Post by Tango Fett on Jun 14, 2016 16:08:38 GMT -5
Hello fellow comrades,
As a few of you may already know, I have been building my Galactic Marine armor for five years, since December 2010 til December 2015, when it was finally submitted and approved.
I built it from total scratch, and during these five years I’ve learned a lot of this costume and my idea is to share all that information and the building process with you. Maybe it’s because its color resembles wine, that the more time it took me to build this costume, the better I felt the results were. So many years of testing, observing, analyzing, and re-doing this armor (some parts of it up to three or five times) made me learn something new about it every day of the build, since that start on late 2010, until the actual last part I built, literally. And I'm still learning. And there are still many parts that I would like to re-do. I started with a timid and timorous approach, wondering if I was going to be able to build the costume, if I was going to complete it (because I didn’t even know how I was going to build it), wondering if I was ever going to be approved by my admired 501st Legion, but over the years I developed a more confident attitude that turned into the new goal I set to myself of trying to make this Galactic Marine as accurate as I could do.
Regarding the building, I have used a mixed technique. At first I wanted to build it with heat molded Syntra (a type of plastic) like some builds I saw here, but since I wasn’t being able to achieve good results with that technique, I ended up making most parts of fiberglass and only a few of Syntra.
There are two people who I would like to specially thank for all this. They may even not know that I am so thankful to them because they were not able to help me with the actual build since they have and are specialized in other costumes and characters, but what they did to me and my mindset was to spread and transfer that pursuit of the highest quality possible and become nearly obsessive with accuracy as they do with their builds. These two great guys are no other than “Boba Leo” (Leonardo Gazzia, BH 2462), and “Kyle Katarn” (Diego Arévalo), some of the most respected costumers in the 501st and the Rebel Legion respectively and more important, awesome persons.
I have divided all this building information in three different threads. One long, detailed, chronological and loaded with tons of pics; another shorter version with the summarized version of the building process; and a third thread with only the key findings or highlights of the costume/building process.
I hope you enjoy and find this useful. May the Force be with you. Go Marines!
As a few of you may already know, I have been building my Galactic Marine armor for five years, since December 2010 til December 2015, when it was finally submitted and approved.
I built it from total scratch, and during these five years I’ve learned a lot of this costume and my idea is to share all that information and the building process with you. Maybe it’s because its color resembles wine, that the more time it took me to build this costume, the better I felt the results were. So many years of testing, observing, analyzing, and re-doing this armor (some parts of it up to three or five times) made me learn something new about it every day of the build, since that start on late 2010, until the actual last part I built, literally. And I'm still learning. And there are still many parts that I would like to re-do. I started with a timid and timorous approach, wondering if I was going to be able to build the costume, if I was going to complete it (because I didn’t even know how I was going to build it), wondering if I was ever going to be approved by my admired 501st Legion, but over the years I developed a more confident attitude that turned into the new goal I set to myself of trying to make this Galactic Marine as accurate as I could do.
Regarding the building, I have used a mixed technique. At first I wanted to build it with heat molded Syntra (a type of plastic) like some builds I saw here, but since I wasn’t being able to achieve good results with that technique, I ended up making most parts of fiberglass and only a few of Syntra.
There are two people who I would like to specially thank for all this. They may even not know that I am so thankful to them because they were not able to help me with the actual build since they have and are specialized in other costumes and characters, but what they did to me and my mindset was to spread and transfer that pursuit of the highest quality possible and become nearly obsessive with accuracy as they do with their builds. These two great guys are no other than “Boba Leo” (Leonardo Gazzia, BH 2462), and “Kyle Katarn” (Diego Arévalo), some of the most respected costumers in the 501st and the Rebel Legion respectively and more important, awesome persons.
I have divided all this building information in three different threads. One long, detailed, chronological and loaded with tons of pics; another shorter version with the summarized version of the building process; and a third thread with only the key findings or highlights of the costume/building process.
I hope you enjoy and find this useful. May the Force be with you. Go Marines!
