wolverine
Jr Member
Hello everyone and welcome to the documentation of my attempt on building a customized MJOLNIR GEN2 armor (codename: WOLVERINE)...!!! I hope you will enjoy this, like I do... 
For me, it's a way to keep the whole process on my mind long-term, so I'll try to create some kind of comprehensive photo-diary here. Following this objective, I'll start right at the beginning of my project with...
PHASE 01: RESEARCH & PLANNING
At first, I tried to get a picture on my mind of what suit I would want to have / how I would want to look like. So I googled the internet for good pictures of halo suits and found a nice collection on halo nation. Looking over all the somewhat different and somewhat identical suit variants, I realized the only suit I liked for 100% was the variant the Master Chief is wearing. But, well, there are way enough Master Chiefs on this planet, so I decided to pick out the parts I liked the most from any variant I found and create a custom variant just for me. Goin' with this approach also meant to create a customized undersuit, so I started there...
Searching the internet for pictures of the undersuit led my to deviantart, where I found some drawings made by the user uratz. I took those and photoshopped the hell out of it, trying to someway match my design approach with the visuals created by 343 for the game, using some screenshots I made from youtube copies of the render sequences... These are some of my inspirational pictures:
And here is, what I made out of it:
The first picture is the attempt to create an overview on the different materials / material textures I would have to use.
The second picture shows the color scheme the undersuit should have and resembles in some way the colors used by Marvels superhero Wolverine.
For the next step, I raided the 405th database for pepakura models of the different suit parts I liked. I downloaded the models, loaded them into the Pepakura Designer 3, took some screenshots and added them step by step to my photoshop file:
To my surprise, everything looked quite nice in white. But in the end, I'll go with some shades of metallic blue, so I colored everything and got there:
Now I tried to figure out, how the different parts would have to be connected with each other and the undersuit. This is - for sure - still subject to change, but the first idea is this:
At this point, I was kind of addicted to creating new drawings and realized that there's a difference between the MJOLNIR undersuit and the uniform, the spartans are wearing in the spartan ops videos. So I took the drawings of my undersuit, just kept 90% of the outlines and created a drawing of the uniform. I don't know if this will ever come to life in some way, but maybe it's helpful for some of you guys. Anyway: I had fun drawing it:
And this was the youtube screenshots I used as reference:
And now, some thoughts on the weapons, with the idea in my mind to use the BOOMCO blasters (handgun already available, rifle coming later this year) as starting point - again, some pictures from halo nation came in handy:
After this was done, I did some research on materials, different creation techniques and material sourcing. I figured out, what stuff you guys are using and what the german pendants for the materials are (which can be a bit tricky) and where to buy them. Finally I decided to go with the foam-smithing method and found several nice guides and projects both here and elsewhere on the internet. Also pretty helpful is the Foamsmith Trilogy, an e-book I found at volpin-props.
With this phase done so far (at least for the moment), I decided to create my own account here on the forum and slowly get to the next phase...
PHASE 02: GETTING THE MATERIALS & BUILDING THE WORKSHOP
Last September we (my wife and me) moved from a flat, to our own house. *yeah* Increasing our overall living space also created the chance for me to get some space for working on cosplay armory. This was the initial ignition to switch from a suit-building-observer to a suit-builder. After completing phase 01, I started to order materials and tools and made plans for transforming my houses attic to an armory / workshop...
In the first step, I used some old and meanwhile unused living room furniture (had to buy one more corpus) to form the base of my workdesk:
Then, I added some cheap 5,99 EUR desk tabletops from IKEA:
Now, I needed to get some power supply and added some more space for materials:
Then, it was tool-time *grunt.snort*...
And because I do not want to stand around, all the time, I added a comfortable chair (IKEA again):'
And that's where I am right now... *tadaaaaaaa* Meanwhile, I'm waiting for the last materials to come: some 2mm foamies, some velcro and that kind of stuff is still missing... And then, after a short holiday in May, it's time for the next phase...
