Building my Cylon-Knight

Post by **Red Eye** » Mon Jul 11, 2011 8:14 am

Nice! Have to order one soon as well...

Are you going for a kit or an assembled one?

YouTube · Post by **Cylon-Knight** » Mon Jul 11, 2011 8:20 am

I went for the kit... gotta feel like I'm building something on my Cylon until I get back to actually building on it!!!

haha

Post by **Red Eye** » Mon Jul 11, 2011 8:24 am

Good one!

I think I'll go for the kit solution as well.

YouTube · Post by **Cylon-Knight** » Sun Jul 17, 2011 12:53 am

And here are photos of my kit!
EXPERTLY DONE by Skullbeast. And cRaZy fast from the time of my order to my doorstep.
Cylon-Knight Mind APPROVED. If you've got a Cylon Pistol, this holster kit is where I'd suggest you stick it

Left: The full kit. Hardware & Leather (plus two killer business cards and the hardware's pouch.
Right: Close up of the leather, and pre cut holes. Ready to hammer the below quick rivets into place.

Left: Awesome Cylon bling bling

Right: The quick rivets that will hold everything together.

More on its assembly as quick as I can - have to work quite a bit tomorrow on my actual job stuff

Post by **GoldCylon** » Sun Jul 17, 2011 1:22 am

Looks like it is going to be a great build. At least a awesome kit. Knocked it out of the park it it having it ready in record time to ship also.

Post by **Red Eye** » Sun Jul 17, 2011 3:11 am

Can't wait seeing it being built up! Good luck with it!

Post by **Skullbeast** » Sun Jul 17, 2011 10:32 am

Sweet Jesus! Wow you made that look professional! I got to get you on my advertisement team. Enjoy! Beware colonial warriors your days are numbered. Cylons attack!!

YouTube · Post by **Cylon-Knight** » Mon Jul 18, 2011 12:20 am

Back to my build, rifle, pistol and pistol holster after this message about ME:
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Over at GalacticaBBS.com we had a contest for the site's banner. I won the contest and my prize from the site owner was an awesome T-Shirt.
Much love for GBBS and Zipper - w00t!

Here is me and my spoils of war

P.S. This was the most armor I've ever suited up in at once and walked around in. Loved it!

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Now, back to my regularly scheduled babbling...

YouTube · Post by **Cylon-Knight** » Sun Jul 24, 2011 2:13 pm

And now back to scheduled programming....

The pistol holster build is started

Left: I got a new rapid Rivet kit from JoAnn's (fabric store) for the setting tool)
Right: Said setting tool. I found that the "bottom" circle didn't really help much. Just putting the post (bottom half of the rapid rivet) on the board was fine.

Left: All laid out, ready to start beating stuff with a hammer

Note: Sorry Skullbeast, but as luck would have it I found the quick rivets in my new kit I got for just the setting tool were going to work better. They are from the exact some company that you sent, but a TINY big longer posts were in my potpourri mix of rivets. I'll post up a photo comparison of them later on.
Right: BAM BAM BAM BAM! The first four rapid rivets are in. Everything is going together perfectly - thanks to Skullbeast's excellent workmanship on his kit.

Left: BAM BAM! Two more rivets set, all the cross braces are in place.
Right: BAM BAM! The two "do nothing but look pretty" rivets are in place (the smaller ones on the right, the larger ones are snaps Skullbest pre-set).
Note: Again, I used a different sized rivet for these from my potpourri. A tiny bit shorter post on these, as they only have to go through 1 layer of leather.

And lastly for now, as I need to go get more potpourri rivets, only got 10 of the longer ones in my pack!!! arrrrg
You can see I have the base half way set here.

P.S. I'm just working on a board on my lap - actually the bottom of a spare shelf from my entertainment center that has been lying around forever. Anything you could hammer on would do to assemble the kit. Just don't hammer too hard if it is in you lap!

Post by **Red Eye** » Sun Jul 24, 2011 2:21 pm

Nice work so far!

And thanks for making the instruction sheet, by the way!

Skullbeast was so kind forwarding it to me...

Post by **GoldCylon** » Sun Jul 24, 2011 2:24 pm

Cool gun slinger in the making.

Post by **Skullbeast** » Sun Jul 24, 2011 6:13 pm

Cool! I just used a hammer and a real anvil and smashed them to fit. Enjoy.

YouTube · Post by **Cylon-Knight** » Thu Jul 28, 2011 10:36 pm

Another slight diversion from my build:
I've updated Cylon-Knight.com with all the Gary the Cylon vids! WOOT!!!

YouTube · Post by **Cylon-Knight** » Mon Aug 01, 2011 1:13 am

Holster time!

Left: First, this slit for the band was a BIT too small.
Right: Opened up, cleaned up the slit. So the band will go through it okay.

Left: Lower three posts and caps are the variety pack of quick rivets I was talking about before - Skullbeast's is a dead match to the middle one. I used the longer ones on the to the right of the photo.
Right: An angle shot, so you can see the post length difference a bit more.

Left: POW! The rivet is in for the snap band.
Right: POW! x3. Just one more rivet to go.

Left: POW! Last rivet is in place.
Right: BOO YA - the Holster and my most awesome pistol from my good Cylon pal, Sean - CYLON-AT-ARMS!

Left: Still have to do the diamond cap deals, but I couldn't wait to put the holster on.

Right: Cylon-Knight is packing heat!

Left: What's that? You feel lucky, Punk?
Right: DRAW!

Left: EVIL COLONIAL! FIRE!
Right: Holy Frack!!! In trying to*ZAP* the lowly human he shot out one of my rivets!!! (it popped out) ARG!

Left: Hammer, new rivet - POW! Back in action.
Right: Hammer, lowly human - POW! Out of action

Left: Time for the diamond caps to go on. I thought some pliers/vice-grips would help stab them in. (WRONG)
Right. I found that it is best to with the diamond caps to poke some "here is where it goes" guide holes then with the trusty (but not cutting myself this time with it) X-ACTO knife cut the holes out. I think I'll go back later and pop them all off and put a HEALTHY AMOUNT of hot glue under them too, for some added STAY PUT-ness.

Left: Two more caps to go. Man, this was actually the hardest part of the kit was these caps. Note the one in the center of the photo, it was the first one I put it. Sorta bent the hell out of it... THANK YOU SKULLBEAST for a few spare parts.

Right: All the caps on - note I replaced the jacked up one in the center.

Left: Well, this is what I did for a good part of tonight *wipes brow*
Right: FRACK YEAH!

Left: Holster all open
Right: Holster snapped shut

Holster all snapped shut, as if it was on a belt.

COOL, HUH? The only thing left to say is... YOU should get one from Skullbeast too - it is Cylon-Knight Mind Approved!

Post by **GoldCylon** » Mon Aug 01, 2011 9:35 am

Looking good, looks real good. Nice step by step also. Poor Starbuck....