First Mando, help!

Darth Vevut

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Hye I am going to start making my first mando soon and I am trying to come up with a way to make a good chest plate because I'm a girl so I cant use the conventional way but I want it smooth, what do you think of a cardboard base with clay or filler over top sanded down do you think that would work? I am making it out of card for the first time are there any hints that I could get for doing this?
 
Haha zuka! Do you realize how much work that is? :lol:

R u thinking of a full armor plate? Instead of three seperate pieces (traditional mando armor)
 
The female mannequin only really works well with certain body types.

Vevut, I don't want to steer you away from TDH but here is a great thread on the Mercs site about using paper tape and fiberglass. We had a member who's girlfriend did that method and created an AWESOME set of chest armor.

Female armor using tape and fiberglass.
 
At the moment I dont have access to a vacum mold and plastic for it or fiber glass but I will have a look at that site thanks Noval, and I was tinking of having a three piece chest plate or a two peice like the clones with the chest sliding over the stomach.
 
standard chest plates are 3 piece... one on each side of the chest (= 2 plates) and the diamond makes three. With the abdominal plate it's a 4 piece set. I will say that I have seen a few of the 2 piece kits that turned out well, Creon (on here) also made a 1 piece set that turned out well, but he's not female. I would suggest checkin' out mandomercs too, we have a lot of stuff over there. Also, Rotton sells some vac formed chest plates but... no one's seen or heard from him in a while so...
 
check out this girls take on a fem Mando!!! this looks awesome!!!
Female_Mandalorian_Armor___WIP_by_Verdaera.jpg
 
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You could also do "Rondo", as Skip (Skupilkinson) calls it. It's a mixture of resin and bondo that makes for a pourable liquid. Easier to apply than bondo, and almost as easy to sand. You make your card forms the way you want them, and then pour this stuff over the top.
 
duct tape and aluminum.

check out Shado's build thread here and on the Mercs boards....

:d

WIZARD OF FLIGHT templates are your friend.
 
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