Restarting my Freelancer Medic

[JD of Asgard]

3 Generations of my armor attempts. I'ts been a long 2 years but I'm finally getting the hang out it.



little bit of a lighting test. first attempt at wiring ever!

 

[JD of Asgard]

Just another update with some more armor.
Haven't fully painted the shoulders/biceps but you can see them here with a base coat of silver over plastidip. Might need to try moving them up or something a bit more.

I need to plastidip and add velcro to my forearm piece but I just wanted an idea of how it would all fit together. I'm just holding it together with tape at the moment, haha.

As far as my undersuit I think I decided to use the Halo 4 color scheme where the neck and legs are black but the top is a color similar to the primary color of the armor. Since this is just a RvB original character there's not really a rigid design to hold to and I think those colors will work out better. haha.

Oh and I brought in my hip/torso bit. It was originally a little too big. I guess I screwed up the sizing. But now it fits just perfect on my hips.

Going to add my hand plates soon using some snap on bits. They're acutally a perfect size to hide the logo on the gloves while not hiding any other details/designs on them.

Wearing it all I can finally see the progress I've made and am determined to keep moving forward!

 

[JD of Asgard]

Starting over...AGAIN.
I feel like a perfectionist in many aspects. Too bad I don't see a lot of the issues I have until it's too late sometimes. The magnets in the Halo Reach chest peice were too heavy and would tear out occasionally, damaging the foam and the paint job. Some times it'd just be sitting in my costume closet and come apart. I kept trying to repair the damage but all I did was build up a layer of hot glue and other adheisives in certain areas that just don't look good. I thought I could ignore the problems but they nagged me.

So after nearly a month off, spent just studying YouTube videos about scaling and cutting yadda yadda yadda...I'm back!










I decided to upgrade to the Halo 4 suit. It's a LOT lighter than my Reach chest peice even after I've added the lighting and straps. It attaches at the shoulders and the ribs with both rare earth magnets(they're like an 1/8th the size but twice the strength of the ceramic magnets I had) and nylon straps. I'm going to hold off using Plastidip and painting until I have a few more peices made.
I tried it on with my cardstock and resin helmet just to see how it looks. My next step is to build a foam helmet. I forgot to build in ventalation into the current helmet so it gets a bit stuffy in there. I know that if I'm going to have this ready for Dragon*con next year I'm going to have to be able to walk around and breath easily in the heat. So I've just recently edited a papercraft template for the Halo 4 Recon helmet and I'm going to build that in foam. This time I'll drill some ventilation into it and maybe add a fan with the lighting/electronic skills I've learned with the Reach armor.

 

[JD of Asgard]

Here's another shot of me in my chest peice. It came along way easier and smoother than the previous attempts at building the Halo 3 and Reach chests. I enjoy all the extra mobility the Halo 4 chest allows. I'm wearing the white shirt that I'm going to use as a base for my undersuit. Not only is the white better with the color pallete I've picked out, but it helps really catch the LED lights and make it look extra bright. I have decided that I'm going to change out the color of the LED's before I'm finished and go with a purple color. The initial reasoning for the red was so that I'd be instantly recognized as a Medic by the common person. But it's all my personal preference and I think I'm going a white and purple route, much like all of the medical personel in the RvB universe that I'm trying to base this on.






Side shots of the the helmet. I had some scaling issues with the front/face plate region so I snipped them off and I'm in the process of reshaping them with Pep Designer to make them easier to work with. I've learned that when working with foam, the bigger the better. I did a lot of combining of peices from a Recon file I found to get those large smooth peices along the side of the helmet. I'm still got to sand down the wood filler but it looks way better than my bondo/resin attempts and there's no comparing this to my first foam helmet 2 years ago. That thing was warped and deformed looking.

So I drilled a few holes along the side with my dremel for ventalation. I'm going to cover it from behind with a thin black cloth, probably cotton or something. It'll allow the helmet to vent a lot better I think.


My medical cross. I used some thin craft foam from Micheals to get some of the details throughout the helmet. It kept it from looking so...base model, an issue I've had with a lot of my previous attempts.



Bonus shots of my little Spartan posing with my helmet on. My head/helmet are so big it almost covers her head and her torso! haha!

 

[OTSDerpy]

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Just another update with some more armor.
Haven't fully painted the shoulders/biceps but you can see them here with a base coat of silver over plastidip. Might need to try moving them up or something a bit more.

I need to plastidip and add velcro to my forearm piece but I just wanted an idea of how it would all fit together. I'm just holding it together with tape at the moment, haha.

As far as my undersuit I think I decided to use the Halo 4 color scheme where the neck and legs are black but the top is a color similar to the primary color of the armor. Since this is just a RvB original character there's not really a rigid design to hold to and I think those colors will work out better. haha.

Oh and I brought in my hip/torso bit. It was originally a little too big. I guess I screwed up the sizing. But now it fits just perfect on my hips.

Going to add my hand plates soon using some snap on bits. They're acutally a perfect size to hide the logo on the gloves while not hiding any other details/designs on them.

Wearing it all I can finally see the progress I've made and am determined to keep moving forward!

I love how the contrast of white and red, you don't see that a lot, therefore that makes this build unique.

 

[JD of Asgard]

Man it's been a while since I've posted here. My build has slowed down the a snail's pace. Between two kids, Army life, and school I'm lucky to get anything done.
Thought I'd post some progress pics though to show where I'm at.

