Hi everyone,
my name is Michael, I´m from Germany and I just started with my Stormtrooper "project".
My company does a rallye once a year and the teams have the choice to disguise and the best 3 custome can win a bonus prize.
Year before last we won with our Lego figure costumes, then last year our customes really sucked. Problems within the team, one member denying everyt custome.
So we did some last minute crayon customes, only to be disguised and get some laughs.
This year we want to rock. So I googled and googled and found a kid within a Stormtrooper foam armor. We thought it would be easy to do, so we choosed this custom.
And now we went from foam, over fibreglass to fiberglas-bondo molds for vacuum forming... :eek
While on my search how to realize the custom I stumbled across this pepakura thing. And it was like "aweeeeesome".
So, I got myself the pepakura files from Fierfek and started printing, cutting, gluing, folding, more glueing, despairing, glue between my fingernail and my skin, a super glued scissor(damn, my lady was...not amused about her "best scissor she got from her mom" glued together) and thanks to aceton for fixing this scissor problem.
Ok, so what I did until now:
Step 1 - cutting, glueing, folding
Step 2 - resin and bondo
I know, the "bondo" layer on the helmet is very rough, it was a quickshot. The next helmet will be better. I already sanded down the whole thing and added a new layer, closing the most gaps.
I also put resin onto some of the pepakura parts, but the weather changed and it was windy and rainy so I stored everything in the garage and wait till the sun comes out again.
New pictures will be taken tomorrow.
The costumes has to be finished at the end of June and I don´t know if I can realize it. Next steps planned are:
-harden all of the parts with resin
-layer them with "bondo"
-sand them into shape
-vacuum form the parts
I have a lot of questions, but I will sort them out before asking.
Till then, any hints you guys can give me for this project?
Greetings,
Michael
my name is Michael, I´m from Germany and I just started with my Stormtrooper "project".
My company does a rallye once a year and the teams have the choice to disguise and the best 3 custome can win a bonus prize.
Year before last we won with our Lego figure costumes, then last year our customes really sucked. Problems within the team, one member denying everyt custome.
So we did some last minute crayon customes, only to be disguised and get some laughs.
This year we want to rock. So I googled and googled and found a kid within a Stormtrooper foam armor. We thought it would be easy to do, so we choosed this custom.
And now we went from foam, over fibreglass to fiberglas-bondo molds for vacuum forming... :eek
While on my search how to realize the custom I stumbled across this pepakura thing. And it was like "aweeeeesome".
So, I got myself the pepakura files from Fierfek and started printing, cutting, gluing, folding, more glueing, despairing, glue between my fingernail and my skin, a super glued scissor(damn, my lady was...not amused about her "best scissor she got from her mom" glued together) and thanks to aceton for fixing this scissor problem.
Ok, so what I did until now:
Step 1 - cutting, glueing, folding
Step 2 - resin and bondo
I know, the "bondo" layer on the helmet is very rough, it was a quickshot. The next helmet will be better. I already sanded down the whole thing and added a new layer, closing the most gaps.
I also put resin onto some of the pepakura parts, but the weather changed and it was windy and rainy so I stored everything in the garage and wait till the sun comes out again.
New pictures will be taken tomorrow.
The costumes has to be finished at the end of June and I don´t know if I can realize it. Next steps planned are:
-harden all of the parts with resin
-layer them with "bondo"
-sand them into shape
-vacuum form the parts
I have a lot of questions, but I will sort them out before asking.
Till then, any hints you guys can give me for this project?
Greetings,
Michael