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[Dresdon Acacin]

I noticed, rofl.....and then when your all done you can buy a 1/6th scale marrionette and use some fiberglass and bondo to make an action figure of yourself.....that's what I'm going to do once I find something I am entirely pleased with for my kit......and the should webbing would be for easyer removal/flexing. I.e., you have 4 snaps on each side of teh colar plate and you just snap one end of the webbing on to the front or back(asumign that the other side of the webbing is permanently attached to the plate).

[Zophar Ptay]

Caption:  "Well Hello, Clarice... "

Alright, that finishes the third coat of resin on the outside.  now for the fun part of laying cloth inside a tight space.

To explain the Hannibal Lecter additions, I marked the centers of the three front and center squares on top of the visor and hot-glued popcicle sticks to them using the centerlines to align the mandibles and visor top, as well as to create a consistent width on the T vertical.  Once it is solid and won't deform back out of shape I'll cut them off and all should be right and cheery in the world again.

[Bubba D. Fett]

Lookin' goooooooooood

[ConDar Ward]

Brilliant .. 


This will be some Buy'ce .....  8)

[Dresdon Acacin]

excelent.....(does wierd tongue thing like he does in silence of the lambs)

[Zophar Ptay]

bah.   I forgot to liberate a box of gloves from work yesterday and just ran out so I'll have to run to wally world for a pack of overpriced latex ones.  Shame to waste the money, but I have a whole weekend free, it would be more of a waste to not get them.  I've been at it since the crack of dawn.  Back plate has it's second coat of cloth and is now ready for separation and bondo.  Helmet has four of the five coats of resin for the gelcoat and will get glassed this afternoon.  All materials for the legs are in my possession and I started cutting them out.  I'm just waiting on a heat gun to form them.  I'll hopefully be grabbing some sintra from Talren some time in the next week to use with the PVC bases I have here to sculpt the gaunts.  All soft parts acquired, that leaves boot plates to design/form [and possibly spats to go with them] and finish up what I already have working.. I may make CVI yet... maybe not as an OM, but quite possibly kitted out in something of good enough quality that I won't be embarrassed to wear it.   Perhaps.  I have also reserved all next weekend for working on the kit; told friends and family I'll be out of town camping, then the trip got canceled.. and I "forgot" to tell anyone that little part.  Two whole weekends to myself and my kit.  Progress shall be made.

Also, over 7000 views?  Thanks, vode.

[Serim Merec]

Hoo hoo sounds like Mr. Ptay is gunna have some FUN!

7000 views, 426 replys (including this one), and 29 pages! That's impresive, "MOST impresive" 

[Zophar Ptay]

yeah, well.. most of it is banter and non-updates... in hindsight it would have been better to leave the thread for pics and take the chatter elsewhere, but oh well.   I may throw together a photo-only WIP when it is all said and done with the full progression of build images, leaving out all of the abandoned forks so that hopefully it could be of use to someone interested in trying this technique without having to wade through 20 pages of noise to find the 6 pages of info.  We'll see.   I have two other kits to get together after this one; another Late Crusader and a Legacy.. Maybe I'll leave this one as is and learn from my mistakes moving on.  It's tough doing something so out of the ordinary as a first time kit (first costume ever, first Mando design, and first time doing any fiberglass or pep work) so I've been a bit needy on the input making sure I am staying on the reservation with it.  I may be tapdancing on concertina wire, but I think I'm still technically on the reservation   In the future I'll be more sure of my footing I think.  And part of it is that I am still so new to this that I keep wanting to share every little thing which you ode have seen a hundred times, I'm sure.  Anyway, last of the reinforcing on the upper torso and the last of the gelcoat in the bucket are setting up now.  Lunch break while they cure then I can start in on the cloth layers inside the bucket. I'll likely call it a night at that point and start on the bondo work tomorrow, but we'll see.

[Dresdon Acacin]

I've been in your position before.....but I only sleep 3hours a night so I may put waay too much thought into what to do on the 'gam....like putting an explosive dart launcher on the helmet "He can stare a man to death" well so can I...

Have you put much thought into armour-integrated weapons yet?

[Zophar Ptay]

Have you put much thought into armour-integrated weapons yet?

I have, and they won't be on this kit.  My wife's likely will have extensive integrated weapon systems and some heavy weaponry [a gatling with rotating barrels is in the plans] but I don't have that kind of thing in this kit's future.

[Dresdon Acacin]

I have a rotating gatling gun on my V$ right gauntlet        well, if I can get the motor glued onto the base/frame thing >.<

[Zophar Ptay]

oh no... I'm thinking Jaro-style gatling.  *wicked Grin*  My V2 may be a heavy weapons loadout, I have so many ideas for fun toys... but this kit's heaviest might eventually be a carbine.  Anything heavier just doesn't fit the concept I have in mind for Zophar.

[Dresdon Acacin]

I see.....everythiong on my armour/pieces of armour have a weapoonised purpose 

[Zophar Ptay]

I've been messing with some PVC pipe to make my leg pieces between coats of resin and bondo and realized that using the heat gun to bend and curve as I am, getting the pair to lok the same will be nigh impossible.  Solution?  mould one with the heat gun and use that one as a plug to lay resin and glass over.  Result should be two identical legs.  Lets hope my legs are symmetrical.  No pics yet, but hey.. too busy working.  Helmet is getting noticeably close to finished.  Lots of little divots and such to work out yet, but man is it coming together.  weather is supposed to be bad this weekend, maybe I'll get some pics in then.

We leave for CVI in 5 weeks... the timer is running.

[Squirrel]

That Helmet rocks. . .