Greetings all. I am in the process of building my first kit. I am new to costuming in general, so I've been doing a ton of reading and a fair bit of trial and error. I am finally far enough along that I decided to start a planning thread.
My intent is to build a medium class, modern era medic kit. I'll be sticking to a red/white paint scheme, and the in-universe medic emblem(s). Below is a rough idea of what I'm thinking. The filling defects around the periphery of the armor plates are there because I'm too lazy to clean up the image. But, the more I thought about it white margins with red in center might not look too bad. I'll likely go with grey scrubs instead of a flight suit. Other goodies will include a medpack, beskad, small sidearm...and bacta. So much bacta.
I am going to start with the buy'ce and move on to armor and the remainder of the kit afterwards. So far I've tried my hand at the bucket from buckets scratch build. Not my cup of tea. Not overly difficult, but I just couldn't get it to come out right. I moved on to pep/cardstock and the WOF template, and that came together pretty well.
Then I tried it on... It seemed like proportion-wise it isn't horrible, but still seems a bit small. Even though the rule of thumb of bucket width half of your shoulder width was pretty spot on still seemed not quite right (without ear caps anyhow). It's also a struggle getting it on/off due to the size of my melon.
All that said, I need to a scale up a pep file to fit me a little better. Has anyone tried the math this guy recommends?
http://www.405th.com/showthread.php?t=25588 Sorry, I'm sure this has been asked before but my searches of the forum was coming up dry.
Anyhow, I'll be posting more as I make progress.
