Recent content by Joelight

Not sure what everyone else thought about The Last Jedi. From what I have seen online the reviews are almost split evenly with half of the fans liking it and the other half less than pleased with the new direction Disney is taking. I personally didn't care for some parts but liked others and...

Here are some concept paintings of my custom mando. I am no where near ready to start making the rest of the costume but I made the helmet a couple years ago. The gray scale painting is a work in progress painting. I am currently adding the colors. I decided for that painting to experiment with...

If you have tried to use the WOF templates and not been able to do it right let me give you a tip. When I made the dome for my helmet (all steel) I had a lot of trouble getting everything to fit right and had to use extensive amounts of bondo to get it to look good. Cut out all of the pieces of...

check out my helmet build. I used the WOF templates as a pattern and cut everything out with swivel shears and then welded and ground everything down. http://www.thedentedhelmet.com/f34/my-first-helmet-37967/

Any type of armor is always a balancing act between mobility and better protection. Having worn many different types of bullet resistant vest myself, including vests rated for stopping rifle rounds, I can say that the heavy armor that you created here would not hinder movement any more than real...

Thanks, You can find the pics of my helmet on the WIP thread here: http://www.thedentedhelmet.com/f34/my-first-helmet-37967/

Well after a lot of planning and changing design ideas several of times I have finally come up with a design that I like for my custom Mando. I did a digital painting of my concept to finalize the design. The next step is to start getting materials. I am going to build the armor out of metal...

I just have to say that your armor came out awesome. It has inspired me to start working on my own armor to go with my helmet.

Wow dude that is awesome. I did my helmet in 22 gauge steel and spot(bead) welded it together. I will warn you, my helmet is really heavy and the steel I used is a few millimeters thinner than the stuff you are using. I also plan on making a full suit out of the same 22 gauge steel but I just...

Awesome dude. Are you going to weld it together?

What kind of metal are you using? I used 22 gauge sheet steel for mine.

The Republic Commando series is a must read. And I think anybody on this forum will agree with me on that. It will keep you busy for a while, there are five books.

Blender. It's always free.

Thanks everyone for the good comments. CarudAkinolos, I just used the WOF template for the dome. If I was to do it again I would have done it a different way. Leave all of the triangles attached at the top of the dome and then weld them as I bend everything to shape. It would just be easier than...

Hey thanks for the compliments. No I didn't plan on using it for paintball at all. I have a couple reasons for that... 1) the visor is just glued on at the moment, and I plan on changing that, and 2) The visor really cuts down on my visibility I think people would be able to sneak up on me from...