Mandalorian Iron Works

a neurodivergent hammer swinger with a thing for Star Wars and and not nearly enough time on his hands.

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200 followers and growing! Thank you all so much. This is the finished product, well finished is a relative term I suppose I'm never really done with anything. Thinking about adding it to my Etsy. Gonna keep making new stuff and sharing it with you guys! Until next time!

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My metal Sabine Wren bucket is almost ready for paint! It's the little details that make all the difference. This one was extra challenging because no matter where I looked I could not find 18 gauge sheet metal so I had to make do with 20 gauge, this made, welding, grinding, and shaping far more difficult, something to do with tariffs I understand it. Got to love no. 45's little trade War... but despite this I was able to push through and make what is possibly my best helmet yet! It's got some some serious Magneto Vibes to it, and I couldn't be happier!

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Is it a good picture? No, Is it finished? no, am I so excited about this one that I had to post it? Absolutely.

This bucket still needs a lot of love, pinholes here and there, and a handful of other choice alterations I was willing to overlook until I saw it with primer. But I think this one deserves better, so better it will get!

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The mandibles are finished!

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Lots of progress! The mandibles eyes and sensor box for my new metal Sabine Wren helmet all ready for grinding! Next stop will be the flashing around the cheekbones and the back of the head!

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My third bucket! This one came out better than I could possibly have hoped thanks to a lot of help from @kidnapped-by-nohr ! Learned a tremendous amount on this one, like how to make precisely shaped domes, incorporate space for electronics, use spray body filler, paint and weather properly, all while going a whole Project without catching anything on Fire!

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Not dead just asleep. working on a website and new projects for the up coming holiday season! here is a pic of one of my latest helmets. currently working on a set of all steel gauntlets(maybe a working flame thrower/dart caster???) only time will tell.

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Working on a new helmet!

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Well it's been one hell of a ride. But I'm finally ready to call this one done! Took a lot of weeks and a whole lot of patience. Did end up going with the grey and red color scheme.

Honestly painting was probably one of the hardest parts, I knew what I wanted the helmet to look like as far as fabrication was concerned. But deciding on how I wanted the helmet to appear at first glance that was a whole another matter entirely. I opted for the scarlet and gray because it had some strong contrast and weather nicely As Time drags on.

I intend to make many many more fully iron Mandalorian helmets. definitely going to use some thicker metal though. The stuff I used I kept welding through turns out 22 gauge is pretty damn tough to work with. Thinking about doing one modeled after vizla from TOR for one of my next builds.

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Time for paint! After many hours of standing. And more Bondo that I care to admit. The helmet is ready to go. I settled on a Scarlet and gunmetal finish.

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First acid wash is complete! Now onto painting.

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I hereby decree fabrication to be finished! The last 20% seems to take up 80% of the time. Greatest challenge in this project well aside from finishing it, making that damn range finder. Had about 20 different surfaces on it and each one had to be cut and welded to shape, then there was the matter of building it to accommodate the antenna. And of course doing so in a way the allows the antenna to move down to eye level. After a bit of finagling I got it to work. No all that's left is to apply some Bondo to help smooth out some of the transitions here and there and begin to paint this monster.

I would love to hear your ideas for a cool paint scheme and see some of your work for inspiration! I was thinking somewhere between Montross at the end of Bounty Hunter, and mauls Deathwatch Commandos.

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A work in progress! Been working on this one for about 2 weeks now. Haven't documented it terribly well though, still quite new to this whole cyber thing. Anyway as it turns out the most demanding part of this build, wasn't the Dome it wasn't the T visor it was the cheekbones and earpieces. Whole lot of small details in there. Haven't figured out color scheme yet, figure I may as well get the helmet done before I start worrying about that. Let me know what ya'll think!