Kyr'am Galaar armour

this will be my progress thread for the new armour i am making. here is my concept, and i will be starting on the armour very soon. i have an old plastic water drum which i intend to use for the chest and back armour.

if anybody is interested in the beckstory for this character, im working on it, and will try to answer anybodies questions.

Vor'e everybody for their help with the first helm i made.

That's a great looking paint scheme you've given the armour......I like it

Vor'e vod. i also decided on different bicep plates to the ones i have a template for, wanted something different

That's a very cool color scheme, I like it a lot! And the helmet will look really cool with that red visor. Have you got the helmet done? I'll be watching this thread for all the progress. Keep it up man!

i made my first helmet last week. it didnt turn out as smooth as i had hoped, but painted it up to look like my characters grandfather's helmet. now i know how to build it properly, ill start another. i had a bit of trouble with the fiberglass.

better luck next time i expect.

vor'e for the comment. the red visor is my dream.

looks great vod. Like the concept.

i got my water drum today, time to start hacking!!! mwah ha ha ha ha!

(insane laugh, sorry)

Originally Posted by Kyr'am Galaar

i got my water drum today,

For the armor?

yep, cut out the main chest armour roughly now. got some cropping and sanding to do, but the drums curve works well

Nice! Buckets and that hard ABS style plastic makes great plastic armor.

Wow thats looking really good! How well does the curvature to conform to your body?
Are you going to put any dents in it anywhere?

the extreme edges may need bending in a touch just to fit properly, but its almost 90% there.

not sure about dents, but there are going to be scratches and gouges in it.

Very cool, keep up the good work. I look forward to more updates.

i have a question about the flak vest that the armour is attached to. would a black t-shirt work if i put seat belt webbing in strips on the inside to support the holes for the bolts?

Originally Posted by Kyr'am Galaar

i have a question about the flak vest that the armour is attached to. would a black t-shirt work if i put seat belt webbing in strips on the inside to support the holes for the bolts?

Well it's your custom, so I'd say its your call as to if it looks good. But whether or not it'd be functional, I have no idea. Trial and error?

suppose you're right. nothing ventured...

Well depending on your budget, I would HIGHLY recommend one of LadySewforus's vests. They are fantastic quality and dye-able(I think). But that really just depends on your budget.

But do keep up the good work, and I love seeing progress pics.

cut out the back plate yesterday, and did a bit of bending using a paint stripper gun to heat up the plastic. painted it with primer, and given it a coat of silver to make the metal under the paint.

cut out the shoulers now, just a bit of reshaping, and ill post a picture here asap.

Good stuff man, Keep it up!

Really well done all around. The color scheme is sick and the armor is looking good. I don't know about the shirt though. I don't think that regular shirts are thick enough to support armor well, it might tear or something. Keep on working it's going great so far.

Oh-ah, i see what you were going to do. I think that could work. I wasthinking about doing that for my leg armor so it stays close to my legs. It all depends then, on if it'll look good or not.

this is my progress so far.
i need to roughen up and weather the back plate, and im looking for a design to go on the right shoulder plate, but so far, i am very happy with the colour scheme.

hope everyone likes it.

Ooh, the back and shoulders are looking good! I love that scratch on the one shoulder bell.
How are you going to weather the rest? I forget who, but somebody here simply chucked their armor pieces really high in the air and let them fall on gravel and pebbles and it gave some really good results, haha.
You are making great and really fast progress, keep it up!

the scratch on the shoulder was already on the water drum, i just sanded away the paint after it had dried. ill probably go at it with a screwdriver or something, and the fill in the slashes with silver paint and a small brush.

i saw that technique too, and was thinking of chucking it off a local castle near me. mwah-ha-ha-haa! oops going mad a again!

Vor'e for the feed back.

I like the blue of the plastic showing through, looks really neat!

vor'e hydra.

coming from you, when i know how kick *** ur armour looks, it means a lot.

ive just cut out the bicep plates and have glued them together. im going for a two plate effect.
ive got the collar cut out too, but have had to narrow it down as it was restricting my arm movements.
will post pics as soon as i have some decent progress to show.

Originally Posted by Kyr'am Galaar

i will post pics as soon as i have some decent progress to show.

Looking forward to it!

while i let the glue set, i was wondering what to paint on the right shoulder pauldron. ive already got the mythosaur skull going on my chest plate.

i was looking at the reek (three horned creature, attack of the clones) and drew this. what do you all think?

