Thursday 17 November 2016

Community question: Replica Heresy Bolter and Helmets

Hi to the community

As many of you may know; I just recently moved into my new home. I am fortunate enough to have a large garage which will slowly be turned into a large gaming room over the next year. 
I want this room to feel like the perfect 30k gaming room, decorations, art and all. 

One thing that I am keen to have mounted on the walls are Astartes scale replica Bolters and Bolt pistols, as well as a replica true scale Legionaire helmet of the MKIII and MKIV designs. So what I am asking is; does anyone out there know of any decent 3D renders etc of accurately designed helmets or bolters. Even shared plans on how to construct one of these items. 



I am keen on accuracy and how detailed the items can be made (to the true aesthetics of the FW/GW designs not poor imitations of them. 



If you could drop some links or recommendations below it would be appreciated. 

Drake Seta

 

14 comments:

  1. You could try the rfp cosplay communities. The 405th are halo mainly, but there is some 40k stuff on it.

    Both sites have mainly papakura files from memory, which is a paper model you fibreglass and use bondo car filler to flesh out.

    There is a mkvi 3d model on thingiverse which should be 3d printable.

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  2. Get in touch with Canny over at his blog Canny's Gambit. He's just jumped into the deep end of creating replica's a star wars rouge one stuff and I'm sure he can give you plenty of tips and and vice and links :)

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  3. I bet if you could obtain or generate a CAD model of the items, you could pay someone with a 3D printer to print them for you. That's probably the only way of making them look exactly correct, but you wouldn't be able to wear the helmet for example, as they'd just be blocks of resin.

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    1. Check out: https://grabcad.com/library/space-marine-bolter-warhammer-40k#!

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    2. Unfortunately that's just a render. You need the 3d files to convert to an .stl file format. You can print wearable stuff though.

      https://www.myminifactory.com/object/fallout-3-t45-d-power-armour-helmet-15253

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    3. It's a CAD forum, someone will have the .dwg file somewhere 😃

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  4. Just found this...
    http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:855861

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  5. Look into this as it's a Warhammer 40K cosplay forum, also pepakura files are available for a lot of items.
    http://www.obscuruscrusade.com/forum/index.php?PHPSESSID=hau787er2muiiv49r1dft47is3;wwwRedirect

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    1. That is an excellent forum indeed. I think I will join and see what they have. Cheers.

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  6. Autodesk has a load of really cool 3D design tools avalable to download for free. For what you're talking about I'd recomend using either 123d design or fusion 360. The first one's more of a 3d designing programs while the other is more of a CAD program, I'd recomend trying them both out and seeing which one you prefer. Other than those their is Google SketchUp which is really good for people who've never used any 3D design programs.

    For artists I would say check out the Fabrication Djini, who has actually done for 40k cosplay and Punished Props who do a fantastic series on making props and costumes.

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    1. Hi Ironchestnut. Pleased to meet you. Thanks for the advice. My brother Kaelo and I use Autodesk's AutoCAD 2015 on a daily basis so we will have a bash at it. Never used 123d before though so might check it out.

      Will check out Fabrication Djini too. Thanks.

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  7. Probably not that helpful but very cool

    http://protagonist4hire.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/bolter

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    1. Hi Dragons Claw. It might just help. I use AutoCAD on a daily basis, so making a 2d print like that is literally no effort for me and it might be the way I find I need to go with it. Thanks for the link.

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  8. Personally, I started my helmet off using an old motorcycle helmet. A: It's wearable, B: They expire, so they eventually are worthless as a safety device and are cheaper.

    C: If you're already well versed in autocad, you could probably find a reasonable helmet model to build addon parts that could be 3D printed to save time and cost.

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