Chooka
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Alright! Begin wall of text!
So my first post here. I’ve been creeping around here for a while, and can’t help it anymore…I need to make a suit. I've read the noob material provided above (fantastic tutorials guys).
I have convinced my buddy and my GF to also make one with me, so we have a group effort going on here. So we all were thinking for our first suits to go with a ‘named’ Spartan. Having played all the core games (1-5 + Reach) and seen most of the major released movies/shorts, the named characters just have a bit more ‘oomph’ to them over custom (Vanity) guys us. So therein lies the first dilemma for me. My buddy is a bigger guy, so he instantly leans towards Jorge-052, and my GF quite likes the look of Sarah Palmer, and possibly Vale. I on the other hand am all over the place with my choices…can’t make up my mind. There is Emile-A239 (soo cool…but the helm is a nightmare from the looks of it), Carter-A259 (semi-plain if you ask me), Frederic-104 and pretty much everyone else lol. I would like to do ‘Chief too, but I’m not sure I want to be the 3000th+ chief… and it would be hard to stand up to some of the suits on here
so maybe you guys/gals can help me out a bit on this? Pro/cons for all the suits? Vale vs Palmer? (if it helps, she kinda does look like Palmer haha)
So! Onto what I have tried first. I printed off just a random file found in the downloads here to get my hands dirty. I chose the Mk V (maybe VI) hand back plate to start. First, it’s one sheet of card stock (old manilla stuff i found in my closet…gonna pick up new white 110lb), and it has some small cuts, but not too many parts. I didn’t scale anything, just grab and go. Obviously I learned a few things along the way, noticed a few things on the .pdo file later (small gaps on the sides that I tried to ‘close’ when gluing) and just getting the hand of it. But I am no stranger to time being spent hunched over a project. Those of you who recognize the cut mat will understand
So here is what I ended up with.
Not sure why my hand looks like a lobster here...
Let me know what you think! Good or bad!
So my first post here. I’ve been creeping around here for a while, and can’t help it anymore…I need to make a suit. I've read the noob material provided above (fantastic tutorials guys).
I have convinced my buddy and my GF to also make one with me, so we have a group effort going on here. So we all were thinking for our first suits to go with a ‘named’ Spartan. Having played all the core games (1-5 + Reach) and seen most of the major released movies/shorts, the named characters just have a bit more ‘oomph’ to them over custom (Vanity) guys us. So therein lies the first dilemma for me. My buddy is a bigger guy, so he instantly leans towards Jorge-052, and my GF quite likes the look of Sarah Palmer, and possibly Vale. I on the other hand am all over the place with my choices…can’t make up my mind. There is Emile-A239 (soo cool…but the helm is a nightmare from the looks of it), Carter-A259 (semi-plain if you ask me), Frederic-104 and pretty much everyone else lol. I would like to do ‘Chief too, but I’m not sure I want to be the 3000th+ chief… and it would be hard to stand up to some of the suits on here
so maybe you guys/gals can help me out a bit on this? Pro/cons for all the suits? Vale vs Palmer? (if it helps, she kinda does look like Palmer haha)So! Onto what I have tried first. I printed off just a random file found in the downloads here to get my hands dirty. I chose the Mk V (maybe VI) hand back plate to start. First, it’s one sheet of card stock (old manilla stuff i found in my closet…gonna pick up new white 110lb), and it has some small cuts, but not too many parts. I didn’t scale anything, just grab and go. Obviously I learned a few things along the way, noticed a few things on the .pdo file later (small gaps on the sides that I tried to ‘close’ when gluing) and just getting the hand of it. But I am no stranger to time being spent hunched over a project. Those of you who recognize the cut mat will understand
So here is what I ended up with.
Not sure why my hand looks like a lobster here...
Let me know what you think! Good or bad!
