Open seasons Grunt mando..

as some of you know i am working on a Grunt mando just thought i would post some progress pics here...

it's made from sintra

I really want to see this thing completed. Good luck!

Uh...what's a Grunt Mandalorian?

Originally Posted by Mercke Lutso

Uh...what's a Grunt Mandalorian?

grunt mando = your basic mando not jango ,jaster, myles, or montros
aka cannon fodder / back ground mando



^^^ these mandos ^^^

Oh, I see now.

It wasn't a term I was familiar with for some reason.

Originally Posted by Mercke Lutso

Oh, I see now.

It wasn't a term I was familiar with for some reason.

I guess everyone calls them different things

Awesome...good to see some OS Mando's besides the main ones! (I'm guilty of a main one lol) Also can't wait to see how it turns out. Best of luck!!

thank you sir.. figured not everyone can be a main character and the main guys need someone to command.. LoL..

lol yea! It's something I considered too, but I just can't resist the silver/red OS Jango. It's my weakness . I would say let's troop together when you're done, if I didn't live in Illinois haha! If you're ever doing something with the Mando near Chicago let me know .

okay.. asking everyones opinion here.. should i go ahead and use the shoulder art from Boba or should I use the one from Jaster Mereel?

Originally Posted by twistedxknights

okay.. asking everyones opinion here.. should i go ahead and use the shoulder art from Boba or should I use the one from Jaster Mereel?

i'd say neither. you can see right and left shoulders on those grunts and they don't have anything.

Originally Posted by stormtrooperguy

i'd say neither. you can see right and left shoulders on those grunts and they don't have anything.

that's true.... kinda waiting for my copy of the open seasons book to arrive ( **** media mail) to really finish up with the paint design..

I'd say wait for the comics and then check to see if any of them have any skulls. If not (which is how it looks) then go sans skull. Accurate mandos are pretty cool

comics arrived.. noticed some generic shoulder art on a few of the mando's but nothing real definative..

This is a great idea. It would be so cool to have rank upon rank of 'grunt' mandos

Originally Posted by twistedxknights

grunt mando = your basic mando not jango ,jaster, myles, or montros
aka cannon fodder / back ground mando



^^^ these mandos ^^^

I refer to them as "Those guys that sheilded the main guys with their bodies".

I have loved the middle mando's (without the pack) back armor. I love the scale look to it. If they all didn't look so much like Fett, or Kast for that matter, I think I'd paint one of my sets as it.

Keep up the good work man, can't wait to see it finished!

Originally Posted by Ronin677

This is a great idea. It would be so cool to have rank upon rank of 'grunt' mandos

I agree.. when ever i see a picture of a group of boba's it's kinda like how a I think a army of mandos would look like

Originally Posted by jodo

I refer to them as "Those guys that sheilded the main guys with their bodies".

I have loved the middle mando's (without the pack) back armor. I love the scale look to it. If they all didn't look so much like Fett, or Kast for that matter, I think I'd paint one of my sets as it.

Keep up the good work man, can't wait to see it finished!

LoL... well i love that same back armor.. you may just see it on this mando when I get finished ... Well jodo kasts armor had a previous owner i just like to think i am going for one of the fellow vode of that owner.. and if u want to do a grunt then jsut need to change and add a few things on your Jodo costume

and thank you both for the words of encouragement..

Very true, all I'd need to do is cut out an addition set of shoulder bells, mabey knees, and a chest plate for a variant logo. It looks like the scale backarmor one we like only has a soft parts girth belt on, with a big ammo pouch. It sorta looks like its made from material. If anything, I could cut my wait size out in sintra, and put material over it for a belt, so I could hang the large pouches on it. I don't think a velcroed cloth belt would hold that large of pouch up.

And the best part about it? Not having a jet pack is canon!

That pouch realy sorta looks like a pouch for paintball pods, or the size of it. I actualy have a spair pack that I could cut in half and have two sets of two pouches that would work.

I was thinking of doing a "sash" around the waist and having a leather belt to hold the ammo pouches and holsters..

looks cool so far

Originally Posted by twistedxknights

I was thinking of doing a "sash" around the waist and having a leather belt to hold the ammo pouches and holsters..

Thats crazy that you say that, because I seriously had that in the post of mine above, but ended up deleting it out of it to explain the sintra wrapped belt!

you know what they say.. great minds think alike..

would love to get this mando variant 501st approved.. but not sure how the gml's are gonna react..

Or either that we escaped from the same Asylum.

I would think after a little bit of talking it could be approved. There where multiple mando grunts in the comic, and it was an official Dark Horse SW comic. Between the Jedi Vs. Mando battle there where plenty of angles for refrencing them. I think you need at least 3 angles if I remember correctly. Or something like that. Mabey I made that up. I don't know off hand, do they have a list now of accepted characters? Something like that.

Jodo.. I contacted the LMO for the 501st and was told

The current standard of practice is for a new character to have three separate Lucasfilm licensed produced/released visual sources that depict the character in the exact same manner visually.

so.. long road ahead and alot of waiting and hoping

helmet next to mini grunt..

Originally Posted by twistedxknights

Jodo.. I contacted the LMO for the 501st and was told



so.. long road ahead and alot of waiting and hoping

Hmmm, mabey they'd could consider the diffrent angles of grunts in Open Season enough.

Love your helmet BTW!

thank you for the compliment on the helmet... looks 10x better then when it arrived (broken into about 5 pieces)...

cooooooooooooool Oh one other thing I make it simple and just call them MANDOLORIANS!

Look great!
Can´t wait to see more pictures of it!
Sven

Originally Posted by twistedxknights

looks 10x better then when it arrived (broken into about 5 pieces)...

That's really got to bite. It looks like the repair process went off without a hitch. Great bucket!

thanks for the compliments everyone

just want to say still working on it.. put together a set of vac form knees (from rimshot) and cut out some pieces for the back armor I'll post pics soon..

Looks good so far. I've always liked those versions. I look forward to watching your progress.

separate references mean just that.

so you'd need the open seasons comic book
another comic book
a hasbro/kenner figure (since im pretty sure we accept those now as a referance)

worked on a few more pieces for this costume..


definitely gonna have to repaint the previously painted pieces as I like how these turned out better

looks great vode