The evolution of this build is astounding.
Incredible work!!
Thank you, I hope it will be even more noticable when I finish with my changes
Some progress pics I never shared before:
At first, I think I haven't talked about my wig, I took one old yellowish wig, tried to dye it once a few years ago - it didn't work, and I tried to dye it again this summer and came out with this ginger-red color that I think can work for Bo here. So here's how the progress looks:
One more photo for shoulder armor in early stages, I spend so much paper trying to figure out where should I place the darts to make the armor as close to the actual shape as possible, so mb it will be usefull to someone -
Thigh armor and blasters.
Let me start with a big analsysis of the thigh armor and especially the holsters on it. When I made those only based on the trailer, I think their construction is simillar to the ones she has in Clone Wars. And it was a huge mistake, because later I practicaly tore them to pieces and made a new ones. Two images below show the most important part: the holsters are fixed on thigh armor in one point only and can freely move. For example, as she walks, holsters stay vertically, while the base moves with the leg.
How I've been changing it? I tore to pieces the armor, very lousy shortend it and made a more accurate shape (see first image for comparisson, on the left - old shape and size, and on the right - new one). Then I added another piece of sintra to holsters from the back side and then secured it on the base of the armor using bolts. If you don't make them too tight, the holsters can move on the armor as needed.
As for the blasters, I made them from sintra using pepakura files, there're lots of other examples of this method so I won't dive in to it. I'm more interested in the design, it's quite a shame that Bo don't have anything personal on her westars (like Sabine) and their pattern is standard to all other mandos in Rebels (Ursa, Fenn Rau, Tristan and etc..)
So this is how my almost finished blasters and new thigh armor look like, I'm quite happy with the result -
And now updates on everything else.
--Cod. I just cleaned up the edges and made the parts less curvy on sides
-- Belt. I made it wider (see images for comaprisson with a piece of the old belt), on a wider part I made lines to imitate the girth belt, as it look in the episode.
side note: I just noticed her pouches, they're interesting, should fix mine in a couple of days -
-- Back plate. As I've planned, I shortend it and fixed the coloring with weathering. I think it looks way cooler right now, kind of happy that it should actually look like this, because I didn't like my first, plane blue version..
-- Chest. Slightly shortend these two pieces by 1 inch or so. Also I had to work a bit more on the darts, because on some photos from the con, you could still see them. Shouldn't be any problems now.
-- Knee armor. Slightly worked on the shape and made a more accurate coloring and weathering. The first photo is from an early satges of my build and on the other photo you can see a comparisson between two versions.
I know, I should place it all on me to show how it all looks together, but I want to fix the suit and the jetpack first. Slowly (at least for my taste), but I'm getting there. For some reason I want this to be p.e.r.f.e.c.t.
