I think the entire time I was building this I was just feeling so cool that I was making my very first suit and it would all turn out ok in the end lol.
#War machine pepakura how to
But upon close review of my first piece it is very evident I didn't know how to make clean joints and wasn't quite sure how to hot glue "cleanly". Building your first couple of pieces, you will teach yourself invaluable foam armor building lessons lolĪs you can see from my pic below, I started out with the COOLEST PIECE imo, the chest piece. Not that those aren't important, but in comparison to the focal points of your suit, they are. (IE: The Chest Piece, The Helmet, Anything that is mostly the center of attention for your suit.) Start off with a less important piece like the boots or biceps or forearms or something. #1) If you are new to Foam Pepakura armor building, DO NOT START with the most important pieces of the armor lol.
I hope that there is at least one single piece of information or picture portrayed here that can help another fellow cos-player here to help make their War Machine suit (or similar foam costume) super legit!Īlright so I'm going to post piece by piece and any lessons learned from there or any additional tidbits! Alright so to start off, after I downloaded all the pepakura files (mostly from Stealth I think) I was like, "YEAH, THIS IS AWESOME! Lets start off with one of the most crucial pieces even though Ive never done this before!!" Which leads me to my rule number one of foam armor building:
#War machine pepakura software
So I started actually doing some homework and found YouTube videos of Stealth and James from xrobots and was blown away at their detail and how legit their suits were! So I found this amazing piece of software called Pepakura, and my life was changed Below are my current progress pics and lessons learned while making this. Didn't take me too long to realize that this was looking like massive DUMP using this method, or at least my level of artistic ability wasn't at the level lol. Hoping to cut them all out and trace them onto metal lol.
#War machine pepakura movie
So basically I started off on building my suit by "eyeballing" movie screen shots and tracing them out onto poster board. And maybe its just me, but I pretty much loathe the Iron Patriot suit lol.Īnyways, so when I decided to start building this suit, I had no idea there was such thing as Pepakura and all these helpful tools most of you on this site use lol. Never did like the War Machine Mk2 so much from Iron Man 3. As cool as Iron Man is though, I remembered back to how freaking awesome I thought War Machine looked in Iron Man 2. Last year when Iron Man 3 came out, it inspired my friend and I to make our own suits. it’s prone to warping, tearing, and other issues when used to sculpt or build more detailed mechanical pieces like, for example, a belt fed shoulder mounted minigun.So I am a first time costume/suit maker and thought I would post my pics and lessons learned from building my first cos-play thing ever. The reason for turning to 3D printing for this as opposed to foam, which i had much more experience with, was that foam, while being great for large armor pieces due to its flexible, durable nature and minimal weight, does not hold small detail very well. This included a shoulder mounted, belt fed minigun, two forearm mounted machine guns, as well as the more complex helmet and gloves. The first big project with this 3D printer: decking out my war machine costume with the arsenal of weaponry he has in Iron Man 2. However, after diligent saving of allowance and working odd jobs around the neighborhood, I was able to afford my first printer, a Robo3D R1+ (pictured left).
However the several hundred dollar price tag on most reliable printers was obviously well out of the price range of a highschooler like myself at the time. I’ve had an interest in 3D printing since it first took its baby steps into the DIY maker space over a decade ago.
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