Fem-mando first timer. WARNING Image heavy

Updates everyone!
I've been working on my soft parts and got quite a bit done.
First I've finished the tabards. The green floral kimono fabric that i had originally intended was sold out so I had to find
something else for the main fabric of the tabards. I found this skirt here, the sequined and embroidered panels would be perfect for my tabards.
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I cut out the panels and added felt backing because I felt they were too flimsy
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I had some silver tassels for the bottom that I spray painted gold and antiqued
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This is the finished product
Front:
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Back:
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and on the kama:
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I have also finished my vest, if you haven't read the thread i posted, I found a beautiful piece of leather, but didn't have enough to make my vest. I ordered another piece but it was a completely different color. After some wonderful advice from the people here, I used a design that worked with that.
Here is my vest front:
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back:
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side:
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and here are some pictures of everything I have so far

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I'm almost finished with my first belt no so I'll be posting that soon. Any comments or critique are welcome! Thanks in advance
 
The Kama looks amazing. I love the detail and fabric choice, it's really starting to take shape to your original drawing. If the armor looks half as good as the soft goods do so far you will have an amazing and super detailed mando! Very impressive.
 
looking pretty cool,

Just wondering if you have seen the other threads on female mando armor, one idea was to use a female mannequin torso which are like $10 on ebay and cut it out to give you the foundations. Depending on the type you get, most plastic cements will stick to it, and because they are fairly firm, it may prevent sulptured work from falling off.

But very impressive and thanks for sharing.

April
 
The soft parts are the most important parts to get right and I honestly think this is going to come out absolutely fantastic!

Can't wait to see your progress on this!

Oh and there has been talk about using cheap fencing armour for the plates as well.
 
looking pretty cool,

Just wondering if you have seen the other threads on female mando armor, one idea was to use a female mannequin torso which are like $10 on ebay and cut it out to give you the foundations. Depending on the type you get, most plastic cements will stick to it, and because they are fairly firm, it may prevent sulptured work from falling off.

But very impressive and thanks for sharing.

April
Thanks,
The mannequin is a good idea. I was going to do wonderflex but I'm so leary of using bondo or resin as I don't really have a place to work with it. Do you have to smooth the surface at all? You say they're firm but would re-enforcing the inside of the mannquin plates with wonderflex help? Thanks again.
 
Thanks,
The mannequin is a good idea. I was going to do wonderflex but I'm so leary of using bondo or resin as I don't really have a place to work with it. Do you have to smooth the surface at all? You say they're firm but would re-enforcing the inside of the mannquin plates with wonderflex help? Thanks again.

As long as you are prepared to put the arm work in, bondo is a very good shaping tool, especially if you want natural shapes.

I made my krayt for my Krayt Dragon helmet completely out of bondo and in some ways, the way it laid out was really organic. However, at the same point, if you're clever, you can shape bondo just before it dries solid with an exacto knife, it really cuts down on sanding time.

Resin your fears are founded, but bondo? On a sheet of paper, mix it with a piece of plastic and away you go.

Here's me giving away all my lil secrets, but your project is worth it! :)
 
As long as you are prepared to put the arm work in, bondo is a very good shaping tool, especially if you want natural shapes.

I made my krayt for my Krayt Dragon helmet completely out of bondo and in some ways, the way it laid out was really organic. However, at the same point, if you're clever, you can shape bondo just before it dries solid with an exacto knife, it really cuts down on sanding time.

Resin your fears are founded, but bondo? On a sheet of paper, mix it with a piece of plastic and away you go.

Here's me giving away all my lil secrets, but your project is worth it! :)

Hee! Thank you very much. That alieviates a great deal of my fears about bondo. I'll probably still use the putty because I'm much more comfortable sculpting than carving, but I feel better about using it for the thigh and shin armor
 
Hi Y'all!
I only have a small update this time. The work I'm doing on this is time consuming and hasn't left me with a lot of chances to get photos.
My husband is better at it than I am and he's been very busy but this is what I've got so far
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Cut breast plates from a mannequin
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Partially sculpted breastplates
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Fully sculpted breastplate
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Prim'd breast plate
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Painted and antiqued (left) and just painted (Right)
Didn't get any in progress pics of the gut plate but here it is in all it's finished glory
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and here is is with the breast plates
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That's all I have for now, Coming up soon, the thigh plates, knee plates, shoulder armor, collar plate and "diamond"
Whatcha think?
 
I'm sooo glad I subscribed to this thread, and better yet I am glad that I came back to check my sub'd threads after a looong break, YOUR WORK IS AMAZING KEEP IT UP!
 
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