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A big problem with my current armory is that I’ve got lots of costumes, but no weapons. If anyone out there’s interested in trading weapon props for marine armor, drop me a line. In the meantime, I’ve been pouring time into these whilst staying home sick from the TechShop.

They’re HyperNURBS’d models, built in Cinema4D.

The idea is to CNC them out of 2″ expanded polystyrene foam and try various coatings to achieve a finish-able surface. As usual, the base meshes were from Martyn Ball.

This was a test piece for my CNC, but I might as well make it available to everyone now- I know there are some others working on their own CNC machines to build armor with now, maybe it can help them.
Modeling was done in Cinema 4D, OBJ was exported from Pepakura 3. Included is an STL and C4D, as well as the basic model.
You don’t want to unfold this.

http://www.vrogy.net/cad/MKVI_handplate_forCNC.zip

Modeled purely for the gcode generation.

.OBJ: http://vrogy.net/cad/carbine.obj.zip 32.47MB
.C4D: http://vrogy.net/cad/carbine.c4d 298KB
e-mail for more formats; address is on the about page.

Thanks to Martyn Ball for the original 2k or so of tris, and Peter Lack for the expanded reference pictures.

I’m working on a Covenant carbine model, because there wasn’t one available in the resolution I needed for the CNC machine. I suspect I’ll have to do this with about everything I want to CNC.

Currently about 39,000 polygons. It’s a work in progress, but I hope to have it sliced up and start on cutting it out by next week.

Finally done with this. Oh, been working on it, too. Here’s an example of what it can do:

Rockcliff plans, HobbyCNC controller, MeshCAM toolpaths, & Mach 3 control.
That’s robogenesis’ model cleaned up a bit.

Great stuff here.. came across these Fallout 3 powered armor suits, from a guy named Vampyredh. I cleaned them up some, and since I’ll probably never actually make them.. here, have fun.

http://www.vrogy.net/cad/fallout3_teslaarmor.c4d
http://www.vrogy.net/cad/fallout3_teslaarmor.dxf

http://www.vrogy.net/cad/fallout3_enclave.c4d
http://www.vrogy.net/cad/fallout3_enclave.dxf

http://www.vrogy.net/cad/fallout3_powerarmor.c4d
http://www.vrogy.net/cad/fallout3_powerarmor.dxf

I’ve been working on models to build the Starcraft II marine suit from. The first step is to rough things out in low-polygon resolution, that’s about done.

Next comes NURBSing to smooth things out and add details with an eye towards accuracy, then modeling of the mechanical exoskeleton which will, hopefully, make the suit wearable. Might end up using some of those fancy Solidworks CAE tools finally, too.

Finally finished this thing.. and not too soon, as Dragon Con is looming. If all goes well these will be done and available long before the con itself. Might even try coating the inside with poly-resin on these, instead of the traditional resin-fiberglass-body filler treadmill.

Yes, another one. We’ll be done soon.. Front floating faces are actually stencils for your material of choice- they’re just a .1″ or so ledge that needs to be built up. Styrene, balsa, acrylic, whatever. Side floaters just epoxy onto the main body after resining, or glue it at the pep stage, doesn’t really matter.

Download the PDO

Yes, more Halo stuff. I’ll get back to Starcraft after DragonCon has passed.
This is the Scout Chest. See its page for download soon.