Good news, everyone! It turns out eating less makes you thinner. I've maintained a diet of about 1850 calories, still taking in around 150g of protein a day. Here's what I've got to show for it.
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| Weight on top, % fat on bottom. Note the sharp bend around the June mark, when I started counting calories. |
Being roughly on track with the original plan, I started whacking away at Juggernaut's mask, too. Lots of supplies were gathered. The general technique was done with the help of a Youtube series of a dude putting together his Iron Man mask, with some extra pointers from the stickies by some Halo peeps over at the 405th.
Sliph managed to get Juggernaut's model out of Dota and into Pepakura Designer. From that I printed out a paper pattern, which thus far has been hot glued together, soaked in polyester resin, and partially reinforced with fiberglass. Here's how it's looking so far.
Fiberglass is seriously some magical stuff, but the resin stanks awful and, in this hot weather, gunks crazy fast. I had an adventure trying to wash the crap off my hands the first day I used it. On the bright side, the mask is already ultra-hard. Once I finish glassing the thing, I'll apply some bondo body filler to shape it up and prepare it for painting.
I also picked up some brown suede to make his inner pants out of, and some black EVA foam mats to cut for his leg armor and belt. We have some elastic scraps and other things laying around to sew in to give his lower legs that "flaring" look. On top of that, 15 square feet of fake fur is on its way via the wonders of Amazon Prime. I still have to buy the plastic to make the sword, some buckles, and maybe some other little things.
I haven't updated with anything particularly interesting as of late since I've had my hands tied with making the mask and other things. I briefly considered writing a piece on why it's important to call Dota anything but a "MOBA," but I can't decide if it's really as important as I'm making it out to be. Personally, I think the MOBA term is meaningless, artificial, and awful-sounding. But, it's here to stay, and people will call these things what they want to.
Stats:
Weight: 184 lbs
Body Fat after discovering the scale recommends explicitly against weighing oneself right when one wakes up in the morning: 20%
Squats: 276.5 lbs, deloading again soon
Bench: 154 lbs
Overhead Press: 125 lbs (though deloading to 113 next time)
Deadlift: 320 lbs
Power Clean: 135 lbs
Pull-Ups/Chin-Ups: All over the place, trying to teach myself to pull from a dead hang without jumping or kipping. Got at least 2/1/1 on pull-ups today in this regard.
4 Months in Progress Photo:
