W40k's Cosplay!

[Anonymous No.7531305]

Let's throw some great and big armors
for the power of the emperor!
(Or against, as you wish )
And if you made some, and you have some advice for someone who wanna try to cosplay a Warhammer 4 000 guy, it would be nice too!

[Anonymous No.7532663]

>>7531305

Oooh, a thread relevant to my interests.

I'm a marinefag, pic related.

Although /tg/ tend to be more receptive to 40k cosplay threads than /cgl/

[Anonymous No.7532667]

>>7532663

I have been in the process of making some heavy revisions and improvements to the whole suit though.

[Anonymous No.7532669]

>>7532667
>>7532663
This is beyond impressive. Is some of this made from EVA foam?

[Anonymous No.7532675]

>>7532669
Thanks!

Yeah EVA Foam and hot glue essentially, with all the seams filled in and sanded smooth with Polyfilla.
Although I recently got some Plastazote LD45 which is pretty nice to work with, made the new chest aquila out of it as well as a bunch of extra details.
Recently started making a Plasma Gun out of it as well.

[Anonymous No.7532717]

Jaja, where do you guys keep big costumes like this when you don't use them?

[Anonymous No.7532718]

>jaja
oh no i'm turning spanish

[Anonymous No.7532743]

dude. anywhere I can get a pattern or even buy a set of armour like this? I'm not overly skilled with foam but would kill to get a space wolf armour set set up

[Anonymous No.7532794]

[Anonymous No.7532818]

>>7532717

I made a stand for it

>>7532743

You can't buy them, nobody is willing to make and sell them because GW is extremely protective of its IP.

Master list of the pep files are here though: http://obscuruscrusade.com/forum/index.php?topic=823.0

[Anonymous No.7532823]

>>7532663
How tall are you? I know the suit makes you look bigger, but that pic makes you look a good foot taller than everyone else around you.

[Anonymous No.7532847]

>>7532818
Jajaa, awesome

[Anonymous No.7532854]

>>7532823

6 foot tall, but in the suit I'm around 7 foot tall, pic very much related

[Anonymous No.7532878]

>>7532854
Nice. Seriously impressive stuff!

[Anonymous No.7533680]

>>7532663

Y-you're pretty c-c-cute, a-anon...

[Anonymous No.7533885]

>>7532663
>>7533680
All he needs to do is grow a beard and shave his head then he'll be a canon marine

[Anonymous No.7534251]

>>7533680

y-you t-too

>>7533885

Eh, lets just say when ever I've tried to grow a beard, its uhh, less than impressive. I will forever be cursed to be a baby faced space marine. ;_;

[Anonymous No.7534270]

>>7534251
How old are you? you look like 18 - 20 I had a bad beard at that age (23 now) but I just kept shaving like 1 a month and most of the patches fixed themselves (I still have 2 left but they are kinda hidden now)

I have some questions about your armour, do you have a rough cost of the materials. And a rough how long it took you?

Also a you going to start making anything else after you finished polishing the space marine?

[Anonymous No.7534281]

>>7534270

I'm 21 in 15 days.

I probably spent about £300 on it in materials at first and it took me about 3 months to make the first iteration of it that you see up there. But since I've been upgrading it I've probably spent an extra £100 on it. About a third of that for materials to re work the stilts and the rest just on more foam and paint.

[Anonymous No.7534286]

>>7534281
how comfy is it?

[Anonymous No.7534293]

>>7534270

Oh, and I'd like to try my hand at pic related, but I reckon I'll have a bit of a break for a while after I finish my marine.

>>7534286

with all the padding in it its feels fine. Main problem is its a bit weighty (Haven't weighed it but I'd estimate around over 20kg) and cumbersome, so you won't see me get around much faster than walking in this thing.

[Anonymous No.7534295]

>>7534293
If you need the pepakura files let me know I can whip some up for you.

But they will be from dark crusade so they wont be amazing but with your skills you should be fine with altering them to fit you

[Anonymous No.7534308]

>>7534295

You'd do that for me? That would be awesome if you could! How do you convert things to pep files by the way? Its something I've always thought I should try and learn at some point.

