Mandalorian Armor WIP-New Pauldrons and Bracers

Quaralane

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Next phase of the Mandalorian armor builds will be the bracers and new pauldrons for my son's suit.
The base for the bracers is a template from foamcave.com, while the base for the new pauldrons is from Much Props
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Cut the bases for the bracers as well as the first layer of the pauldrons from 6mm HD EVA foam
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Cut the second layer for the pauldrons from 1/8" Sintra
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Assembled bases for the pauldrons after heat forming and gluing with contact cement
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Base of the pauldrons with the layer of Sintra glued over the foam base.
Seams will be dealt with in a later step
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The caps for the pauldrons were cut from 6mm HD EVA foam, heat formed, and glued up with contact cement
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Caps attached to the bases of the pauldrons
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Cut the upper layer of Sintra apart for a more 'segmented' look, heat formed them, then glued them to the assemblies with E6000
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Used some craft foam and a spacer to fill the gap
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A coat of black PlastiDip
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Followed by a coat of Flat Cold Iron spray paint
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Back to work on the bracers, made a template to act as a brace for the 'equipment layer' of the bracers
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Decks were glued to the bracers and braces
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Glued some 6mm EVA foam to the sides to finish out the main forms
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Built a frame of 10mm EVA foam to help hold our cellphones in place on the 'comm' units
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Layer of 6mm foam glued over the top to finish the main forms
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Cast a bunch or 'greeblies' from a set of 'Evil Ted's' silicone molds to use for detailing the comm units
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Glued down some sheet styrene and the greeblies to finish out the units
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For my son's 'rocket launcher,' I built some basic rockets from cut off poly-carbonate tubes.
The launcher itself was formed from two pieces of PVC pipe and some EVA foam clay
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Skinned the launcher with sheet styrene and did some seam filling
At my son's request, I only added one greeblie to the back of the launcher
Sealed the ends of the rockets with model cement
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Started working on my 'flame unit' by filling the back gap with EVA foam clay
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The 'tanks' were made from 2 1/2" pieces of EVA foam dowel and a couple of greeblies.
Some o-ring scraps were used to form the 'hoses'
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Used some more EVA foam for details and mounts, as well as a syringe cap for the nozzle
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Straps were made from 1" elastic and plastic clasps.
Elastic was glued to the foam using Gorilla super glue
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Gave the units a base coat of black PlastiDip
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Followed the black with a base coat of Cold Flat Iron. For my units, I added some red and blue detail paint.
Both sets of bracers were given black washes to bring out details and drybrushed in places with silver
The rockets on my son's unit were painted in with red, then superglued into place.

Finished bracer build pics:
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Youtube link:
 
" Built a frame of 10mm EVA foam to help hold our cellphones in place on the 'comm' units "
Ha ha , Awesome !

All that came out great , man :cool:
 

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