Replica24's avatar

Replica24

Replica24
19 Watchers123 Deviations
8.5K
Pageviews

Hey!

1 min read
Hey, hey...hey, guys...hey....

...I got my kill stripes...





WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! *Dances* :la:



Feels damn good to finally be OM :D
Join the community to add your comment. Already a deviant? Log In

Coming Soon!

2 min read
App pics! I'm finally almost ready to take app pics! The upgrades should be finished for the most part by tomorrow :) I am so SO excited! It's about bloody time, eh?

In other news...

If yall don't see me being very active for a while, don't be alarmed. I'm still around and will still be making costumes/props. But for the next several months I will be training and will likely not have a lot of free time on my hands. I know I'll be offline for at least three months starting next Saturday. After that it will likely be at least another couple of months before I get back in the swing of things. I'm not entirely sure of all the specifics yet, but I will be back before long. I love this hobby too much to stop doing it now.

What does this mean? Well it really only means that I'm going to be idle for a bit. All of those concepts that are posted in my gallery? Oh I'm still making them. And then some. It will likely just take me longer as all of this training also requires me to move. Twice more than likely. But I will find a way to get back at this before too long. If the delay gets extended I'll let yall know. But fear not! I shall return!!

Much love to all of you who have supported me through all the ups and downs of my builds and to all of you who have fav'd and commented on my work! Your kind and encouraging words help me stay hard at work even when I'm crazy tired. Much love, yall!
Join the community to add your comment. Already a deviant? Log In

Visors!

2 min read
New visors came in a few days ago and, now that Kamicon is over and I've had a few days to recover, I plan to get back started on my armor (finally).

Cutting begins tomorrow as well as reshaping of old thigh plates. I have some new ones that I really need to replace 'em with, but I sadly just don't have the time at the moment. So I hope to reshape them and hope they will hold long enough for me to get my OM tag. Gonna be doing some repairs on strapping and fixing a neck seal issue that isn't so much an issue as it is a pet peeve but eh, details lol.

Sorry I keep saying I'm working and have nothing to show for it :( Kamicon kinda caught me off guard and I crammed to get most of a costume out. Alas, it did not get completely finished in time, but it still looked cool and gave me something to wear. I'll finish it up right one of these days. But my Mando kit takes priority so I'm gonna get back to work on it :)

Wish me luck! I hope to have the visor done and installed in a couple of days :)

And this time I'll have pictures! To prove it happened! Also, once this is all done, I'll have pictures of my full kit with the new knee armor :) Won't that be nice? XD Hopefully anyways lol

I'll have something for yall soon!
Join the community to add your comment. Already a deviant? Log In

Progress!!

3 min read
....sorta ^^;

I picked up lots of tools and parts I needed to FINALLY finish my Mandalorian armor and get it all nice and official over on the MMCC. I'll likely still have to run and get a few things here and there (velcro/strapping/etc.) but I have all the heavy hitters at last! I am now the proud owner of my very first heat gun which I intend to put to very good use (and by that I mean run the poor thing ragged with armor builds till it coughs out of existence >:) ). I've also ordered my first green welding visor since the tint on my self tinted t-visor is already bubbling. Gonna give this seller a shot. If it's dark enough, I'm about to throw lots 'o money at him/her. If not, well, it's back to the hunt I suppose. I'll keep y'all posted.

Also...SECRET PROJECT!!

That's right folks! The Legacy kit doesn't need that much work (not to get official anyways) and the Early Era kit is going to be a long haul (helmet and weapon have to come out OK first) so I'm doing a tiny little project in between. I've gotten almost all the parts I need to do it to. I just need Jo-ann's to get some more fabric in stock of a particular kind and some shoes of a particular kind as well.

I'll be posting updates of said project over on here now and again. Internet cookies (the good kind) to whomever can figure out what it is (and if you know me, no cheating! Yes, Emily, that means you!!  XD) If all goes well for the build and with my schedule, I hope to debut it in mid February at a con me and my friend plan to attend.

Much love for all the support and patience! Sorry I've been slacking a bit but this training regiment is running me ragged XP But now that I have all the pieces ready to go hopeful that will motivate me to build, build, build!

So, without further ado, I'm going to go finish tapping together the mock up base for the Early Era helmet. Tomorrow I'll post pics of that and finally get around to cutting it out of the real stuff. I'll also be re-applying some velcro to the chest plates of the Legacy era and figuring how what (if anything) needs trimming to fix the collar plate/back plate alignment issue. Then it's off to tackle the thigh plates and, some paint and strapping repairs, a new visor installation and she should be pretty much ready to go.

Wish me luck!
Join the community to add your comment. Already a deviant? Log In

Back to Work!

1 min read
Howdy folks! Sorry for the incredibly long absence...Real life stuff plus trying to get that job stuff equaled no time or energy to do anything. But the paper work has all been filed away and things, for the most part, have settled down so, it's time to get back to work on my many projects! Oya!

Coming up:

*Final upgrades to the Alta Ara'hett Mandalorian kit
*Start of the Aklla helmet
*Finalizing Early Era bowcaster design
*Finalizing animal pelt tester
*Start of Early Era bowcaster

....and more!!

Stay tuned for some (hopefully) neat updates!
Join the community to add your comment. Already a deviant? Log In
Featured

Hey! by Replica24, journal

Coming Soon! by Replica24, journal

Visors! by Replica24, journal

Progress!! by Replica24, journal

Back to Work! by Replica24, journal