5/16/2023 0 Comments Army of two masks pepakuraJust as Earth military gear of past generations can trickle down to the civilian market as surplus and family heirlooms lay forgotten in attics, I figured something similar could happen on Naboo as well, especially following their effective demilitarization under the New Order. While they may not have a proper standing army, the Royal Naboo Security Forces are plenty prominent in the pre-Imperial period and have plenty of hardware to incorporate into a kit. While the popular conception of Naboo is of a peaceful, pacifist culture, that’s not exactly the case. Along the lines of adding a Q2 holdout blaster to my Rebel-on-Naboo impression, I wondered if there was anything else I could do to help anchor my kit to that specific planet. With little else to occupy my time while backpacking thousands of miles last year, I spent a large part of my AT thruhike thinking about ways I could improve my various Star Wars reenacting/living history kits when I got back home. With all that out of the way, let’s get started! Instead of trying to cram all that into one mega post, I’ve decided to split it up into three parts, and rather than dole them out separately across most of this month, I’ll be posting all three today (we’ll return to regular programming next week). Posted on ApApCategories Projects, Rebel Tags cosplay, crafting, gear, Naboo, pepakura, Prequels, Props, Rebel alliance, reenacting 2 Comments on Project: Naboo pilot’s helmet part 2 Upgrading the Rebel persona – Naboo pilot’s helmet part 1īefore we get started, a quick scheduling note: the project that follows was a long and involved process, involving many different skillsets (including-but not limited to-pattern drafting, sculpting, casting, and woodcarving). Well, after a few days I had built up the shape pretty close – I figured I would cast the pieces fairly roughly, and then do the fine shaping on the casts, since resin doesn’t heat up and deform in-hand. I first considered making a mold and casting them in resin, and when I want to feel like a real prototyper, that means carving a positive from amber ‘victory wax’. While I originally wanted to make all parts of the helmet using Pep, I decided that the Y-shaped-part-that-holds-the-earmuff was complicated enough that I should make them out of something more substantial. In my last post I determined how big the components of the helmet would be, and decided on a method for construction (Pepakura). Hello there! Welcome back to my buildlog for recreating an N1 starfighter helmet – let’s not waste any time and get straight into the process!
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