Rigid Soft Goods

 

Now we’re going to make a skirt for him.

Same deal as before, only this time I pretreated the material, so that I’ll need to do less trimming after I shape it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Then I hung it to dry. Once it is dry, you can iron it, if you want the cloth nice and smooth. Use a cool iron and don’t burn the acrylic. A spray bottle of water will help with this. You should also lay a piece of clean cloth over the treated stuff to keep the iron off of it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I cut the shape I wanted and poked a hole. I ended up cutting off the piece in hanging down from the middle. It looked better without it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

To do the initial shaping here, I just ran the pretreated material under some water to get it wet, put it over the lower half of the figure and let it dry.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

More color wash and shaping. I mixed the wash at about 1 part paint to 2 parts isopropyl alcohol. Dries a little faster this way. I did 3 coats of the wash, tweaking the shape each time.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Now, I’m ready to start painting the figure. I really recommend doing the soft goods before painting the figure. It’s messy and any acrylic that gets on the figure should be scrubbed off before painting.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here he is painted up and put together.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It still needs a lot more tweaking and touching up but still doesn’t look too bad. Perhaps not the best likeness of Mandalore, but still comes off as a high ranking Mandalorian at least.