hyokenseisou]

Here, has a vid.

 

[Hyokenseisou]

Found this super epic pic of my friend wearing my suit at the Halofest VIP party (photo I *think* taken by her husband)
Finally a really good pic that displays all of my suit.

 

[Warpath5150]

Wicked suit! and nice shooting, I know my contact from philly went to a shooting range in his COG armour, that was awesome