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[Zophar Ptay]

<-----so much easier to explain in person...

I see what you are saying and i had a similar thought.   I'm concerned that I won't be able to get a smoothe, clean join at the various bends and it will just look like osik.  I was thinking heat gun on low and JUST long enough to hopefully set the current position into its "memory".  It is a welding/face shield an I picked up a couple clear ones and a few spare tinted ones to practice on.  The one in there now is the "solid maybe" and "functional but not great" that i have left in for the time being so I can work on other things and not feel like I completely abandoned the bucket :-P  I plan to revisit it in the near future

[Niabi]

Thats some nice weathering on your plates vod

[Zophar Ptay]

Greens are solid, red blinks.

[Dresdon Acacin]

Oooo I like the jewlled indicator lights-nice touch

[Nirob]

Great job you did on that costume so far. Very inspiring.

[Zophar Ptay]

Oooo I like the jewlled indicator lights-nice touch

Great job you did on that costume so far. Very inspiring.

Thanks Vode.   I'm swinging by Home Depot after work today to grab some self-tapping finishing screws to mount the strapping to the gaunt and waiting on some bits and bobs to come in to finish the electronics.  I put a hole in the bottom between the strap locations and the plan is to grommet the flight suit sleeve, mount a 9V battery inside each shoulder plate [plenty of room] and run the wiring inside the sleeve with a 2-pin JST connector [AKA the connectors used for motherboard fans] on each end so it can be removed easily.

[Zophar Ptay]

And while the resin cures on the lens assemblies, I strapped them up using WWII era leather belts

[Zophar Ptay]

Fruits of today's labour:




Soldered up an amp for each earpiece, a voice amp, a voice changer, and a good chunk of the gauntlet's lights.   Heading out for dinner now then I hope to finish the gauntlet tonight.

[Zophar Ptay]

One gauntlet completed and wired up.

Letin' it all hang out:




stuffed like a sausage:


ready to rock




 8) 8) 8) 8)

[Kraton Jax]

Pretty awesome!! Nice work there vod!

[Zophar Ptay]

playing with some speaker grille layouts for the other gauntlet to hit on the laser cutter this weekend:







In all cases, red lines are cuts and blue is etch.  Mando'a just spells out Zophar





Also, it occured to me last night that I got my left and right backward at some point.    the finished gaunt with the four lights is strapped to fit my left arm, not my right :-P    ah well :-P

[Zophar Ptay]

Some of you may remember Z.A.P.P.A, my armoury droid.  He is back from retirement today, this wonderful May the 4th, to gear up for you fine folks playing along at home.   Consider this my State of the Mando address.












I need a more discrete way to mount the shoulder strap than the current stainless steel acorn nuts while still be removable.  For now I may just put some boot black on the nuts... [If I had a dollar every time I... wait.. was that my outside voice?]

[Kraton Jax]

Damn vod... THAT FRICKIN AWESOME !!

[Dresdon Acacin]

Looking good vod, it wont be long until yoh can apply for OM at this rate.

[Zophar Ptay]

legs are going to be a real pain, one reason I've put them off so long...