NEW! Custom Bounty Hunter Costume

Finally, I found the camoflauge pants that have been hidding from me. I don't have anyone to take pictures of me while I am wearing them but they are well fitting and confortable. And might I say my favorite thing to wear. Like the boots these have also have been weathered which brings excitment to me.

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Worry not about the helmet it is something new that my mom bought for when we go ATV riding out in the dunes and away from Phoenix. From the caomflauge jacket I will be wearing with the rest I found a shirt that will go best with everything including the camoflauge pants. Here is a few pictures of them.

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Like the pants this is also well fitting and very confortable. I always enjoyed wearing the shirt during certain events to show off pride. But so far that is it. More will be coming. Still trying to think of something for head gear. I am still open for ideas?
 
Went searching online and found a good weapon that could be put into use for this costume hopefully.

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Now who wants to face this hunter LOL! I am not sure if I am really going to buy it but I am thinking that it would go good with this costume. There is probally a definit for the clonetrooper blaster I will use. But still I will be heading to the store thursday so I can take a look and see what there is to make this costume
 
Just a warning, paint flakes off of those REALLY easily. Also, It (the paint) remains sticky, so If you hold it all day, your hands will have more paint on them than the sword does.
 
Really, I guess that is why I don't see it much at Wal*Mart when I go to the store. Thanks for telling me. I may just stick with the clone blaster. :D
 
Note: I'm not trying to be a pain, so take the following comments with large grains of salt.

You should actually build some armor.

If you continue on the path that your on, you will look like a JROTC cadet and not a space age, sci-fi mando, bounty hunter (or farmer). The pentagram while it looks great with certain costumes would look very out of place with this costume, same with the dog tags.

Try a OD green flight suit from a surplus store as a base, and than build upon that.

Making templates even from carboard if your budget is limited is very easy to make, and would take less than 30 minutes to cut out the upper armor plates and paint them one color.

you could than resin over this if you wanted, to complete the look. its been done before with great results on here somewhere. not sure where or who it was.

so basically don't use "us military standard issue clothing" for a costume that is doesn't work for.

paint your armor camouflage if thats the look you want, thats pretty easy as well and i can help you out with that if you choose that route.

Any questions? i'm here to help/.
 
Most of the materials that are for the armor I am low on which means I can't get them. You don't know how much I want to make armor but I can't because of my low budget deal.
 
i can compleatly agree and im right where you are.

for example. if you can crounge uyp 20 bucks or 15 dollars you can get the leather, aluminum sheet metal or a decent sized trash can. heck i think you can get a trash can for 5 bucks.

but save up....it'll be worth it in the long run.

carboard is free.
 
I got me $100 in ones but I am saving that for the Nickelback concert I am attending to buy a t-shirt. I looked on youtube and saw someone using cardboard and a cereal box to create their armor along with water color style paint. I am still going to try this custom bounty hunter out and put together some sketches for mandalorian armor and post them up while doing this.

Thanks a bunch vod.
 
You can also use FREE PRIORITY MAIL BOXES, just walk into the post office and grab a handful, they wont stop you. Thats how I made

<----------------------------- that little bucket over there.

I used priority mail envelopes, the WOF templates, a spool of tape, and $10.00 of Resin/fiberglass repair kit and $8.00 can of bondo.

It took me only 2 tries with the WOF template before I felt it was good enough to harden.

I made the bucket, did a resin coat, waited for it to dry, then glassed it, bondo and sand LOTS AND LOTS OF SANDING, then I promptly DROPPED IT and cracked it, but decided to use the cracks as Nexu damage and vibro sword cuts.

But bh is right, you gotta put some sort of mando armor on it or it wont really be a mando will it?

Chest plates from cardboard and resin at least so it has the mando look.
 
I actually was not considering this mandalorian armor just a standard bounty hunter almost like Cad Bane LOL! But some ideas have come for mandalorian armor when I begin my work for the mandalorian armor.

Someone on another sight other then the this place and Mandalorian Mercs told me that trash can armor is not a good way to go. And when I go here many people have made trash can armor and cardboard armor. So I am sticking with those who have done cardboard and trash can and going with what they say.

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I may take this design under my wing with a few changes to it.

But yeah good idea adonian I may go to the post officer and grab me some priorty mail box's to make the armor. However, I am not so good at molding and sculpting to do a mandalorian helmet so I may just buy a Boba or Jango style helmet and work from there.
 
you can get the 30 dollars 2pc easily enough, its better than the rip off price for the rubies vinyl 1pc and a better shape to boot.

ive seen more ****** trash can armor than regular, so im with whomever you talked to abtou that, not to say it cant be done, but it needs work.

still think leather and metal are easiest.
 
Sintra is pretty dang easy too.

Also, to get FREE sintra, call up a local sign shop, and ask for extra, or SCRAP sintra, I got enough for like 10 suits of Jango-style armor.

Also, If you explain to them what it is you are doing with it, a.k.a bring in a sample, or a design pic, or SOMETHING, Then they are more likely to let you take it.

Adonian, can you post pics of the boxes??? I can't picture them in my head.
 
I'd like to quote what he stated of using trash can's but I also don't want to sound mean of what he said. It was his own opinion and I really don't want to put him down for it in all honesty.

There is this one guy who makes helmets and I was thinking of buying one off of him. He is the bobamaker guy.....but the helmet is fiberglass.

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It's a good looking peace of work but I am going to see where else I can get a good looking helmet.
 
BM and fett pride have the best stuff in my opinion. but not if youre on a budget.

id start off with the cheaper helmets for now and upgrade later once you have a solid idea of what your MANDO looks like later.
 
That's what I planned. But I have a question?

I have seen some of the custom mandos have different colored visors. Can those be bought or is there some type of paint used to make them that color?
 
you can get red like mine and green from fleabay, the seller (i forgot) also makes blue visors for the imperial guard, he may make a blue t-visor but I cant say for sure since I am not him ;)
You can also use a motorcycle visor and cut it out, they come in iridium, fun stuff :)

BM and Fett Pride are both excellent, but if you dont want to spend over $250 for one, you can get one from SAZ, he's just starting to sell his buckets, like $150 or so plus shipping.
I used the priority envelope for my buckets.

As for trash can armor, it can be glassed, but I am using mine for fun, not fuction, so I dont need to glass it. Metal is nice, but heavy, and again I am making my armor for fun so no metal.

Oh yeah, I forgot about this guy:
Trash can armor how to video for newbies.

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