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gotta say, amazing quality in the model and I love that color scheme. Beats the pants off the purple scheme you see in Frontier

at least we know what you like to do while you pep, you like some clone wars yo

Either case good effort, you could probably get away with a light blue tinted motorcycle helmet and a little drilling. But I see a lot of sanding and smoothing on this helmet, a lot of it. You did good though, if you could do it then i should be able to nail this puppy as well soon. Ugh, I wish I could stay home on my vacation versus going all the way to see some family...I wont have anything to do but I can't work on this : /

I was watching Gundam Unicorn and Macross Frontier to over the last few days of peping but there is more Clone Wars to cover more time haha.

Yeah lots of work in the bondo stage but for my first time I cant complain yet.

Turned out better and worse than I expected if that makes sense haha. Next I'm going to resin inside then out and work towards bondo'ing. Also have been doing some reading on vacuum forming a lens. Just the finished pictures are posted here, the rest of the WIP pics are in the gallery.

Exactly, the helmets looking good for a first attempt of it...I always felt like you learn a lot from the mistakes you make on the first peps...I had an ODST that took 3 attempts to get right...first was a scale issue, second were some vent pieces I didn't cut right and third which was the keeper until the failed fiberglassing which only issue was on the top end didn't mesh right but was good enough. but the fiberglassing, ugh what a pain!

Fiber glassing for me will be mid next week when i get paid haha. Your so right about learning from mistakes on first peps, this one will be a solid lesson all around from start to finish for me. I'm sure like your ODST I'll end up make a few of these helmets until I'm 100% happy.

Only thing I'm debating on is the lens and how i will go about it.

Sorry if it feels like I'm posting to much on this but I've got to say I'm very excited about this regardless of outcome.

This hours update.

Spartan peps turned out good. I've done 2 Masterchiefs at Normal detail, and I had one HD style that was 80% complete until I moved and it didn't survive the trip. After that happened I worked on the noble six variant and I finished that one which turned out very nice, and did a couple more body parts but lost interest.

I had 1 ironman helmet completed but didn't like how that turned out so it got junked. Before calling it quits for a while I had another ironman helmet that was in HD in progress, but some of the parts needed multiple fold angles, one side needed like two or three on the flaps.

The over lapping is going to be a problem...I thought I could just mirror the twin parts that did come out right and trace them so they'll be pretty close, but nope that didn't work out. It's usually not recommended to try and "fix" the parts t hat didn't print out as it'll screw with your measurements.

Also, scaling is a bitch, I never like it, but that helmet should be fairly correct for a normal size head, even the 1:1 collector helmets from Yamato were reported being a lil small themselves.

But as a tip if you're a first timer it's best to do the Edge ID's to line up parts right....I don't care to much about the detail if it's gonna get resined, bondo and molded into a good looking helmet.

I defiantly used the edge IDs for the same reasoning that if its gonna get bondo'd anyways why worry what the pep part looks like. As for the 'fixing' part of it I think its more my tab folds not being exact or as close as they should be. I'm going to refer to this helmet as the Mk. I learning lesson haha.

I'm working on the Jaw line now paying more attention to the fold quality and gluing accuracy. Pictures posted after I've finished that part.

So after i hit a creative wall and realizing this is my first time building pep, I've continued working on the helmet haha. Couple of pics of what I did in about half hour and I realized I should have printed it all out in Black and white instead of colored as a guide to painting later.

Also since the creator of the pepakura file I am using locked it I couldn't scale or adjust pages to make the helmet fit. I'm starting to think it may be unwearably small but not by much. Curse my larger than life head hahaha.

So I downloaded the files, but discovering some of those pieces don't fit on page because Pep Designer requires a passcode in order to edit the pieces...thus I'm kind of screwed on some of these pieces : /

Yes there was one page where two pieces overlapped but i MacGuyver'd the tabs a bit. I disliked the idea that he password his work though i don't blame him, only wish I had the talent to CAD some models for peping.

How did your spartan peps turn out? I've hitten a small wall and missed glued a piece and have been debating how to go about fixing it now or in Bondo phase.

Yep Hikuro I found a pep file while scavenging the net. Only had this helmet though in Roy, Max, Hikaru colors though. I have seen the halo peps at 405ths website also, some great works of inspiration there to.

I do plan to use the liquid resin to coat the inside and out to give it a stiffer build, then I'd like to end up using Bondo as well before re-detailing with a dremel. I actually messed up cutting 2 pages last night to haha so I've got to reprint and fix.

So I recently learned about Pepakura and how fun it could be, so here is my first VF Pilot Helmet. It is a work in progress but I should be done folding/gluing by tomorrow and Resin soon. This is about 3ish hours of work and a small .07 oz tube of super glue. Only reason I'm taking a break right now is to cut more pieces.

Cool to hear something new, defiantly my favorite tease for a long time (in a very positive way i say this!)

I ended up being Global, not bad lol

Awesome teasers!! Easily makes the waiting worth it!

ah I'm not all that worried, already waited a very long time for the previously announced homeworld 2 mod, whats waiting more when all i do is read post and sit in the background. If i knew how to help i would have by now so I'm more than willing to be patient

worried was last month, less than optimistic was this month, but still ever hopeful patience i hear pays off

Yep never seen this one before, enjoyed it though. Takes a lot of work to make a flash video that long.

I've always been an over the top fan of the VF-4 and I've got to say, Love this picture! Great drawing skills and good on you to come up with the idea. Maybe a colored version of this in the always classic skull scheme? Keep up with your talents my friend!

I'm still holding out hope for a high quality pilots uniform lol but both of those are still cool to find

I'd go with not buggy at first and later if the time and will is present then attempt to solve the 3 mode problem. But as someone looking in and not doing anything to contribute thats just my two sense.

ah how i wish this was an 18+ forum, then i could throughly describe what those screen shots have done for me lol . well that might be a bit much but perhaps very awesome will do!

Kudo's to you, its been a long time since i eagerly checked MWF almost hourly for the smallest of updates on a project Keep up the good things!

creative and interesting, definatly something to like!

good sir i may have to promise my first born to you . I watch this project with grand interest!

I like that design very much, the GBP armor looks a bit more rugged and tougher

Also have to agree with polidread on the VF-1 fast packs porportions and quality, great

stuff keep up the artwork i'm sure everyone enjoys seeing it!