Project: Star Lord

Star Lord Earpiece Revisited

A few years ago, right after the debut of the first Guardians of the Galaxy film, I banged together a simple 3D model for Star Lord’s earpiece in Sketchup, before I started figuring out

Never Stop Sanding!

I came back to this after some time off from tinkering with it and started assembling things in earnest. The helmet got another coat of primer and some light sanding so I could see

Step-by-Step Earpiece Electronics

Author’s Note This post is fairly outdated – I’ve made a lot of revisions and improvements to Star Lord’s earpiece design since initially putting these instructions up. Nevertheless, I thought it’d be useful to

Jacket and Printed Parts!

Got my jacket! Seems like a pretty good fit! It’s the real leather version from fjackets. A few points on it to anyone interested in buying from them – if you go directly to their

Redesigning the Barrel

So as we speak, I’m remodelling the part to replace the orange piece, too. Hopefully it should be a 100% replacement, screws and all. I’m not done filling it in, but the rough draft looks

Early Barrel Plug Tests

I fashioned a more screen-accurate tip for the quad blaster that plugs into the old nerf gun barrel. First test of the gun barrel looks okay. It’s a hair shorter than I intended, and

Electronics and Detailing

Original audio circuit on left, mine on right. I figured out the points to jump power across and used 3xAA batteries to replace the 3 1.5v coin cells, just to test. Still works. Now

Of Helmets and Blasters

This year, I’ve decided Star Lord was going to be the costume of choice, partly because I loved the daylights out of the Guardians of the Galaxy movie, and partly because the wonderful community

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