jdfett Jango project

a couple more progress pictures...the armor is secured with industrial strenght velcro. I was going to go with the snap system but decided against it for now...two reasons...1...im impatient (LOL) and two, I havnt got the snaps or the glue to put them on. I may add a couple snaps later as security for the armor but this velcro doesnt seem to want to ever let go. It adhered very well to the leather and the fiberglass.

I also got motivated and trimmed, sanded and rub and buffed the backplate. I hope to replace this with a cruzer one sometime for a more accurate backplate.

still have to weather the armor pieces...if the dang paint and r&b ever comes in from the company i ordered it from:rolleyes
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oh and I almost forgot...finished the rangefinder too..

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finally got the paint in for the helmet and whipped out a second color tonight so i can mask and redo the R&B tomorrow! here is two shots, one flash and one without...

flash

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no flash

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i had some issues with getting the r&b on the areas that i had to paint..and i thought i could do a bit better on the finish so i sanded all the r&b off, reprimed, sanded the whole thing with 800 then masked and taped off the cheeks, painted with rustolium royal blue, then remasked off for the krylon shortcuts ocean blue. now ill mask off the r&b areas, put a coat or two of satin clear, then remask the painted surfaces and do the r&b over.
 
Oh man, make sure you put tape over the blue parts when you decide to paint the R&B, I cannot tell you how many times I accidentally brushed my finger with the slightest remnence of the silver paint on my finger. On top of that, it would just appear there, and you wont even realize it until after you think its done! lol

-tubachris
 
no kidding about that rub and buff mysterious fingerprints eh? advise to anyone would be to always wash you hands before touching anything...lol. Ya I'll be taping it up for sure before doing the r&b. I decided to put some satin clear on the two colors to bring them even in appearance as far as the finish. waiting now till tomorrow to r&b the rest..but...

seeing as i couldnt stand by and do nothing...cause i hate that...lol, i did a little more.

first i decided that the armor needed to get weathered. I also decided that the vest was too "new" looking and needed some weathering as well. I took some 60 grit sandpaper and went to town on the vest, suffing it up, eliminating the sheen it had and exposing some of the leather along the piping. you can see some of that work in these pictures of the armor weathering....

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I also finished wetsanding and reclearing the helmet...again...flash and no flash

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and this is the backplate modification to the cut out to bring it more towards the correct accuracy...

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HAHA! i know...there is something about my impatient costume building that always pans out for me..LOL actually Ive been thinking...Ive got another costume I need to get done by Dcon08 and thats only 9 months away...9 months you say? well you see part of the costume is transforming the heavy set maul you met at dcon07 into a spartan by then, plus getting the costume together. The first part is coming along nicely...40 lbs gone so far! but i havnt even begun to think about the costume, so Jango needs to get done!
 
so i finally finished the R&B and paint for the helmet...all thats left is the black pinstriping, weathering and attaching the ears, which i should be able to get done later today. I cut out the visor but it's not secured in yet...just sitting inside for the pictures. The R&B came out okay...not perfect, but this stuff is real difficult to get perfect unfortunatley. Although it gives the whole helmet a weathered look like it should have anyway...Jango didn't have a perfectly polished lid and it had it's own imperfections so I guess I can live with the outcome...


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