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Re: Building my Cylon-Knight

Posted: Tue Apr 09, 2013 4:46 am
by groupleaderzeta
I second that. Great look. Should be interesting if we had others with different insignia at a con. Perhaps a star or a leaf anything would be possible.

Re: Building my Cylon-Knight

Posted: Tue Apr 09, 2013 4:52 am
by Big Al
It looks awesome Cylon Dude! :byyourcommand:

Re: Building my Cylon-Knight

Posted: Tue Apr 09, 2013 5:31 am
by SiR-ROUND
Looks horrendously awesome!

Send from my Galaxy phone.

Re: Building my Cylon-Knight

Posted: Tue Apr 09, 2013 10:08 am
by Red Eye
The F.L.A.G. insignia looks brilliant!

Hats... sorry... helmets off my friend!

Re: Building my Cylon-Knight

Posted: Tue Apr 09, 2013 3:18 pm
by Hand-Schaub
Nice blend of insignias. It looks in place! Are you planning to black chrome the whole thing?

Re: Building my Cylon-Knight

Posted: Wed Apr 10, 2013 12:36 am
by Cylon-Knight
Thanks guys for all the kind words, glad you like it :D

@Zeta, you are right, all customs would look so cool in a group!
@Hand-Schaub - I had not thought of that.... hummmm.... VERY COOL IDEA!

More update - and a BIG HUGE ONE OF AWESOME IT IS (I type like Yoda now... :shock:)

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Left: OH HAPPY, HAPPY MAIL!!!!!!!!!!
Right: Yes, two hangers... hummm

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Left: parexcellence - SWEET!
Right: Some assembly required ;) Extra vinyl for me to attach to my glove cuffs. And everything I need to do it! A+++

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Left: Look a Centurion is climbing out of a box!
Right: MORE parexcellence - SWEET!

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Left: The Centurion is out of the box!
Center & Right... why, that's ME! whooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
Yes, I need another rib yet, and I didn't mess with the skirting for the photo, and the belt is really ghetto, but I was too excited to SUIT UP! Hell Ya! :sunglasses: :D :twisted:

After testing out my under suit - which I love, it was so worth the $, I kept on working - back to my belt for Galacticon 3 (that will eventually be replaced by one of Skullbeast's masterpiece replica belts).
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Left: My pile of blocks and newly cut "pleather" wraps
Right: One of my good ol' staple guns *pew* *pew*

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Left: The staples I used. The first two were actually 1/4" but then a third never wanted to "shoot" and I decided they would be too short after the fabric gets thicker as the wrap progresses... so I went to 3/8ths. I have 1/2" too but I thought that was a bit much too much.
Right: My perfect set of Cylon Belt Blocks from our own Nashslash - expert craftsmanship!!! Thank you Nashslash!!!

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Left: My wrap. After many tests with paper and a bit of pleather this shape works the best for me.
Right: Here we go...

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Left: Pointing where the first staples go.
Right: Stapled.

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Left: Two more staples
Right: And there is one end done.

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Left: Close up of how the finished corners look before I staple it
Right: What?! No staple... oh... the lock got loose... oops :roll:

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Left: The first one all done! Not all that pretty without the cap...
Right: MUCH BETTER!

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Left: View from another angle
Right: Block #2 wrapped up. Rock n' roll!

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Left: Two down, 5 more to go
Right: All done! I had to get a hammer to get a few staples down flush.

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7 Little Belt Boxes. Now I need to get a wide belt at a store to mount them on and I will be good to go belt wise for Galacticon.

I'll have more on my under suit later too... stay tuned Cylon Brothers!

Re: Building my Cylon-Knight

Posted: Wed Apr 10, 2013 1:11 am
by Hand-Schaub
Wow! Super awesome update!

Re: Building my Cylon-Knight

Posted: Wed Apr 10, 2013 1:23 am
by rustycylon
looking very smart. So wish I could make it to galacticon3 :cylon:

Re: Building my Cylon-Knight

Posted: Wed Apr 10, 2013 9:19 am
by GoldCylon
Hey you stapled it (nailed) :lol:. Good work, and nice suit. Hurry up, and chrome up. Unless yu are going as the White-Knight. :lol: :huh: :lol:

Re: Building my Cylon-Knight

Posted: Wed Apr 10, 2013 9:21 am
by Red Eye
Congrats on getting your undersuit!

Hope you like it.

Re: Building my Cylon-Knight

Posted: Wed Apr 10, 2013 10:45 am
by jclayman99
nice work. looking good.

Re: Building my Cylon-Knight

Posted: Wed Apr 10, 2013 11:17 pm
by Cylon-Knight
Thanks guys!

Today at work stunk, on top of that I ignored a bunch of "homework" that will make tomorrow sour... OH WELL - EVIL CYLON. (Maybe my boss will staff us correctly SOMEDAY? *I hope*)

So, tonight after getting home late and doing "grown up stuff" like taxes, bills and such (GROSS) - I only had time to try the under suit more, test the skirting and such. And I am going to do more leg work for the chrome. No photos to post for that, sorry.

CHROME:
I am going to try to get a quote from an online place as a fall back - and call some shops in town tomorrow that I know only do metal. I am hoping they might know another local company that does plastic. We will see... FINGERS CROSSED

Re: Building my Cylon-Knight

Posted: Thu Apr 11, 2013 8:02 am
by Jenne
I was by Cordula today, and she told me that your undersuit must be in your hands this week.
So i see, the suit arrived safe :-) She trust not really the post office, so she gave a friend of her the suit to take him with the airplane over to the US. And ship it from a US post office :-)
Be sure to store your suit in a cupboard later. The latex didn

Re: Building my Cylon-Knight

Posted: Thu Apr 11, 2013 11:48 pm
by Cylon-Knight
That's awesome you got to see Cordula! Be sure to tell her Hi for me if you see here again. Yes the fit is wonderful, she did EXCELLENT WORK!!! Thank you for the tips on the sun, etc. Good to know.


Tonight's Update:
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Sanding done on the last armor item. Now only touch ups to deal with.

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Left: My back pack after some more sanding and I added plastic to the collar for strength.
Right: back pack, looking good! :)

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Left: I also added some plastic inside the back pack for strength. I didn't trim down to what I see as the edge of the "true" part - left some of the extra plastic to give a wider lip. It was rather thin as the plastic was intended to be trimmed... but I thought a larger lip would be stronger and help it "wear" better - more confortable.
Right: A close up of the added plastic strips. I did two thin layers so far. I may add a third. I learned my lesson trying to bend thick plastic too far. Lots of thin strips is the way to go!

In other news - mad shout out to Hand-Schaub. He is going to help Cylon-White become Cylon-Knight. My chrome problems were driving me nuts and he saved me. I am going to use the same shop he has been working with. I am really excited for a great shop to do the work on my Chrome.

Re: Building my Cylon-Knight

Posted: Fri Apr 12, 2013 12:02 am
by GoldCylon
Better get that back pack done if you want it chromed.