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RE: The DYI Star Wars Stormtrooper outfit
Man this hard core stuff........ if this is DIY than your kid has some pretty solid talent. This has been done really well because I can see some of the details. How long did it take him to make it?
The helmet was not made by him ... well, he did enhance it a bit. Totally he has probably spent a couple of months. Of course not full-time, but one hour here and one hour there.
The whole story started a bit before halloween 2016, he wanted to be dressed as a storm trooper. He found something costing several thousands of Euros, "please dad, can you buy this for me?". After some negotiating I eventually bought a quite cheap outfit, and he used it on haloween, but he wasn't much happy with it.
Maybe a month or two before halloween 2017 he asked me to buy some EVA-foam, because he wanted to "enhance the outfit". The foam I found was crazy expensive, but anyway ... I bought it. I was quite surprised that the only thing he kept from the old outfit was the helmet. He worked very hard with the custome the weeks before Halloween ... and was still working with it after his younger siblings came home with their bags full of candies. It was almost done, but partly a disaster as he was quite unable to put it on, and as the glue didn't stick very well.
Some weeks later there was some gaming convention he wanted to go to, and there was also a small cosplay arrangement within the convention, so he wanted to use his costume there - and he continued working on it. But in the end he went there without the costume. Now he started working again on it maybe two or three weeks ago.
Man this is some excellent work, understandably a kid going to school can only do it part time. I zoomed in the picture and saw a few rough spots but over all it was excellently built. Good thing is that this suit is a modular one, so he won't be out growing in the next year and might be able to use it again. So even if he missed a couple of events this time, hopefully he would be on top of it for the next few :-)
I myself am not exactly unskilled in building DIY stuff of my own. Although I am mostly into electronics but still I can see that his workmanship stands out. If possible, next time you can ask him if he wants to document the build and share it with us..............might be fun for you guys :-)