I am a long time planning my armor and has changed several times.
About a year and a half ago, I hired a person to print the helmet on a 3D printer. We combine delivery to before Jedicon will happen in my city in August this year. The model I chose for its my favorite, was this:
But I realized the difficulty that the person was having because he failed to extract the game texture and would have to make the mold starting from zero, so after a good talk, we agree that the model of Shae Vizla would be easier to him, and I like that model too.
He made some progress in the construction helmet. Printed part of the lateral and top.
But last night, after all this time, he told me that the helmet will not be ready in time.
Well, the way then is to look for another alternative. The Rakata Emilinator Helmet is a dream, but will never be ready in time for the event, so I’ll try to find someone else to do the helmet of Shae Vizla for me.
The armor that always wanted to do is also the Rakata Eliminator (or Mandalorian Clansman), but it is also too complex to be ready in time.
I just decided to not even on the jetpack. I believe that by having a hurry, I will not do it for now.
As the material is fiberglass or PVC. I even like to do in metal, but it would be impossible (and very very very expensive) to do this here in Brazil in time.
I even know someone who knows maybe doing in metal, but besides not have time for that, he’s a Merc, then … no way!
Well, metal isn’t that expensive. It’s more the tools that can cost a fortune.
But I agree with you, that this type of armor is very complicated to do in metal. (I made one of the swtor mandos myself, so I know about it. ^^)
You have some(relative) plain surfaces here, so I think using PVC plates and stabilize them with fiberglass is the easiest way for the upper body.
The helmet shows a good progress so far, but 3d printing takes a lot of time and gluing the parts together is also very tricky. But it seems to work out for you.
No, I think we only have a file for 3D-Print. There is also the problem that this file has not been tested yet.
Our member Jakkrit is creating a Pepakura model of the helmet at the moment. But this will take some time.
News: I bought some tools, Scissor for metal, Feile, Pliers rivets, drill, some drill bits for metal. Also bought aluminuim plates 0.8 mm x 1000 mm x 500 mm.
I can not believe I’ll even do (or try) this metal. Oo
I hope everything goes right.
I started to cut the plates this weekend.
I live in an apartment and so there is not much space to work, so I’ll take it all to my grandmother’s house, which has a large backyard, anvil and has a lot of tools that I dont have. This will facilitate the work!
The helmet, I bought one made by Jaro.
Well, it’s happening ^ ^
I play since launch, but play on a US server, because Server Lag.
Don’t know if you can see my (eternal) Project, but I knew that we already designed the helmet…a little different maybe.
