moving right along!!

Ok So today I have almost completed the hands of the Gauntlets. I regret I don't have any pics to show right now (the batteries are slim pickin's in my house and our digital camera eats them alive!). I will try to post pics soon. Here are the pics of the rathalos armor. this is the origional armor. the azure armor is just a midnight blue and a little more complicated, but not much. the helmet looks a little more angry. You really can't see the eyes in this pic, but the azure rathalos armor has red eyes just under the striped plate thing on his head. anyway, back to the work. see ya later on!!

Back on track...

Okay, looks like I am going to have to post twice in one day. Oh well... I have made considerable progress on the helmet today. The previous post was just to get the first pics up of when I started the helmet. even those pics are a little late. I wish I could have thought of this blog thing a little sooner. oh well, hind-sight is 20/20 I guess. anyway, I have the final spikes on the back of the helmet. It is now mostly complete. I just need to paint it and smooth some stuff out with bondo or another filler agent. I have glued one side of the face part together so I could conserve Velcro to be used on other parts of the armor. I am going to move on to the gauntlets next. That flare part of the helmet on the back was particularly fun to do. I think it turned out quite nicely! I don't have to work today or tomorrow, so I will try to get back to the updates for this blog tomorrow...

the first pics!

Here are the First pics of my Helmet. Things are going quite well. I am still trying to figure out a way to get a screen shot from my PSP so you can see what I am trying to recreate. I should be able to post some pics of the real armor sometime later. I finally got some Velcro today, so I can make the face plate actually stick. I have it removable right now. Sorry this post is so late... I have had a lot of stuff to work on.

In the Beginning.....

Hello and Welcome. If you are here you either know me, or have stumbled across this little piece of my life. My name is Sean Douglas. I have a frightening fascination with paper and the like. I really like art and I have been expressing my talent through little paper figures and my newest medium is now cardboard. I have taken a liking to a certain game called Monster Hunter Freedom 2 for the PSP. I have taken it upon myself to better my skill and test it as well to make a full suit of armor from this game. Did I mention it will be out of Cardboard?

I will be keeping up this online journal or blog to track my progress. It will contain my thoughts and my frustrations etc. . . . . so watch out.... this could get ugly...... just kidding.

A lot of people look at my work and say they don't have the patients to do what I do. I have always found it rather relaxing to work with and make stuff out of paper. This is but another challenge I have set in front of myself.

Anyway, to the dirty details. The armor is from a big nasty monster named Rathalos. He is what we like to call a Wyvern. Think like a dragon just no front limbs. ( well the front limbs are part of the wings...) this lovely monster is red with black details and very tempermental. his bigger brother is the Azure Rathalos. he is a midnoght blue color and He is the one I am making the armor from. I will try to post pics of the origional armor or something similar and then the version I am making from cardboard. I am going to try to enter the Holloween Costume contest at work next year, so I have a year to get this done. I hope I win this time. I have not won any contests yet. lets hope this works out. . . .