Nevu's Custom Mando (Lots of Pics)

OK I am back at my house. Trying to find my camera in my room, and its not lookin real good. Uh oh... Working on the dome some more right now. Trying to come up with some ideas to customize it more. As I am getting into this and its comming longer more people are comming with customs and using really cool ideas to make it truely theirs and not a repainted Fett, and I dont want to copy them so I am running out of ideas, ugh!

BrenSett: Thanks for informing me about the pictures. I will go back and post them in the post instead of a link.

Adonian: Yea his weathering is frickin awesome! Is there an easy to weather trashcans? I dont want to make holes or indents of a bullet, just make it look scared. A while back I did the thing with painting the whole piece silver, then the top layer color. And sanded it down to get to the silver but that didnt work very well. Any tutorials for weathering trashcans?
More updates soon, WITH pics!
-Nevu
 
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You can weather by painting in layers, people use tooth paste as a mask, I just did a couple of layers of color and scratched with screw drivers and even put it on the driveway and did a few pulls across the cement.

So layering and scratching is good.

As for trash can, scratch, dent (ball hammer works great) gouge, then layer paint and scratch some more.
 
Thanks for the advice Adonian! Since it's sunday, I will not be working on this to much. But good news! I finished the helmet dome and it looks promising, well minus a few spots. It looks bad because its really coated with a lot of hot glue. But once I get some Bondo on there it should be just fine. I am experiementing with some custom ideas for the helmet. I will post those soon.
 
the robe idea you are borrowing from me will look great with this colour armour. was going to make mine a sort of midnight blue as well with a dark brown coat. hope you dont mind me still using the colour scheme (different design to you of course)
 
No problem. And thanks for letting me use the idea. I have an old Jedi robe I might cut the sleeves off. If I end up doing this idea I will cut the sleeves off to the point where I will put the shoulder armor over top of it. Thanks! Updates soon!!
 
Ok, here are my ideas for the helmet. The grey areas will be painted and unknown color, any ideas on that welcome. The grey areas will also be raised a bit instead of just painted on. Please share your input. Any ideas, likes or dislikes of them?
On this one, the very thin grey lines are just there to show the barrier between the cheek pieces and the visor. The lines will not actually be there.
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This one I am probably more sure about. I liked the chin idea. Originaly I was going to slid it down more, make it more like a gotee by fliping it over too. But this looked way better!:D
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Ok, I am now going back and making all of my pictures into a pic shown in the post. I will keep the attachments in case for any reason the picture does not show up or isnt big enough to view.
 
pics are showing, and for the bucket, I like the top one's color changes. Hope you dont mind, I took the liberty to play with your bucket.

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The grey design around the visor? I am not sure about that. I dont know if I have the painting skills. But that sure would look cool. Thanks for the helmet ideas you posted. I really like the yellow. How you cut out pieces to make the visor bigger also is really cool. Its just that would mean I would have to buy a custom visor or somthing right? Most ones I have seen for sale are only just big enough to cover the open area for a reglar Fett helmet. Is there a way I can make a visor?
Thanks Adonian, you rock! (y)
 
you could use a motorcycle visor, they come in lots of cool colors too.
I like the yellow one too, it looks like a clone bucket crossed with a Mando.
 
Yeah, I noticed that too. I took the ideas that we made and put them into posterboard and attached them to the helmet, temporarily. Just to see what it looks like. I will post a pic of that soon. Right now I've got to eat breakfast, I'm starving! :D
 
Ok I got kinda bored and ended up drawing a design for my shoulder armor. You might be able to figure out where I got the base design idea. Does it look good or just like a sad copy of the mando skull? I wanted to make it look something more kinda my own so its got a twist to it.
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Just a couple of variations of the design. Some with color and some without. Any ideas on it or just say which one you like. If you have different color ideas I put ones without color so feel free to edit those. I tried to use these colors because black probably wouldnt show very well and blue is a color very widely used on my costume.
 
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I like the First, Fourth, Second from Last and Last designs, but that's just me... I actually painted up my shoulder plates yesterday, they turned out pretty nicely, except the white paint on the kad'uliik's head kinda cracked... oh well... adds character! lol
 
Thanks for the input Kal'ika. I will probably go with the fourth design because it just has more to it and the other ones really look like they need some horns!
Today work will start on Bondoing the helmet. (Edit, that didnt happen because I got rained out! :angry And I didnt want to stink up the house and there is NO space in my garage to do it.)
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Lol this thread of mine is so boring without pics... I promise pics will come soon! It will just be a very long post because I got a lot of work done on the dome. I've decided to put a clone trooper fin over the dome. Anyone know how I can either make or buy a visor for cheap?
 
you could use one of those acrylic photo frames, cut it to fit, then tint it what ever color you need, there is red/yellow/green/blue/grey/silver tints for cars out there. Or just get a motorcycle visor or a welding shield.
 
Thanks for the advice Adonian. I am pretty happy right now. I just put Bondo on the dome of my helmet. I didnt finish though because I odor got to me and I had to stop. Will pick that up again tomorrow. And expect pics by tomorrow morning. :D
 
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I promised pics so here they are. The first set is without sanding, the second with about 15 minutes worth of sanding. This wil take forever to sand by hand... :( I wish I was more careful with the bondo.
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And as you can see in the last 4 pictures. I decided to add a clonetrooper fin like I said up a few posts.
 
just playin with your pics again:

as for sanding, get a mouse sander from walmart, they're pretty cheap, and dont forget to use a mask, I have to go to the doctor today, I was sanding last week with out a mask, and have been coughing ever since, and it is getting worse.

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