World's Slowest Republic Commando Build

[thorssoli]

Progress? Not so much. I have opened the files and thought about printing out some more pieces a couple of times, but that's about as close as I've come to actually moving forward...

For the scaling, I really don't remember what I did on the bucket. It has been almost three years. That said, I'm pretty sure I just went with whatever the default was on Skip's files.

 

[Diastrom]

Thanks brother, your posts have been a great deal of help


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[thorssoli]

Tiny sidetrack:

 

[CorriTimigan]

Oooh! Very nice!

 

[1ManBattalion]

That sir is all kinds of Awesome!

 

[thorssoli]

Back to work at last:


I've got a friend doing the pep models for me so I can concentrate on the reinforcement and vacuum forming. This should speed up the world's slowest RC build a little bit.

 

[Diastrom]

Hey brother,

Your thread has been such a great resource for my own RC lid. I was curious if you could answer a few questions though.

1. What did you use to make the seal between the helmet and (what I assume to be) the sheet metal tube as seen below?

2. What type of silicone/RTV did you use for your jacket mold?

3. Did you use a rotocast machine or did you do the rotocasting by hand? Do you have any tips for eliminating airbubbles?

Thanks again,

Di

 

[madmikeee]

just awesome. Thanks for the reference material mentions above, I am looking at the book now.

:thumbsup

 

[Qui-Gonzalez]

I'm doing the "Slowest Paintup" of the Slowest Republic Commando helmet.

 

[ZeroNt11]

I'm extremely happy I've managed to stumble upon this thread! I've always wanted to do an RC, and this is definitely turning out to be an amazing build. I cant wait to see it all finished up! If you wouldnt mind my asking, where did you manage to find all of the pieces for the armor?? I've found several different places that had bits and pieces of it, but never actually managed to find the whole thing..

 

[Diastrom]

I'm extremely happy I've managed to stumble upon this thread! I've always wanted to do an RC, and this is definitely turning out to be an amazing build. I cant wait to see it all finished up! If you wouldnt mind my asking, where did you manage to find all of the pieces for the armor?? I've found several different places that had bits and pieces of it, but never actually managed to find the whole thing..

I'm sure you've seen fierfek's pep files. If not, do a search for click here: http://www.therpf.com/f24/fierfeks-star-wars-pepakura-file-development-122071/, he has most of the pieces minus the abs. His shoulder pauldron and chest are very good.

LigonAP will sell you his helmet pep file for 40$. Click here: http://www.therpf.com/f13/hero-rc-helmet-pepakura-file-119851/ Its probably the best version of the helmet that I've seen. He's got the file password protected so you'll have to scale the file through your printer settings if you want another size.

Finally, for anything missing, you can contact Skip at http://www.therpf.com/members/skupilkinson/

Good luck and enjoy.

 

[thorssoli]

Answers to your questions Diastrom:

1. What did you use to make the seal between the helmet and the tube?

Modelling Clay

2. What type of silicone/RTV did you use for your jacket mold?

AM128 Moldmaking silicone from Epoxy Resin, Urethane Foam, Silicone Mold Making Rubber-AeroMarine Products. Tell them Shawn Thorsson sent you.

3. Did you use a rotocast machine or did you do the rotocasting by hand? Do you have any tips for eliminating airbubbles?

Rotocasting by hand. To eliminate air bubbles, it's best not to make them.


Hopefully that helps.

 

[Diastrom]

Shawn,

I can't thank you enough. I appreciate the fact that you are willing to share this info.

Di

 

[thorssoli]

Progress continues...

 

[thorssoli]

I had a bit of down time where I wasn't using my CNC machine in between carving out slices for my Ironman build, so I had it cut out a set of forms for one of the forearms:


The models I used were the .obj files exported from Pepakura, so they'll still fit the design language from the rest of the build. I'll have to do some quick sanding and shaping to get rid of the faceted nature of the parts, but I'm determined that this is how I want to do all of the arm parts.

I'm probably also going to grind off the raised detail portion that runs along the forearm and cobble together something more interesting that I'll mold and cast in resin.

Stay tuned...

 

[CorriTimigan]

Just checking in to let you know that there are people still looking at this, and that you should keep it up!
These look pretty good, by the way.

 

[thorssoli]

Thanks. It's odd, but this build has become the thing I tinker with when I ought to be doing something else. Right now I'm in between paid gigs, so I've got a bit of time to invest in this build.

 

[Qui-Gonzalez]

It lives!!

 

[SampleName]

Glad to see some more posts from this project!

 

[pedro1971]

Absolutely awesome thread!! Thank you so much for sharing such a great read!
Great work!