COMPLETED "4 year old" Shiny Boba Armor, Jet Pack, Gauntlets & "Bucket sculpt"

That looks great! The foam looks like the perfect material to make the armor for a 4 year-old.

That is just too cool keep up the good work and I cannot wait to see the rest of the costume.

Reminds me of making my son´s armor for his Anakin Skywalker Clone Wars costume.

Great job! Keep up posting pics, it´s coming along very nicely!

wow... it actually looks cute ^_^

Thanks everyone!

Thats really cool, your son must be loving it. Thanks for sharing.

This is AWESOME! i love it! Looks Great!

That is so cool!!! one question; how is the spray paint not "eating" (for lack of a better word) the foam?

that is too cool!! cant wait to see it all put together!

Your not the first to ask me if the paint was eating the foam... It is one of two things... They dont make spray paint as Toxic as they used to or different kinda foam..

Thanks Everyone! I'm working on the Jet pack now as well as the Bucket!

I very curious how you will make the bucket! Foam too? Or anything else?

This looks very cool my friend! I wanted my son to have a Boba like me but the little rascal wanted a Jango! The foam looks spot on. I made my sons out of sintra and had a hell of a time making the guants and knees!

Can't wait to see the finished kit!

thats cool !

Very nice......and inspirational. Looking forward to seeing the pack too!

heres a question ?
Who makes the best armour ?...movie accurate/Value for $ wise?

Great work, my son would love one of these.
How you shaping the parts so they keep shape.

I'm going to make the bucket out of foam as well.

The jet pack is coming along nicely! Will post pics tomorrow.

Heat gun the foam and Shape then rapid cool under water. "don't forget to wear gloves"

Oh man can't wait to see that!!

So awesome...

and it must be the foam, cuz I just used some spray paint on a foam egg carton and it ate right through it...

amyways, this is amazing!!! I want to see a foam bucket!!!

Great work!!!

A'den

The dude has talent! Great job man!

If I was 4 years old I'd love you forever - this is so great what you are doing here

Different kind of foam. This is the "foamie's" from the craft store not the hard packing foam they make the peanuts out of. yes that stuff will get eaten.

Thanks!

Amazing stuff, i hope my armor looks this good when i'm done building it Thanks for all the info!

Totally awesome man!

this looks like this could end up as one of those classic threads that will be viewed for years!! are you going ESB with it or ROTJ?

Man this is just completely fun!!!!

Originally Posted by vadr_h8r

this looks like this could end up as one of those classic threads that will be viewed for years!! are you going ESB with it or ROTJ?

This build has been so much fun! & when My son saw it for the first time last night and we held the pieces up to him his eye's were filled with excitement but he has learned some patience and is waiting.

ESB or ROTJ? I'm new I have no Idea what that means... Please learn me.

He means the color scheme of the jet pack. Green as ESB or multi-colored as in ROTJ.

:-)

It's blue with yellow and maroon.. I went with what I thought was the original look with the blue jet pack.

Your son´s jet pack IS an original, whatever you paint it! ;-)

Very very cool what you´ve done so far!

the more i look, the more ingenious it get's.
this should be a sticky.
Excellent

Bravo man!

such awesome imagination put into this. amazing.

man....i wish my dad was cool

After seeing this I may have to quit.

My 3 year old may have to get a set like these....great solution for rug rat armour.......how is the bucket going to work?

Bobby.

I love it!! I go away for like a month, and this is what I miss! Man, this is fantastic, great job!!

I've cut the bucket out of foam last night. All the pieces are there I just have to put them together... I will take lots of pics so when I'm done you all can see how I did it.

Thanks everyone for your encouragement!

This is by far the best scratch build thread ever.................

This is awesome stuff!!! Your originality and skill at using household items is amazing!!! I SO want to see the helmet!!!

AMAZING work

A'den

THIS IS AWESOME!

The work we put into our kids costumes almost equals our own! Love your work.

This project is.....SO CUTE!!! I cannot wait until I see your son dresses as "LITTLE BOBA"!

Reminds me of a "LIFE VERSION" of the GALACTIC HEROES figures....somehow. Too cute to resist. Keep the progress going, and don't forget to post completed pics of your kid... in FULL ARMOR.

You are doing a great job !!!
Your son must be wrapped !!!
cant wait to see the finished suit.

Thanks everyone! I'm working the kinks out of his bucket while making sure it's not "bobble head" when I 'm done.
I will post pic of him for sure when I'm done, remember I still have his gauntlets to finish.

Dude that is amazing!
Hope he realizes how REALLY COOL this is!

Most parents make their kids buy the **** costumes at Wal-Mart for halloween!

Cant wait for more pics!

DUDE ! ! ! we need updates !!!
STAT !

