Holes were poked throughout the chest similar to the helmet for the added threading as well as googly eyes for rivets.
They are velcroed at the ends and attach to the belt. The thigh guards were made similar to the shoulder guards just at a larger scale. The grooves were made similar to the bracers.
The shoulder guards were glued at the upper corners to the main chest piece and follow the design of Boba Fett's actual shoulder guards. The belt along the waist has a plastic buckle that snaps together with a piece that velcroes over it to hide it. The buckles on the sides are made from rounding pieces of foam in the shape of a belt buckle.The foam straps were textured by using a ball of aluminum foil pressed into the foam.Velcro is used at the ends to help secure it in place. The shoulder guards rest on my shoulders and there's additional buckles at the sides and my waist. The chestplate is fitted over me similar to putting on a T-shirt. These pieces were originally much wider but ended up being slimmed down due to me being unable to move my arms after the first test fit. The chestplate was made from two pieces of floormat foam glued together at the ends. Once I figured out my pattern, I got to work (or continued to work). I took measurements of myself as well as overlayed a photo of my body over the illustration to help with sizing/proportions. Originally I wanted it to be detachable so I tried using snaps and velcro but due to the strength of the attachment point, I ended up just using contact cement and permanently attaching the crest to the helmet. I change the way I attach the crest throughout the build. The circular details were achieved by taking the end of the rotary tool and pressing it into the foam. I also ended up doing a mixture of Kwik Seal and acrylic paint to help smooth it out as well (this seeeemed to help but I could be completely wrong). Since I carved it out however, it was rather rough in the end so I used some Kwik Seal to help smooth the edges. Had I known about foam clay it would've made the entire process much easier, quicker, and cleaner. I did all the detail-work with the crest using my rotary tool's ball grinding bit. I later add a coat hanger wire to the back of this with some craft foam to hide it to give it some added support because I didn't like how floppy it was. The crest was made from pieces of floormat foam contact cemented together.
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