Very nice work on the forearms and shoulders especially... impressive!
Good luck on the grunt costumes too, we don't have nearly enough covenant around here. If the ratio in the actual storyline had been this biased towards the UNSC it wouldn't have been much of a fight at all!
Hey, thanks! You're not kidding; reference was not nearly as plentiful as Spartan armor! I was able to count grunt costumes on one hand. :-/ I hope they turn out to look as great, too.
This is looking flat out awesome. I really like all the layering lines in your pieces, it adds the prefect amount of depth and detail!! Can't wait to see your paint job.
I won't lie; the paint job made me nervous, and I'll still admit that I probably did not do it right. I'll probably have to repaint sooner rather than later due to timeline restraints this time around. Still she's turning out.
1 word description of your armor:
Fantabulous.
Definition:
FANTABULOUS-
Sort of like "fabulous" but much more fabulous than the word "fabulous" can convey. Like supercalifragilisticexpialidocius but shorter and easier to spell.
Haha! That was quite a giggle. ^__^ I'm tickled that you think it looks supercalifragilisticexpialidocius. or fantabulous for short. Hopefully, I can fully join the ranks of suited 405th-ers very soon.
This made me laugh out loud, a lot.
The armour looks amazing! I haven't been on here in a while, and all of a sudden you're pretty much done building! Also, that grunt costume, well, me wants, but I'm just too tall to pull it off (unless I hunch over, and walk around with 6' tall people.
)
Anyways, amazing work, I'm super excited to see the end result.
Keep it up!
Done, but probably never complete, right? Heh...it's fair to say that I'm a bit addicted to this craft now. I'm going to have to invest in a storage shed to house all of the suits I'll eventually make. The grunts included. ^^
Update!
I know it's been a while, but it ended up coming down to either updating, or getting the suit finished in time to wear it for Halloween. I know it still isn't Halloween, but to be fair the suit is still not 100% done (will it ever be?). Still, I was very happy to have it done
enough.
I'll still go over the progress, though. I left off with the whole thing built but not detailed, fully wearable, or painted. So, I moved on with trying to tackle the detailing in various places (this was after getting the grunt to a good point for the Zoo...more on that later, though.). The helmet was an eyesore to me for a veeeery long time, so I focused my attention on the front and back of my torso piece. Makes sense, right?
The details took a good chunk of time, but it was enjoyable to watch the thing become something other than foam bits and pieces. The lights, for now, are book lights...I took to that suggestion quite wholeheartedly in the face of a deadline. I will, however, be replacing them with LEDs over time (after learning a bit on the matter). Now I feel brave enough to tackle the helmet, after it's clear that I just don't have time to try and fabricate a new helmet under still-kinda-new-skills and end up without a wearable helmet at all. (That, and after much consideration, I just can't figure out which one to try and make
first. Indecision takes away time, too.)
After cutting then installing the visor permanently, I was able to fit it more comfortably with my hair in there. I'll still be making another, but I am much happier with the fit.
I had feared that the battle damage was just too much, but to be honest, I don't think many people will notice it. It started out as a badly glued spot on a seam, and I just embellished it into claw scars. It's grown on me; kinda gives her a background I don't know about. Looks kinda like an Elite tried to break her neck? Meh. Moving on...
Okie doke. I started to just paint the pieces all white. The vinyl I used on the bodysuit was not a stark-white though, so I opted for a really light antique/vanilla
almost white. I worked on putting in the holes and diffusers (they are 3/8" cable ties; the same ones I use for corset boning...) during this step.
Of course, it brought out the atrocious jagged dull-blade bits. I
had to cover that up. Re-sealed, then painted again. I liked the Bayonet skin on this thigh that came with the Champions bundle, so I went with that.
Aaand the paint on the chest...I was excited when the Recon SURG showed up on my unlockable armor because I wasn't terribly happy with the original paint scheme and I wasn't sure how to go with the secondary. So. Recon SURG it is. I tried to get as close to it as possible, but hey, I'm fairly happy with the first go.
Some progress:
And the front of the torso, detailed, painted, and only partly battle damaged. I stopped at this level of battle damage for our outing to the mall's Halloween night, but I will eventually be brave enough to try blackwashing and other various scar techniques. Any pointers?
Alright, painted on each piece all day (Didn't get to the boots, but they don't have much red on them anyway. I will be able to get that checked before Halloween though.) and got them all evenly damaged to the point that I was okay with being seen in public with what I had done.
A couple shots at the mall:
Unfortunately, I never got a pic of the three of us. I'm a little bummed about that, but I hated to inconvenience someone more than I already had. The coolest part was that we didn't even get five feet from the car before we were asked for our first picture. We lost count, but there were so many 'wow, that's so cool!' and 'Oh my God, that's the greatest costume ever!' that it was hard to keep up. First time suited up in public, so each request for a photo made me grin like a fool...I smiled for each picture, too, despite the helmet. ^^; Didn't make it in time for the contest, but we still had such a great time. Chick-fil-A was interesting with fitting in the chairs and feeding one's self fully armored. Good learning experience. Wore it for a couple hours and it really wasn't that hot, so I was happy about that.
Anyway, I've practically written a novel, so I'll move on. The grunt took a good chunk of my time away from doing things to my suit that I wanted, but their costumes were a tad more important to me; I have like five dresses I could wear if push came to shove. I will be heading over to my gruntpocolypse thread to update the goodies on that note. I'll be back after I've worked up the nerve (and information) to go near blackwashing.
If you made it this far, I commend you. ^^; Until next time! <3
