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Amazingly impressive work going on here!!

Ill be your celebrity stalker on this thread. I be @ games day as well. cant wait to see this in person.

Nice!

KamenRiderW wrote: Ill be your celebrity stalker on this thread. I be @ games day as well. cant wait to see this in person.

Heh, I'll just put you to work carring things for me


How many people are going to Games Day in Baltimore this year?

I got 4 of us from the ny/nj area, coming down friday night....staying the weekend.

I wish I could make it to oogle at your girlfri...er...admire your craft work. Yeah... But no, the Army decided I don't get to have fun. Ya better take plenty of pictures of this trumping the other people dressing up!

KamenRiderW wrote:I got 4 of us from the ny/nj area, coming down friday night....staying the weekend.

Cool, we'll be driving down from NJ day of, shooting to get there around 12ish.

CrashUSAR wrote:I wish I could make it to oogle at your girlfri...er...admire your craft work. Yeah... But no, the Army decided I don't get to have fun. Ya better take plenty of pictures of this trumping the other people dressing up!

LoL, okay, lots of pics it is.

Okay, These photos are from a WIP test fit of the upper armor with out the under robes. It is inteneded to give me a visual reffernce to see what areas I still need to work out. I'm pleased and thought they look cool, so I wanted to share them...what do you think?




For those of you who need it....Gratuitous ass shot..you know who you are..

Disturbingly good...

Something seems off with the face, but I'm not sure what. Otherwise it looks super spiffy overall.

yeah... Can't say what it is but the helmet looks a little off... but everything else is stunning (especially the last pic )

Finnlock wrote:For those of you who need it....Gratuitous ass shot..you know who you are..

I knew their was a reason I kept coming back to this thread, but I only just remembered why.

amazing........really good job!

Haha your GF is a trooper for putting up with the "gratuitous ass shots"

Great Job!

keeps getting better and better

quick update, shot of the armor with out the the helm...shhh..don't tell her I posted it...

She has to wear a white haired bob wig to have a that iconic SOB hair style to complete the look.

Btw, That bolter is the best prop bolter I have ever seen.

Stunning work. Its looking amazing, and the level of detail you have put into this is nothing short of fantastic. I cannot wait to see it finished. And you may have inspired me to make my own 40k costume.

Beautiful...

And the costume's nice too!

Impressive! It takes skill and dedication to build a costume like that. I salute you and your lady.

I like the wear and weathering you've added.
Just a few things I was wondering though:
I don't know how it looks in real life, but the white of the helm and collar seem a bit bright and artificial compared to the rest of the suit in the pictures?
How will you attach the backpack and such? Will you also make a back section for that and to cover up the rear of the corset? Or have you found another solution?

Hello all, thanks for the kind words and great feed back!

Modhail, The helm and collar are quite dirty looking in RL, I think the flash makes then look brighter then they are because of the reflectve nature of white paint.

I do have a backpack I'm finishing that will cover up the back of the corset. The backpack will clip directly into the shoulder ring and have an ancher strap around the waist. If you look at the 1st suiot of armor I made I will be using the same style of attachment. It worked well the 1st time and I hope with a small amount of adjustment it will work even better this time.

Finnlock wrote:
Modhail, The helm and collar are quite dirty looking in RL, I think the flash makes then look brighter then they are because of the reflective nature of white paint.

Ah, true. Perhaps that's what makes the helmet look off. Should have thought of that because I have the same kind of problem when I try to take photos of raw plasticard stuff, even without a flash.

Not my work, but here are some shots of a friends build from the forums at http://z6.invisionfree.com/Obscurus_Crusade/index.php?act=idx Probobly one of the best marine armor builds I have seen. Scaled to his body so he dosen't look slowed in it and can accually move!

....thats awesome. I need one of those suits...

Yeah, he made it out of paper and bondo....and he built it in like 3 weeks, it was his 2nd suit ever made, 1st time using Pep files.....guy is scary good..

I'd be trying to stealthily follow him around to read what was on the purity seals. <.<

Here is short video of the Templar build during his photo shoot. Enjoy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6vxIdOTMM8

Small update as we are hard at work finishing this armor in time.

Here is the back-up backpack she will be wearing. The backpack I wanted to make was to much tech in to little time, so I made this one in the mean time.


This is a very light weight pack and attaches to the armor with no visable straps which is cool

After a great comment I added some lights.

Damn dude, I'm not even into the whole costume thing and I think those are fooking awesome!