Re: RobotChicken's Halo 3 Mk VI Master Chief, Ultra Detail, First Build WIP (many pic
Hello!! Big fan of your work and currently trying to figure out how to make my son a halo costume. I saw the photos of your amazing work and thought I'd ask if you knew how I could go about making one. I do not have pepakura just a measuring board lol I've been trying to find spreads that I could just print out but can't seem to find any, let me know if you can help in anyway!
Thank you,
chloe
Thanks - First thing you need to do is turn around and run to a costume shop! lol
Then, after you've decided "nah, I'd really rather build one" and you're serious about making a personalized costume which (potentially) looks better than the typical foam-enhanced screen-printed jumpsuits sold at stores, you'll need to accept that this doesn't happen quickly nor inexpensively. Just the resin alone for a full suit can cost you more than buying a costume (if you go the fiberglass route instead of the foam route).
Head over to the File Archive section of this site to download the costume parts you want to make. Yes, you
will need Pepakura to scale and print the parts - and the free version of Pepakura Designer is an option if you don't care about saving your scaled parts (but at least record your scaling information for each model so you can remember what numbers you used when inevitably redoing parts). And I cannot stress this enough - read, read, and read the many stickies here at this site. Watch YouTube tutorial videos about Pepakura (the first half of my own video is good for learning about Pepakura and how to arrange parts on pages, but there are many other videos as well - such as Cereal Kill3r's informative and entertaining videos). Read through build threads that are similar to the type of costume you want to make. (You will learn a lot from all of this - especially if you've never done anything like this before.)
You don't need to build something detailed and fancy unless you want to. There are plenty of low-detail models available, and some people even make the armor parts out of cardboard. It can be as detailed and rugged (or not) as you want it to be, depending on how you choose to build it.
When I started, I had never even heard of Pepakura, and had never played Halo - I knew pretty much nothing except that I've always had craftsmanship skills and that papercrafting is much easier than working with plastics, metals, and wood. Be prepared to learn a lot (that learning curve does indeed look pretty steep when looking up at it), to spend a fair amount of money on tools and materials, and to invest a lot of time creating something that will turn heads and have people asking for photos.
And welcome to the hobby.
