Wednesday, January 5, 2011
Okay, so we're a little crazy...
for thinking we actually needed to build our own vacuform. WE PROCURED ONE! Now, we don't have to accidentally make napalm in our oven! Video update soon, when I'm not dead tired.
Sunday, December 26, 2010
Well, look at that.
Well, there's a new Youtube video we put up as a bit of an update. Go over and look at it!
Tuesday, December 21, 2010
We've almost got it started.
I don't know why I feel compelled to make breakthroughs every single day, but the team and I are planning a Thursday full of component-collecting.
Here's the basic idea for what we're putting together:
http://www.instructables.com/id/Make-a-good,-cheap,-upgradeable-sheet-plastic-vacu/
That should give you all the info you need to do something like this, just not the drive, startup cash or plans. So the basic update I'll give you consists of, "we're still doing research". I mean, I want to get much better at my plastic-forming technique before I start tossing out armor plates left and right (we're having juuuuust a bit of trouble with how exactly we're going to do marine/firebat shoulders, since they need to be in multiple pieces). While there's no word yet from the sponsor, I'm starting to think that it would just make things complicated and spoil the pace and scope of the project. I expect that it'll be a while before we get around to doing www.projectarmor.com but at least I really won't have much to do with it. I'll be filming Thursday's meeting and escapades to the store, but in the meantime, create excitement and exuberance about the prospect of a guy making custom Terran Marine armor.
Here's the basic idea for what we're putting together:
http://www.instructables.com/id/Make-a-good,-cheap,-upgradeable-sheet-plastic-vacu/
That should give you all the info you need to do something like this, just not the drive, startup cash or plans. So the basic update I'll give you consists of, "we're still doing research". I mean, I want to get much better at my plastic-forming technique before I start tossing out armor plates left and right (we're having juuuuust a bit of trouble with how exactly we're going to do marine/firebat shoulders, since they need to be in multiple pieces). While there's no word yet from the sponsor, I'm starting to think that it would just make things complicated and spoil the pace and scope of the project. I expect that it'll be a while before we get around to doing www.projectarmor.com but at least I really won't have much to do with it. I'll be filming Thursday's meeting and escapades to the store, but in the meantime, create excitement and exuberance about the prospect of a guy making custom Terran Marine armor.
Sunday, December 19, 2010
Well, that's new.
Not only do I now have a blog, YouTube account, and email address for this project, now I've registered my own domain name (and I have a guy who will make my site for free-ish). Oh, and apparently I may actually have a sponsor soon. I love sponsors! They provide a reason to work harder on a project and I really need the support through this whole process. Apparently I have more connections than I thought.
The first day. Well, kinda.
Welcome to the Starcraft Armor Project blog. My name is Brandon, and I'll be attempting to explain what the hell we're trying to do with all of this in this blog post. But first, how about I tell you a little bit about myself?
I'm 22, working in a quality control lab at Arizona Nutritional Supplements, which is a pretty sweet gig, but I wanted to start doing something awesome with my new income (since I recently graduated college, and don't really have any idea how to spend money anymore). I am single and not living with any authority figures, and thus, there's nobody to tell me how terrible of an idea this is or how much time it will take.
So, basically, I'm going to be making Starcraft armor. Don't know what Starcraft is? Not a big deal, just you're probably not going to be as excited about this as I am. Basically, it's a top-down strategy game involving humans vs various aliens vs each other, and the humans all wear some form of spacesuit or armor or whatever. So that's where these pictures come in handy to explain, since I'm making five different types of armor for this.
Marine
Firebat
Reaper
Medic
Ghost
So that's that, I suppose. Oh, yeah, my YouTube account is ProjectSCArmor.
Right now we're planning to make all of the armor plates out of hard plastic through Vacuform and I want to make the moulds for the pieces out of ceramic so that they can be reused.
This IS getting done at some point, though it may take a year if it gets really complicated. I'll have a video explanation out pretty soon, so we'll see how it goes. Anyways, enjoy whatever you're doing.
I'm 22, working in a quality control lab at Arizona Nutritional Supplements, which is a pretty sweet gig, but I wanted to start doing something awesome with my new income (since I recently graduated college, and don't really have any idea how to spend money anymore). I am single and not living with any authority figures, and thus, there's nobody to tell me how terrible of an idea this is or how much time it will take.
So, basically, I'm going to be making Starcraft armor. Don't know what Starcraft is? Not a big deal, just you're probably not going to be as excited about this as I am. Basically, it's a top-down strategy game involving humans vs various aliens vs each other, and the humans all wear some form of spacesuit or armor or whatever. So that's where these pictures come in handy to explain, since I'm making five different types of armor for this.
Marine
Right now we're planning to make all of the armor plates out of hard plastic through Vacuform and I want to make the moulds for the pieces out of ceramic so that they can be reused.
This IS getting done at some point, though it may take a year if it gets really complicated. I'll have a video explanation out pretty soon, so we'll see how it goes. Anyways, enjoy whatever you're doing.
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