Thought I'd show off my homemade SE Boba Fett outfit. It's almost completed, just waiting on a couple more parts before I call it done. First up, the helmet:
HELMET
It started out as 2mm greyboard. I followed templates from TDH and went about assembling it.
It went together fairly easily with the sturdy cardboard supporting itself. The dome proved to be the most challenging however I managed to keep it looking somewhat neat. After that, it was time to resin the helmet, coating the outside in polyester resin and using fiberglass mat on the inside.
The bondo stage took a while, especially on the dome but after repeated filler > sand > primer > sand > filler > etc, I had the imperfections smoothed out.
I also added electronics in the form of a metronome light kit to the rangefinder and followed that up with a hearing aid system, two fans and a microphone for my voice.
Painting was laborious. I followed reference material and although it's not dead-on accurate, I'm really happy with the finished piece.
HELMET
It started out as 2mm greyboard. I followed templates from TDH and went about assembling it.
It went together fairly easily with the sturdy cardboard supporting itself. The dome proved to be the most challenging however I managed to keep it looking somewhat neat. After that, it was time to resin the helmet, coating the outside in polyester resin and using fiberglass mat on the inside.
The bondo stage took a while, especially on the dome but after repeated filler > sand > primer > sand > filler > etc, I had the imperfections smoothed out.
I also added electronics in the form of a metronome light kit to the rangefinder and followed that up with a hearing aid system, two fans and a microphone for my voice.
Painting was laborious. I followed reference material and although it's not dead-on accurate, I'm really happy with the finished piece.