When I speak of the archive, I am referring to the file archive available on the 405th forum for members So these posts won't be as clear since I have cut and pasted them from the 405th forum, but I'm too tired and sick feeling to edit them all for here. When it comes to sticking any kind of material to the foam however, eg elastic, velcro, webbing, I choose contact adhesive over the hot glue as hot glue really doesn't hold porous fabrics. The hot glue partially melts the foam, plus it contains some of the same plastics as EVA foam. Because the glue is hotter and has less filler crap in it, it sticks the foam together far far better than cheap hot glue guns with cheap hot glue sticks do. I use a more expensive hot glue gun that is thermostat controlled and melts the glue at a hotter temperature, using higher quality hot glue sticks. Hubby has a preference for contact adhesive. Next step- put the puzzle pieces together and glue them! Popular glues are hot glue and contact adhesive. Then you trace them out onto foam, cut them out bevelling edges as required (though for this piece, most sides have to be straight not bevelled, it creates the curve nicer) Then that becomes a pile of puzzle pieces- aka cardboard templates Then for making foam armour, someone has to convert those files to files usable for foam- in this case I converted this one, but I'm also using files someone else has already changed. It all starts with a pepkura file that some very nice person has made- first someone has made the 3d model of the piece, then someone else converts that into a pep file (I have unfolded models myself before, it is time consuming). Instead I'll show a few pics of the process of making a piece, that tends to be the thing people know the least about and are often most interested in knowing but frankly floppy paper test pieces of armour are rather boring looking So i could show u a picture of a pile of test pieces. Ab plate is slightly too big, but its such a small difference that I will be able to change the size, adjust how some of the pieces are done and print out the template pieces without needing to do another test sizing. I used to get huge amounts of scrap paper from work so they are great for test fits as I'm only getting an idea of sizing from them- though as you can tell they are very flimsy Chest plate, ab plate, and the backpack. Because I don't have time, I won't be making the helmet however- the helmet is hands down the most time consuming and frustrating part of the build, and Dare is seen in game multiple times without her helmet so it's not exactly wrong for me not to have it As with my last build this will be made from foam, though after my first test piece of the backpack I will be making the skeleton of that from MDF with foam for the majority of the skin to keep it light.įor those who don't know, this is the character (to clarify, these are the remastered Xbone version):Īnd some screenshots from the opening vid (yes, literally, screenshots from my phone ):Īnd here are the early test pieces I have made so far (I've got a lot to catch up on this week!!). So some of you have possibly seen that my next Halo costume is going to be a relatively quick build of the ODST Captain Veronia Dare from Halo 3 ODST.
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