Fallout NV NCR Veteran Ranger

After seeing Kommissar's build, I started work on my own. I've been working on this for about two weeks now. Between School, Work, and the Reserve training I'm not able to work on this a great deal however I will prevail. Luckily I've already compiled a few pictures for you all to gander at. Any criticism is welcomed, since this is my first build.

So without further ado:

This is the goal:




This is what I started out with freshly cut foam in the general shapes that I wanted.



I used a Dremel to sand down the edges, then a palm sander to smooth them out a bit more. I also cut the top piece in half to reflect the body armor better.



Same as before, but I added in the collar piece that was previously forgotten.



Next up I wanted to shape the foam, and looking around I noticed a lot of people using heat guns. However I lacked a heat gun, so I grabbed the next best thing. A hair dryer! It worked to great effect, however... I ended up burning out the hair dryer and replacing it with a new one. I think the old one was on its last legs since the new one has had no problems.









The whole thing so far, minus the collar piece



At this point I noticed that my original mid section was not proportionally correct since I had cut it out of the same piece as the bottom five pieces. Since those pieces weren't laid right together in the final build, this meant my current mid-section was too short. I tried changing it slightly to no avail, so I had to build a new one which is seen here.

Behind it is the craft foam the entire thing will be glued onto.



Turns out my collar piece wasn't to proportion as well, so here's the new one.



After that I glued everything down, I started adding straps and buckles so it could fit around me.





Not visible from here, but I actually cut out part of the two tops pieces so that they would stop digging into my neck as they curved around me.



Next up, I'm going to cut the straps that cross over my back and add buckles onto them so the entire get up is easier to get into. After that I'm adding battle damage and initial painting.

As for the mask for the build, I'm not sure exactly how I'm going to go about making it. Kommissar used a pep for scale and then built it from styrene plastic, however this method may be eat up more time than I'm willing to give so we'll see about that.