I've recently started building my second ever costume/cosplay, my first being a Psycho out of Borderlands, but that's a whole other universe so nevermind that, it was a long, long time ago (Get it? No one? Ok..). Anyway, this second costume is one that I've been dreaming of building for years and years now, actually ever since I saw my first Star Wars movie, probably more than 15 years ago; a Mandalorian armour. On the 18th of November 2014 I finally got around to get it started, and since then I've been working 25 hours to get where I'm at right now.
I never intended to buy any armour pieces, nor the helmet, so basically everything pictured in this thread was made by me, in my school's workshop or at home, on the floor, where I work best. My first plan was to make all the pieces out of worbla, but after some consideration I decided that only the armour plates would be out of worbla and the helmet either casted in resin or made out of fibre glass. My plans changed however when I, one day, stumbled upon some 0.8 mm steel plates laying on one of the "pick what you want and use it for whatever you want"- shelf at my school's workshop, and the idea of an all metal Beskar'gam came to me, and so, here it is, the start of my all metal Mandalorian!
I started making templates of the helmet and the armour pieces out of cardboard...
After a few days and a whole lot of cardboard, three versions of the helmet, and one destroyed racing/motorcycle helmet (to get the dome good), this was what I ended up with...
And don't worry, the T visor will be cut out as soon as it can be cut out without risking destroying the whole thing...
I think I got the size out pretty good, it's perhaps a bit too big, but it's alright for now...
And so, on to the armour plates.. Templates were cut out of cardboard for these too, and my first plan was to make them out of worbla but...
...this happened...
Did some test fitting of the leg plates using neodym magnets.
And here is the armor plate set, almost complete. Still missing is the knee pads, the backplate, some bootplates and the cod plate (I think it's called that.. If not; the crotch plate) and the gauntlets.
So yeah, this is where I'm at now, with about 25 hours spent so far. My prediction is that it wll take about 150 hours to finish everything, but we'll see about that in the end.. I'm hoping that my first version of it will be finished in the end of February 2015, as there is a con' here in Sweden which I'd like to attend with it. This first version will most likely not include a jetpack, but with that said, I'll probably start building that along with all the other things anyway.
So yeah, that's the start of my Mando project, I'm hoping you're going to like this!
//Bumbi
I never intended to buy any armour pieces, nor the helmet, so basically everything pictured in this thread was made by me, in my school's workshop or at home, on the floor, where I work best. My first plan was to make all the pieces out of worbla, but after some consideration I decided that only the armour plates would be out of worbla and the helmet either casted in resin or made out of fibre glass. My plans changed however when I, one day, stumbled upon some 0.8 mm steel plates laying on one of the "pick what you want and use it for whatever you want"- shelf at my school's workshop, and the idea of an all metal Beskar'gam came to me, and so, here it is, the start of my all metal Mandalorian!
I started making templates of the helmet and the armour pieces out of cardboard...
After a few days and a whole lot of cardboard, three versions of the helmet, and one destroyed racing/motorcycle helmet (to get the dome good), this was what I ended up with...
And don't worry, the T visor will be cut out as soon as it can be cut out without risking destroying the whole thing...
I think I got the size out pretty good, it's perhaps a bit too big, but it's alright for now...
And so, on to the armour plates.. Templates were cut out of cardboard for these too, and my first plan was to make them out of worbla but...
...this happened...
Did some test fitting of the leg plates using neodym magnets.
And here is the armor plate set, almost complete. Still missing is the knee pads, the backplate, some bootplates and the cod plate (I think it's called that.. If not; the crotch plate) and the gauntlets.
So yeah, this is where I'm at now, with about 25 hours spent so far. My prediction is that it wll take about 150 hours to finish everything, but we'll see about that in the end.. I'm hoping that my first version of it will be finished in the end of February 2015, as there is a con' here in Sweden which I'd like to attend with it. This first version will most likely not include a jetpack, but with that said, I'll probably start building that along with all the other things anyway.
So yeah, that's the start of my Mando project, I'm hoping you're going to like this!
//Bumbi