thanks for the comments. i am still having trouble with the shape of the tank. the right side seems to be correct and i am trying to match the left up.
i am in the middle of building and painting one of my helmets up because i did not like certain things on the first paint up and destroyed the helmet trying to get the paint off. i know ....what a *******. so that is slowing me down on the armor build.
but i hope to have the new halmet done soon and get back to the armor full time.
i pulled my first backplate and tank from the mold and it will work nicely. i have to mold up the tank greeb and the chest plate. **** rubber ain't cheap!!!
i feel your pain STG. i had one fail about 2 weeks ago. just ordered 300 worth of rubber this morning. mumblemumblemumble..............................
here is the belt,cod and belt buckle make up. i plan to make the belt out of rubber. the cod and buckle will be made of abs.
i left a flap at the top of the belt so you can glue the belt flap to the inside of the cummerbund. i will leave a flap at the top of the cod piece so the belt,cod and cummerbund are all connected so they don't shift around when you wear the costume.
here are the shins cut in half for the vactable. they are almost done just got to do some fine tuning to the centers of the shins and fill some small spots.
here is new helmet i just got done with. thought you guys might like to see it. i finally got the right tint for the lens and man it makes a world of difference!! i took some black paper to see what the vents would look like with the black paper going straight back , i like it. so here it is................... much better tahn my first try at painting this bucket.
no real update, just converting all the armor over for vactable plugs. almost finished with my vactable.
i hope to start producing armor by the end of april!!!!!!!!
yay for me!!!!!
i will post pics after i have all the armor plugs done.
i need to know what you guys think about what to form them out of.
hips
abs
.090
or
.125 on the thickness of the plastic.
my vote is hips , but you will have to lightly sand it before you paint and you get better detail, abs you do not.