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Hey all Requesting detachment access. Darth NIhilus KOTORII https://www.501st.com/members/displaymember.php?userID=33918&costumeID=107

Thanks! I appreciate the feedback. I will find a way to use the Zoom pedal lol

Just an addition I worked on while waiting for the robes to arrive. I built a sound glove to use with it. I consider this to be the prototype version until I can get it smaller. The voice amp is rather small to begin with, its a 10 watt. The sound board, micro buttons, and 9v battery holder were all ordered from 123 Electronics. The board part # is FN-BC04. I found a tutorial on Youtube for this. The sound bytes I found on Youtube as well and just recorded them with Audacity and saved as .wav. There is another board with the buttons soldered on but there isn't any support for Windows 8/10/11 or newer versions of MacOS. I had it working, albeit buggy, under Debian Linux. So I bit the bullet and got the set up. I have a Zoom Multistomp MS-50G guitar pedal I may use in the future so I'm not limited to just 4 sound bytes. But I'd have to hide that and the voice amp. With this costume not having any armor pieces it could prove challenging. Youtube glove tutorial: PXL_20240307_182300186.TS.mp4

A while back I decided to start a Nihilus "build". Now I say build, but its 98% a Wicked Armor v2, but its a character I've always loved and I can't sew a straight line to save my life. At this point its been completed and submitted by our GML. I didn't really have any problem along the way since I didn't do the work. I only had to fit and get the chest padding right. The skirt and cape were about 4 inches too long. It was easy enough to fix that. The chest padding - I read through the builds I kind find, but none really went into detail as to type of foam or strapping (if that's the method of choice). I reached out to someone here (I forgot your forum name) but the suggestion was EVA foam. The other suggesting I got was to use fusible interlacing fabric. It comes in varying degrees of "weight", some stiffer than others, and it basically irons on the other fabric. The basic principal here is to cut it to shape and iron it on the inside. I was worried about the latter in that it may not come out right and now its fused to the fabric. I dug out the roll of EVA foam I had and got to work. I measured my chest from should to shoulder across the front, and from the top of the collar bone to me belly button. I knew it was going to be too big but I could always cut it off. Next I drew the shape I wanted and through holding it up to my chest, adjusting the cuts, rinse and repeat until it looks right. Something I did pickup from a build thread here was to bevel the edges a bit. It definitely helped the overall look once it was all together. I don't have any photos of this process but I do of the finished piece. When I did the strapping I had to look up how to secure it to EVA. The straps are elastic, I attached some webbing to the back of the soft velcro, then glued that to the EVA foam with E6000. Then I attached the hard velcro to the elastics ends. SO the end product has an elastic strap that goes around my back, and one goes around my neck. So the final result, im not sure what that darker spot is on my left breast area. But its not there now So again, this is the KOTOR II Nihilus from Wicked Armor (v2). I think I waited about 2 1/2 months for it.

Hey all, I am almost there with my KOTOR version, and it m at the chest. I'm not sure what people are using for the foam under the tunic. I have some EVA foam, it's 6mm. Seems a little think. Maybe even too rigid but I don't know. Definitely open to ideas

No worries. I was in the same boat when I started.

The GML team will be from your local Garrison. Should be able to find them through the 501st site

Hey. Where do you get your gloves?

Following since Im working on the same version

Requesting 501st access: https://www.501st.com/members/displaymember.php?userID=33918&costumeID=201

Yup got it. Thanks again!

The more I look at these, I don't know if they will pass. The back plate looks good, but the chest seems off Mine: CRL Image:

Happy to say I talked to Rob over at Wicked Armor and he said my soft parts are done, he'll get them shipped out! I made a little progress, I got everything trimmed up pretty well. I have a plan in place to make the armor bridge based on some feedback from a Facebook group. If not, I spoke with Geeky Pink and she can make it as well, but I want to attempt it on my own first.

This link should take you to the images on Imgur. I did hear back from our GML, he said the details are a little soft but thats vacu-formed (which I plan to replace after basic approval anyway), as long as its painted and weathered correctly he has no problem with it. https://imgur.com/gallery/DCmr5iO

Sure thing. Revan Kit https://imgur.com/gallery/DCmr5iO

So I got word back from my GML on the mask. The details are a little soft being vacu-formed but as long as it painted and weathered correctly he doesn't see a problem. I will use this mask as for approval them print one for an upgrade.

Yeah. I like cybercraft buckets. My pockets aren't deep enough though lol. This is a Walts Trooper Factory mask (im a Walts fanboy)

So I got my Walts kit and I'm not sure about the mask. Looks a little different than some that are approved. I know the fangs have to be trimmed out. But I think it checks all the boxes in the CRL It is a helmet style that has the skull cap which I like. Thoughts?

So I was going to sell off the kit parts I have but after some I out from Chainberer and a couple of others on the FB groups I'm feeling better about the build. It's a Walts kit so I can't use the WA chest/back bridge like I wanted. I figured I would reach out to Rob since I am STILL waiting on the soft parts. But the bridge won't fit Walts armor. I got some decent tips on how to make ine so I'm getting the faux leather today. I have a concern as to whether or not the helmet will pass. It looks different from others that got approved. I know it has to be trimmed and the space between the fangs removed. It is also the type with the helmet top as well which I really prefer that

Thanks for the input. Im going to try making my own. Shouldn't be too hard based on some input. Any chance you could get me the diameter of one of the ribs? They look like 1/4-1/2 inch to me.

So I am thinking about following through with my Revan and the hardest part is the ribbed bridge between the top amd bottom. I got my armor from Walts with the upgrade crl parts. My soft parts ordered from Wicked armor so the briged isn't included. I can't really find a source anywhere. I reached out to Wicked Armor about the possibility of getting part as well, but I can't even get a response on my soft parts ship date let alone that. Was quoted about a month for the robes, we're just outside of 2 months there. I also reached out to Geeky Pink hoping she could help me out but haven't heard back (only been a day though). If anyone has any ideas I'm open to it. I was thinking about getting some faux leather and trying to sew them but don't really know how to create the ribs. I found some fabric on etsy that's close but the ribs are about an 1" wide (looks too big to me) amd it's $30 a yard. Any help is appreciated

Looking good!

Got them from amazon. I just looked for square toe black boots

sweet!!

Hey. I picked up a generic black belt blank on Amazon for about $10. I think it's 2" wide. I plan on using that. Just an idea for you