Recent content by joshvanrad

This one has hit pretty close to home. As someone who wears RKD armor, and someone who is dealing with cancer I've been feeling this one pretty hard. RKD will no doubt be missed greatly and I hope his family can find some bit of normalcy after this loss. I know the loss for the community will be...

Yo dude, where is your build thread? Is there a different one? Your getup looked great at SWCO.

It was really cool meeting the few of you that I met on Saturday. There were some REALLY awesome Fetts out there.

So glad I got to meet a few of you out at SWCO. Some really awesome looking Fetts out there. Thanks for all the support and help in getting this thing done. I'm really happy with how it turned out. I couldn't have done it without this awesome community of builders. Sent from my SM-G935V

Super excited for this. My first celebration, and my second time wearing the suit. I'm a little nervous about how it does in transport though. Hopefully it all makes it intact.

So I finished up the costume for now. No pictures yet, but I'll be at Celebration this week, so I'm sure I'll have some pictures of the finished product by this weekend. Also, if you'll be there hopefully we run into each other. Sent from my SM-G935V

Hey guys, I'm really hoping I can meet you guys at SWC. This will be my first Celebration. Is there officially a time setup for a Boba photo shoot? Thanks, Joshua C.

On a scale of 1-10, how much should we panic? Sent from my SM-G935V

The rest of the armor repaint Sent from my SM-G935V

Looking at the gallery images it typically appears that the top edge of the shoulder bells are just slightly higher than the horizontal plane that the top of the chest armor would create. If that makes sense.

Dude that looks awesome. I really like your blackwashing on the chest armor. A bit of advice if you want it: It looks like the shoulder bells might be just a tad low on the flak vest.

I reused the backplate, kidney plate, knees, and cod piece. The chest set, shoulder bells, and collar are all the RKD V3 size I believe. It is hard to see the size difference in the side-by-side shots because these have quite a bit more curve to them.

Finished weathering and clearcoating on all of the armor pieces. I still need to do the interior of the cod, kidney plate, and back plate. Hopefully, I'll be onto adding hardware and electronics soon. I'm seeing the light at the end of the tunnel. I've had a ton of fun doing the weathering this...

Slowly but surely, still chipping away at the repaint. Finished the paint up on the shoulder bells. I have a hard time discerning the correct hue on these because they vary so heavily in different lighting conditions. Sometimes they look more orange, and other times they are more yellow. In my...

Updates as promised. All of the green parts are done (minus the weathering). I want to finish the shoulders and knees, so I can weather everything together for a consistent pattern and hue. I'll be moving onto the shoulders and knees next week. Here's the finished cod, kidney, and back plates...