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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tom Walker" data-source="post: 490649" data-attributes="member: 12599">Hi All!I recently scratch built a Boba Fett helmet...[ATTACH=full]185811[/ATTACH]...and it has progressed into building a full costume.I am building it to be moulded and cast, but in a way in which it can be converted into a Jango Fett variant as well. I have started a separate thread for the Jango variant here:<a href="https://www.thedentedhelmet.com/forums/threads/jango-fett-built-from-scratch-pic-heavy.35404/" target="_blank">Jango Fett Built from Scratch (Pic Heavy!)</a> I won’t be covering the helmet build in this thread as I have a separate thread already:<a href="https://www.thedentedhelmet.com/forums/threads/esb-boba-fett-helmet-scratch-build-pic-heavy.34045/" target="_blank">ESB Boba Fett Helmet - Scratch Build - Pic Heavy!</a>I have been using various reference imagery from the film to scale from and also a lot of RafalFetts's measurements.Here is my progress so far. Hope you enjoy![ATTACH=full]185812[/ATTACH]I started out by making some rough paper templates and pinning them to a t-shirt. This helped me get the basic shape and scale.[ATTACH=full]185813[/ATTACH]After making numerous templates I began to actually fabricate something.For the majority of the armour panels I am using 5mm Foamex. It's a really great material as you can shape it with heat and it cuts and sands really nicely. I glued parts together with superglue (activator helps a lot!) and used a whole mess of body filler to blend everything together.[ATTACH=full]185814[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]185815[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]185816[/ATTACH]Fresh pull from my previous helmet mould and a splash of primer...[ATTACH=full]185818[/ATTACH]Quick test fit...[ATTACH=full]185819[/ATTACH]Not sure where I got the sharp ridge from on the back panel... So I decided to sand it smooth[ATTACH=full]185820[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]185821[/ATTACH]Another test fit, and all fitting well![ATTACH=full]185822[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]185823[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]185824[/ATTACH]several alterations (including moving the slots) were made, until I was finally happy with the back plate.It was at this point when I was made aware of wizardofflight's templates which helped considerably for scaling. Using them side by side with the references I had found, I made tweaks and changes to get them the way I wanted.[ATTACH=full]185825[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]185826[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]185827[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]185828[/ATTACH]For the more detailed areas, I found using 1mm and 3mm Fomex was a lot easier.[ATTACH=full]185829[/ATTACH]I soon had a nice collection of parts coming together.[ATTACH=full]185830[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]185831[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]185832[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]185833[/ATTACH]Small details were added as I went along.[ATTACH=full]185834[/ATTACH]I drew a lot of the greeblies up in Fusion360 and 3d printed them. (some Jango Fett parts can be seen here also)I also opted to make the knee symmetrical so I only have to make one mold. The excess parts can then be trimmed and sanded off after casting to make them accurate.[ATTACH=full]185835[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]185836[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]185837[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]185838[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]185839[/ATTACH]This is my parts collection so far...Next up: prepping for moulding... Stay tuned! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big Grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

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