Now for something altogether different.

Earlier in the year, I competed a build of Ezio from Assassin’s Creed because I completely love the series of games, but my recently folly into armour building has meant that my preferred creative direction has altered towards that; so I had a thought – what if I tried to merge the two into something completely unique.

I’ve recently toyed with the idea of creating my own Assassin’s Creed character from a period that hasn’t appeared in a game as of yet, so floated a few ideas around (including Japanese, Ancient Greek and a few others) but in the end landed on an awesome concept – Space Assassin: The Assassin’s Creed of the Future.

I stuck the idea into Google and found an image that apparently someone at UbiSoft came up with but has never been used, and I thought it was the ideal starting point for this original piece, with a number of alterations of course.

Here’s what I’d like to change on this outfit

Helmet – I’d like to open up the visor area at the front more so it’s lighter and I have better vision, and then make the signature peak on the top from some form of red lighting so that it well… lights up. Hidden lasers – The assassin’s we know and love all have hidden blades, I’d like this thing to have hidden lasers that pop out of the gauntlets, maybe a bit like this guy made on his Iron Man outfit. Emblem – Large and light-up. That’s all I’ve decided on that at the moment Cape – Maybe the addition of a sidecape. I’m yet to justify why a space suit should have a cape other than for aesthetic purposes right now, but I’ll figure it out.

Other than that, I like how this concept art looks, though I’m sure I’ll find things that I want to change as I go, probably to add some more practicality to the movement.

Wanting to get started, I decided to try and size out the helmet.

Helmets are notoriously tricky to get the correct size (as you may have read about the other day), so rather than trying to create a 3D Pepakura file from scratch, I decided that it would be easier (and probably end up looking better) if I found one that looked similar to the feeling I wanted, and then adapted it when I came to building it.

Turns out that one of the Daft Punk helmets was spot on for what I was after (Pepakura file available here), and there was even a super simple version for size testing (that Pepakura file here) which was a really lucky find.

Out came the paper (just some standard letter paper, nothing fancy), and in under an hour, I’d constructed the simple version ready to test the size. Here’s that build in photos. No need for an description really, it’s all pretty self-explanatory.

Now was time to try it on, and immediately it felt large.

It doesn’t look too big in the images, but once on it felt way too roomy, so tomorrow I’ll try scaling it down and remaking it, then once that’s done make the high polygon version to the same size and go from there.

Safe to say I’m pretty excited about this project. Should be fun.