Metal gauntlets

[DarthOrsan]

Looking for the correct words, yeah, envy, yep, envy quite covers it indeed.

It looks great!!

Question, is it heavy??
Did you used aluminum for this?

I know that for mine I used metal on some parts, they do not look half as good as yours do, but I used PVC, CardBoard and Aluminum. And they are kind of heavy.

Anyway, this site is the best, lots of ideas.

Thanks to all.

May The Force Be With You.

 

[Simon Fett]

I'll try and weight the one that is complete this weekend.

I'll also try to compare with a friend who made his with aluminium...

 

[Simon Fett]

I have weighted my right gauntlet and it weights approximately 1.4 pounds with all the greeblies and the hose.

 

[Grimlock2d]

Nice work. How many hours have you had to put into those all told?

 

[Simon Fett]

Not that much really but I had to wait 24 hours for the glue to dry completely... so I could only do very few steps at a time...

I'd say that cutting all the templates and all the metal parts was the longest part... that took about 4 hours roughly. Bending the parts (all of them) took about 1.5-2 hours. I made a ''test fit'' to make sure all my parts would fit together (0.5 hour). Glueing the parts wasn't long but was done on roughly 2 months time... I didn't work on them all the time nor did I every evening or every weekend. The putty and painting part took about 2 hours. The detailing took about 1 hour. Installing the greeblies took maybe 1 hour.

Let's say about 10 hours per gauntlet done over the last 2-3 months...

 

[Simon Fett]

Finally an update!!

Both my gauntlets are now finished and ready to troop! Hopefully these are my last gauntlets because they were not an easy project. Kudos to wickedbeard for making these on a regular basis!!!

Let me know if I am missing anything!

 

[wickedbeard]

You did a stellar job bro.those look like they have seen some battles.Thumbs up my man!!

 

[Firespray Pilot]

WOW! Those look GREAT bro!!!!!!!! The talent in this place is CRAZY!!! AWESOME job, man!!! :cheers

 

[Simon Fett]

Thanks guys!