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Some of my favourites from the Pacific Rim Meetup at DragonCon!
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Whoa, this post has a giant picture of me on top of it, I guess I better reblog it.
What I did this weekend. (Not done yet...)
Wooot. Things are coming together.
Wiring. More or less. (Oh god this takes forever, I'm gonna be doing it all weekend.)
Yassss. (The plugs won't actually get glued in til after we paint, just wanted to check my drilled insets. Dremel tool is awesome.)
Allocating hardware bits and bobs for Kaidonovsky parts. It sure helps to have a boss who's hobby is restoring old Navy radios and who lets you raid his basement. :)
Starting to believe some of these foam pieces might actually turn into armor. Nifty.
Rough Radio Shack shopping list. The Kaidonovskys have a LOT of hardware on their suits.
Armor parts, woo. Not quite all of them (haven't finished drafting calves and pauldrons), but a good start.
Time to cut some foam.
Picked up some nice flight suits at Surplus Sid's to go under the Kaidonovsky armor! They're pretty comfy. $50 each but will save a ton of work.
Some progress drafting Kaidonovsky suit pieces on paper, whee.
Experimental operation Bike Helmet -> form for Big-ass pauldron thingy is going okay. Had to extend the bill section out manually by shaping the foil over nothing while taping it, but it seems to have worked more or less. Now to make a 2-piece pattern out of it...