Well Celebration was a blast! Met lots of cool people, including a few other Bobas. I was able to walk the floor on Friday in costume and it was an awesome experience. I even ended up meeting Daniel Logan! (one of the people working the booth grabbed me as I was passing by)
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I do have some kinks to work out still, mainly with my gloves (I had to take one off to operate my phone but I had a hell of a time trying to get it back on) but first I'll detail the finishing touches I put together before Celebration.
The two halves of the left vambrace were easier to take care of than I thought. I took 4 magnets in a square (this was originally 2 but during gluing they slid together, sure we'll do 4) and super glued them over the seam. I let that set then went back with hot glue to really set them in place. After waiting 10-15 minutes I pulled the halves apart and the magnets thankfully stayed in place! Once the magnets get lined up and the two halves slot together, it's pretty difficult to pull apart. Works perfectly.
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The final step was the hoses for the right vambrace. I picked up vinyl tubing from Home Depot and ordered mesh covering from eBay. I left the mesh a little long on each hose and sewed them all together at the top, sandwiched between two pieces of velcro. This allowed me to place them between my vest and shoulder piece, with the shoulder piece essentially sitting on top of the hose velcro. Works great. Then I designed and 3d printed a plug that threads onto some 1/4 x 20 threaded rod I picked up. The metal pieces go onto the rod and the plug locks them into place. Then the tube slides over the plug and is trapped, no glue required. I then used some heavy duty shrink tube to finish it off. It's a bit too thick but I'm planning to completely redo these hoses anyway as they're not as flexible as I'd like. I went ahead and glued the metal detail pieces to the hoses and I just insert the threaded rod into my vambrace after I put it on. The hoses stay in place just fine.
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And for now that's it! It's pretty much in its completed state now, save for weapons and possibly a jetpack. The next thing I want to do is a custom phone pouch and some touch-sensitive stickers I can put on my gloves.
