defyitall
Sr Member
As some may know I was one of the people to foolish enough to try and put together an Obi-Wan costume from the new The Clone Wars movie and show before anything had hit actual screens. My target date was San Deigo Comicon in July 2008 in order to get some exposure and hopefully work the premier. Well, everything worked out and I did get to work the premier. But I ended up having to build a lot more of the armor myself than originally planned. If you wanna read about that check my progress thread:
http://www.therpf.com/showthread.php?t=44963
Over the course of last year I did small upgrades here and there, arriving at the current state of the costume:
After I finished some people started asking me if I had any plan to either reproduce, build, or copy my armor for others. Fact was, at the time, I didn't. I was wholly concerned with finished my stuff for Comicon and then after that tweaking it for later events. After everything died down in the Fall I started to think about the possibility. I talked to my friend Donny (foxbatkillr on many forums) who has a lot more molding and armor building experience than I have, about whether this idea was feasible. He encouraged me to go ahead and so it all got set in motion around Christmas time.
Out initial plan was to fill a gap that had opened up when one armor maker fell off the face of the planet and no one was making the chest armor anymore. This had left some folks high and dry with almost finished costumes only missing chest armor. My chest armor was built in sintra with the help of the illustrious Obi-Dan Bergren, He had some templates and helped my cut out the shapes. We put the rough together in about 6 hours one Saturday a few days before Comicon. I tweaked, filled, heated, shaped, and finished it in the next few days. The result looked like this:
During Christmas break we put plans together to mold this armor in silicon.
http://www.therpf.com/showthread.php?t=44963
Over the course of last year I did small upgrades here and there, arriving at the current state of the costume:
After I finished some people started asking me if I had any plan to either reproduce, build, or copy my armor for others. Fact was, at the time, I didn't. I was wholly concerned with finished my stuff for Comicon and then after that tweaking it for later events. After everything died down in the Fall I started to think about the possibility. I talked to my friend Donny (foxbatkillr on many forums) who has a lot more molding and armor building experience than I have, about whether this idea was feasible. He encouraged me to go ahead and so it all got set in motion around Christmas time.
Out initial plan was to fill a gap that had opened up when one armor maker fell off the face of the planet and no one was making the chest armor anymore. This had left some folks high and dry with almost finished costumes only missing chest armor. My chest armor was built in sintra with the help of the illustrious Obi-Dan Bergren, He had some templates and helped my cut out the shapes. We put the rough together in about 6 hours one Saturday a few days before Comicon. I tweaked, filled, heated, shaped, and finished it in the next few days. The result looked like this:
During Christmas break we put plans together to mold this armor in silicon.