Dude you are the COOLEST dad ever !!!!! have to see more pics .

Incredible work man! Talk about a stunt outfit!

G-Fett

Looks awesome...what kind of foam are you using??

that is a really impressive build, man. keep up the good work.

Thanks everyone!

Originally Posted by Wildabeast

Looks awesome...what kind of foam are you using??

1/2" closed cell camping mattress foam. "you can go to WM and get a big roll of it in the camping section for like 5$"

This is one of the most impressive and creative threads I've seen on TDH EVER! Well done!

Looking good!!!

and im in glendale. same name as over on mercs...

sculpt looking good.
would have thought it would be quicker for you to use Alan's helmet templates.
GREAT WORK, hat's off to you for what your doing.
Jason

That looks awesome!!! I wish my dad would have done this for me when I was a munchkin

Originally Posted by aero

sculpt looking good.
would have thought it would be quicker for you to use Alan's helmet templates.
GREAT WORK, hat's off to you for what your doing.
Jason

Not sure who "Allen" is but this is more of a challenge and lets me keep up on My practice sculpting. Also the templates are all to big and I'm not going to play the guessing game "is this the correct size to fit MY son's head?" This way it's done correctly the first time. =)

amazing job..........1 more question, got the foam are you spray gluing to keep the shape?

Originally Posted by Wildabeast

amazing job..........1 more question, got the foam are you spray gluing to keep the shape?

Hello! I decided the Bucket wasn't going to work out of foam, but the armor will, as for holding shape...

Gloves.
Heat gun.
Heat then form to shape.
Use cold water/ kitchen faucet to rapidly cool to freeze to shape.


=)

You should print WOF's templates then copy at 50-60% and make out of cardboard....thanks for the updates

That would probably work.

But I'm enjoying sculpting one now.

this is absolutely amazing! this is the type of thing i want to do for my 5 year old son once i am done with mine! very cool, and very, very creative! you should totally make casts of that lid once you have it molded...you could sell quite a few of them i would think...starting with me!! great work...

Don´t wanna pull things down as you are doing a fantastic job, but aren´t the gauntlets mirrored?

The one you made for the left arm is usually for the right and the one you made for the right is originally for the left ...

just to mention.

But the gauntlets turned out pretty good!

The helmet sculpt turns out better and better ... now as the edges are sharp and the visor too.

Thumbs up brother!

Originally Posted by mmgraphics

Don´t wanna pull things down as you are doing a fantastic job, but aren´t the gauntlets mirrored?

The one you made for the left arm is usually for the right and the one you made for the right is originally for the left ...

just to mention.

But the gauntlets turned out pretty good!

The helmet sculpt turns out better and better ... now as the edges are sharp and the visor too.

Thumbs up brother!

I know.... I know.... I realized it after I made them... I'm left handed so all I can come up with is I just made them backwards in My mind to fit me so I could push the buttons with My left hand then realizing after I came out of My zone of building that they were wrong... I'm kicking Myself in the but...


Done with the Bucket sculpt!
just have to sculpt the ears!

Absolutely Brilliant and Amazing work!
I want to build Boba's armor for my 6 yrs old child too =)

Originally Posted by bevbor

Absolutely Brilliant and Amazing work!
I want to build Boba's armor for my 6 yrs old child too =)

Let me finish this and then I see what I can do.

The more i see, the more i have to commend you on your work.

Your a fast worker, when do you think you'll be finished by?
The way your going it will be in a couple of days.

:thumbup wow...that is a GREAT looking sculpt vod...

you better do a run of these helmets...they are AWESOME!!! and you might have an angry mob attacking your house if you dont...

AMAZING work!!!

A'den

Great idea ... if you make a run of it for more than one helmet, you should open up a thread for interest. I am sure there are many guys around that would love to get one of them! Me too!

So if you do a run, call me in for a helmet!

Cheers,
manuel

Thank you for your compliments Vod's!


I do plan on doing a run on these, I just need some advice from all of you what would be a fair price to charge?

What does a normal sized Bucket go for "raw" & "completed"?

I don't like charging ridiculous prices for My work, I'm not greedy, so any help in price range would be grateful.
Note the price we decide on wont include S/H.

I guess most helmets (BM, FP, TF or Sgt. Fang) range around 150-250$ depending on many things like quality, accuracy and materials used.

maybe you should set a price between the most dedicated helmet makers around and twist it down for the size of your child-helmet (e.g. if it´s 2/3 of the original size = 2/3 of the price you set for a helmet)

something this way. You should keep in mind that this depends on the material you use for the helmets too.

just my 2 cents. ;-)

Hope it helps.

You should not forget to charge any amount you need for the time you put into this. Don´t keep yourself too short on this. Your work is outstanding!

