New Boba ammo pouch, finished and ready!

Tried to take some more pictures, to do an overlay. It was hard the get the exact angles, but you'll get the idea. :)
pou.jpg

pou1.jpg
 
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Gotta love that screen accuracy.

If I had the time/money/obsessive compulsive disorder, I'd be right there with you accuracy fettishists (pun intended).

As it is, it still makes a great spectator sport and gives enthusiasm to those of us who just want to make a costume that won't be laughed at. Gives us all something to aspire to

Like someone else mentioned in a seperate thread, the bar has been raised.

On an accuracy point (and I stand to be corrected if I'm wrong) the stitches appear to be "leaning" in the original. There's probably a technical sewing term for it, but in the faux stitches you've put on, SC, they're straight up and down.

Difficult to explain, but it's like this:

Original stitching--------Sith Camaro's faux stitching
-- \ --------------------------------- |
-- \ --------------------------------- |
-- \ --------------------------------- |
-- \ --------------------------------- |
-- \ --------------------------------- |

Pic 60 in the ref CD shows it pretty well

http://www.essat.cl/cdref/0001_0100/Boba_Fett_060.jpg

Not criticizing (as I am in no position to criticize the great talent around these parts! :) ), it's just that I've just hand stitched a load of my own ammo pouches and couldn't put my finger on why they didn't look quite right and then it struck me; leaning stitches! Had to find out AFTER I'd stitched 7 of my 9 pouch lids! :facepalm

Does anyone else see it, or do I need glasses? :wacko

Si
 
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TK-Fett: Of course there will be a belt with it! :)

Han Hunter: I see what you mean about the stitching. It looks like one or two of them have straight stitches, but that could also be the angle of the pouch. I'll have to see if I can get my machine to do this.
 
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Looking very, very good. Nice to see someone trying to get the belt nailed down.
 
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OK, I'm pretty much ready to make these, unless someone feels that the slope on the side is off, but there's really no way to find out exactly. Plus it appears that the originals are not all identical
You have a few choices as of now.
Non-functional:
Leather or vinyl (brown leather, or painted vinyl)
straight stitch or diagonal stitch

And IF I can make functional ones, they will be made with leather. But right now, my main goal is non-functional.
I still need to pick up some white vinyl, and good thread. Then I have to get something to make the solid cores with. Mr.Fett gets his made from lead. ;)
 
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Would it be possible to get some pouches with straight stitches and some with diagonal stitches.
 
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I know painted vinyl is more accurate to the screen stuff, but why go through the hassle when you can just buy brown vinyl instead of painting white vinyl?
 
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You gonna make me offer another way? :)
The only reason I'd use vinyl, is to make it the screen accurate version, and that happens to be painted. Plus, there's white around some of the corners, where the paint has chipped off.
Otherwise, if I'm not going for the exact screen type, I'd rather do it in leather.
 
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Yeah, the leather is cooler and more realistic....unless it's too thick of a cowhide, then the corners get all funky when trying to bend them to the proper shape. I guess it depends on what ounce leather you get.
 
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Well, for the non functioning sets, since they'll be glued around a solid core, I'm just going to use a thin, flexible leather. If I make functioning ones, they may be think, like my original prototype.
 
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I know white vinyl painted brown is more like the real one but... that was for use on screen, from far away... it didn't need to be real.

I'm REALLY excited about the real leather ones myself... ;)
 
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