tvanhelene
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Hello Everyone! This is my first real post on this site so I will do my best to emulate the format everyone else uses. I've been making small props with 3D printed for about a year now. When I got sent home from my college campus and was told I wouldn't be going back until most likely next year, I decided I wanted to start a big project to keep me busy during quarantine. My first actual good quality halo print was my Mark VB Helmet. The progress of this build can be found here:
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At this point, I wasn't sure if I wanted to make a full suit yet, as I knew how daunting of a task it would be. However, I did want to make more halo props, so I decided to make something that would be cool regardless of if I made a suit or not, an Assault Rifle! I wanted to keep the color scheme of the helmet, just in case I decided to make a full suit (plus its got my favorite colors), and so after a long time of printing sanding, and painting, my rifle was finished!
After I finished this, I decided I wanted to make a suit! I decided I wanted to splurge and go with a paid set for the suit, (even though Moesizzlacs armor is great love you man) so I went with this one: Reach Spartan Base Armor Set Wearable 3D printable model
I also decided that I wanted to make a new helmet, as the one I made first is a bit too big, and also not really my favorite design from Halo Reach! The one I actually wanted to use for a full suit was the EOD helmet with no rebreathers attachment, and luckily, my man Moesizzlac made one! I decided to add a bit more detail to his helmet, and then began printing all the files! At first, sizing of the parts was really hard and I chewed through tons of filament doing parts over and over again. Eventually, I started to get the hang of printing pieces though.
This is my current plan for what the suit will look like. This is using the program Armorsmith. (I got lazy when doing this so not all the parts are actually shown here, and some of the scaling is a bit off)
After printing for weeks and spending an ungodly amount of money on filament, I got to this amount of completion of the hard surface components of the suit.
However!!! After printing the entire chest, I discovered that it was way too big for the rest of my body, and I looked like a Dummy Thicc spartan. That was a huge bummer, but luckily my man MarineSniper had a use for a larger chest piece!
Now I'm pretty much all caught up to the present in my journey of this suit! I'm currently printing pieces for a smaller chest, and after that, all I have to print is the calves, abdomen (flexible filament?), hands, feet, belt, and perhaps a different shoulder; and then months of sanding ahead! Here are a few pieces, and the parts of the new chest I have printed so far.
The undersuit and gaskets are a huge stress point for me in this project, as I'm very well versed in 3D printing, however, making something with soft materials like an undersuit is completely new to me! I want to avoid having just plain cloth or smooth fabric underneath the suit and in the gaps, as the actual suits have undersuits with designs and grooves etc. So far my thoughts of accomplishing this are maybe making flexible undersuit components out of flexible filament. MarineSniper is also supplying me with some of his fantastic gaskets, which will be a huge help!
I also want to add lights to the suit. This is also something I have a small amount of experience with, but it's much less of a stress point for me than the undersuit. I added holes to the 3d models in the appropriate spots for lights to be added, so I won't have to carve into my 3d prints.
Here is my setup for my printers! I was lucky enough to grab both of these from craigslist for $250 each. Ender 3 on the left and a Lulzbot Taz 5 on the right.
I will update this post (or should I add to the thread?) as I make new parts! the lower portion of the front of the chest is almost finished, so once that's printed and attached to the rest of the chest I'll post it here.
I would like to finish off my first post with a huge shoutout to MarineSniper for all the help and advice he's given me throughout my journey of making this suit! Super nice and helpful guy.
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At this point, I wasn't sure if I wanted to make a full suit yet, as I knew how daunting of a task it would be. However, I did want to make more halo props, so I decided to make something that would be cool regardless of if I made a suit or not, an Assault Rifle! I wanted to keep the color scheme of the helmet, just in case I decided to make a full suit (plus its got my favorite colors), and so after a long time of printing sanding, and painting, my rifle was finished!
I also decided that I wanted to make a new helmet, as the one I made first is a bit too big, and also not really my favorite design from Halo Reach! The one I actually wanted to use for a full suit was the EOD helmet with no rebreathers attachment, and luckily, my man Moesizzlac made one! I decided to add a bit more detail to his helmet, and then began printing all the files! At first, sizing of the parts was really hard and I chewed through tons of filament doing parts over and over again. Eventually, I started to get the hang of printing pieces though.
This is my current plan for what the suit will look like. This is using the program Armorsmith. (I got lazy when doing this so not all the parts are actually shown here, and some of the scaling is a bit off)
After printing for weeks and spending an ungodly amount of money on filament, I got to this amount of completion of the hard surface components of the suit.
However!!! After printing the entire chest, I discovered that it was way too big for the rest of my body, and I looked like a Dummy Thicc spartan. That was a huge bummer, but luckily my man MarineSniper had a use for a larger chest piece!
Now I'm pretty much all caught up to the present in my journey of this suit! I'm currently printing pieces for a smaller chest, and after that, all I have to print is the calves, abdomen (flexible filament?), hands, feet, belt, and perhaps a different shoulder; and then months of sanding ahead! Here are a few pieces, and the parts of the new chest I have printed so far.
The undersuit and gaskets are a huge stress point for me in this project, as I'm very well versed in 3D printing, however, making something with soft materials like an undersuit is completely new to me! I want to avoid having just plain cloth or smooth fabric underneath the suit and in the gaps, as the actual suits have undersuits with designs and grooves etc. So far my thoughts of accomplishing this are maybe making flexible undersuit components out of flexible filament. MarineSniper is also supplying me with some of his fantastic gaskets, which will be a huge help!
I also want to add lights to the suit. This is also something I have a small amount of experience with, but it's much less of a stress point for me than the undersuit. I added holes to the 3d models in the appropriate spots for lights to be added, so I won't have to carve into my 3d prints.
Here is my setup for my printers! I was lucky enough to grab both of these from craigslist for $250 each. Ender 3 on the left and a Lulzbot Taz 5 on the right.
I will update this post (or should I add to the thread?) as I make new parts! the lower portion of the front of the chest is almost finished, so once that's printed and attached to the rest of the chest I'll post it here.
I would like to finish off my first post with a huge shoutout to MarineSniper for all the help and advice he's given me throughout my journey of making this suit! Super nice and helpful guy.
