Republic Commando

Well, RC's are based on the Mandalorian culture (huzzah for Karen Traviss!) and I'm a bit of a show off anyway, so I wanted to see what you guys here at TDH thought of my RC build. I finished it Sat. And promptly spent Sunday ripping the forearms and shoulders apart and rebuilding them. I'll have some news pics later this week, but here are a few from Sat...











Charlie

Very nice....

Very nice indeed. Your shoulders look too big in the pics but other than that it's a really fine looking RC.

Very ill-fitting in some places, but I think you could fix it.

I love it otherwise though. Totally awesome.

...wow...

Kote Ner vod! Love it! Especially that Buy'ce

I wonder how many People understood what I just said?

Looks great!
=)

Oh my god that lookes so cool. Were did you get that armor.

LOVE it!

Originally Posted by 1ManBattalion

Kote Ner vod! Love it! Especially that Buy'ce

I wonder how many People understood what I just said?

3rd time trying to post this, must be a problem on my end...
I believe you said "glory my brother" and Expecially that "helmet"

Where can I find a template for the bucket, it's Kandosii!

http://skipspepakuracostumes.blogspo...-complete.html

Ori'kandosii vod'ika!

An excellent suit of armor. All you need now is over the top kill markings... bloody handprints, shrunken Trandoshan heads, droid photoreceptors... :P

super awesome!!

Very nice!

That looks really good!

::drooool::

Sweet rig mate

very cool, i like the blue light above you visor.

Originally Posted by Bounty Hunter

very cool, i like the blue light above you visor.

Have to agree with this, awesome work

Kandosii! I like how your visor and weapon light up as well. Excellent work.

Thank you. I've got the armor on a mannequin. The lighted visor doesn't work anymore. but I have a great story about having a helmet catch on fire now, lol.

Charlie

did u use el wire on the visor??

Nice build .

looks rather clean though ,

I like the 'dirty' look. here's mine :

Nice buy'ce ner vod!

Wau Man, COOOOOOOOOOOOOOL!!!!!!!!!!!

very nice. it seems like white RCs aren't all that common. i see lots of omega and delta, but not just the plain commandos.

i like it!

Or even custom RC's? Not too many of those around at all.

Originally Posted by Skupilkinson

Or even custom RC's? Not too many of those around at all.

Probably has a lot to do with the 501st. They accept Omega, Delta, or plain white. No custom commandos. (I personally would love to do a purple one from Mace Windu's Legion.)

And yes, it was EL wire above the visor. That's fine. There is an AC/DC transformer to power it. I borrowed some batteries. Didn't realize they were rechargable, hence a higher voltage, hence an RC suddenly tossing a smoking bucket across a room.

Charlie

well, with thier close links to mandos - would it possibly fall under remit of the MMCC

if u can do a custom mando their, a custom RC cant be that far off?

Nate

ps I love the size of the shoulder bell - part of it was I was thinking of assembling a senate commando from CW. THeir armour is the CW style clone trooper armour in blue with the enlarged left shoulder bell

I loved the look of the Senate Commando! Cloak of Darkness was probably my favourite episode to date. Even though the armor was mainly Clone Trooper, the helmets and that enlarged shoulder bell were cool.

The helmets being very "Mando" in their look.

Awesome commando!

Nice Build! I like the GRUNT WHITE myself, here's mine:

That looks great, Ner Vod. Here's mine.

This is my First post on these forums, but ive been lurking for a while, and i just wanted to say:

Kandosii To all! All of those Commandos are amazing, Vode! Very Well Done!

Yeah, all that RC stuff is AWESOME

Kandosii ner vod!
What is this made of?
Also how is it made? Vac-formed kitset? Scratch-built?
Keep up the good work

Tracyn

I love the look of RCs, and yours is just great! Has that "Shiny new" armor look to it

that sev looks awesome man cant wait to see it finished!!!!!!

I'm super jealous of you guys!!! Those Commandos are awesome!

You guys have awesome RCs... although I strongly recommend that you make sure you have a Deece... it seems like it's one of the few weapons that anyone and everyone can identify.

Kal

I'm new here and wanted to know how you guys get started?

