Once again pushing the boundaries of the term craft
This past weekend we completed another Epic New England Star Wars Project.
For those not familiar with the 501st's armor work, we make our own kits. Clearly not everyone in the Legion has the ability to do formed plastic, so members help each other out with the kits.
I'm one of the people that makes the stuff. I sculpted out my own animated series clone trooper, head to toe: helmets, armor, weapons, etc...
I've got a bunch of friends in Garrison Carida, our neighbors in Pennsylvania. A few of us got talking about them taking a road trip out to my house to make clones, and this finally happened.
On Friday, Sept 17th, 4 members of Carida came out to stay at our place in Waltham MA. We settled in for the Clone Wars season premiere, then hit the workshop hard!
By the morning of Sunday the 19th we had made enough kits to outfit 14 members of their garrison as Clone Wars style clone troopers.
This was a huge achievement... it takes about an hour and 15 minutes to make the body armor, 30 to make the helmet, and 45 or so to make a DC15 rifle. If you do the math there, you'll see that is a LOT of hours of labor! And it's hard, physical work. The guy working the forming table actually had a sunburn on his face from the heater!
But enough words! Here's what a freshly minted clone army looks like (some assembly required!)
It was awesome getting the 2 units of the club together like that, and really shows what can be done if enough people pool together and bust their butts.
Bring it on Separatists! We're ready for you!
And coming soon! Jabba the Hutt 2.0! :)
For those not familiar with the 501st's armor work, we make our own kits. Clearly not everyone in the Legion has the ability to do formed plastic, so members help each other out with the kits.
I'm one of the people that makes the stuff. I sculpted out my own animated series clone trooper, head to toe: helmets, armor, weapons, etc...
I've got a bunch of friends in Garrison Carida, our neighbors in Pennsylvania. A few of us got talking about them taking a road trip out to my house to make clones, and this finally happened.
On Friday, Sept 17th, 4 members of Carida came out to stay at our place in Waltham MA. We settled in for the Clone Wars season premiere, then hit the workshop hard!
By the morning of Sunday the 19th we had made enough kits to outfit 14 members of their garrison as Clone Wars style clone troopers.
This was a huge achievement... it takes about an hour and 15 minutes to make the body armor, 30 to make the helmet, and 45 or so to make a DC15 rifle. If you do the math there, you'll see that is a LOT of hours of labor! And it's hard, physical work. The guy working the forming table actually had a sunburn on his face from the heater!
But enough words! Here's what a freshly minted clone army looks like (some assembly required!)
It was awesome getting the 2 units of the club together like that, and really shows what can be done if enough people pool together and bust their butts.
Bring it on Separatists! We're ready for you!
And coming soon! Jabba the Hutt 2.0! :)