Jodo Kast Build

[toolguy301]

Thank you for the kind words.

Been working on getting the jetpack ready for paint. Did a layer of spackle mixed with elmers glue over the entire pack & sanded it to smooth out things Added the 3D printed piano keys, just used super glue to attach them to the body. Then I did another light coat of resin over the entire pack. Sanded this all smooth then it was time for primer. After the first coat of primer did some spot fills & wet sanded it to smooth it out. Ready for paint. Primed & smoothed the fuel tank tops & bottoms, rocket, collar, grate, & thrusters.

Got my light kit in for the rangefinder from Jc27 (TDH) yesterday. This one is white.

Also asked Major (TDH) to make me a custom set of gloves which came in today. These are great gloves. I had him make a couple of slight changes to make it more Jodo specific. The top pads are more square near the knuckles & have a slight bevel with 3 stitches instead of the radius & the 4 on Boba Fett's gloves. I went with grey & will darken the tackle twill to a light grey. I based this off the few view in the comic.

Also have the 2 belt accessory panels & helmet ready to paint.

 

[toolguy301]

The painting has begun. Jetpack, belt accessories, & helmet are all in a base coat of silver.

Received a box in the mail with my armor that I got from RKD (TDH). I had a special request to use his V1 knee armor & going with an inner & outer dart housing on each. This way I will have 4 darts on each knee. This is some great armor. Other than some trimming & sanding to get things to fit it shouldn't take long to be ready for paint. RKD was great to work with.

 

[toolguy301]

Removed the shin pouches & dyed my MOW flight suit, spats, flak vest, & neck seal. Decided to dye it in 2 phases. First go was using a mix called driftwood which was a mix of black & yellow which gave a nice dirty undertone. Doesn't show well but you can see some of this coloring where the flash washed out the legs. This was allowed to air dry overnight & then went & dyed it to a dark pearl grey with a mix of black & let air dry. Not too dark but definitely a nice grey. I didn't want to go too dark so the I could get some nice weathering tones & will darken it with that. Did the same process with the flak vest & neck seal which came out a light grey which is washed out in the photos. There are plans to make this rather dirty as well.

Went with the tackle twill instead of the cotton, wanted there to be some difference between the vest & the flight suit material & wanted to mimic the look of Boba Fett. This will be darkened more with the weathering. Can tell the color difference between the vest coloring & the white tackle twill on the gloves.

 

[Halliwax]

keep up the great work!

 

[RichardJones]

Looks great, can't wait to see it all together!

 

[toolguy301]

Thanks for the kind words.

Received a package in the mail today from Shapeways. A bunch of 3D printed items. Had my gauntlets, darts, rocket (missing nose piece wasn't in the box), dental expander, gauntlet & knee darts, MQ-1 calculator pad with separate buttons, flame thrower nozzles, belt & pistol grenades, cod & collar/back armor attachment blocks, & trigger/barrel for Pulce 40. The dental files I have had these are what I call my V.1 set cause they now have the #15 on them where these don't.

 

[RichardJones]

Those gauntlets look really clean, hard to believe they are 3 d printed! Looks like you have a lot of work to do,

 

[Halliwax]

those gauntlets are amazing!! i agree i cant believe they are 3d printed! wonder what they used to smooth them? acetone?

 

[toolguy301]

Thanks Lance, have a pile of things to work on now. The weather is warming so it is more conclusive for painting so will be a lot of painting in the next couple of weeks. I have gone through & created some color templates for the helmet & jetpack. Will be working on the armor as well. The helmet will be painted in the style of the ROTJ Boba Fett helmet but with Jodo Kast specific damage & colors.

These are as they would come off the machine other than cleaning the powder from them. There was nothing used to smooth them they do have a polishing process which will smooth the surface even more, but these didn't go through that process. These were printed at Shapeways on industrial printers which use a powder bed of sintered nylon & use a laser to melt the nylon to create the layers. I have been very impressed with the quality of the prints that I have been getting from Shapeways of late, I don't know if they have updated machines but the finish has been great with very minimal work to be done.

 

[johnojodo]

Nice to see a Jodo on the go, especially one of such a high standard. Will you be making the extra bits frinka venom darts as a separate piece, tree spikes on gauntlets and the viles from the end? (I just found my wonkie pulse 40 build from my jodo in a box today)

 

[toolguy301]

Thank you for the kind words. As for the extra bits I won't be incorporating the tree spikes into the gauntlets at this time, I couldn't come up with a good way to incorporate them & feel safe about it. Would be too worried about them popping out at an adverse time & poking someone, particularly little kids, while trooping.

The venom darts & the viles may get done down the road but would be more something that would be cool for static pieces but would be difficult to work make work when on a troop. Would be nice accessories though but I think they would be more accessories for a TEOD Boba Fett .

