Getting up to Date

So to bring everything up to date... over the past week I have been working on a few other pieces late at night after work and everyone else has gone to bed. I reprinted the helmet, and one thigh and shin piece to make sure I got the sizing all squared away (I was pretty sure I finally had it down but just wanted to be sure). the first piece i started to remake was the helmet. It took about 15 hours over the course of 4 nights of working on it, but eventually I got this.

 Okay, so I made the helmet, but last time I made it I couldn't fit it over my head...

IT FIT!!! I am very excited that it worked. Obviously after having made 7 pieces that didn't fit I was really starting to get discouraged. But this really helped to lift my spirits!

After that, I got to work on the left shin piece. I wasn't sure it was going to fit after all my previous sizing failures... but it was a perfect size as well!

Now I have two pieces that fit, only about 12 pieces to go... but, I doing good thus far and hopefully gotten a lot of my mistakes out of the way. On Monday night I started cutting out the pieces to my newly resized left thigh piece but I only got about 1/3rd of it cut out. I didn't do any work last night because getting toward the end of the month I was pretty tired from work, so I decided to take a rest day... However I should have the new left thigh finished by tomorrow night and hopefully I can snap a pic of the two leg pieces together.

Getting Started

Okay, so I started my progress on the paper modeling probably about a week and a half ago. I have been following some blogs and looking up online articles about how to do everything I think I will need to know and I decided I was ready to give it a go!

First I had to figure out how I was going to print everything off because I had to turn the file into a PDF and didn’t know how to do that, but once I figured it out it was no problem!

After that, I got to work on what I thought would be the easiest piece to work on, the hands. They weren’t bad, but I soon realized many mistakes I was making. I didn’t score the crop lines as I made it so all of my folds were very rough, I used tape to put it together instead of glue which altered the layers and integrity of it (especially if I added tape externally), and I didn’t have the sizing right! So they were trash, but I got some good experience out of the way!

 Eventually I was ready to move on to the chest piece.

I downloaded the low rez version to make sure I had the sizing right.

 BTW, it is a good thing I did because it was waaaay too small…but it fit Cooper nicely ;)

After that I decided to go ahead and start on the helmet. I always played with the EOD helm but the Mark VI is far more recognizable so the EOD will have to wait till later. unfortunately, my big fat head wouldn't fit through the hole so the helmet was too small too.

After that I decided to work on my Left Thigh piece. (I kept changing pieces because I already printed everything out... another mistake) so I got it all done and hey... IT FIT!

 Well... not really. While it holds onto my leg it is actually about an inch too long (that's what she said) and I cannot bend my knee properly... so I will be remaking this piece as well.