Gringo of the Damned Posted November 23, 2009 Share Posted November 23, 2009 On the beginning I'd like to welcome everyone here. Let me introduce myself. My name is Chris, I'm from Poland (country in middle-east Europe ;) ). So I'd like to excuse all of you for my English, I'm not very good in it but I'm working on that. The reason why I'm here is not that I'm playing WH40k but I like this Universe. I like it so much that I always wanted to have my own real SP (who doesn't ;) ). The reason why I'm here is that I'd like to introduce you The Space Marine. Or I should say Space Marines. Project is not done yet, but will be soon I hope. It is expensive thing, yet we are determined. Firstly, we were hoping to built Grey Knights, but the whole idea failed with the painting for Polyester Resin. There no silver paint. Then we decided to choose are own Chapters and so begun the big thinking thing. My friend whos name is Wojtek chose The Deathwatch http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/mediawiki/images/c/c7/Deathwatch01.jpg I chose Legion of the Damned http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/mediawiki/images/2/2d/LegionoftheDamned.jpg The pictures of WIP are below, the short movie is on the down of my post. As you can see we still don't have belts and helmets. But we heve few ideas. For today we finished first layer of resin and backpacks (which are not on the pics) Enjoy and stay tuned, updates soon. If you have questions I'll answer them gladly. http://img94.imageshack.us/img94/6873/20091117076.jpg http://img260.imageshack.us/img260/8523/20091117077.jpg http://img7.imageshack.us/img7/4986/20091117078.jpg http://img697.imageshack.us/img697/2104/20091117080.jpg http://img7.imageshack.us/img7/8247/20091122084.jpg http://img97.imageshack.us/img97/9688/dsc00626u.jpg http://img136.imageshack.us/img136/1297/dsc00631sw.jpg http://img260.imageshack.us/img260/1127/dsc00643p.jpg http://img22.imageshack.us/img22/2005/dsc00644nu.jpg http://img20.imageshack.us/img20/4521/dsc00666m.jpg http://img140.imageshack.us/img140/4468/dsc00672dz.jpg http://img20.imageshack.us/img20/4482/61035293.jpg http://img97.imageshack.us/img97/4757/56384946.jpg http://img20.imageshack.us/img20/7343/63521972.jpg http://img684.imageshack.us/img684/4780/12185718.jpg http://img134.imageshack.us/img134/8066/29940294.jpg http://img134.imageshack.us/img134/8141/35772221.jpg Movie: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wokkers Posted November 23, 2009 Share Posted November 23, 2009 thats a nice start. look forward to more progress :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iron Corsair Posted November 23, 2009 Share Posted November 23, 2009 Great job so far, Gringo! Would you say the armor is easy or hard to move around in? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naysmith Posted November 23, 2009 Share Posted November 23, 2009 Great Job! This can become really good. Keep up the good work. cya Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iacton Qruze Posted November 23, 2009 Share Posted November 23, 2009 Sweet. This will be cool to watch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gringo of the Damned Posted November 23, 2009 Author Share Posted November 23, 2009 Great job so far, Gringo! Would you say the armor is easy or hard to move around in? You can see that armor is big. It obviously limit our movements. Because of shoulder plates we'll be unable to raise our arms so much. Because of helmet we won't be able to see all around. Because of chestplates we won't be able to fight by sword as much as we like to. Some of you probably noticed that lower legs are straight lines. Well, they are not. At least not at all. We decided to do it like that to make walking easier. After all, standing even short time with hooked legs would be difficult. Finally I want to say that we were prepared to more movement limits. It was surprise then we figured out that walking or doing something in full armor is not as hard as it looks. When we finish out work we will record some movies about testing armors, their capabilities and limits. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dark_claw Posted November 23, 2009 Share Posted November 23, 2009 please can you make me a suit please please please Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gringo of the Damned Posted November 25, 2009 Author Share Posted November 25, 2009 please can you make me a suit please please please Well, It could be quite difficult. We're not finished our yet ^_^ Yesterday we've done cylinders from backpack. You'd be surprised what we used to made engine flows or whatever it is. Kids playing balls. Seriously. Yet the worst part is still ahead of us. Helmets. Any ideas how to make it? We found nice-looking helmet of SM to program Pepakura. Quite nice but difficult to do so. We're looking for an easier solution. We conciderd the motorbike helmet but it's too expensive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dark_claw Posted November 25, 2009 Share Posted November 25, 2009 american football helmets are pretty good or if you have a friend who has a bike helmet make a plaster mould over it and then make a fiborglass shell so it wil be very light weight and you could add some wood supports in the frame? