Every build asks the same question too late: when should I have started? The con countdown asks it first. Name the con and its first day, and the board starts counting — days to the doors, at the top, in large print.
Boards now work the way a workshop does: New costume starts a clean board, and Copy as start keeps your pieces as a beginning and resets the stages — because the second armor build should not repeat the first one's bookkeeping. Pieces click from cutting to dressed, and the progress bar answers "dressed and done" as a percentage you did not have to estimate.
Then the pace line — the planner's rule of thumb, worth printing before the fun ones: printing + smoothing + painting usually wants three weekends per big piece — start the helmet first. Print the bench sheet, pin it where the foam lives, and let the board save itself in your browser. Nothing leaves it.
Hang the mask. — the workshop crew
