One of those things will be a full look at the new Stormtrooper armor. Expect to see a brand-new trailer - probably featuring actors from the original trilogy (Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, maybe even Mark Hamill) - and a poster, as well as a number of other items we're not even aware of yet. Plus, I need this ready by the next AthensCon in December.With the S tar Wars celebration coming up tomorrow, the door to official Star Wars: The Force Awakens news is about to swing wide open.
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I like the challenge of building it and figuring out how to do things. I'm not into buying something when I can make it. There's another suit I'm working on that I'm considering making out of foam, only because it's going to be fairly bulky and making it out of paper is just too much of a headache. The helmet will have fans and as for the suit, maybe some cooling system for a cool shirt if it's needed. You can still crush it, but it holds it shape very well.Īs for the heat, if this were foam, there's a good chance I would overheat real quick. This helps seal the joints from any interaction between the contact cement and the epoxy or resin, and it also makes the pep as hard as plastic. Before I lay up the epoxy and fiberglass cloth, I drench the pep in cyanoacrylate glue - Super glue. That adds a ton of weight that isn't needed. I also don't do a "rondo" slush inside the pep. If needed I'll reinforce some areas with adequate layers, but if it's not needed, I'll keep it light. I'm going to use epoxy and some light cloth that's used in R/C. It's not going to be a very heavy layup process. The weight doesn't really concern me that much. Here to help if I can as well so don't hesitate to ask! Super stellar work so far mate, and can't wait to see how it turns out. Those kits aren't as expensive anymore, and for around the same cost as what you are about to invest in doing. Then I started to get concerned with weight, maintenance, and all the extra heat generation and overall appearance. I myself was prepared to do an entire kit from pepakura. I absolutely love the determination and dedication mate, and by no means am I trying to discourage you in your quest. To offset some of the cost, some of the parts I'm making for the blaster & pistol out of aluminum I will offer for sale.īuilding suits, props, models and such is what I do. I already have a partially finished helmet, but it needs more work in correcting it than just making a new one that's much closer.Īs for the cost, since I'll be making just about everything as a one-off I'm estimating around 700 euros in all build materials also including the purchase of gloves, boots, belt and under suit. I don't know how many hours, but I would estimate it at a few hundred spread out over the next few months. It's like an eraser in it's cure and I use a rasp or heavy grit sand paper to take off what I need. The shaping is also pretty quick because I do a lot of the roughing while the "bondo" isn't fully cured. Because of the glue I use, UHU Universal contact cement, putting the together goes pretty quick. So.How many hundreds of hours are you going to need to spend on this.And how many hundreds of dollars in glue, resin, fiberglass cloth, Bondo.Etc. If all goes well, I plan to have this suit ready for the next AthensCon. There are a few more parts that I printed but haven't had a chance to assemble yet since I had some commissions to complete and get shipped off to clients. After the hard parts are done, I'm going to make a template for the gaskets and cast them, then tackle the heavy blaster and a sidearm. I still need to go over them with CA (cyanoacrylate) glue (this helps in making things somewhat rigid and 'seals' the seams to keep any interaction between the glue and epoxy) then hit them with epoxy and fiberglass cloth, THEN spend more time than I care to count sanding and shaping everything. The following are just the raw paper assembly. I'm still not 100% done with the scaling of the parts, but I've already managed to print out and assemble some pieces. The plans are, the suit will be white epoxy/fiberglass with rubber gaskets, mic and speaker for the helmet and custom electronics for the weapons to make them light up and go pew pew. It's FAR from accurate, but it's a decent base to work off of and with all the reference I accumulated, making it accurate should be relatively painless. The file was originally made for someone 5'7" and I'm 6'1", so everything needed to be adjusted.
So I found a pepakura file of the complete suit and started the measuring and scaling process. Even the kit is more than I'm willing to pay for vacuum formed plastic. I've been wanting a FO trooper armor since I saw the movie, but paying 7 grand for the Anovos suit just isn't going to happen.
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