New Jax City -multiple mando builds & FEMALE plates galore

9!?! sets whoa you are a mad man

heres some pics...





















LOTS OF PINK PAINT IN THE AIR






waiting for more pics to be up....

hey I have that T-shirt! Final notice...Payment Due! lol it's one of my favorites!

kal

hope the paint is in the air and not on the lens.

Anything new?

no lenses. helmets are just starting to get paint. lenses are the last step.

I was talkin bout the camera lens, that would be a pain in the shebs to clean off

some updates...

made new chest plates for pink mando, painted chest plates for male flat black mando, started shins for pink mando

not too happy yet with the outcome. what do you think?















still have to clean up the edges and fill in some seams, either by welding or jb-weld

once more from today...



more pics this evening...

update, more pics later. paint drys in about 5 minutes or less.

this will be for Shado's new kit. started around 430 this afternoon. its 530 now...

this is my 4th attempt at female plates out of metal. getting better i think, but not near where i want to be yet.





this is a coat of primer and a coat of red primer than a coat of this dark tan color. will add white, prolly blue (501st dark), green and another coat of the dark tan than the 3 coats of the final top coat which will be regular Tan.

this armor will be replacing her leather plates which i don't like so she can have a kit that will match my desert mando with leather plates that you've all seen by now.

Wow is that Shadow's new armor? I really like it.

yep. its Shado's armor. it will be the new matching set against this male armor for me:

Oh man you are really good at this. You put me to shame
I love your work, I really need to get in gear and attach my armor to my vest's.

thanks for the compliments!




more weathering between messages.

whats more impressive, is the 12yo girl who's the daughter of a buddy mando who, after me showing her how to do it, she sewed her own vest and finish pounding out her armor and painted and weathered it all on her own. she was even sewing other mando vests at the mando party in addition to myself.

she rocks! (shes the black and green mando a few posts up)

graet post ,hope i had a group of friends like this

had to repaint this set. wasnt liking the white. it wasnt popping enough. redid the logo in grey as well.

Dude, I love the weathering, it really looks like a well used set of armor.

i love the armor sets period... some fine work as usual

will update tomorrow. finishing up about 5 mandos i think. only time will tell.

it was very late so forgot to have the fligthsuit on in these pics.





also broke the last needle i had tonight. so had to stop sewing. vest will be completed this week sometime.

I still have some velcro to fix as well as add padding and more darts in various areas to make it fit better.

finished sewing the vest for the female sando-mando as someone called it today. these pics were taken BEFORE i did velcro mods as well as several more darts.... more pics tomorrow once Shado wakes up.

also started painting the helmet, but no pics yet...not worth pics at this point.

did a first test fit with the flight suit and vest and plates....

what do you think?









check out the work being done on this helmet for the 12yo girls mando armor, she now doing it all on her own.

man that black and green is a really cool combo of colors, cant wait to see the finished product.

helmet update...

still need to add steel reinforcements....but almost there....

Hey Bh, could you do a youtube tut on how you distress your armor. I really like how things look in your pics (this bucket) I am afraid to just go at it the way yours looks, I think I'd really screw something up.

Uh-oh dangerous girl with a lighter.....LOL! Looking good.

full suit-up version 1

still some mods to make, but will submit this to mando mercs tonight for Lisa!

MAN I LOVE THOSE GAUNTS!!

I'm with adonian, that armor is amazing ( I have serious respect for anyone who does metal) but those gantlets are awesome! Are they made or bought? If made where did you get the patterns, if bought from who?

they are my spartan gauntlets frmo Halo.

i made them from paper and than fiberglassed them. too small for my masterchief so i gave them to lisa. they are alomst a year old of trooping. needs major repairs...

the flightsuit was altered, or prepared to be altered tonight,.

sweet, I didn't notice that... I have to get that pep file.

Duh! Why didn't I realize that's what they are? Cool. I want that file, where'd you get it?

405th Infantry.

the Halo group.

Jax it looks awesome as usual! How's the work on your matching set coming along?

slowly....

updated pics...from today's trooping/.

Hey Shado, I got a stubborn nail over here, can you give it a whack with that little hammer you got there

dude I love her new bucket... especially like the pawprint

Looking Good! I have to say that yours is quite possibly the best weather work I have ever seen. So many people either go over the top with tons of big scratches, without putting the detail work into all the little small dings and scrapes that register subconsciously to make the armor look authentically worn, and or they are so even and symmetrical in their weathering that you can tell it's hand an it doesn't look really.

Yours on the other hand is varied, subtle, and asymmetrical. Major props.

thank you very much!

Sweet! I love that yellow crest on the black bucket! What is it? That RC is beyond cool. Is the green girl holding a Halo BR?

not sure. it IS sw i think. the commando is her dad. the gun is from toys r us 4 months ago (or so). its was 9 dollars. they did a recall as it was shocking kids...

Awesome photos still there vod.

Those are amazing! Great work!

well I'm jealous!! You ladies look amazing!!