Road to Halo Outpost Discovery ("finished")

[Felipe06]

Progress on my costume for Halo Outpost Philadelphia! Really excited to finish it and meet some of you wonderful people over there, in the meantime, enjoy these build pics

Canada still exists in 2561 right ;p?

I "black washed" my helmet a little too much and it turned maroon. Gave it another blast of metallic red

Couldn't resist a partial suit up

 

[Felipe06]

Boy, did I not miss paper pepakura... But it's the quickest way I could think of easily doing an EOD chest that'll fit my Mark VI chest

 

[Cadet]

Your armor looks like Vacuum Form plastic. Is it?

 

[Negativecacti]

Your armor looks like Vacuum Form plastic. Is it?

It looks like a combination of that and fiberglass

 

[sandwich]

Armor looks awesome!

 

[Felipe06]

Your armor looks like Vacuum Form plastic. Is it?

Indeed it is! Well most of it

 

[Cadet]

Indeed it is! Well most of it

Very Cool. Outside of my Mark V and the old Richie's Armor Mark VI kit, and maybe the Rubies Supreme Chief, you never really see vacuum form plastic kits.

Did you sculpt your own Bucks? I used my reinforced and filled in fiberglass pepakura parts as my bucks for my suit.

 

[RandomRanger]

This is looking really cool!

 

[Felipe06]

Very Cool. Outside of my Mark V and the old Richie's Armor Mark VI kit, and maybe the Rubies Supreme Chief, you never really see vacuum form plastic kits.

Did you sculpt your own Bucks? I used my reinforced and filled in fiberglass pepakura parts as my bucks for my suit.

Your Mark V is vacuum formed? That's amazing! I hope to make a full vacuum formed Mark V armor from CEA eventually, depends if Halo Infinite has something that steals my attention (a full Mark V gen 3 variant???)

So for the Mark VI suit, some masters were made from scratch, some using rubies' pieces as a base to build the master off of (masters have been destroyed for obvious reasons, so screwing up isn't an option!). I originally had no plans to go this route, but then Halo Outpost became a thing and there was just no way I could make the Mark V in time. After going through this build, I'm definitely a vac form armor fan, I just find it more exciting and manageable than foam and especially fiberglassing

 

[Cadet]

Your Mark V is vacuum formed? That's amazing!

My thread is from 2011, so, about two versions of the Forum ago, so most of the pictures are gone, but:

Vacuum Formed Combat Evolved Mark V

So, I’ve been through two versions of a pepped Mark V. The first one from backing 2007 was a...disaster, to put it mildly. A rush job for Halloween, everything was sloppy. It can be seen here: http://www.405th.com/showthread.php/3425-Cadet%27s-Mark-V Version 2, Seen here...

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I actually still do have all my bucks/masters in a storage tote, I just don't have access to a Vac table anymore.

 

[Felipe06]

Shoulders, space diapers and thighs have been rigged. Here's a peek

 

[Felipe06]

Suit is almost done, in the mean time I thought why not share what I remembered to take pictures of:

Really glad how the EOD turned out

 

[Felipe06]

eeeeeeey

 

[he4thbar]

Thats a good looking build man. Have fun in philly

 

[Felipe06]

So yeah, it's "finished"
Already see ways to improve it, but that'll be for another post. I'll be sharing my HOD Philly experience once I get a hold of more pictures