Hand plates! I'm waiting for my full suit to come in before I add the snaps to the under bit and secure them fully to the gloves.

What it'll look like in the end with the gloves attached.

My forearms. Added LEDS to them.


My cod/butt pieces. I forgot that the Halo 4 cod piece is more of a lower abdominal plate so I'm probably going to free hand a custom piece to cover my junk up.


My thigh piece!


My awkward stance. Once I get my full suit in and snap all the pieces down I'll be able to stand more naturally.

Lighting test for the forearms.

Profile view. It's crazy to how all of the little progressesions I've made are starting to come together.

My eyes don't open very much so when I try to open them I look terrified. Showing off the lighting and my Medic's stethoscope. You can see some wires poking out from where the battery for the fans is supposed to attach. Still figuring that one out.



My shiny new hex patterned face shield from Etsy! Going to wait until the Helmet is completely painted to install.

 

[JD of Asgard]

It's been a long while since my last update. I've moved to a new start and had a bunch of crazy life changes.
I've busted my but the last few weeks though, and finally got it all built! Since I took this picture last week I've sanded down a few more areas that were problematic and begun the plastidiping process!

It's pretty time consuming because it's been so hot around here that I can only really paint it in the evening. Any earlier than dusk and the heat starts to melt the hot glue before I can seal it all together.

But after I've got that taken care of it's on to painting! I'm going to do it purple and white, just like pistol you see in the picture.

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Also, does anyone know a good formula/paint mixture for fake blood? I'm going to use it on the medic after the initial painting process.

 

[JD of Asgard]

Man, for something that took me so long, things are certainly coming along quite quickly.

For every large piece that I paint I'm going to hit up a smaller piece. That way while the paint is drying on the bigger one I can still get some work in.
Here's the painted crotch plate, gun, and most of the helmet. There are still a few spots of the helmet that need to be touched up but it's looking really good. I need to make a stencil for the logo on the side of the helmet there. It looks a little plain without it.
After I get that done I'm going to add some weathering and blood splatter to it.

 

[BPipkin]

I know how it feels i've been building an odst suit for almost two years, and only in the last to weeks have I seen it really flying together. I really like the purple and white color scheme that you are going with! Always been a fan of the non standard colors. Can't wait to see it done! Also since it is a freelancer have you considered what code name your going to use?

 

[JD of Asgard]

I know how it feels i've been building an odst suit for almost two years, and only in the last to weeks have I seen it really flying together. I really like the purple and white color scheme that you are going with! Always been a fan of the non standard colors. Can't wait to see it done! Also since it is a freelancer have you considered what code name your going to use?

Crazy how that works right? We spend so much time trying to get everything just right with the build that it feels like it's never going to be done but then when we finally start the panting and stuff it's like a whole different process.
Thank you so much! I really like the non-standard colors too. I picked purple and white because the medics in the RvBverse all wear some form of purple or purple/white combo. I didn't think it'd pop as well as it does though irl.

Agent Virginia. :] I have a military stencil and I'm thinking about doing a stencil version of the name on the back of the chest piece.

 

[JD of Asgard]

finished up the painting on the helmet/crotch. Did some weathering so it didn't look so pristine.



lower abdomen plate and hand plates are next up, followed by...





The chest plate and my crack cover.

 

[JD of Asgard]

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Added some weathering to the suit. Need to hit the pistol up as well.

Checking out the helmet profile. I need to add the Project Freelancer logo to the side of the helmet there in the blank space.
Lower abdominal plate.
Crotch protector. Need to hide that package and the zipper for my undersuit.
gloves are almost done as well.

 

[JD of Asgard]

Project Freelancer Logo on one side...


And some Southern Regiment pride on the other.

 

[JD of Asgard]

Finally got the visor installed. lt only took me about 8 months to get around to it! haha.
I ran into a little snag because the foam didn't quit line up right with the way I wanted the visor to sit but I connected the two using some simple wood filler. After sanding it down and repainting it I'm quite pleased with the results. Much better than my previous attempt.


You can see where I just filled the gaps in with hot glue in this old model lol.

I'm still pretty set on the blood splatter idea, but I want to wait until I build the whole suit and then have someone splash it on me. I feel like that'd make the splatter more realistic and less localized to each piece.

 

[JD of Asgard]

Wiring on the inside all set up. One battery powering lights and the other the fans.


Testing it out. I can breathe!

 

[JD of Asgard]

I've finally got the chest all painted!

My first attempt at building foam armor 3 years ago. Most of the details were painted on instead of built in lol.


We've got hands, most of a boot and my pistol.


Eyyyyy

 

[StayFrosty]

Wow, that's really clean looking for a foam helmet! Keep up the good work, your armor looks great so far!

 

[JD of Asgard]

It's been a while since I've updated this so I thought I'd share my latest fitting test. I can only work on it for like an hour every few days at the moment and I'm really concerned about screwing it up at this stage so progress is slow.

I've finished painting for the most part and I'm using clothing snaps to attach some of the pieces to the suit. I still have to attached the shoulders and the thighs because I made them just big enough that I wouldn't have trouble sliding it on but big enough apparently that I need the snaps to keep them on there.

 

[Distemper]

Keep up the great work.

 

[JD of Asgard]

Thanks! Once I get those two areas secured I only have a few more touch ups and I'm officially done with this project.