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A How To, for the Rest of Us
Something tells me Richie might be just a little interested in this one:
You, the fan, know you've wanted a Stormtrooper armor since the first time you saw them on the big screen at your local Movie Theater. You've swooned over them ever since and untill now had no idea how to get your hands on one. Well my freinds, it's time you learned how to use those hands and brains, and built something.
Actually, I'm a big enough nerd (shocking, I know) that I'm a little interested in it. Now to convince Ellen a body cast isn't some sort of weird fetish I've locked on to...
While I can see that Vern here is doing this in the conventional method, wouldn't it be easier to build some largish mold that fits around you and just pour stuff around you? I realize there'd be some fun with front half/back half separation, but I think that'd be easier than doing it this way. Then just make the positive mold and put it into properly shaped body pieces. Not sure, but there half to be easier ways to do this stuff (plus, someone could make proper engineering drawings and sell it to these folks and make some bank...). Either that or I'm putting way too much thought into this.
Posted by: ronaprhys on May 12, 2005 09:52 PM