Welcome to the Drali Mandalorian

This isn't done, I'm still adding some information. Please be patience. 

Step 1 : Helmet : bucket  

2010 Mandalorian Mercs Costume Standards: NO BOBA FETT ONE PIECE RUBIES!

Now there are ways of making your very own helmet from scrath, but thats not what I did. I went to a costume shop and purchased a Jango Fett helmet - Rubies one piece. It costed $80. Shop around for a helmet on ebay or amazon. You could also get a Jango Fett rubie two piece helmet, its not as strong as the one piece but it'll work. The easy thing with the one piece is that all you have to do is replace the visor.

 Rubies two piece helmet is the cheapest you can get. When you take it out of the package you'll realize that the helmet is in two pieces, don't freak out. We'll fill that in with some Bondo, then sand it down.

 Yes that ugly line is an easy fix. Just get some Bondo and apply it on the top and the inside of the helmet. Let it dry for 24 hours, which might be long but you want to make sure that its dry.

When its dry you can begin to sand the extra bondo away. But remember to be careful

I added a light to the green helmet.

Step 2: Replacing the Visor

If your a member on TheDentedHelmet.com you can go into the Cargo hold and see if anyone is selling a visor for cheap. But I always go to the same seller on ebay. All you have to type in is 'boba fett visor' now a couple of different visor are going to come up. Rembrandt-enterprises is the seller your looking for. He sells three different kinds of visors. I've always purchased the standard boba fett visor. But feel free to message him if you want to double check. Shipping takes alittle while, but the visor is totally worth it.

Now that you have your visor its high time to get rid of the old one.

For the one piece rubies all you need is a box cutter and that crapper thin plastic should be really easy to cut.

The two piece rubies all you have to do is pop out the visor, which takes some time believe it or not. Once that is done you need to sand down the little bumps that are left behind. Purchasing a Dremel is allways a good idea.

After all the plastic is gone you're going to need a hot glue gun and some patience. Before you do anything with the glue, try to get the visor into place on the inside. This can be kind of tricky with the shape of the helmet, the visor does have some bend to it, but it can break....trust me, I know. Once you get the visor where you want it, start glueing from the bottom of the visor. Once you get the length glued in good the rest is easy, just be sure your using a good amount of hot glue to fit everything in it. Also your going to want to check the front of the visor and make sure nothing is dripping to the front. Once your finished glueing your done. The bottome picture is of the Rubies two piece

Step 3 : Soft parts

Girth Belts: Boba Fett wears a grith belt under his ammo belt, his is a dark redish brown color. Now you don't really need this but it adds a nice touch. Now for my girth belt, I made this. If anyone would like one please feel free to become a member and send me a message. Though this isn' t the normal type of grith belt.  

Ammo Belt: I purchased my ammo belt on ebay it costed me about $45, its worth the money. Trust me all the pouches work and are perfect when your at a con and need pockets. It fits a small juice box in too. Now this is a normal Boba / Jango Fett ammo belt you can find this all over ebay. SHOP around please! Someone is always selling it cheaper. I also have Jedi boxes and food/energy/protein pill contain which are carried by the jedi.

Flight suits : The flightsuit you can purchased anywhere, ebay, amazon, or even a workers retail store (if its open to the public). My first flightsuit was 100% cotton which worked fine for me. The second flightsuit was a military issue I got off ebay.When your looking at flightsuits you don't want it to be to tight, I know some women want to go for that 'sexy' look but I don't think mandalorian women were trying to be sexy while killing jedi and sith. Its personal choice though.

Flak vests : I used velcro for my armor. So I picked up some light gray cotton mixed fabric from a local fabric store. I used one of my t-shirts for a pattern and just left out the sleeves.These pictures are of the back of my flak vest, due to my fabric being a bend it has some pull to it. You can see where I placed the velcro strips to close my vest. Don't worry about the four strips on my back those for my back plate.

Gloves -  Now you can do whatever you want with gloves. Fingerless is allowed though some mandalorian mercs may say something. I do have arm wrapping for the bottom of the gloves so you wouldn't see the black string.  I used to have fingerless gloves but Ive upgraded to these.

Step 4 : Boots

2010 Mandalorian Mercs Costume Standards: NO LACES can be showing.

I wear boots and shin guards This is my personal choice its really up to you in the end. No heels! Think about it, you're going to walking around for a long time! Why would you do that to yourself?

These are my leg wrappings I dirty them up with some brown dye andspray bottle.

Step 5: Weapons :

2010 Mandalorian Merc Costuming Standards : If your going to use a NERF gun "labels" and "warnings" removed, a repaint and significant modifications.

lAll my weapons are NERF guns. You can purchased them at Toys'R'us, target, walmart, any kind of big name brand chain store. For those who have the money, check out ebay for some awesome Star Wars prop guns. If you do go with the nerf gun choice, all you need is come black and silver spray paint. Best to go outside lay some newspaper on the ground, place guns on top and spray. Let them dry then flip over and repeat. The silver you can use for detail, maybe add a symbol.

Step 6: Beskar'gam - Iron Skin- Armor

So now you have everything but your Baskar'gam. Hopefully by now you have an idea of what colors you want to use for you armor and helmet. There are many ways to make female armor. I choice the mannequin way, I purchased a half mannequinn on ebay with my cup size. When your looking for a half mannequinn make sure they do NOT have nipples. I know I know, you think I'm crazy but my manneqiunn had nipples and I had to sand them off....

Some women don't like the profile on this type of armor, but I do. I want people to know that I'm a woman and not a small child.

 After I sanded the nipples down, I draw on the mannequinn the chest places and the ab plate. I used a trash can for the neck,shoulders. back, knees. Which ThedentedHelmet.com has templates for, please feel free to vist them.

 Step 6 : Part 1: Knee Guards : Okay so this isn't the shape you need to have but you do need something protecting your knees. It can be any shape you want and whatever colors.

 Step 6 Part 2: Gaunlets : This is something that you'll probably want. Though you do need somthing to be protecting your fore arms. Otherwise it looks kinda bare. If you join the Mercs its somthing you should think about getting, its wealth the money.

 Step 6 part 3: shoulder guards : OKay so you may have noticed the designs on my shoulder pieces. No picking a symbol is a personal choice, you don't one if you don't want. THe Medic symbol is from the mandalorians mercs I didn't make it. NOw here are some example. (mine and my botfriends shoulder pieces) You do need some type of protection on your shoulders.

 image -^ Medic            ^ tusken raider                     ^ mando symbol          ^ ""

Step 6 part 4: Boob plates: NOw that you have your chest plates cut out of the mannequinn..now what? Wel first you need to sand the edges down and add any kind of 'battle damage' you want into the surface of the plastic. This is important because if you don't do it now you'll have to re-paint everything again.

   FOr the neck, ab, and cod pieces I used a trash can. I used the templates (on thedentedhelmet.com) printed them out and marked the trash, cut them out, sanded then heated and shaped. Now you can use a heating gun, oven (350degrees), haridrier works to, oh you can also boil the plastic. Remember to be super careful when you heating the plastic. I noticed with teh trash can that it melt very quicky so BE CAREFUL! And yes you do need all these plates for a full set of armor.

Step 7: Heating and shaping :  for heating you can do this three ways. Oven, heat gun, and boiling. The oven is probably the simplest way to heat and shape. Turn the oven on to 300 degrees and place a tin foil covered cookie sheet pan. PLace the plastic on the sheet pan and WATCH the plastic, it will heat up fast.

coming soon....more about heating/ shaping

                   ....weathering and battle damage.