Back in the saddle - foam armour for my kids

[Jme]

sigh... everyone here is all fancy pants with family crests now.
I feel left out.

Jme Sweet, Mando battle armour. The Jawas look great, how did your get the lights to float in place like that?

It's actually very easy.

I bought cheap Halloween hockey masks at my favourite place (Dollarama).

Then you cover the eye holes with a black lace fabric that you can see through and the rest of the mask with a solid black fabric. To make the eyes you get two of those plastic thingys that toys come in from gum-ball machines. You sand the inside of the dome part and then paint it orange. Then you wire a mini-led to the bottom part and affix the whole thing to the mask just under the eye slots (running the wires under the black fabric). The kids can see out the eye holes of the hockey mask but because of the black fabric covering their eyes and the light just bellow them, you can't see their eyes. I made the inside of the cowl black to help with the effect..

If you look really closely at the picture, you can see their eyes just above the lights.

 

[Jme]

Wiring helmet fans

Two sets done and ready to be glued in.

 

[PaiganBoi]

Wow. That looks like a lot of work.
What the heck happened to your cutting mat??

 

[Jme]

Wow. That looks like a lot of work.
What the heck happened to your cutting mat??

Not much work at all actually. Just a little soldering.

The cutting mat is all messed up with dried glue and assorted crap.

Almost time for a new one.

 

[Jme]

Final test fit.

All is good except that I need to attach the thigh to the shin so that the shin doesn’t fall down

 

[PaiganBoi]

The girls look like they are ready to kick some serious Covie butt.

 

[Jme]

The girls look like they are ready to kick some serious Covie butt.

Hoorah!

 

[Jme]

I got the paint job on my rifle finished.

 

[Dirtdives2424]

Jme, just about done man.........everything looks great......very jelly of the rifle.

 

[Jme]

Jme, just about done man.........everything looks great......very jelly of the rifle.

Thanks man.

Love that rifle, Kaween did an amazing job with it.

 

[Jme]

Happy Halloween everyone!

 

[SI3RRA 117]

Congrats. They came out awesome

 

[Dirtdives2424]

GREAT JOB Jme!!! But where is your suit? Mr. Fireteam leader..........

 

[Jme]

That was taken of them at school, my suit was with me at work!

I will get some shots of all of us together....soon....

 

[Joffersmk2]

Green spartan has got some serious hero poses sorted there! Insirational! You have your own cast for a live action short now...haha!

Amazing job.

 

[Jme]

Green spartan has got some serious hero poses sorted there! Insirational! You have your own cast for a live action short now...haha!

Amazing job.

Haha, she does indeed!

Thanks!

 

[Schankerz]

Sorry I'm a tad late buuuuut WOOOO awesome work Jme!! They may be hidden but I bet there's faces of pure joy and pride in their fathers excellent craftsmanship behind those helmets! bravo good sir, bravo. Also that AR paint job is amaaaaazing, I absolutly love it!