Holy cow! That's awesome! yeah that would definitely be cool to put on your shoulder. I say do it man.

as an after thought, i realised that the reek was the creature that trampled Jango!!!

well, here it is. just finished roughing it up a bit.
hope people like it.

just a quick note to ask what people think of my design for the left bicep plates. any comments welcome.

p.s. this is the design i was on about callista!

Looks cool, ...I like dragons! I like your skull as well, really looks good on your shoulder bell! The back plate looks good too, the scratches already on the water butt just add loads of fine detail, and the blue showing through under the paintwork really does look great! You have done a fine job! (will add the one Im thinking about on mine).

Vor'e callista. much apreciated.

Wow, that dragon would look really cool. I was impressed with how quickly you did the shoulder with the reek skull, and how great it turned out.
Definitely do the dragon for the bicep. I know it will look AWESOME!

Keep up the good work man, I can't wait to see what you do with the helmet.

Vor's vod.
i might get the bicep dont today. its already been painted white!

and here is the left bicep plates. maybe a touch more roughing up, and then attatch the straps and its done!

Looking great.

Nice job man, jelous of your painting skills. Where do you plan on getting leather straps by the way? Cause i'm looking for some.

im cheating a little with the leather straps. i have a packet of leather ferret harnesses, and also, if i need to, i will use leather dog collars. ive used them before on my mediaeval armour leg plates.

that's a pretty sweet idea for the bicep armor. i had a very similar idea that i made a while ago, i just haven't got around to painting it yet. looking really sweet though man

Vor'e Jim. all feedback help with the progress.
still got a lot of work to do!

i have had a look around, and have decided on a slight redesign of my helmet (which is yet to be made, but thought id ask peoples opinion first)

here is a very rough design. any questions i will try to answer.

Oh sweet like the ARC troopers ey?

a bit like tha arc troopers.

great!
i was thinking of a similar idea but that ended up a dead end

well its still going to rotate down like the normal RF, but it will curve, and along the top of the perspecs ill have led that shine into the edge of the perspecs, hopwfully illuminating it. (in theory!)

That's be really cool if you could get it to work right!

Well i am going to try. hopefully it will look ok

I've somehow missed this thread, and all I can say is wow! I realy like your designs, and to see the drawings of them, and then the actual peices....Thats preety darn cool if I do say so myself! Keep up the great work mate!

Vor'e Jodo. im working on the dome of the helmet at the moment, as i cant paint my chest plates untill i get them mounted, so that the lines will match up. im cheating and using an old cycle helmet as the dome section, and will either put thick card as the sides and cover it in fiberglass, or make the sides out of plastic sheets.

Oh, so you are scratch-building the helmet? Post some pics of the progress! Everybody here loves seeing scratch-built progress pics.

Here is what i have done today. ive taken the polystyrene padding out so it sits lower on my head (it was too high), built the fin with card, and covered it in filler to smooth out the ridges and gaps. it needs sanding, and probably another layer of filler before it is perfectly smooth, then fiberglass.

very cool man, you are making fast progress on all of this.

its fun, and ive always wanted to do something different. dont know of anybody where i live who is into this, so i got noone to compare with!

I like the helmet. The range finder is cool, but i don't know about having the whole stalk like the eye piece. Especially if you stick an LED in it. The rest looks pretty sweet though. Thats a good idea for the leather straps by the way.

Interesting dome you have there. How much does it weigh so far?

hardly anything. there is only a small amount of filler to fill in the gaps, and smooth over the ridge where the card starts. once its sanded, ill cover it in fiberglass and it should be great

I love looking at these Mandos. Man Your scheme going on is soo cool! I think about what my armor would look like if I made a custom one, mine had a lot of whites/blacks/grays/reds too. Very cool!

El1te

vor'e el1te. always appreciate feedback. it encourages me to keep going!

Wow that's really coming along nicely

just thought id post a little comparison of the two helmets i have. the green one is my first attempt at making one, and the other one is the WIP i am working on now.

dude that is some sweet workj you are doing there! i love the look of your helm...its gonna look sweet when done! where abouts in noirth walkes are you...i used to live in holyhead...but im down south now!

near Harlech. back of beyond!

vor'e on the comments. makes me feel im doing something right! hehe your armour looks awsome!

i like ur multi panel paldron. i did the same for my mando merc! go check it out on teh mandalorian mercs page look for lowki dar'und

just finished fiberglassing and sanding the helmet. i got a little work to do on the keyhole at the back, but then ill prime it and start painting.

what you think?

