My home made 'glass Vader shin gaurds

[Darth Stone]

I was just digging through some old photographs that I thought I would share.

Made these awhile back and I still use them today. These were some of my early attempts at trying to make more than just one of something.

This is what they started as, just a bunch of clay.

Did pretty good pulling a mold to make a master buck.

Here it is in black epoxy primmer.

After I painted it using 5 coats of automotive paint then I laid up the sillicone and disaster hit! It wouldn't release fully so I had to scrape it off and repaint.

When I first started this project I thought it would take about a mounth to do. Well it ended up taking about a year and about 350.00 plus a whole lot of set backs:cry

 

[PantheraGem]

Well it's good that you saw it through despite all the trouble! Good job.

Any pics of them with the whole costume?

 

[Darth Stone]

I was just looking for a photo that the shins were not covered in shadow or robes. Out of about 600 or so from different events I found this one. We were cracking up over something as I remember.