WIP - Boba Fett ESB armor - Attachment and painting

Hi !
When i put the collar and backplate on me, I made marks on the flakvest. So it will be easier to know how to put the cardboad pattern later.
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This is how i do to make holes on cardboard.
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After i made marks on collar using cardboard
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I'm glad you're back with your armor prep work! Everything looks great (also love that quick peak on the helmet paint job) and I can't wait to see the armor painted and attached to the vest! Just keep up the awesome work!
 
Aha, I've finally figured out what you painted onto your cardboard armor templates to stiffen them up! :p PC Products 16 oz. PC-Petrifier Wood Hardener-164440 at The Home Depot I have some of RKD's armor coming sometime in March, and I was fretting about getting the bolt-eyelet attachment alignment right. Any progress/luck with your attachment method, StrumFett?
Thanks for your interest Necronaut. I just start to mke attachment to vest. I hope it will be usefull for you.

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really cool
Thanks !
 
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I'm glad you're back with your armor prep work! Everything looks great (also love that quick peak on the helmet paint job) and I can't wait to see the armor painted and attached to the vest! Just keep up the awesome work!

Thanks a lot Rafal! I'm always happy to have your comments on my works and also your precious advices.
 
Hi !
Today, i started fastening bolts on collar :
First, I used epoxy dough, flattened with the box.
With an eyelet, i pick small amount of dough and i put it on the marks on collar.
I put the bolts on the dough and quickly put the cardboard pattern on bolts to be sure that the arrangement of the bolt will be correct.
I just have to wait drying.
Note : Depending of flatness of the back of collar (fiberglass like mine are less regular than vac formed one's) bolts can take differents angles. It isn't a big problem because most part of the bolt will be cut (i think i'll just keep 5 millimeters)

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Hi !

It's time to attach collar to vest.
Just a quick update before : I changed the bolts because the head was to high.
So i use 6mm eyelets with 4mm bolts.

This is the new bolts

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I put on them epoxy dough to have a stronger attachment.

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And this is how i do to attach collar to vest :

1 - I put the vest on me and my wife put the cardboard pattern on the marks she made earlier with the real collar(see posts above)
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2 - with sharp scissors, i make a hole ( never cut the vest, only spread the fibers of the vest). I use a bigger scissor and a bolt of the same diameter than the eyelet as a guide.
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3 - This is theview of the back
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4 - To Finish, you must have to secure the eyelet.
This is the tool i used and the result after hitting with the hammer.
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5 - The 2 others...
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6 - So finally, i can attach collar to vest :
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I have just to cut the bolt at the same level than the nut.

I will use the collar to adjust the other parts of the armor (see next steps...)
 
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The attachment method looks great and is pretty close to the original. Although on the original they used bigger eyelets to let the armor to move in every direction and to eliminate vest tearing, your method will do the same, but with reduced movement. Here is my research regarding the armor attachment ==> Speaker in the MoM abdominal plate - Post #8.
 
Thanks Rafal, great job as always. I will remenber it when i will do my ROTJ armor. But for this one the problem is that my bolts are too close from the edge of the armor.
The hexagon shapes were also a great method to attach the armor. On ABS plastic, there is some glue that have the property to make a weld between to parts of plastic (the liquid glue from humbrol by example).
But again with my fiberglass armor, i can't use this hexagonals parts because the inner edge of the armor is too short.
 
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This is the next step :

I made all the holes on cardboard and then i made the marks on the armor.
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The difficulty is to put correctly the armor parts on the vest.So i made a first try using pillows in the vest to imitate body shape.
(Before, i drew a line in the middle of the vest as a guide)
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I'm not sure if the parts must be closer. Anyone can help me?
 
I understand your point! It looks great!

The distances between the chest plates and the abdominal plate should be smaller (also the abdominal plate is too far from the lower margin of the vest), but because the armor doesn't cover fully the vest, I say that you should leave it as it is.
 
Hi,

Thanks Rafal. Yes i've a problem with the dimensions of the armor (or the vest). I made another try using electrical tape to maintain the armor on the vest. Here's the result.
I know that the collar is too high but i can't put it lower because it's too short.
I don't know if it's due to Bobamaker's armor dimensions which are smaller or my body (my heigh is 187cm).
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The 'problem' is the armor size. The collar plate's position is perfect and the distances between the other plates is now pretty good (ideally the chest plates should be a bit closer to the collar plate, but because of the armor size is smaller, you should leave it this way). If you want a more accurate look (regarding the size) than your other choices would be fettpride (not too sure which version is bigger) and redkraytdragon (but you already know this).
 
I've finished to put eyelets and bolts on armor :
This is the vest with the marks i made using cardboard pattern :
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Vest with all eyelets :
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Armor with bolts :

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Tu cut the bolt at the right length, i made a mark on one of them while the collar was attached on the vest. After, i used rings to have the same depth, so i cut all the bolts in the same time.
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