Custom Mando Sniper

Quick update on the armor,

I've added the second colour and done a whole load of weathering!

Waiting for the T-visor to arrive in the mail, and I have some orange/red/brownish window tint, to cover it (perhaps)

still got to do the gauntlets, knees, cod, weapons and trophies and various soft bits, but its coming along nicely.

Any thoughts guys and girls ?!?

***The range finder is really annoying, whats the best way to keep it up ?***

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that is some GOOD lookin kit there mate! great weathering!

the RF falling is a problem i had a while back, and i ended up sinking a nut into the earcap and drilling a bolt through the inside of the helmet so i could adjust the tightness of the RF. worked for one of my buckets.

hope that helps somewhat!
:cheers
A'den
 
Hey man your helmet and armor are looking great. I was curious if you got the gauntlets with the iphone to work.

I am in the process of getting my gauntlets started and i had a similar idea with an old cell phone I had. Its a little bigger than the iphone. I was going to put songs and some cool wallpaper on it so it looked Mandalorian.

I'm permanantly putting it in the guantlets but having it so I can take the battery (i have a seperate charder for just the battery) and memory card out on the inside of the gauntlet.
 
Ahhh, that sounds like a pretty fool proof way of fixing the RF problem, thanks A'den . . . I was so close to fixing it in place permanently just so it would stop dropping down. :angry

As for the iPhone gaunt . . . Once I have some money :cry I'm going to order a bracket to hold the phone, it's the sort of thing you use in a car, and when that arrives I will have a better Idea of how the whole thing is going to fit together. I'm basically going to have a cover that pulls over the phone so you can only see the screen. (as suggested by Nevu440)

Here are some pics of my iGaunt V1, (I think I should patent that :D) the problem is there was too much movement, and I wasn't very keen to get a heat gun anywhere near my phone so figured i would get something designed to hold the phone securely and work off that. I'm being swayed towards this car holder, looks pretty minimal (obviously I will remove the arm section and just use the grippy bit).

Thanks for all the kind comments, they help to keep things rolling along :)

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I-phone gauntlet is a great idea, BUT there is a major issue with i-phone:
You can't use your I-Phone when you're wearing gloves !!! (i-phone screen reacts to electric charge, your finger's skin won't block the electric current, but gloves will...)
Stylus for I-Phone or "i-phone gloves" are a solution, but there must be a way to turn regular gloves into i-phone gloves.

The Mando way to workaround this issue would be to use a finger taken from the last victim of the hunter :D
 
Stylus, iPhone gloves, finger severing or just fingerless gloves . . . well. . . I have plenty of options ,although I think fingerless glove would do fine.

I want to add an element of the sand people to the suit, (after all, they are the natives) perhaps having a modified tuken rifle ?!?! Or hand wraps (similar to the tusken boots) instead of gloves . . .not sure yet, much to decide! :wacko
 
Updates??
Well whatever you end up doing, it will probably look great. I might go with the hand wraps maybe. The modified tusken rifle would be cool too, but I thought you planned on making your big sniper rifle? Maybe the tusken could go on your back, or have it as a backup.
-Nevu
 
couldnt you take a stylus and modify it to fit on the back of you hand running down one of the fingers? maybe you could take one apart and just use the end
 
I think fingerless hand wrap style gloves is the way forward.

I do still really want to make the huge sniper but as the tusken rifle is fairly large anyway I may just make a modified version. I want to work on a way to make it more portable (removable barrel / folding stock etc)

Sorry for being so slack, I'll get things rolling again soon when I have a little more cash at my disposal.

Debt.
 
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