We make custom adult Halloween costumes and cosplay props, masks, helmets, and equipment! We provide painting services, different quality levels for different budgets, and free tailoring!
This offer is for your choice of a helmet alone, a set of armor alone, or a full set of armor with a matching helmet. Have us paint it all for you, or purchase as a kit!
Personalize your armor with logos, names, insignia, weathering, custom colors, and more! Just simply ask!
We will physically produce from your 3D model files, whether you provide an open source file you prefer, or one that you have licensed and need created. There are plenty of options to choose from here on Etsy or you can commission us to create a unique and new IP specifically for you at transparent rates.
Please read through the definitions of the services and options below. If you have any further questions, just message us!
Finish Levels:
1: Standard/Normal Quality (NQ): Automotive-style paint job quality - this is equal or better than the paint job on your average modern car. It includes weathering, stripes, logos, stencils, and more.
2: HQ, High Quality: above automotive quality, with attention to detail and an exceptionally high-end finish with an optical clarity. Please don't order this and then have me weather it because that would defeat the purpose! Choose Normal Quality for that.
-(Weathering the HQ surface destroys the effect of a high quality and clean/New surface, so it is essentially paying for nothing!)
3: HQ+1 - Signature Edition Quality: A mirror like finish polished to a degree 4x higher than HQ. Polished until diminishing returns can't make any further improvement. Please don't order this and then request a matte-coat on a soft pastel color. Choose Normal Quality for that. HQ+1 looks exceptional in silver, black, red, and ivory. Personally, I would not recommend this level of craftsmanship unless you were planning on displaying it instead of wearing it.
4: Make-Only, No Paint - this is a DIY service, which will produce a high-resolution 3D print to your specs/dimensions, and with the courtesy of all sprues, supports, and burrs removed so we can inspect for quality. We are currently offering this service with free shipping and significantly below market rates for a limited time.
Custom painting services:
--- You can send us your physical helmet that you've already ordered or made yourself and we will finish it, or you can order your helmet made directly from us and save on shipping and handling. Contact us so we can arrange a discount if that is the case.
-- You can choose color for zones, accents, components, trims, stencils, and logos.
-- choose any color combinations and any number of colors
-weathering,
-battle damage,
-dirt,
-stenciling,
-masking,
-patterns,
-and more!
*Technically, not ALL colors are available in compatible air-brush forms. Where those gaps occur, we resort to hand-painting with fine brush, where the full palette is available. For example, glitter paints would clog an airbrush nozzle. Black 3.0 is too grainy and can't be top coated, etcetera
** Some specific brand/color requests can be up to $500 / ounce (for example, some alumaluster is this expensive). When this is the case, we offer alternatives or an additional invoice for the special request.
-- All items are finished with either a clear or matte coat. We also offer a metallic clear coat that provides an "oil-on-water" holographic iridescent shimmer to any base color.
Custom printing services are performed using high-resolution models in high-strength, carbon-fiber-doped plastic with triple-wall construction and high-density, fortified internal-lattice structure which provides reliable and practical durability, similar in strength to MDF/plywood (1/8th in thick). The material has a MOHS hardness of 4.5, equivalent of wood, and a softening temperature of 160F where loss of rigidity begins to occur.
Measurements / Sizing: You can either provide body measurements and we will work out the scale and fit from them, or you can request exact specs and scale for each component. Whichever you prefer. For body measurements, please consider the logistics of it all. A few examples:
-- Breastplate measurement isn't your bust or chest size like a cuirass or tabard might use in tailoring, rather, it's the straight line distance between armpits that will best decide the fit.
-- Your chest or bust size will include the thickness of your trunk, which I can't account for as people vary greatly in proportion.
-- Personally, my chest measures 46 inches and I would only wear a 17 inch breast plate. But if I modeled my trunk after a cylinder, then 46 inches divided by Pi is only 14.5 inches. It is more accurate to measure the straight line distance in this case.
-- For equipment like bracers, there are two circumference measurements that need to be taken, one at the wrist and another of the forearm just before the elbow, so that we can create the same graduated taper as your actual arm.
-- Similar to the taper of the forearm are the shins. If your equipment has shins which wrap around, you need to provide the upper and lower calf measurements, and account for flexing while walking or stair climbing in the armor
-- Be sure to include flexing your muscles in the measurement.
-- We will add small margins to certain components that in our experience require additional room for internal padding or assembly, so don't overthink it. Or do overthink it, and let us know you hotsell are accounting for that. We can handle it.
-- When measuring your head, make sure you include your ears and nose in your calculations. Your head isn't a uniform cylinder, so ordering a "24 inch helmet" isn't the full story.
-- When providing measurements, indicate whether you added margins for foam liners, etcetera.
Expectations:
-- We expect you to provide your files and measurements ASAP because we commit to shipping on our deadline but can't continue without those core inputs. We reserve the right to postpone the shipping deadline by an equal timeframe to preserve our shipping metrics.
-- Please, no mission creep. Because of the nature of custom work, changing your mind once the process has begun will cause wasted labor, materials, and delays. You will have several days to continue providing input while your armor is generated and before painting begins, so don't worry.
-- We will provide milestone updates and confirmation of progress and conformity to the timetable at regular intervals so that you always know your deadline is our priority.
-- We have created a reputation by under-promising and over-delivering. You can expect us to continue that tradition with your bespoke equipment commission as well.
Shipping:
-- Within the US, shipping is Free, using the USPS Priority Mail. Tracking and insurance is included.
Product code: Personalized hotsell Mandalorian Armor Production and Painting Service