Hey all. It's been a while, but in the meantime, I have managed to get a little more work done on my Mandalorian kit.

The gauntlets are known as one of the two areas that are a major pain in the butt, but I have been been trying my best to make my own rather than fork out cash to have someone make them for me. This way, I can customize them a little better to my liking.

Source: Wookieepedia

Boba Fett, the most recognizable bounty hunter in Star Wars canon, has a rocket and flamethrower on his gauntlets. For my own, I wanted to include a keypad and a display screen on my gauntlets. The first thing I would need is a keypad.

Problem solved.
With my handy dandy dremel, I carved out the small section of keys. I traced the area onto the right arm gauntlet top box, and cut that space out with my dremel.

Using my wife's hot glue gun (it works much better than my own does), I positioned the keypad into the gauntlet box, and hot glued it into place.

To ensure the keys make the "clicky clicky" effect and sound of a working keyboard, I placed the rubber plungers into the bottom of the keys, and glued on a layer of the plastic to give them soemthing to "click" against.

For the left arm box, I will be using an old iPhone 4S that I had laying around. I cut out the screen area into the gauntlet box, and will be adding some padding to hold it into place. (I will probably want to be able to remove the phone to recharge it)

When completed, I will have a video loaded onto the phone that will play in a loop. It will have some random information and displays of bounty targets, ship schematics and such. When I finish the video project, I'll share it with you all.

More updates as I make more progress! Until next time!

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