spartanbula

Thanks guys, I've been kind of busy lately rehearsal has been going really late and so is school so I'll be trying to get as much work done as I can.

So I finally got my vacuum former to work this weekend it did a great job, the only problem was that my master had some problems with in in detail and it kinda came out not like I wanted it. it also turns out hot glue and heat don't get along well, so most of my master fell apart after the pull. Back to the drawing board I will make a better master for the chest and reinforce it with fiberglass so that it will not fall apart.. and I'm going to make a more consistent master as well.

1/8 inch HIPS is on its way, I'm just waiting for it to come.

So today I noticed I had made some errors with the master so I edited it some. I vacuum formed and the master held up well, the only problem was that the plastic I have is not melting and stretching properly. I bought it about a year ago and it has a rough rigid side and a smooth one, I think the rough side causes the plastic to not melt properly and holds it together a little better, so I need to get some better plastic in the mean time.

So I cleaned up the chest today and made it so I can use it as a master for vacuum forming. I added some pink polystyrene foam for extra structure and put some expanding foam in to harden it up. I do have a question, how do you get approval for a new trooper type?

Here is the chest getting started, its a little rough, but tonight I'm to tired to clean it up like I usually do, so I think I'll do that tomorrow.

I'm good thanks, I make the 3d files into pepakura and then use the pepakura as templates for EVA foam, then I'm hoping to vacuum form. body filler and I don't get along well. And last night I finished the legs.

Here is the ab plate. I worked on the helmet a little too cant seem to get the right shape.

I finished the helmet after cleaning it up a little, and made the chest plate

I decided the other day I would make some pepakura files of the sky/jump trooper, I finished the rough draft tonight of the helmet.

thanks for that, now you've made me very interested in trying to figure out what the imperial commando looks like, whether its a mixed look between a storm trooper and the Republic commando. it makes it all the more interesting.

Ok, thanks for correcting me. although I still haven't seen that variant of helmet around much, is it certified?

it looks like this. and this is it VS the Republic Commando, I think the only difference is the helmet.

Was just poking around a few sites the other day, and I've noticed that no one as far as I have seen has done an Imperial Commando from Star Wars Imperial Commando: 501st By Karen Travis. So I was wondering, has anyone ever made one?