It was time to take the suit out for another spin. I had finished adding the ELwire to the spine and the smartphone to the forearm. I needed to do a complete real life test run to see what else needs to be tweeked. The best venue that I could find was a Star Trek Convention in Vancouver. Chief needed to Crash the party!
Getting changed in the underground parking lot. Phone rang and the most inconvienent time. It was my mom. Thanks mom!
My fav Star Trek Fan!!!!!
Going up!
Going down.
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Posing for a photographer
I like this one.
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Thumbs up
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Showing off the "I Made This" sticker
Flexing the fiberglass muscles
Taking a break
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The Hotel where the event took place.
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Sorry for the double post but I had more pics to share than what a single post would allow.
King of the World!
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Here's looking at you!
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Waving to the tourists
Made someone smile!
Going down again!
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The game could use one of these.
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The vendors room
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I thought that the Enterprise was bigger than this?
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Taking a spin
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Getting Stuck.
Getting Phaser'd
"Hey, your not Cap't Kirk! So, It'll only bounce off my shields"
BONUS: Master Chief made the Vancouver Local papers. While at the con, a local news media stopped us and did a short interview with regards to the Canucks and the StarTrek Con. vancouver.24hrs.ca
Nice pics!
Is that first picture lock-down mode? Did someone toss a sticky at you?
What happened in the second pic? Did BMO say no to your loan for a Warthog request?
lol Longshot once again provides the motivation necessary for us of lesser skill to pretend to make our own suits. Amazing work, longshot. "Longchief" hahaha
Ok so I'm still in Calgary and managed to get better access to the internet. I figured I should reply to a few of the posts before the long drive back (11 hour drive)
Nice pics!
Is that first picture lock-down mode? Did someone toss a sticky at you?
What happened in the second pic? Did BMO say no to your loan for a Warthog request?
Yup... Its an UBER EPIC Armor Lock pose. Hyo did a fantastic photo shoot. I have to admit that I was learning a lot from this. Some poses are just not easy to do, even tho it looks easy in the game.
The other pic was Chief resting outside of the venue. Great for some photo editing.
lol Longshot once again provides the motivation necessary for us of lesser skill to pretend to make our own suits. Amazing work, longshot. "Longchief" hahaha
Lol I told you modeling ain't easy!! Some of the poses I have to pull off while modeling makes it feel very awkward and I'll even be sore the next day just from the way I have to stay still and such, but in the end they make for AWESOME photos. I'll post more after I relax from the ending of the con.
Oh boy.... Ok, so what I'm gonna do, is pick the VERY best of the best/my fav pictures I took of Longshot from the two shoots with we did... If you want to see all best photos from both shoots, they can be found on my facebook album. Feel free to add me to, I might add more here and there and whatnot.
Just an fyi about all the shots, very minimal editing was done to any of these photos. I just either bumped up the brightness or contrast just a bit because my camera likes to upload things like 8 times darker than when I took it. :\ There's only a couple pics where I played with the saturation or hue a little. But I mean, all the 'editing' I did was nothing more than what you can do in Windows viewer; no photoshop whatsoever. No cropping was done on any of these as well.
So to start off, I'll post my absolute fave pic taken:
First you spear impostor Church with the flag (well, I'm ok with that), then you wear it as a dress. You sir have gone too far!!! Seriously though, suits looking great like always and great pictures by hyo.
First you spear impostor Church with the flag (well, I'm ok with that), then you wear it as a dress. You sir have gone too far!!! Seriously though, suits looking great like always and great pictures by hyo.
LOL. It was easier to do that, rather than to wrap it around the helm like a turbin.
As for impostor Church. I never got the owners name. If anyone knows, let me or Hyo know, so that we can give him his due credit and KUDO's for joining us.
Glad that you and everyone loves them. I loved taking them and yes it was fun and thrilling to do them.
Great many thanks to Hyo for taking the time and effort to shoot and post these AMAZING photos.
I'll be posting more from the event as I receive and find more photo's from the interwebz.
You can bet that we will take more at HALOFEST.
I'm loving all these photos! Looks like you and Izy had a ton of fun! Wish I could have been there instead of that blue Spartan, who's suit is weak compared to yours (no offense if that's a 405th member).