I plan on making the hypodermic needle piece that is being used when Jodo meets Dengar, that would be a cool piece to add to the belt to go with the neck collar.

 

[Wildcard]

Everything is looking great, nice progress!

 

[toolguy301]

Thank you guys for the kind words.

Been a while but have gotten the helmet painted but still need to finish with some fine weathering details. I made up some templates based off the various views of the helmet throughout the comic. Consistency is very lacking, so took a good stab at using all the various damage displayed. I didn't want too clean of a helmet, just don't feel it would look right.

Also worked on the ammo pouches. Making functional pouches. Used chip board to make a box & glued vinyl over the top. I will be spray dying the vinyl gray & will be adding the stitching in the flap.

 

[toolguy301]

Some more progress. Decided to work on the belt some.


Used a vinyl spray paint on the ammo pouches to make them gray. Need to get the stitching done on the flaps.

Went with a brown girth belt from Dover.

Painted up the left & right belt accessories.

 

[LB66679]

This is awesome !!

 

[toolguy301]

Been busy in the last week working on a number of things.

Got the armor prepped to begin painting.

Had to add some pieces to the cod piece to make it over lap with the kidney plate. Used some pieces from a face shield due to being the same thickness & just as flexible these were epoxied to the inside of the cod piece. The upper & lower sides were heated & formed to match the cod piece. Used some Bondo to blend & fill.

For the back plate I had to add about .750" to the section that the collar piece would be attached. Use some face shield pieces for this & epoxied them. Used Bondo to blend & fill this in.

Assembled the knee armor. Going with 4 darts on each knee. Had to fully assemble these. Used epoxy to hold everything together.

Everything else was trimmed & sanded. Then primed & painted a base silver.

Worked on the 3 belt grenades & pistol grenades epoxying them together. Did some filling & sanding prior to priming. Painted the belt grenades in a light gray/white/black mix with a base silver. The pistol grenades went with a darker grey, red, & purplish color. Trying to emulate the comic coloring.

Worked on the side arm. Went with a Pulce from MLS. Very nice cast & recommend it. Went with a 3D printed barrel piece. The MLS pulse comes in 3 pieces, 2 piece barrel & the main body. The barrel threads onto the body via a 5/8" thread. I cut this off & made & recess adding a 5/16" threaded piece to screw the new barrel on. Wanted this cause wanted the hollow barrel & designed this to place the pistol grenades in the end of the barrel. Did all the prep work & went with a paint scheme similar to ESB Boba Fett.

 

[Halliwax]

this is forming up real great!! I'm glad your still at it. you really nailed the paint job! and i love the greeblies on the belt. Jodo was very cool back in the day, glad to see your bringing him to life.

 

[OdiWan72]

WOW, that is looking wonderful! What material did you choose for the prints.

I guess ultra detail for the MQ1 pad, but what for all the bigger part (white flexible?). How do you archieve such a clean and smooth surface, given the fact that the white standard plastic (IF that´s what you chose9 is pretty grainy/ textured...

Markus

 

[toolguy301]

this is forming up real great!! I'm glad your still at it. you really nailed the paint job! and i love the greeblies on the belt. Jodo was very cool back in the day, glad to see your bringing him to life.

Thank you & definitely still at it. Had some things come up that have slowed the momentum but getting back on track.

[QUOTEWOW, that is looking wonderful! What material did you choose for the prints.

I guess ultra detail for the MQ1 pad, but what for all the bigger part (white flexible?). How do you archieve such a clean and smooth surface, given the fact that the white standard plastic (IF that´s what you chose9 is pretty grainy/ textured...
][/QUOTE]

Thanks Markus, that is correct for the MQ-1 pad went with the ultra detail & everything else that is in the white it the strong, white, & flexible material. I was really impressed with how these printed. This was the best pieces that I have had printed to date. Yes there has been some work to smooth things but on a whole not bad.

Something that I have done is use Smooth Cast 320 on the inside of many of these pieces & the Smooth Cast will absorb into the printed material, which firms it up greatly & makes it very solid. For the outside surface I have been putting a couple of coats of matte clear coat helps seal the printed material & also absorbs into in as well as helping with some of the graininess. Good coat of primer with some wet sanding gives a pretty smooth finish. For the gauntlets I am going to try that new self leveling epoxy coating that is offered by Smooth On to give a smooth surface to see how this works. Keep trying different things to help improve the finish & make things go quicker.

 

[toolguy301]

Did a 3D design of the Nemrod holster based off of various reference photos, made a version to be pepped or 3D printed. The pep version I eliminated some details to simplify things. Opted to go with the pep version on this build cause of some mods that will have to be made in order to mount the pistol grenades on the side. This is just the card stock shell at this time but will be gluing chip board on the inner surfaces to firm it up then resin coating it. Planning on covering this in vinyl.