heavy mando idea!

that is a pretty slick x-wing

Before you paint any more you definitely need to fill in your seam lines with bondo or wood filler. It will look 100x better
 
hmm i guess your right, i had ignored those up until now

wood filler? would plastic filler be better?
and what exactly is bondo? i live in norway and im having some trouble with the translation so i cant really find any
 
bondo is an autobody filler that can be found at hardware stores or autosupply stores. It's a two part mixture that you can put into the seams and it will harden. Then you just gotta sand it down.

I'm not really sure what plastic filler is, but I should have mentioned that wood filler is easier to use than bondo, but it's not nearly as strong
 
got a surprise for yall... but its not done yet so ull have to wait on more week. i only work on my costume during the weekends cause i live away from home at the moment.

but i have one question:
does any one have any good suggestions on how to make a... "comfortable" but plate? im considering making out of 2 pieces connected to each other with a rubber band of sorts, but it just doesnt feel... right. any suggestions?

cheers
 
Hey that looks cool, great to see someone else using plexi-glas.

be careful with it though, it tends to crack relativly easy in comparisson to sintra.
 
thanks for the warning, but its not plexi-glass. i cannot remember the name of it, but its just as bendable as sintra, but i believe it is harder and doesn't break easy at all. lol i tried to break it... nothing really worked except the axe, which made a fairly big dent though.
i read somewhere that you can cut sintra with some sort of knife, i have to use a saw:p
 
Lexan. I used to work with it a lot at a hardware store, you seem to be describing it perfectly. I'm gonna use the same material for the armour plates on my suit. It's lightweight, easy to form(with a bit of heat), and unbelievably strong. Seriously, a quarter inch piece of that stuff will stop shotgun slugs. And it's not all that expensive - 4->5 bucks a square foot.
 
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thank you!!
thats it lexan... lexan... love it.
i also use some PVC pipes... the kind used in sewers haha not as strong but easy enough to work with
 
yeh, i kno how go 2 ur pics find it in ur computer then right click and hit open with open it with microsoft picture manager, then go 2 the bar up top and click on picture drop down 2 resize make it smaller then hit save as and change the name so then u have the orginals and the new smaller ones then u can post them.
 
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soo aah... yeah

the elbow-guards are done. All though the rest of the arms are not done i decided to post what iv done

its all in my Photobucket profile and here is the link to the first picture, enjoy and tell me what you think:)

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