Add 4-6 inches to that(If you don't,your armor will not fit).Using your adhesive of choice (I prefer using a basic white PVA glue – I find double sided tape is good for instant stick but tends to peel apart over time), assemble the pieces, ensuring all tabs are affixed on the inside for neatness.You can use this formula to determine how big you should make your armor: The Master Chief is 7'2" tall (86 inches).
Have a practice to ensure you are happy with how each piece goes and the order in which to assemble them before moving on to the adhesive stage. Pre-fold all the pieces to give you an idea of how they all fit together and to make the assembly easier. The rear circle has an optional hole if you want to insert a wire. If manually cutting, you will need to very lightly score the fold lines using a scalpel or similar and a ruler, being careful not to cut all the way through (or cut yourself). Carefully cut out all the pieces of the model, taking note of the fold lines and cut lines. Note that you may need more than one copy of certain sheets – I have included the number of copies you need on each sheet. Note that if you are using a cutting machine, to use stock of appropriate thickness.
Print your design on to any paper or card stock (choosing either the illustrator or PDF files). For the purpose of clarity (and not having any colour ink at time of writing), I have built my demo model on white card without any colours. If you don’t have either a cutting machine or illustrator, you can print the supplied PDF files, which have the cut and fold lines included – I have tried to keep these lines as thin as possible whilst still being visible, to assist with accuracy but also be non-intrusive on the finished model.Įdit your colours if required. If you don’t have a machine to do this, you can still edit the colours and set the cut and fold lines to a colour of your choice so they’re visible to assist with manual cutting (scissors or scalpel). For example, I use a Craft Robo cutting machine with the illustrator plugin (Print the image, then set the plotter to cut the CUT layer and lightly perforate the FOLD layer). The CUT and FOLD layers are set not to print, and are useful of you happen to have a plotter type cutting machine and relevant plugin for Illustrator. In addition, the files contain 3 layers – a CUT, FOLD and PRINT layer. I have included several files as follows:Īdobe Illustrator CS4 files – if you have illustrator, you can edit the files to create your own colour pallet, or to resize etc.
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