This bulbous collection of shapes that makes it look as though the character's back has done a fusion dance with an old-timey refrigerator. It was then that I ran into this project's evil creamy center: I started armor construction with the torso area, making a breastplate out of tagboard and building the armor on top of that. So I ditched the idea and decided for a more traditional approach. Unfortunately, after downloading and printing out the first ten pages of the Marcus breastplate pattern, I found it about as easy to comprehend as the manual for the Chinese Space Shuttle-just a bunch of triangles and numbers that I could barely understand. I've seen other people that have had fabulous success making paper armor and I thought I could master the skill given enough time. (Pepakura, for those not in the know, is a program that allows you to take any computer generated 3-D object and turn it into a pattern that can be cut out of stiff paper and assembled.) Coating paper armor with resin makes it hard and durable. I thought I could make this armor using pepakura files that I had downloaded from various costume construction sites. I wanted to develop my skills at making futuristic Space Marine armor-all grim and gritty realism as opposed to the fanciful anime stuff I'd been working on up to that point. I took on this project not really knowing what I was getting into.
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