Darktrooper Progress Thread 8MAR2011: Getting back to it

Here she is painted up a bit, gonna try to get the mesh attached under the mouth vents tonight as well...LMK what you guys think!

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-tubachris
 
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the fx is huge, but to tell you the truth it will actually look good when used for a dark trooper because the helmets are supposed to be bigger.

will be cool to see how you build it up.

i am on the verge of completing my DTp3 dome, hope to have progress pics by next weekend

-=QuinN!
 
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the fx is huge, but to tell you the truth it will actually look good when used for a dark trooper because the helmets are supposed to be bigger.

will be cool to see how you build it up.

i am on the verge of completing my DTp3 dome, hope to have progress pics by next weekend

-=QuinN!


Oh really????
 
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"Weres the freakin Darktrooperphase 3??????!!!"

-tubachris
(who wouldnt mind sharks, with freakin laser beams attached to their heads)
 
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I'm not sure about the darktrooper. It's not quite evil enough. It's quasi-evil. It's semi-evil. It's the...ohh you get the picture, just build me some new evil deathtrap that I can drop my incompetent henchmen into.

But in all seriousness, this project is coming along nicely.
 
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Heres just a small update,


I just finihsed making the vents for the jet pack, although a small detail, took me the longest. Its comming along at a slow, but steady pace.

finishedvents.jpg


I also finished the walls for the topside as well.

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-tubachris
 
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Question, where did you find your FX helmet kit? I'd like to have just a helmet to mess around with, and was just wondering. :)
 
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Question, where did you find your FX helmet kit? I'd like to have just a helmet to mess around with, and was just wondering. :)


I had acquired it from someone who had sold it to me, but PM me if you need a source.

-tubachris
 
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Here another update

I could have done more, but I was more busy tonight then usual.

I manageed to start the main box on the main side of the JP.

Tell me what you guys think...

DKTJPBOX.jpg


DKTJPBOX3.jpg


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-tubachris
 
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Check out the Cade Skywalker thread for my work on that, Darktroopernut.

Jet Pack's looking good Tubachris. It's kind of hard for me to make out what needs to be done at this stage, but I think you've got a good grasp of the situation. Keep it up.
 
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Check out the Cade Skywalker thread for my work on that, Darktroopernut.

Jet Pack's looking good Tubachris. It's kind of hard for me to make out what needs to be done at this stage, but I think you've got a good grasp of the situation. Keep it up.

Well im quit surprised how well this is turning out myself, pretty much what is left is to complet that box first with detail, and paint it before i can attach it. On the main side there is a nasty line of the dried glue thats holding the two main pieces together, but it cuts right through a detail, so what im planning to do, is make a whole other surface to cover it, and give it a less 2D look, plus, I just realized that at the very bottom below the thrusters, the surface actully cruves down a bit. Im trying to get all this stuff planed and assembled at a good pace, but thats what I got.

-tubachris
 
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Ok guys, MAJOR UPDATE

I finally got the nerve to go down to Lowes to seek materials for my vacu-form box. The thing was that their customer servie sucks! I called for someone to help me at leat 45 times, becuase I wanted to get a sheet of MDF cut down. No one ever came, so I took initiative, and found already cut down wood that will work other then the MDF. Its 2ft x 2ft table now, took me 2 and 1/2 hours to build tonight. I put a hole through the center (well almost center) as. Its simply amaziing how I managed to build this thing from only a dremel, some left over screws, and $13 worth of wood....Anywyas, Im hoping to convice my mom to let me use her oven, an another reason for her to kill me...

vacuformbox.jpg



Well despite my fiasco at lowes on my search to find someone in my almost blind anger, I came across the hardest piece I thought I would take forever to find. For the jet pack, there is on the sides of the protruding boxes at the top, a round piece, which I could not find anywhere in the hardware store, but just came across this accidentally. Matches perfectly, despite the square thing in the middle, but I dont care at this point.

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Enjoy

-tubachris
 
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Chris, this is just amazing. I've always wanted to do a Darktrooper myself, but never gave it any real consideration as I never had the resources (or skills :D ) to do it. Seeing you take the plunge into something that has never been done before (at least that I have seen) with very little reference and what must have been a hard start is awesome and just downright respectable.

If, in the future, you do decide to use the bucks to sell a few copies, I may be interested (I'll leave it at that :lol: )
 
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Chris...for your Vaccumtable box, you might get some silicone via a caulking gun, or one of the squeeze tube ones, and line the inside of it...make it pretty much so no air can leak through...and it will give you way better suction.
 
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Chris, this is just amazing. I've always wanted to do a Darktrooper myself, but never gave it any real consideration as I never had the resources (or skills :D ) to do it. Seeing you take the plunge into something that has never been done before (at least that I have seen) with very little reference and what must have been a hard start is awesome and just downright respectable.

If, in the future, you do decide to use the bucks to sell a few copies, I may be interested (I'll leave it at that :lol: )

Thanks, I realy do appreciate that, and even though you may not be 6'7, you can have a set :)


Gilmore of OKChris...for your Vaccumtable box, you might get some silicone via a caulking gun, or one of the squeeze tube ones, and line the inside of it...make it pretty much so no air can leak through...and it will give you way better suction.



Yea, I was acctually about to do this, but I was soooooo tired after building the thing by hand. I'll take note to do that before I begin.

Thanks again guys for your support!(y)

-tubachris
 
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