Deetz
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Greetings all!
So as the title says this project I'm starting on will be the new Tie Fighter Pilot. However not as seen in The Force Awakens...that S&M suit is terrible in my opinion. I bought the 1/6 figure from Sideshow Collectibles and the suit material is much more appealing. So I will base this project using that figure as reference. Other than the suit material and a couple of colors of buttons on the chest boxes it's really the same thing.
So the first thing I did was to develop a 3D model of the helmet. I found a downloadable option for Pepakura which I then remodeled, changing things such as size, the head opening and adding more detail to the low poly version. Then I spliced and 3D printed it using Petg filament. PLA works just fine as well I have found.


The oxygen hose connections on the front are printed differently so the one on the right side can have a hose attached to it. The next step was to clean the print up using bondo and glazing putty and a lot of sanding. Which is where I am at now.


I've also been working on the chest boxes, using a combination of 3d printed items and some acrylic plastic and of course our favorite glue E6000. A little finishing and some paint and the pieces are ready to be attached. The oxygen hose is from a vintage russian flight mask. I tried to remove the material coating it had but that wasn't going to happen
. So to give it a rubbery look I painted a few coats of Plasti-Dip onto it which worked quite well. I'm also in the process of modeling the rest of the armor as I go. The arm greaves in the pic are in the process of being cleaned up and assembled. The box on the exterior and the little boxes the run vertically on the side are not in the pic but are finished.


Thanks for looking! I'll update this post as I finish new items. Cheers!
So as the title says this project I'm starting on will be the new Tie Fighter Pilot. However not as seen in The Force Awakens...that S&M suit is terrible in my opinion. I bought the 1/6 figure from Sideshow Collectibles and the suit material is much more appealing. So I will base this project using that figure as reference. Other than the suit material and a couple of colors of buttons on the chest boxes it's really the same thing.
So the first thing I did was to develop a 3D model of the helmet. I found a downloadable option for Pepakura which I then remodeled, changing things such as size, the head opening and adding more detail to the low poly version. Then I spliced and 3D printed it using Petg filament. PLA works just fine as well I have found.


The oxygen hose connections on the front are printed differently so the one on the right side can have a hose attached to it. The next step was to clean the print up using bondo and glazing putty and a lot of sanding. Which is where I am at now.


I've also been working on the chest boxes, using a combination of 3d printed items and some acrylic plastic and of course our favorite glue E6000. A little finishing and some paint and the pieces are ready to be attached. The oxygen hose is from a vintage russian flight mask. I tried to remove the material coating it had but that wasn't going to happen


Thanks for looking! I'll update this post as I finish new items. Cheers!