So, that's all for now. More pictures to come soon, as I'm already working on the handguns... See ya!
For me, it's a way to keep the whole process on my mind long-term, so I'll try to create some kind of comprehensive photo-diary here. Following this objective, I'll start right at the beginning of my project with...
PHASE 01: RESEARCH & PLANNING
At first, I tried to get a picture on my mind of what suit I would want to have / how I would want to look like. So I googled the internet for good pictures of halo suits and found a nice collection on halo nation. Looking over all the somewhat different and somewhat identical suit variants, I realized the only suit I liked for 100% was the variant the Master Chief is wearing. But, well, there are way enough Master Chiefs on this planet, so I decided to pick out the parts I liked the most from any variant I found and create a custom variant just for me. Goin' with this approach also meant to create a customized undersuit, so I started there...
Searching the internet for pictures of the undersuit led my to deviantart, where I found some drawings made by the user uratz. I took those and photoshopped the hell out of it, trying to someway match my design approach with the visuals created by 343 for the game, using some screenshots I made from youtube copies of the render sequences... These are some of my inspirational pictures:
And here is, what I made out of it:
The first picture is the attempt to create an overview on the different materials / material textures I would have to use.
The second picture shows the color scheme the undersuit should have and resembles in some way the colors used by Marvels superhero Wolverine.
For the next step, I raided the 405th database for pepakura models of the different suit parts I liked. I downloaded the models, loaded them into the Pepakura Designer 3, took some screenshots and added them step by step to my photoshop file:
To my surprise, everything looked quite nice in white. But in the end, I'll go with some shades of metallic blue, so I colored everything and got there:
Now I tried to figure out, how the different parts would have to be connected with each other and the undersuit. This is - for sure - still subject to change, but the first idea is this:
At this point, I was kind of addicted to creating new drawings and realized that there's a difference between the MJOLNIR undersuit and the uniform, the spartans are wearing in the spartan ops videos. So I took the drawings of my undersuit, just kept 90% of the outlines and created a drawing of the uniform. I don't know if this will ever come to life in some way, but maybe it's helpful for some of you guys. Anyway: I had fun drawing it:
And this was the youtube screenshots I used as reference:
And now, some thoughts on the weapons, with the idea in my mind to use the BOOMCO blasters (handgun already available, rifle coming later this year) as starting point - again, some pictures from halo nation came in handy:
After this was done, I did some research on materials, different creation techniques and material sourcing. I figured out, what stuff you guys are using and what the german pendants for the materials are (which can be a bit tricky) and where to buy them. Finally I decided to go with the foam-smithing method and found several nice guides and projects both here and elsewhere on the internet. Also pretty helpful is the Foamsmith Trilogy, an e-book I found at volpin-props.
With this phase done so far (at least for the moment), I decided to create my own account here on the forum and slowly get to the next phase...
PHASE 02: GETTING THE MATERIALS & BUILDING THE WORKSHOP
Last September we (my wife and me) moved from a flat, to our own house. *yeah* Increasing our overall living space also created the chance for me to get some space for working on cosplay armory. This was the initial ignition to switch from a suit-building-observer to a suit-builder. After completing phase 01, I started to order materials and tools and made plans for transforming my houses attic to an armory / workshop...
In the first step, I used some old and meanwhile unused living room furniture (had to buy one more corpus) to form the base of my workdesk:
Then, I added some cheap 5,99 EUR desk tabletops from IKEA:
Now, I needed to get some power supply and added some more space for materials:
Then, it was tool-time *grunt.snort*...
And because I do not want to stand around, all the time, I added a comfortable chair (IKEA again):'
And that's where I am right now... *tadaaaaaaa* Meanwhile, I'm waiting for the last materials to come: some 2mm foamies, some velcro and that kind of stuff is still missing... And then, after a short holiday in May, it's time for the next phase...
So, that's all for now. More pictures to come soon, as I'm already working on the handguns... See ya!
