The Beginning of my first halo armor set

[Dragern]

First time ever weathering a helmet, I gave it my best and this is how it turned out.
Any opinions? Critiques? Those would be great. (Ignore the inside of the helmet)

 

[antrodite]

I would love some opinions on my selected colors and/or opinions on how it turned out.
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I cannot explain how much I LOVE this color combo!!! I am so excited to see this whole suit painted!

 

[purpuk]

I've started 3d printing and purchasing the other materials for my odst build.
I'm just making a thread to show myself, a true and utter idiot attempting to make such a suit.

I've been doing my Halo suit for years so, for you to be able to do this much it's awesomeness... If your project doesn't work, you'll look Goooood walking away from it.

 

[purpuk]

First time ever weathering a helmet, I gave it my best and this is how it turned out.
Any opinions? Critiques? Those would be great. (Ignore the inside of the helmet)
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The weathering is well done! First look with fresh eyes on your work I'd suggest adding the intricate bits fine mesh or lenses in the light ports and vents. Blacking in the edge of possible moving parts and a "Dragern Manufacturing " tag somewhere. Nice lid by the way. 80)

 

[Legend 113]

I'd suggest if you want to add heavier weathering get a sponge and black wash using that. Just dabbing the paint on and off repeatedly should work. Nice work so far though.

 

[Dragern]

I finally glued the last piece tonight photos incoming later.

 

[Dragern]

I'd suggest if you want to add heavier weathering get a sponge and black wash using that. Just dabbing the paint on and off repeatedly should work. Nice work so far though.

Might try that this weekend after I order some paint, I only had 1/4 bottle of paint when I started weathering so I used it all up

 

[Dragern]

The weathering is well done! First look with fresh eyes on your work I'd suggest adding the intricate bits fine mesh or lenses in the light ports and vents. Blacking in the edge of possible moving parts and a "Dragern Manufacturing " tag somewhere. Nice lid by the way. 80)

Thanks
About the tag, yes I've already figured out how I'm going to do that now. I'll make a template of "Dragern" and print out a waterslide decal for it

I'll do that after I finish weathering and then seal it all up with a matte clear coat (my finish is semi gloss at the moment)

 

[Dragern]

Forgot to post this, but I've printed out my combat knife now. In comparison to a ratlike canine

 

[Dragern]

More photos of the build (+ bonus pet photos)
Ginger is my cat
Tobin is the larger dog
Poncho is the small doggy

 

[antrodite]

Excited to see more progress on this build!! Please tell Ginger that I love them and that they’re doing a great job supervising.

 

[Dragern]

Well I've reprinted the parts I broke, glued every single part together and sanded the rest of the pieces with 80 grit. I'm getting very close to painting other parts of the armor. I have 1 thigh piece and 1 calf piece already good to go for painting.

 

[Dragern]

Well I've reprinted the parts I broke, glued every single part together and sanded the rest of the pieces with 80 grit. I'm getting very close to painting other parts of the armor. I have 1 thigh piece and 1 calf piece already good to go for painting.

I've finished sanding everything with 120 grit now, onto 220 and then fillers

 

[Dragern]

M90 incoming! (also 2nd calf piece is ready for painting()

 

[Dragern]

I had the shotgun glued right... NOT EVEN 15 MINUTES AFTER IT GETS KNOCKED OVER

 

[Lojak]

More photos of the build (+ bonus pet photos)
Ginger is my cat
Tobin is the larger dog
Poncho is the small doggy

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if you are still open to thoughts on weathering, I'd suggesting going a little more high contrast. Throw in some silvers and scratch marks. Also i'm a pretty big fan of oil washes to tie everything together.

Great color!

 

[Dragern]

I liked the first one so much that I made a second one
Dual pistol odst incoming?

Dual w

 

[Dragern]

Insane amount of progress for the build, all pieces except the belt buckle have been primed!!!! I lost the belt buckle somehow (That Mark VII helmet is not mine its my little brothers, and yes that is an arrow on the left)

 

[Dragern]

Oh and my visor is coming soon : D
I will probably post a photo of me wearing it with the visor on the 9th or 10th of this month

 

[Dragern]

IGNORE MY PREVIOUS POST ITSSS HEREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

GONNA GLUE IT IN TONIGHT (Gotta get some hot glue sticks since I'm out)