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As some of you know, I have been writing a fan fiction about a Mandalorian of my own invention by the name of Kyrr Geron. So far, the prologue and chapters 1 and 2 are up on my fan fiction thread.
But the idea for Kyrr Geron actually came from an idea I had for a custom Mandalorian 1/6 figure. I started on the armor a while back, making it out of layers of index card and super glue and then painting with acrylic paints... didn't work out so well, and although I had finished almost all of the chest armor (weathered it too!), I lost both of the shoulder pieces and the tiny hexagonal shaped piece that goes in the center of the chest.
So I started over, this time using plastic (guess from where? ). I have all the chest armor made, and I also did both shin guards, but have yet to paint or weather them. Yesterday, I did spraypaint them a nice silver, and I was going to spraypaint red over it and scratch parts of it off to reveal the silver... not sure if that'll work, but I will do some weathering by masking off the silver with masking tape when I spray the red, and I'll probably end up painting some silver on top of the red... anyway, here are some progress pics!
shown here is a template I made using precise measurements from my Hasbro Jango figure.
After the template is made and cut out, it is taped onto the plastic and traced with a Sharpie
Here's a shot of some of the armor before it was spraypainted
Here's a good comparison between the shin plate I made (white on left) and the actual Hasbro shinplate I made templates from (on right)
and here's a couple of pics of the silver spraypainted armor.
let me know what you guys think! I'll be making the thigh armor pretty soon, then I'll try to figure out how to tackle the helmet, gauntlets, and kneepads...
But the idea for Kyrr Geron actually came from an idea I had for a custom Mandalorian 1/6 figure. I started on the armor a while back, making it out of layers of index card and super glue and then painting with acrylic paints... didn't work out so well, and although I had finished almost all of the chest armor (weathered it too!), I lost both of the shoulder pieces and the tiny hexagonal shaped piece that goes in the center of the chest.
So I started over, this time using plastic (guess from where? ). I have all the chest armor made, and I also did both shin guards, but have yet to paint or weather them. Yesterday, I did spraypaint them a nice silver, and I was going to spraypaint red over it and scratch parts of it off to reveal the silver... not sure if that'll work, but I will do some weathering by masking off the silver with masking tape when I spray the red, and I'll probably end up painting some silver on top of the red... anyway, here are some progress pics!
shown here is a template I made using precise measurements from my Hasbro Jango figure.
After the template is made and cut out, it is taped onto the plastic and traced with a Sharpie
Here's a shot of some of the armor before it was spraypainted
Here's a good comparison between the shin plate I made (white on left) and the actual Hasbro shinplate I made templates from (on right)
and here's a couple of pics of the silver spraypainted armor.
let me know what you guys think! I'll be making the thigh armor pretty soon, then I'll try to figure out how to tackle the helmet, gauntlets, and kneepads...