Sabertooth
New Hunter
Ok so I guess this is going to be the journey of my first ever build to do anything with cosplay, I've always wanted to do a type of mando build since my first con years ago and now that the mandalorian has come out I have a good enough reason.
At the moment I have almost completely finished my first bucket and am just waiting for my visor to get delivered.
All images will be at the bottom of this first post for helmet.
Since I don't have a 3d Printer I went with the traditional method of starting of with pepakura and sticking all those peices together, the unfold that I used was a little bit odd in some places so I had to improvise a little bit but it was the only free file I could find at the time.
The next step was slowly building up the strength with layers of resin and fibreglass, which I probably could have done a better job of but I got there in the end with a few bubbles here and there.
Alright now was the second most time consuming step aside from the first step, so I whipped out my body filler and my filler primer and got to work on filling and shaping, this is when I realised that my helmet was a bit uneven at the back so I tried my best to fill one side out more than the other but I never got it perfect so I just continued, I also encountered a few issues while shaping my earpeices since they were already attached I didn't fill them out properly and accidently poked a few holes discovering some major cavities whilst carving these.
At this point I also realised that my cheek peices were flexing in and still a little flimsy so I I decided to use some rondo to reinforce the cheeks and fill in the cavities in the ear peices, and soon enough I was finished with shaping and ready to paint.
I used a last layer of filler primer and sanded that down with a fine sanding sponge to get a smooth finish and then used a rustoleum flat grey primer, then over that I used a black gloss paint and primer and finished with silver leaf rub n buff which gave a very nice finish.
For weathering I started with a black wash and then continued to add more black and burnt umber in the crevices.
And with that the outside was completed
Now on my journey to find a good solution to pad the inside of my helmet I decided that I didn't want to wait a month for wish or Amazon to ship some helmet padding to me so I went to the local rubber and foam shop and got some memory foam offcuts and then purchased some fabric to line them with.
Now I'm no seamstress so my best idea was to buy some spray adhesive and just glue those together and it's worked out great, with that I velcroed my padding to my helmet and here we are today.
Now I'm not sure if this is how you go about posting on this forum but I guess I'll find out soon enough haha.
At the moment I have almost completely finished my first bucket and am just waiting for my visor to get delivered.
All images will be at the bottom of this first post for helmet.
Since I don't have a 3d Printer I went with the traditional method of starting of with pepakura and sticking all those peices together, the unfold that I used was a little bit odd in some places so I had to improvise a little bit but it was the only free file I could find at the time.
The next step was slowly building up the strength with layers of resin and fibreglass, which I probably could have done a better job of but I got there in the end with a few bubbles here and there.
Alright now was the second most time consuming step aside from the first step, so I whipped out my body filler and my filler primer and got to work on filling and shaping, this is when I realised that my helmet was a bit uneven at the back so I tried my best to fill one side out more than the other but I never got it perfect so I just continued, I also encountered a few issues while shaping my earpeices since they were already attached I didn't fill them out properly and accidently poked a few holes discovering some major cavities whilst carving these.
At this point I also realised that my cheek peices were flexing in and still a little flimsy so I I decided to use some rondo to reinforce the cheeks and fill in the cavities in the ear peices, and soon enough I was finished with shaping and ready to paint.
I used a last layer of filler primer and sanded that down with a fine sanding sponge to get a smooth finish and then used a rustoleum flat grey primer, then over that I used a black gloss paint and primer and finished with silver leaf rub n buff which gave a very nice finish.
For weathering I started with a black wash and then continued to add more black and burnt umber in the crevices.
And with that the outside was completed
Now on my journey to find a good solution to pad the inside of my helmet I decided that I didn't want to wait a month for wish or Amazon to ship some helmet padding to me so I went to the local rubber and foam shop and got some memory foam offcuts and then purchased some fabric to line them with.
Now I'm no seamstress so my best idea was to buy some spray adhesive and just glue those together and it's worked out great, with that I velcroed my padding to my helmet and here we are today.
Now I'm not sure if this is how you go about posting on this forum but I guess I'll find out soon enough haha.
