![]() If all goes well, I plan to have this suit ready for the next AthensCon. There are a few more parts that I printed but haven't had a chance to assemble yet since I had some commissions to complete and get shipped off to clients. After the hard parts are done, I'm going to make a template for the gaskets and cast them, then tackle the heavy blaster and a sidearm. I still need to go over them with CA (cyanoacrylate) glue (this helps in making things somewhat rigid and 'seals' the seams to keep any interaction between the glue and epoxy) then hit them with epoxy and fiberglass cloth, THEN spend more time than I care to count sanding and shaping everything. The following are just the raw paper assembly. I'm still not 100% done with the scaling of the parts, but I've already managed to print out and assemble some pieces. The plans are, the suit will be white epoxy/fiberglass with rubber gaskets, mic and speaker for the helmet and custom electronics for the weapons to make them light up and go pew pew. It's FAR from accurate, but it's a decent base to work off of and with all the reference I accumulated, making it accurate should be relatively painless. The file was originally made for someone 5'7" and I'm 6'1", so everything needed to be adjusted. So I found a pepakura file of the complete suit and started the measuring and scaling process. Even the kit is more than I'm willing to pay for vacuum formed plastic. I could buy a ready made one for just over 100 quid.I've been wanting a FO trooper armor since I saw the movie, but paying 7 grand for the Anovos suit just isn't going to happen. So don't wanna waste my money if its wrong. All this comes to just over £50 on Amazon. I'm not arty kinda guy so I would like a lot of time to get the shape right Could I use this stuff "Magic Sculp WHITE Colour 800g Sculpt Epoxy Putty" and is that enough to do the helmet? (I'm clueless) next on my checklist is is "UPOL UPRE/LA Fastglas-Laminating Resin, 500 ml, Tin Yellow" is this enough? Also am I right in thinking I give the paper/card model a few coats of this before I start adding the weight of the fibreglass tissue? Which is last on my list "David's Fastglas Glassfibre Tissue For use With Fastglas Resin 1M" same question is that enough or should I buy loads of packs. I wanna keep the toxic stuff to a minimum. ![]() Its just so toxic, I know the fiber glass is also super toxic but I need that for strength. I don't like Bondo I know it used in nearly all the build projects. Just wanna make sure the stuff I am getting is up to the job. I've made a rough checklist of what I need to buy I've left out stuff like scissors, craft knife, sand paper, paints. I have a weeks holiday to take or I will lose it. ![]()
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