Zophar Ptay - Late Crusader Engineer [bucket update - p30]

[Bubba D. Fett]

Lookin' goooooood, Zophar

[CyraxLionheart]

Sadly I am wishing I had a portable version of 3d Studio Max. I wont be able to finish the Pep File until Monday in the PM after I awaken. I can TRY before work tomorrow. But we will see. Grave shift SUCKS!

[Zophar Ptay]

Don't kill yourself over it.  I really, really, really appreciate your help on what you are doing and have done.  I got 3DS8 running in a VM so I'll see if I can find a crash course in pep modelling/modification somewhere.   I figured out how to export the pep model to an .obj and import the wireframe into 3DS, so the bucket is sitting there in 3DS now.  But then I had to run out and just got home so I'll see if I can figure out how to tinker with the mesh tomorrow perhaps, then figure out where to go from there.  You've done a wicked job with the new bucket model so I'll leave you to finish it in your time and I'll get to working elsewhere.

To add some substance to the post for everyone else:  Do you vode think the bucket is proportioned well enough with the shoulders and chest there?  it is a bit snug and I plan on making it a little larger, but I don't think I want to go any wider than I absolutely have to... it looks to me like it could stand to be a little larger, but what do you folks think?

[Dresdon Acacin]

I think it's fine-but keep in mind the reduced interior once you pep it and installl the visor.

[Zophar Ptay]

it is definitely too small; it rests on my cheeks when I put it on right now, and it is yet to be glassed.  I was also warned when I first posted pics of it on that it may look too small and out of scale with the rest of the plates once they are on.  I am thinking of adding about an inch to the dome on either side of the mohawk.  It shouldn't change the perceived scale too much, but two more inches inside should make a huge difference I think.

[Dresdon Acacin]

ah, so ou'r gonna mine that thang out through the bondo?     Tricky stuff......that thing willl be like glass once it's been mined.   As manotonous as it sounds, you may be better printing a new one out at  120% of what it is at now.

[CyraxLionheart]

We will say the new pep model should accommodate a bit more

[Dresdon Acacin]

ah, I see

[Zophar Ptay]

Cyrax, thanks for fielding that one.  Desdon, my thought was actually to resin the existing bucket then take a saw to it in certain places to cut it into three parts, add an inch here and there, stick it back together and start with the resin/glass/resin/bondo/resin process again.  But I am going to leave the one I have already built exactly how it is and start a new one from the model Cyrax mentioned.  I might go back and rebuild the base HALO bucket that I based it all off of as well, then when it is all over and I have a finished bucket painted and ready to go I can set them up and show the full process and impress someone.. or something ROFL.

[Dresdon Acacin]

I got'cha 

[Hondo Karr]

Are you going to modify the chestplate some? Reason I ask is there is some Era confusion here. The title states it's a Late Crusader build but, the chestplates are distinctly Neo Crusader and the helmet while not Neo Crusader sure has that feel to it. As it stands it's kind of an inbetween build. It's stuck between two era's/CRL's where it won't really meet either without some modification of some pieces.

[Zophar Ptay]

Falin - Thanks for stopping in.  That torso was indeed a straight Neo-Crusader build from the CyraxLionheart pep files because they had the closest shape to what I was looking for and would make for the easiest modification.  They will be modded quite a bit, including the removal of the ab section, extending the "pecks" lower by about half of a "segment", and integrating a collarplate that will bring it in closer around the neck and hook over the collarbone.  The end result will look something roughly like this mockup:



   Now if only doing it in the meatworld was as easy as doing it in photoshop

I had planned to use a pair of seperate segmented ab plates.  Is that idea too Legacy?  Also, I hadn't thought of the bucket as being particularly Neo, but I'm not very familiar with them at all.   Is it close enough to cause a problem if the plates are distinctly non-Neo, or only if the rest of the plates are close enough to cause confusion?

I'll hopefully get the chest modded out over the next couple days and post the result as I'm sure that will help with your decision more than that quick mockup will.  I appreciate you keeping an eye on us shinys and letting us know these things when you see them, it saves  a lot of heartache down the road.

[edit=add] My wife just called it my "mando-bra".    guess that goes well with the Boba Thong? LOL [/edit]

[Adenn Kyram]

beskar lingerie! Lol  priceless vod
Looks.good so far

[Dresdon Acacin]

whats lingerie? 

[Calo Ordoa]

whats lingerie? 

*Cough!!* Women's underwear. *Cough cough*


*Blushes* Sorry if that's outta place, vode.