hey robot fans welcome to the first video of my background build so what's a
background build the main focus of this channel is 3d printed robotics that's
always gonna be the focus there's always gonna be a robotics project happening
but sometimes those projects get a little tiresome I get a little burned
out on them or my printers are busy and I can't do anything or I'm waiting for a
part from somewhere so it'd be nice to have something else to work on and
that's where this project is gonna come into play I've been looking for a way to
showcase my droids a little bit better outside of cons and big builder groups
I thought joining the 500 first would be a great way to do that and I quickly
found out that to join the 500 first you need a costume I've never been a huge
cosplay guy it's never something I ever considered but I started looking at the
forums and I started looking at the forums of my local file first attachment
and I started to get into the notion I've done a lot of research on what
costume I think I would want to build and after a long time of narrowing
things down I think I finally landed on one that I would like to build and that
is this guy right here so this is commander Bao he's a
commander in the five-o 1st battalion and he's in the Star Wars extended
universe he didn't show up in any of the movies but he does make an appearance in
the purge comic series which takes place just after episode 3 he works directly
under Vader and the main focus of those books is to rid the galaxy of the
remaining Jedi after order 66 so he and Vader among the rest of the 500 first
are off trying to purge the galaxy of those Jedi a thing I really like about
commander bow is that first of all he's in the 500 first which means he has the
blue color which I think just looks awesome
with the clone costume and he has a lot of the accessories that I really like in
the clone troopers especially these macro binoculars right here I'm really
excited to build those and get those installed on the helmet I plan on
building in 3d printing a lot of the accessories for this build but the main
parts like the helmet and the armor and all of like the big plastic key parts
I'm just gonna buy from vendors and different kits the five-o first group
has some pretty strict costuming guidelines that you have to follow and I
don't think I know enough about this whole world to 3d print and design
parts and still meet the approval of the five-o first so I think for the major
major parts of this build I'm just gonna buy the parts and do the finishing
myself and maybe add some accessories with 3d printing or you know do what I
can do outside of actually building the main part so I already have the helmet
here I purchased it from another builder on the forums the first task is going to
be finishing off the helmet I'm gonna try to finish the whole head before I do
anything with the body armor so that involves sanding it painting it
weathering it I want to add some stuff to the inside to make it more
comfortable to wear I want to make those macro binoculars that I really like I
want to put electronics in there so I could talk and hear things very easily
but the absolute first thing I need to do is make this thing fit my big head
yes at the moment it doesn't fit at all which is super disheartening when you
get a box like this in the mail the first thing you want to do is rip it
open put the helmet on and go pew pew and you know none of that for me
in my big giant melon so I'm gonna have to cut this down a bit these helmets
have an interior ring on the inside and the first method I'm gonna try to make
it fit is to trim out that interior rim and hopefully it'll fit it's pretty
close now I think if I had no fear of getting stuck
I could probably squeeze it on right now maybe not completely but I think once
this inner rim is gone I'll definitely be able to get it on and hopefully be
able to do it and still get it off if not it's going to be a much more
intrusive process of cutting off the face and then reattaching it with
magnets and kind of having a two-piece helmet but let's hope we don't have to
go that route so yeah stay tuned for the next video which will deal with trimming
out that inner rim and hopefully getting this thing to fit on my head I'm really
gonna live up this background build term and I have no real expectations for how
often these videos are gonna come out hopefully sooner rather than later but
like I said I'm gonna focus mostly on the robotics and this is just going to
be the thing in the background I want to end each one of these videos with like a
progress shot showing how far I am in terms of building a complete costume
this first shot is going to be super pathetic because the helmet doesn't even
it on my head but here it is wow that is bad
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