This is the next article in the series detailing the building of a whole bunch of Death Watch and Night Owl Mandalorians from the Clone Wars animated series in preparation for Star Wars Celebration: Anaheim. You can read the previous eight articles here:
Part1: the Death Watch Helmets
Part 2: the Night Owl Helmets
Part 3: the Armor
Part 4: the Soft Parts
Part 5: the Blaster Pistols
While I realize that I've already detailed the process involved in making the fiberglass armor parts, I might as well review some of it and explain how we made the specifically girly armor. It's basically the same way we made the male version of the armor, but with boobs.
If you'd like to know more (and enjoy reading about armored boobs) read on...
A while back I wrote a post detailing the construction of a handful of Death Watch helmets from the Clone Wars animated series. You can read it here:
Part1: the Death Watch Helmets
Part 2: the Night Owl Helmets
While the helmets might look kinda cool just sitting on a shelf somewhere, they're a far cry from being a complete costume. So it was time to make some armor.
Here's a blurry pic of one of the finished suits:
For more photos and details about how the armor plates were made, read on...
A while back I picked up a few kits from Skygunbro's Custom Creature Shop. Here's what they looked like when they showed up:
I've already explained how I converted one of them into a "realistic" movie-style version of Captain Rex's helmet from the Clone Wars animated series. You can read about that little project here: LINK
Since I was on a roll with Star Wars stuff and I needed something frivolous to distract me from my actual paid projects with fast-approaching deadlines, I went ahead and converted the next one into a Phase II ARC (Advanced Recon Commando) Trooper helmet.
Here's the finished result:
For step-by-step description of the conversion process, and a lot more photos, read on...
Sometimes I just need a quick and simple project.
Most of the things I make are at least a bit complex and take weeks worth of work in order to see any progress at all. So in the middle of one (or five) of those, it's nice to take a few minutes here and there to do something that shows quick results.
With that in mind, a while back I got a few helmet kits from Skygunbro's Custom Creature Shop. Here's what they looked like when they showed up:
While I've already got a few of the old Master Replicas lifesize clonetrooper helmets, I've always thought it'd be cool if they'd made more variants. One that I really liked the look of was Sideshow Toys' live-action style Captain Rex from the Clone Wars. But nobody really makes a good-looking version.
So after sitting them on my bench for a while (to distract me from real work) I'd modified one of those raw cast helmets to look like so:
For a detailed description of the modification process, and a boatload of additional pictures, read on...
A while back I mentioned that I'll be going to Star Wars Celebration: Anaheim with a group of friends and that my friend Matt talked me into making a bunch of costumes so we can go as Death Watch mercenaries from the Clone Wars animated series. Since then, we've been on a roll with the Death Watch stuff. If you didn't see the post about making the helmets, you can read it HERE.
Since our significant others will be going along (as well as a handful of other folks) we have a pressing need to dress the girls in appropriate outfits to fit in with the group.
Here's a finished helmet:
We've made a few more of them too:
For details about how they were made, read on...
A while back my girlfriend Shawnon bought us a couple of tickets to Star Wars Celebration: Anaheim which will be taking place in April of next year. I started talking it up with some of my friends and the next thing you know, we've got a bit of a group together to go to the convention.
We've sorted out travel and lodging plans easily enough. The last thing to do is, of course, the most challenging: costumes.
My friend Matt and his wife will be coming along and Matt figured that the best way to dress a group of us would be to put together a unit of Death Watch mercenaries from the Clone Wars animated series. The plan: start with the images from the show as if they were the concept art for a live-action film and go from there.
Using my tools, materials, and occasional oversight and hands-on assistance, Matt cranked out a quick prototype, we pulled a mold, and together we painted up these beauties:
For more details about their construction as well as additional photos of the finished pieces, read on...