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onipunk Posted November 25, 2009 Share Posted November 25, 2009 For the helmets, I know of a US-based sculptor who commissions pieces. She's created all sorts of 40K items, all resin-cast, including helmets, guns and all sorts. You should check her stuff out. http://brashsculptor.deviantart.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nkdotzip Posted November 25, 2009 Share Posted November 25, 2009 I want one! Looking good so far guys. cant wait to see the real thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cheeseychaoslord Posted November 25, 2009 Share Posted November 25, 2009 you are insane Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rat of vengence Posted November 26, 2009 Share Posted November 26, 2009 Well thought out construction guys. I like your efforts so far! RoV Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chwbcc Posted November 27, 2009 Share Posted November 27, 2009 Awesome, You guys should try some expandable foam like this: http://www.reynoldsam.com/gallery.php?gall...&cPath=1122 You take a box and fill it 25% full of expandable foam similar to this and the carve out the pieces with a electric carving knife. Then cover it with auto body body filler and sand it in to the proper shape. This will create a solid piece that is also pretty sturdy. I plan on creating one shoulder, one full arm and one full leg and then creating a mold and cast pieces with Smooth-on 300. This way I only have to do half the work to create two sides. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chaptermaster Graymantle Posted November 28, 2009 Share Posted November 28, 2009 Very cool! Looking forward to seeing how this progresses! :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gringo of the Damned Posted December 12, 2009 Author Share Posted December 12, 2009 New movie :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Flexing Posted December 12, 2009 Share Posted December 12, 2009 The shoulderpads look to long acording to me... But otherwise, good job! :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sonofwaranddeath Posted December 12, 2009 Share Posted December 12, 2009 I think the amor around the legs and arms should stick out more, bulkier. Looks pretty good though, will be watching this one! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gringo of the Damned Posted December 13, 2009 Author Share Posted December 13, 2009 The shoulderpads look to long acording to me... But otherwise, good job! ;) We tried to rescale the size of shoulder plates from the models. They look long because they are just lying on chests. In normal using they will be higher so they will not look so long. I think the amor around the legs and arms should stick out more, bulkier. Honestly speaking I don't understand what you mean :( If you mean that armor on legs and arms should fit better I agree but never forget - SM armor should be big :) And we building it to be useful and comfortable not only good looking :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gringo of the Damned Posted March 17, 2011 Author Share Posted March 17, 2011 I know that you thought this project is dead but not even close! Heretics! http://www.mediatest.yoyo.pl/armor/1a.jpg http://www.mediatest.yoyo.pl/armor/2a.jpg http://www.mediatest.yoyo.pl/armor/3a.jpg http://www.mediatest.yoyo.pl/armor/4a.jpg http://www.mediatest.yoyo.pl/armor/5a.jpg Let's just say that in this saturday we gonna assemble it to full armor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarbonBased Posted March 17, 2011 Share Posted March 17, 2011 Nice, I remember when you first posted this. Glad to see you're still making progress. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gringo of the Damned Posted March 17, 2011 Author Share Posted March 17, 2011 Nice, I remember when you first posted this. Glad to see you're still making progress. Many thanks for the comment! Today I just picked thos thing below. Many thanks for ma cousine! http://img225.imageshack.us/img225/7845/56259764.jpg http://img193.imageshack.us/img193/5052/91576165.jpg http://img687.imageshack.us/img687/2650/10agw.jpg http://img84.imageshack.us/img84/3487/11axu.jpg How to say it... our :cusss are custom! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Natanael Posted March 17, 2011 Share Posted March 17, 2011 NICE!!! - Nat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wise_crak Posted March 17, 2011 Share Posted March 17, 2011 This is pretty epic! Any chance of a progress shot of you wearing armour? Wisecrack Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gringo of the Damned Posted March 18, 2011 Author Share Posted March 18, 2011 This is pretty epic! Any chance of a progress shot of you wearing armour? Wisecrack Actually, yes. Tomorrow afternoon we gonna try it out and take some photos. I will share it with you all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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