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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.

I sat down with a sketchpad and came up with lots of frenzied scribbles, which aren’t as pretty as this ’shopping of the samething- which joints are where, and how many there are.

Technically, it’ll be something less; the fingers will tighten in sequence depending upon cable friction and spring resistance, so each of them can be mashed into one DOF.

So awhile back I broke down the different team colors that are in the current dev build of SC2. Naturally, I want to know what they’d look like on the marine armor.

White is indeed missing. I think it’d break the grimy space warrior aesthetic anyways…
Blue, White, Red, and a Green are all immediately doable- McMaster has the colored plastic. The other colors are… exotic. They might require an actual paint job, which will probably degrade quickly.
I’ve always thought a flat, almost grey black would be nice, too.

My favorite has to be the Korhal red or the Raynor teal.
Why the heck was Raynor teal in SC1 anyways?

Well, I need to see if a passive external skeleton will work before I start casting aluminum. I’m not sure how I should mock this up, but the joints look like a good place to start.

Of the 14 main joints, 5 are straight hinges. Two have loose hinges or floating axes of articulation. Two utilize ball races or interlocking flanges to put the wearer through the joint, in conjunction with sliding hinges. Two are freely rotational with loads of axial play. The two hip joints are either ball joints or universal joints, and the torso rests more or less loosely atop the pelvic armor.

Ok, ok.. is this really possible? Will a standard human unit actually fit in there?

Looks like it. That’s my silhouette, and the silhouettes of the major armor pieces.