I havent decided on whether I want the visor to be removable, but im leaning towards not. I have a RF with mine as well, so I need to work with how the two will interact so they play nice. I want to make sure I do my bucket justice, so...
Do I cut out holes under the ear caps where the 'vents' are?
Should I attach the ears and THEN do base coat?
WHAT DO I EVEN USE TO ATTACH THE EARS?!
*Flails wildly*
Instead of working on the bucket (due to the questions above) I instead worked on my melee weapon more, which was inspired by
this thread. I like the idea of an electrostaff, but honestly I didnt want to carry it around, so I thought up a modification that better suited me. My idea is to make an electrostaff that can disconnect into two pieces, almost like stun batons. Those two batons which I can then come up with a mounting solution for my kit (im thinking my back plate when I get it)
So I started with this:

its the same materials from the electrostaff tutorial thread, except I cut the 1" PVC into two 1' lengths, and decided to forgo the metal flagpole (which I had already substituted for some conduit) and added the male and female PVC connectors. Since I didnt know how well my plans would work out, I decided to just focus on one baton at a time. Here it is all laid out in how I would put it together.

In the first picture, you can see I taped up one of the sliding parts with blue tape, and marked some lines on it. I knew early on I wanted these to be more than sticks that I waved around, and was aiming for an overall asthetic similar to the electrostaffs that Grevious' magnaguards used

So I took that piece of PVC I marked up, and took my dremel to it, and cut some slots in it.

Which then leads to the baton looking like this.

Now came the fun part, and the part I didnt take as many pictures of, so I'll take pictures of now. I got some pink LEDs, wired up 6 of them (two strings of 3 in parallel) and used some hot glue to put them at the bottom of the part I cut the slots in, and put some leads on them. Then after drilling a hole in the shaft of the baton for a nice push button, and wiring it all up to a 9v battery, I have a little baton that lights up with pink slots.



Fun fact; while dismantling it to show it for the pictures, I actually ripped the leads off my button.

So now I have some more work to do! Once I get that all fixed up, im going to sand down the components, clean it all up and paint it silver-gray.