[Anonymous No.7534322]

>>7534308
I use 3dxRipper to get the 3dmodel data

Thats if their isnt any 3rd party tool that rips it directly (ie i google 'rip game models') If there is a 3rd party tool I just download that use it to extract the model data and then convert using the script (generally the tools are 3d max scripts)

The space marine game has one but dark crusade doesnt so I use 3dxripper I then I import it into 3dsmax 2010 isolate the model I want re position it and scale then remove details and then check for possibilty of the it being able to be built via pepakura. (Generally some games dont allow it but an example is dark souls the elite knight armour has worked really well but havels and ornsteins armour there is a lot of model clipping so its hard to modify)

I'm on my laptop right now and I'm about to sleep but I'll have them ready for you for today (sun)

[Anonymous No.7534324]

>>7534322
Oh and 3dmax is important because you use it to export the file to obj so pepakura designer can open it

[Anonymous No.7534365]

>>7534322
>>7534324

Ah right, thanks! I guess i'll download this stuff and have a bit of a toy around with it at some point.

[Anonymous No.7535400]

http://www.mediafire.com/download/7ivu33ad0nw5hwo/XV_Stealth_Suits.rar

So there are the stealth suits

Ive got the normal stealth suit + the commander + the stealth suit with the upgraded weapon and a normal stealthsuit who has been exploded so you can get a better look at the model quality.

I havent made them pepakurable just yet still working on it but I feel like some parts of the model are just too blocky to even bother with; This is my opionion on each part tell me what you think:

Head: Helmet (Yes) Neck (No)
Chest: Upper Chest (Maybe up to you) Lower Chest (One side is warped but the other should be fine so I will just mirror it, need your input)
Arms: Nearly All a Yes (No to the gloves or finger parts and maybe a no to the bicep covering)
Gun: yes
Legs: These are the ones I mainly think are too blocky. Let me know if you can work with it

(If you disagree with me dont be afraid to let me know because I am happy to do the work for you)

Too view the model without the lines go into 3DmodelWindow --> Untick Show Edges

[Anonymous No.7535923]

>>7535400

Ahhh awesome!

Head: Yeah I agree, helmet would probably be one of the trickiest to do without a pep file, and I'll probably make the neck out of cloth or something anyway.

Chest: The upper chest would be useful for scale purposes, so if I make it too small or too big it doesn't matter as I haven't wasted foam, but the crotch piece doesn't matter, I could easily make something to fit once I have the upper chest right.

Arms: yeah thats fine, glove armour is pretty simplistic anyway, it'd have to be pretty rubbish if I couldn't do that on my own, hehe. and biceps don't look complex either.

Gun: would be pretty useful to have, thanks!

Legs: I agree with you there, and besides I'd probably have to take some liberties with the legs anyway on account of having feet instead of hooves, unless I decide to make some weird hoof foot platforms or something, but the legs shouldn't be difficult to do regardless.

Thanks anon! You're the best!

[Anonymous No.7536015]

>>7535923
Ok so I have done it but Ive run into a problem

The file can only scale up to 2 meters but with the little pointy things on the back pack they make it 2,5m but pepakura designer won't allow anything higher than 2m.

And because its so huge your going to have to print it on multiple a4 or a3 pages

SO tell me if this works but tomorrow I'm just going to upload each individual piece for you instead and youll have to scale them all separately

https://www.mediafire.com/folder/2a3c7icf1iuplbt,wwxrbx63tnhec8m/shared

[Anonymous No.7536030]

>>7536015

That might be for the best, but its looking good so far!

Do you have a name or a page so I can give you credit when I eventually make this thing? Or should I just refer to you as based anon or something?

[Anonymous No.7536037]

>>7536030
Oh man dw about it just used based anon I dont want to be flooded with requests. I only asked you because I know its not a waste of my time helping you out :)

[Anonymous No.7536860]

Hail Brothers! This is my build

[Anonymous No.7536884]

>>7536037

Haha, okay, cheers anon, you're a star!

[Anonymous No.7537005]

>>7536860

That would look so much better with the legs scaled down, in my opinion.

One thing that has always bugged me about Spess Muhreen cosplays is that they seem disproportionate. Like >>7531305's pauldrons and vambraces just seem clunky as fuck. While >>7532663's arms look too small for the rest of him.

If I were (seriously) planning a 40k Cosplay, I'd attempt to scale it like they did in Space Marine. The paulrdons, while big, aren't eksbawks huge.

If I sound like I'm hating, I apologize.

[Anonymous No.7537148]

[Anonymous No.7537845]

>>7536884
Ok here they are

https://www.mediafire.com/?e6yov0l5qb79ide

I put in a random estimate of the size of these things so you'll have to edit them yourself and move the parts around to fit the paper.