Originally Posted by Kyr'am Galaar

i have had a look around, and have decided on a slight redesign of my helmet (which is yet to be made, but thought id ask peoples opinion first)

here is a very rough design. any questions i will try to answer.

Brilliant!

Very nice helmet!! Lovin it.

its getting there slowly! cant wait to start painting it

for anyone who is interested, im sorry i havent made much progress since the last post. been kept busy will be making some headway soon, and hopefully get it sorted.

i was messing with an old cycle helmet the other day and came up with this. wondered what people thought of this idea.

any input welcome

I like it...

i thought it would balance out the point i built on the back

That could be very interesting. I would suggest you modify the "bill", i guess we'l call it. It seems a little long. I dunno something about it seems a little off, but if you get it to work I think it'll look sweet.

thanks for the input. ill mess around with it and see what i can come up with!

Originally Posted by Kyr'am Galaar

i was messing with an old cycle helmet the other day and came up with this. wondered what people thought of this idea.

any input welcome

Dangit!!! I was going to do something similar, with a bill, as I was going to use an old construction hardhat for my dome... beat me to it! Gotta start working on mine soon...

not for certain yet, still being held on with tape!!! but i was thinking of maybe making it onto the binocular scope some clones had, of i may just leave it as it is! i think its cool either way!

I think I like it without the bill better, but regardless of what I think, it looks to be coming along extremely well!

The bill is definitely different. Looks long, though. Maybe trim it so it's shorter?

This helmet is looking great! I like the *idea of the cycle helmet visor, but I think it may look too much like a cycle helmet visor... if you know what I mean. If it could be modded and disguised somehow - Anyway, I really like the fin on the back. I've been playing around with modding my own fett lid sculpt in a similar way. I half considered doing a sort of mando/clone hybrid, but not sure yet. Great work so far.

Looking really good mate!!! Keep it up.

G-Fett

i like all the comments. i may cut it down a bit like people have suggested. vor'e

That is so cool I love how you are taking the time to show what you have been doing to make some sweet looking armor that is custom. Can't wait to see the finished work.

My only critique would be that YOU ARE GOING TOO SLOW!!! MAn, I want to see the finished product!!! Rock on!!!

sprry about the speed problems vod, its finding time to get things done thats the problem!

Here is the problem as I see it. You spent far too much time either working, hanging out with family and friends or just typing short non-important messages instead of working your fingers to the bone so that you can entertain your TDH family with posts of your AWESOME COSTUME!!! Let me tell you....Friends will be there, family is okay, and do you really need to eat? Sleep? Be comfy in a nice home??? Quit your job! Tell everyone to get lost so that WE can be entertained with your MAD SKILLS!!! Get on it buddy, I don't have all day!!! ENTERTAIN ME!!!

Originally Posted by Kyr'am Galaar

sprry about the speed problems vod, its finding time to get things done thats the problem!

Have you ever been a twilek slave driver by any chance?

That Boomer guy is really needy... you would think by some of his posts he was some sort of authority figure or something....What do you think you are Boomer, an officer of the law or something??? Geez!


G-Fett

Originally Posted by Kyr'am Galaar

Have you ever been a twilek slave driver by any chance?

Those wusies??? Twilek Slave Drivers aren't fit enough too lick my toe spikes!!! Enough small talk!! WORK!!! If you aint bleeding, YOU AINT TRYING!!!! BLEED FOR TDH!!! (oh yes, an occassional beer break is permitted to keep the creative juices flowing) BACK TO WORK!!!!

in that case im in trouble. i dont drink!!!! hehe will be working on it as soon as i can. i swear. its also finding the nesasary funds!!!

ah lack of funds is the bane of every costumers life

Hey in my own way I say take your time. The more time you take the more of a chance you will have a kick @$$ looking costume to wear at Comi-con, Star Wars Conventions/Celebrations, and costuming parties. If you rush into your costume it will turn out to be ****** and you don't want a ****** costume. Believe me man I know from a costume that I wore from haloween a few years ago.

im still going to try and get some done, but it is more fun making it at the moment thanks for all the advice and suport though

Hey man, I'm definitely interested!

Don't stop with the pics coming in; show us some concept sketches of the new armor design!

as requested (by one person! ) here is the concept for my new armour.

i like it, but would really apreciate some feedback.

I am still digging it brother!!!! You are a serious freakin artest!!!