My Tie Pilot WIP

shenphong

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So as with many people here, I've been guilty of accumulating more then I build, so finally finishing up some items I've had sitting around. Building up a tie pilot and will be listing the materials and vendors from where I've been getting them.

Helmet: I believe is a v1 Dan Laws kit
Hoses: Targ
Chestbox: Dan Laws as well I think
Body suit: ebay purchase, I don't believe the store is around anymore or has changed names
Boots: German jackboots
Gloves:
Belt:
Commpad: 3d printed
Armor: Tambo

Shot of the helmet untrimmed, its the older ears molded in, came with no greeblies which I'll be sourcing myself. Kit also did not come with a plastic sheet for the Mohawk so a quick measurement from the trident piece and a trip to tap plastics solved it for a dollar.


Helmet WIP:


I used a for sale sign cut to build a stable frame for the helmet, kept it in place with magnets and then superglue.




Once the for sale sign was glued in place, the helmet was pretty sturdy so applied the plastic strip, epoxy and used magnets to hold it in place, was pretty impressed at how strongly and firmly the magnets held it.


Trimmed the front and used a heatgun to bend the strip at the bottom of the helmet.



Positioned the face mask portion in and used 4 counter sunk machine screws to hold it in place after drilling 4 holes through the helmet and the face mask.



The only screws they had in stock were very long, I was going to dremel them down anyways so that wasn't much of an issue. Since then, I've cut them down and applied glue to the washers and nuts on the inside of the helmet, need to install the trident piece next and get some lenses made or cut out for it.
 
Commpad painted via airbrush.


Armor and chestbox WIP:
Trimmed Tambo kit with a older DL chestbox kit. I cut open the box and epoxied magnets to both the inside of the chestbox and the inside of my chest armor...the mounting system lines right up and has a very secure hold.



 
Nice! I especially like the Tie helmet build as i think it's one of the more difficult helmets to build from the OT!
 
Thanks to some help on the Jolly Roger forum, got a template made and had the octagons cut with a laser cutter. First time cutting something that way and I just don't know if I can go back to the old way.


Prepping them to drill the center hole and got some lenses cut out from a welding visor I used to cut out my dredd helmet visor, the corner pieces worked wonderfully.

 
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