Still working on the backpack and weapons I might be a while because of the poor modeling of the dark crusade models. Instead of being one whole mesh they are individual shapes pressed into each other to make the whole so I probably wont be able to make you an amazing pep but I'll defs be able to give you the basic shape then you build it out of foam. (Should be easier than drawing up your own plans for the weapons) I'll upload them later tonight need a nap and some food

[Anonymous No.7537849]

>>7537845
Made a quick edit of the files so that link may not work
http://www.mediafire.com/download/e6yov0l5qb79ide/Stealth_Suit_Parts.rar

[Anonymous No.7537852]

>>7537005
I don't think it's that surprising that people screw up space marine proportions. I mean this is like rich piana proportions here..

[Anonymous No.7537854]

here's a cool spess mahreen
what tens of thousands of dollars will get you, too

[Anonymous No.7537928]

>>7537845

Thats fine! I'll probably juts try and get the size of the chest right, and then scale everything else to match.
These will definitely come in handy when I start building it probably in a couple of months time!

Looking forwards to seeing the weapons!

[Anonymous No.7537961]

>>7537928
My one request is you to post in the cgl progress thread when you start. I love watching the progress of peoples builds coz I learn as they go

[Anonymous No.7538059]

>>7537852
I know nothing about WH40K so bear with me. This applies mostly to SC SM's I believe. Aren't The 40K ones grafted into the suit and are basically a lump of flesh inside a tin can? Thus making their proportions unbound by actual human proportions.

[Anonymous No.7538063]

>>7537961

Haha, okay will do!

>>7538059

Nah, they are genetically modified beefcakes, with all kinds of implants and enhancements, and one being an implant that lets them "plug in" to their power armour, so the armour moves with them.

[Anonymous No.7538066]

>>7538063
Educational. Well now I see why it's so difficult to cosplay them.

[Anonymous No.7538293]

>>7537852
>>7537854
>WH40K thread
>posting Starcraft marines

>>7534293
I'd love to see more Tau cosplays. Pretty much all I ever see is guys as spess mahreens and girls as SoB/canoness'. There's soooooo many other cool things to cosplay that are just as challenging, like Stealthsuits or even Nids.

I've posted in previous threads, but Shadowsun is on my list but won't even be started until a couple years from now since I have to complete Eiryss from Warmachine and then save up enough to make Shadowsun perfect.

[Anonymous No.7538588]

>>7532663
>>7534251
Shoulda cosplayed as a Pretty Marine, or a Blood Angel/Emperor's Children to justify looking so young.

[Anonymous No.7538789]

Well I finished the painting today, just need to spray a clear coat laquer on it and then I can re attach the joint covers and the electronics.

Couldn't resist suiting up temporarily even though its not completely finished.

>>7538588

Perhaps, but I have a Crimson Fists army for the tabletop game so it just felt right.

[Anonymous No.7538793]

>>7538789

Sorry for not so great quality photos by the way

[Anonymous No.7540060]

>>7538793
that's okay. It looks awesooooome o:

[hungarian LARPfag No.7540543]

>>7538793
tiny hands anon, you never cases to amuse me with your dedication to this project

[Anonymous No.7541434]

Chaos (?) Marine I saw at the past Otakon. I don't know much about cosplay craftsmanship, but I think the suit was superbly done. Plus, the guy was super tall without any height aid. I'd post the height comparison, but the quality is pretty bad.

[Anonymous No.7542439]

>>7538789
>>7538793

tiny hands anon, the ripper here i hurt myself weightlifting so i cant upload the weapons yet as im in too much pain but when im better ill get around to it

also a question how are the boots in terms of stability and ease of walking? can i have a few pics of how you built yours?

[Anonymous No.7542450]

>>7540543

Heh so you remember me, cheers man!

>>7542439

don't worry about it man I'm in no rush

And yeah pic related is what they look inside and
>>7532854
For what they look like finished

They are pretty sturdy, I could jump up and down on them and they took it without breaking.
Moving around while wearing them especially with all the armour on isn't the easiest thing. I just need to get some practice in them.

[Anonymous No.7543025]

>>7536860
nice arms on that build bro

pic related

[Anonymous No.7543212]

Welp, finished my Crimson Fist, joint covers, electronics and all.
Just need to wait until May MCM now.