First Mando

Fridge clean and organized, food from honey moon cooler worked into fridge, compost taken care of, Mexican lunch fixed and eaten, shower curtain rod fixed, and Mando armor in the making. Dang you can get a lot done when there's no one around to distract you!
 
A note on my armor itself:

After reading about how Adonian is doubling up on his plates I've decided to do the same, sort of.

What I'm thinking is to cut out another set that is a slightly different size that my current ones (may alter the shape too) so that when I layer them it adds not only thickness, but detail too. That'll mean buying more trash cans...We'll see.
 
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Ok, Shoulder bells cut out!

I was going to go buy some paint, or more trash cans, or both, but I should leave that off till after bills are paid, school books ordered, and I look into buying/making a shelf for the closet that Nomad asked me about before she left...

That being said I'm going to go out to the garage and get my square trash can that I'm going to use for my back plates.

I've decided that since I'm not going to do a jet pack for a good while, I want just as much flexibility on my back as my front, so I'm going to alter the standard Mando templates for the chest to fit my back. I'm going to use the "square" trash can so that the plates are more flat. I tried using the rounded chest plates on my back but they were too round, they dug in.

So here goes nothing: at least if I screw this up I can be glad I got the can out of a school dumpster!
 
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lemme know how the flat can works out, I just got a small (bathroom size) squared can to cut as shin guards or something of that nature.
 
Did you marry mandalorian-ly, too?
In full beskar'gam?
Oh yes, and are making/did you order your helmet?
SO MANY QUESTIONS...
Congrats on your marriage.
 
Well What with making new templates and other things that came up and now school starting I don't have anything to update y'all with other than this: I made new, slightly larger templates by taping a sheet of paper to my breast plate and cutting to shape and then transferring that to card board. When I made the new ones I didn't cut out the area for the sternum diamond, instead making the internal edge of the plates straight. I then traced the new shape onto a square trashcan but only found time to cut out the Ab-turned-lower-back-plate. It's taller and wider that my ab plate and fits my back perfect. I'll post pics after I get the breast-turned-shoulder-blade-plates cut out too.

To answer bluejay's questions: We put a lot of time into planning our wedding working in several traditions from other cultures that we liked the symbolism of in an attempt to make our wedding beautiful, unique, thought provoking, and God honoring. But no, no beskar'gam, and no Mando vows (ours were the very traditional "plight thy my troth" type).

As far as a helmet Nomad and I are scraping money together to buy one of Saz's krayt dragon beauties.
 
Oh! And TheSilentMando up there is one of my vod here in Chat-town. He's the one that said "we're making armor tonight!" and drug me to walmart. He HAD BETTER start a thread of his own soon, cause he's working on a metal set now.
 
Awesome!!! Metal works really well for armour if you do it right! Glad to see you are still at this SM!!! I've noticed that quite a few of us (myself included) arent really getting anything done on our armour...

Yes, I know I just showered the wrath of Adonian down on myself...but if that gets me working again. :p

anyways, let's see some pics of the actual armour vod! :)

:cheers
A'den
 
Though I'm not actually working, I'm still working ideas out in my head.

Glad to see you back from the nuptuals SM.
 
Lol im not working either. My sad cut outs of my guns and my unsanded helmet sit there, begging forme to finish them. Lol but there is just no time for me. Stupid advanced classes in school... :D
 
Awesome!!! Metal works really well for armour if you do it right! Glad to see you are still at this SM!!! I've noticed that quite a few of us (myself included) arent really getting anything done on our armour...

Yes, I know I just showered the wrath of Adonian down on myself...but if that gets me working again. :p

anyways, let's see some pics of the actual armour vod! :)

:cheers
A'den


ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZTTTTTTTT crack

Come on vod, I finally got my shebs movin on a few things, I gotta see some more of your work too. :p Come over and look at mine :rolleyes
 
There is way too much non-work related talk going on here, men! Back to work already! *lashes whip*

kidding. But seriously, I've chuckled through this entire thread since my last post-- nice, guys, very nice. : ).

SaberMaker and SilentMando are currently working on their respective armour pieces on my newly-cleaned diningroom table. I had to laugh a bit to myself as, not ten minutes after I put a clean (and wedding-gifted) table cloth down, there was mando cut-out patterns and a yard stick spread out on it. Such is life : ). SM's cutouts are looking good, though, and fitting nicely!
 
looking forward to seeing what you guys come up with from reading this thread. Also you're fiance seems pretty domineering LOL good pic:)
 
Well, though pics will have to wait til tomorrow, as it's way passed my bed time and I have work at 7 tomorrow and then a full day of classes, I've gotten a lot done in the passed few days.

I finished cutting out my custom made back plates a night or two ago and since TheSilentMando brought me the set of templates I printed out for him and his dremmel I've now got all of my armor base plates cut out except for my thigh plates. I'm really liking how the back plates turned out. I need to heat and form my two (front and back) collar pieces a bit, but they are generally the right shape.

I'll post pics tomorrow after I get some of the edges cleaned up!
 
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