What the hell, right? Just the cost of some 110# card stock, some hot glue.and a TON of time. After checking out the forums over there and also watching "Forward Unto Dawn" (highly recommended, even for non-gamers such as myself) I thought I'd give it a go. I have seen 405th Infantry members at different cons, and I have always thought their armor was extremely cool. While my Mandolorian build is languishing without funding, I decided to see what kind of mischef I could get myself into over on the HALO side. You'll learn a lot more about how to use the software that way.Mods: Please move this over to the "Non-Star Wars costuming" forum - thanks! It can save a lot of time and parts rebuilding having said that, if you are just getting into Pepakura and buidling, I would recommend trying the scaling yourself first and see how it goes.
I do offer this service, I work up a digital mannequin off of a set of 20 or so of the wearer's measurements, and then rescale the individual pieces to 'fit' the armor to their mannequin. Last suggestion I can make, if you are still having problems scaling, you can commission someone to scale the armor for you. As an example, correct proportion Iron Man armors are notoriously small in the waist/cod area to the point where a screen-accurate armor pep just scaled overall to a 6'2" guy would still only have a 33" waist or so great for wiry guys, not so much for most other people. Of course keep in mind though, it comes down to the armor and how well it fits in the first place, so it pays to still double-check your parts. Scaling a 110% on a standard 5'10 armor would hopefully get you pretty close for fitting at 6'4. If you do get lucky, importing all of those parts will give you a head-to-toe measurement to start overall scaling from if you can pull an overall height that way, you may get lucky and get 90%+ of your scaling usable just by doing that. Now if you are lucky on the particular pepakura armor you are looking at, you can import all of the pieces into the software and they will still be oriented in the correct positions (rather than all piled on top of each other). I'm 6'3", so I appreciate the scaling aspect when it comes to 5'10" scaled armors fitting 6'+ frames. In a perfect world, you can just go by what length looks good for you on your arm, and then hopefully that scale also has enough girth at the middle to fit your arm.
For instance, for a bicep, check the width at the widest point and overall length, and then scale according to your measurements. Your best bet is (as a beginner) to scale each piece, using Pepakura's point-to-point measurements to guide you.
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