Beskar'gam Project! MKI (photo heavy)

So, here's a little sneak peek into my armor thus far (keep in mind these pic's span about 2-3 years... I didn't have time or space to work on it till now)

First and foremost, the helmet I built it in the prop shop in my first college Sheridan, Technically I wasn't even supposed to be in there but I was on good terms with the prop master so he said "if you know how to, you're free to do whatever you like." And I did just that. his students weren't too fond of me because I was always peeking at their projects just because I like to understand how stuff is built. anywho. I had to make a positive mold out of molding clay easy when you have a reference and measurements then cast a negative, THEN make another positive using fiberglass. this took about 3 months of maybe 3 hours a week. Oh, and I used the metal shop to cut me an antenna.

then summer hit and the cleaning and painting began. I had a job at the local hardware store in my home town of Sarina. So I figured it would be the best place to find some decent paint. I decided on an exterior latex paint I chose a flat colour with the intention of going over it with a clear coat later I'll post process pics.


In this picture is my helmet and Zacic's first crack at a scratch build bucket he used cardboard and instastone, I used fiberglass. you can see my measurements in the back


This is a solo shot of my helmet all sanded and primed and ready for its first coat of paint.


<<<<<<SNAG!!>>>>>


Unfortunately I apparently didn't sand it well enough. It was back to sanding again.



With the gray finally finally staying on I moved onto the second colour, a light tealy blue this went on without incident (thank god)

this was the semi-final product




In this pic its just a buddy shot of me and Zacic with out visors installed. we used just a tinted grinding shield nothing too fancy, we were going to use them in the first place but we thought they would be too small. Zacic is sporting his brand spankin' new 3rd scratch build (he gave up on the other two). lookin sharp! lol

With that all said and done we decided to use TDH's armor templates and size them up using cardboard, like so:



And then after that was all set up we used our magic sintra and cut them out



at that point I only had the two chests, center and thighs cut out.

And then in some strange turn of events (mainly seeing the paint that Zacic used I decided to hell with the house paint it looks like garbage! SO! we bought automotive paint, and boy am I glad I did.




The red is Z and the blue is yours truly

on a side note, on the same day these last two pictures were taken we had a tiny little visitor who was looking for a helmet of his own.


feel free to be overwhelmed by the cuteness.

ANYWAY The weathering began.






After the weathering was complete I decided I wanted to put a little spin on my armor. I wanted to add trim.









Seems like a great idea right? WRONG!. well ya you're right, it would have been a wicked cool idea had we not been put to a deadline of July 1st last week we were coming to the realization that the trim was too much of a hassle to deal with so we ended up ripping it all off. so my plates are back to the bare bones. Not that I mind or anything.

Onto the gun. you've all seen Zacic's modified Maverick gun, well this is what I'll be modifying.


it's going to be black and blue, it kinda reminds me of what I envisioned a Verp gun looking like. I could be terribly wrong of course

So there you have it. Those are all of the pictures I have thus far. we've been working for a bit without taking any so ya, be ready for a huge update soon.

OH! and before I forget.
This is me and Zacic at Sarnia's annual artwalk.



That's all for now Ner vode!