Cheers,
Manuel

Wow! I only now seen this thread! This is a fantastic buildup! Like the ingenuity for making a costume of Boba Fett for your son!

Big Credit to you! You doing a mighty fine job! So quick doing it too. You a real Pro!

You done this kinda thing before? Looks like, after looking at peoples post.
People be wanting to get parts off you for there mando kids!

i'd pay $100 for a kids sized helmet for my son! count me in...

I have to ask are you going to make a t-visor or get 1 from tvisor.com ? for your kids boba fett helmet

it a nicce ide you have, to make at Boba Fett armor out of that stuff

Originally Posted by SnakeEyes

I have to ask are you going to make a t-visor or get 1 from tvisor.com ? for your kids boba fett helmet

You should know me by now... I'm making it....

Originally Posted by ONE END

You should know me by now... I'm making it....

I thought we could expect that!

Wow, I did a kids clone for my 6yr old this year, and I thought that that was
a lot of work (I did'nt scratch build much of anyhting). Hat's off to you man!
I love the way the kids make all the work worth it. You're a Hero now! They
don't seem to care how late you stay up doing their laundry but make something
SW for them and BANG! Huge Cudos on the excellent work of art man!
spechally that awesome hemet sculpt!

Originally Posted by miqt

Wow, I did a kids clone for my 6yr old this year, and I thought that that was
a lot of work (I did'nt scratch build much of anyhting). Hat's off to you man!
I love the way the kids make all the work worth it. You're a Hero now! They
don't seem to care how late you stay up doing their laundry but make something
SW for them and BANG! Huge Cudos on the excellent work of art man!
spechally that awesome hemet sculpt!

This is so true...
Thanks it has been a challange...

I'm in the mold making process now pray it comes out and I don't have to sculpt it again and start all over...

One lucky kid...keeps getting better and better......

that is the coolest thing i have seen thus far today!!!! your son is adorable and lucky to have such an awesome dad!!!

any progress pics of the helmet?

Very curious!

Molding the bucket "slowly" life kinda hit me this past week and between My girl friend moving out I had My son over the weekend and I could name a few more things that is keeping me from working on My stuff... & would you believe My Mom would like me to come over tonight and meet some cousins that I've never met before... I mean come on I have better things to be doing... LOL!

Fantastic work. I'm in Queen Creek, AZ. Not to far to the east of you. I would definitely pick up a kids helmet. Like most have said, you ingenuity is remarkable. Definitely setting the bar kinda high for us Dads here. My son would go crazy for something like that....if I could ever get him out of that stupid Black Spiderman costume he always wants to wear.

Originally Posted by jedi.paramedic

Fantastic work. I'm in Queen Creek, AZ. Not to far to the east of you. I would definitely pick up a kids helmet. Like most have said, you ingenuity is remarkable. Definitely setting the bar kinda high for us Dads here. My son would go crazy for something like that....if I could ever get him out of that stupid Black Spiderman costume he always wants to wear.

Thank you! Nice to meet you. Life is not about competition it's about expressing yourself and using the tools you have to do so.
I tell you what when I cast them up I'll drive it to you and meet you in person because My X & son live out there and I'm in your hood every week. My son have a cheesy Optimus prim suit from Halloween that wears all the time... It's a faze, I can assure you if you got him a bucket that fit him he would loose the spidey suit.

Update on Mold... part 4 of 6 completed...




I'm excited!

this is amazing dude! youre sons gonna have an awesome halloween!!

dude ! ,you are the master !!
I cant wait to see the full kit on your little bloke....it will look awesome !
p.s. Sorry to hear your haveing a rough time of it at the moment....you know what they say "you can pick your friends....but you can't pick your relatives"
Cheers mate (have a nice cold beer....it makes everything better)

Originally Posted by EE-3 slinger

Cheers mate (have a nice cold beer....it makes everything better)

That's the spirit!!!


A'den

Update!

I have successfully made the Mini boba mold and pulled My first plaster cast to clean mold and to use to sculpt ears from...



Sculpted left ear last night & it's ready to mold.



Should have My first resin pull Late tonight, & should have the rest of the ear pieces sculpted by the end of the weekend as well as the range finder completed then ready for mold'n...

Great! ****, brother, you have very good skills!

Can´t wait to see more!

Fantastic.

So I'm not 100% sure if I mentioned it before but I made a mold of the mini antenna and last night I completed the Range finder...

Just needs to be molded.



Anyway moving rite along...

I have to say you are one of the most creative prop makers i have ever seen online.You are a credit to the Prop community and an even bigger credit to your family.I have 3 sons,but unfortunately neither is a big enough Star Wars fan to warrant me making them a costume-although im still working on my lad Sonny who is only 17 months

Top marks for being a great dad aswell as a great prop maker.

Lee