yoshix[TK] Posted July 7, 2015 Report Posted July 7, 2015 Ok, so I'm starting a build thread. I wanted to start one a month ago but I've been having problems posting photos on here, my phone takes too large of photos apparently. So let's see if this works. <a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/user/yoshix/media/Mobile%20Uploads/puppe.png.html"target="_blank"><img src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii165/yoshix/Mobile%20Uploads/puppe.png" border="0" alt=" photo puppe.png"/></a> If not I'll have to try something else. Quote
yoshix[TK] Posted July 7, 2015 Author Report Posted July 7, 2015 Well, no luck with photobucket =( Quote
yoshix[TK] Posted July 7, 2015 Author Report Posted July 7, 2015 Lol! Success. So as you can see I finished my ducktape manaquin =D More photos to follow... Quote
yoshix[TK] Posted July 7, 2015 Author Report Posted July 7, 2015 I died the MP40 pouches black. I really shouldn't have done it on the stove because the hot water really destroyed the straps. I'll have to replace then Quote
yoshix[TK] Posted July 7, 2015 Author Report Posted July 7, 2015 I bought a second helmet for a few reasons. I thought my kit would take forever to get here and I wanted something to start on in the meantime. ATA said he could ship the helmet right away. I wanted to make two different helmets. And or to switch out parts that I liked or didn't like. Or if I F- something up I can replace (which of course ended up happening ) I painted the teeth with primer grey. I thought this would be too dark but it seemed all the alternatives at Home Depot are too light. After a day or so the dark really grow on me and I decided to keep it. Quote
yoshix[TK] Posted July 7, 2015 Author Report Posted July 7, 2015 I wanted to take some pictures before I painted and weathered. At the point this photo was taken I had about everything put together and sanded the shine off. Please excuse the pulse rifle, I don't have a blaster and I'm not sure if I'm going to order one. I've been looking into building the plasma flamethrower but I'm having trouble tracking down reference photos. I have already trimmed some spots since this was taken and done some painting. Quote
yoshix[TK] Posted July 7, 2015 Author Report Posted July 7, 2015 After a few days debating back and forth with myself I decided to cut this off. I really didn't want to but in all the screen shots I looked at it seemed to be more accurate. Quote
yoshix[TK] Posted July 7, 2015 Author Report Posted July 7, 2015 The red paint is a little hard to work with. If you smear it, it wants to stain armor pink. I bought some mineral spirits today, which helps but it'll take more sanding to get the desired effect. I hope with the mat finish spray it will lock it all in. I assume that rubber trim isn't going to want to hold paint at all so I went ahead and primed it hoping for the best Quote
yoshix[TK] Posted July 8, 2015 Author Report Posted July 8, 2015 You're off to a good start. Thank you Mark! Quote
yoshix[TK] Posted July 8, 2015 Author Report Posted July 8, 2015 Pauldron is now red! I'm not the best in sewing but I think it will do just fine. Im just finishing up the painting Next up I'll have some pictures of the bucket Quote
yoshix[TK] Posted July 9, 2015 Author Report Posted July 9, 2015 Really happy with how this turned out! Quote
yoshix[TK] Posted July 9, 2015 Author Report Posted July 9, 2015 Vocoder is painted Way to much weathering. My goal was to try to remain accurate to the game photos but not go overboard with it. Just right! Quote
yoshix[TK] Posted July 9, 2015 Author Report Posted July 9, 2015 Ok, I'm open to any constructive criticism anyone may have. Please keep in mind I still have some small tweaking to do. Quote
sskunky Posted July 10, 2015 Report Posted July 10, 2015 I think it looks great. I had my doubts seeing the masking but it turned out well. The only thing I would personally do is fade the edges a little with either a fine sand paper or a scotch pad. Just so it doesn't look too masked and painted. Saying that I don't have any reference to compare to of the game in which case you may well have nailed it. Quote
yoshix[TK] Posted July 12, 2015 Author Report Posted July 12, 2015 I think it looks great. I had my doubts seeing the masking but it turned out well. The only thing I would personally do is fade the edges a little with either a fine sand paper or a scotch pad. Just so it doesn't look too masked and painted. Saying that I don't have any reference to compare to of the game in which case you may well have nailed it. Thanks for the kind words and the advice. I wasn't able to work on it this weekend but I'm hoping that next weekend I'll have my application photos ready. Quote
yoshix[TK] Posted July 14, 2015 Author Report Posted July 14, 2015 After a weekend out of town I finally got to work on this again. I added some foam in the arms and legs to try to push them away from my body is certain places. I also noticed that my ab plate was sitting a little low so I raised that up a bit. Photos to come. Quote
yoshix[TK] Posted July 14, 2015 Author Report Posted July 14, 2015 I was finally able to get my ears painted this morning. That's one more thing off my to-do-list Quote
yoshix[TK] Posted July 14, 2015 Author Report Posted July 14, 2015 I used the sticky industrial Velcro to hold the MP40 pouches to my shoulder. I didn't think it would stick very well to the fabric pouches but it's seems to work. We'll see how long it holds up. Quote
yoshix[TK] Posted July 15, 2015 Author Report Posted July 15, 2015 So messed this up big time. I didn't know what 4mm would look like so I went over and Google inch to mm, it gave me .15somethingsomething. In my head I'm like "well, .15 is about 1/16" WRONG! I felt like an idiot. I was so upset. I should have asked my wife beforehand, she's European. So now I need a good tutorial on plugging holes. If anyone has one please let me know. I don't think I can just fill it with E6000 and sand and paint over it. Maybe plastic weld? Quote
Plasma Posted July 15, 2015 Report Posted July 15, 2015 Hi there, Its so nice to see another Incinerator taking shape. Its looking great! Looking at your photos gave me an idea. Your boots are way more ash laden than mine, which makes sense if we are laying waste left right and centre. I need to dirty mine up more - they are too polite. Good luck with the Plasma rifle. Larry TK21062 So messed this up big time. I didn't know what 4mm would look like so I went over and Google inch to mm, it gave me .15somethingsomething. In my head I'm like "well, .15 is about 1/16" WRONG! I felt like an idiot. I was so upset. I should have asked my wife beforehand, she's European. So now I need a good tutorial on plugging holes. If anyone has one please let me know. I don't think I can just fill it with E6000 and sand and paint over it. Maybe plastic weld? Quote
yoshix[TK] Posted July 15, 2015 Author Report Posted July 15, 2015 Hi there, Its so nice to see another Incinerator taking shape. Its looking great! Looking at your photos gave me an idea. Your boots are way more ash laden than mine, which makes sense if we are laying waste left right and centre. I need to dirty mine up more - they are too polite. Good luck with the Plasma rifle. Larry TK21062 Thanks Larry! I'm glad you like the idea with the legs. I know it's not really in the screen shots but I think it's such a cool little detail. I actually stole the concept from a clone trooper I saw somewhere. Quote
yoshix[TK] Posted July 15, 2015 Author Report Posted July 15, 2015 This is what I originally had. Three stripes of Velcro hold the ab and kidney plate together. I know that in the end your eyes will melt all the black together next to the white, but if someone looked really closely they'd see the velcro and I just can't have that. So I came up with this I think it's really cool! Quote
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