Some of you may know that I've become enamored with the Mandalorian culture from Star Wars. So I decided to get a head start on my Halloween costume this year and make a suit of Mando armor.

I have the body done for the most part, but now I'm working on the helmet. What I've done so far:

I took a large sheet of cardboard and traced the intial shapes out, and then cut 'em out with a box cutter.



Next, for the right texture, I took some Totino's frozen pizza boxes and traced the same shapes into them. I then hotglued the two together.



Finally, I took the pieces out and painted them to match what I wanted as a color scheme.




That's all I've got done for now, but like I said, I'm working on the helmet. It's much more complicated, so it'll take me longer, but I think it'll look great if I do it right.

Anyone else done something like this?

I'm not going as Boba. I just wanted to have my own set of Mandalorian armor, whether as a costume or for bragging rights. Or whatever. The color scheme is my own, although I wasn't aware Jango had silver on blue...

At any rate, there's still some fine details to work out on the chest plates and then I have to attach it to a flight suit.

And, there's the ever present threat of the helmet's complexity. I don't even know how to begin, except maybe with a plastic sphere cut in half and a tube.