Templates.

Originally Posted by d40commando

I'm new here and wanted to know how you guys get started?

PM sent.

Okay, I'm a newb here. I've managed to build a Mandalorian helmet, much in need of repairs, but that was out of sheet metal, something that's one thickness which I can understand. I can see where you're all getting the templates for these costumes, but I have no idea where to start with the actual building. I ain't a PVC person, but I love the Clone's and Commando's. Any suggestions would be appreciated greatly.

It all starts with a master, for a fiberglass/resin one you can make it out of anything from clay to cardstock. Once you have the master you need to mold it with a silicone rubber, I recommend Rebound 25 from Smooth-on. From there you make a jacket for the rubber either from fiberglass, Plasti-paste from Smooth-on, or plaster bandages. Then you are ready to cast, lets say it's a helmet, you can get a good roto-casting resin from Smooth-on, google how too roto-cast.

Now that is the more expensive way to go, if you just want to make one then I would suggest some Pepakura files from Skip, his are what I consider the Best of the best.


Then there is vacuum forming, I do not know much about this so if anyone out there wants to give tips please do so.

mandomerc.... you built one out of sheetmetal. I don't know if that's common but I'd like to see that. Back on topic, great armor, now all you need is a DC17 blaster or what ever it is.

Never mind about having to show me pics, just saw them. Pretty good. I would recommend sanding down the surface which appears to have sauter (spell check?) on it, bondo on it, or just clumped up paint. And if you could either replace the visor with a tinted one or just place a tinted film (thin cerran like plastic wrap) over it.

GraphiX:
Yeah, I actually used a lot of epoxy to hold most of the panels together, and that's what's on it. I think I am going to just grind it down, since I'm using a grinder to cut out Mandalorian armor right now (I'm using really thick metal). BTW, I used a plastic G.I. helmet for the top.

Anyways, thanks SUPERprops, but is the 'master' just the basic shape of whatever I'm making?

Guys, you're hijacking. Maybe you should start a new thread or go to PM.

Originally Posted by 1ManBattalion

Kote Ner vod! Love it! Especially that Buy'ce

I wonder how many People understood what I just said?

kote means glory...maybe u meant kandosii for classy...and buy'ce is bucket or helmet.

Looks pretty sweet dude

Originally Posted by 1ManBattalion

Kote Ner vod! Love it! Especially that Buy'ce

I wonder how many People understood what I just said?

ni suvarir ner'vod

Hi I just joined, love your helmet wolter, where did you get or how did you make it?

Originally Posted by 1ManBattalion

Kote Ner vod! Love it! Especially that Buy'ce

I wonder how many People understood what I just said?

any self-resrectin mando would "glory my brother!" Buy'ce = helmet

Originally Posted by 1ManBattalion

Kote Ner vod! Love it! Especially that Buy'ce

I wonder how many People understood what I just said?

I did ner vod. Its a real pain in the shebs that not a lot of people here speak mando. Or at least dont show that they do. aruetiise..

well i wish u darasuum kote mate. Oya!

Originally Posted by bob'ika

any self-resrectin mando would "glory my brother!" Buy'ce = helmet

Ori'jate! that means very good. its not so commenly used so incase u didnt know. im glad to see that there are a few vode that strive to true mando'a. o btw that beskar'gam is Kandosii! but could use some weathering maybe?

very nice that armor has to be a lill heavy...... is it ?

Originally Posted by stormtrooperguy

very nice. it seems like white RCs aren't all that common. i see lots of omega and delta, but not just the plain commandos.

i like it!

I can't imagine a plain commando on the field, cuz the commando's were trained like mandos by the mandos so the have the mando culture which involves the colours

very nice, you leaving it white or you painting it up?, can i ask where you got the helmet from?, or did you use a pep file?

Tried accessing that blog link that was posted, and it no longer exists. Anyone know where I can obtain the Commando pepakura files? Google hasn't turned up any results.

freaken awesome

Wow that kit looks amazing!

you should throw up some schematics and pics of how your put your ori'jate kit together. this is one is down the road for me but its a diffanent future build for me. love the nulls and rcs.