Strap on ROTJ Blaster?

RBF

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well in the scene where Leia is exposed and she brings Han infront of Jabba the Hutt, after Solo is taken away and Leia is pushed towards Jabba... You can see Boba Fett walking behind her, behind the guy in the red suit...

I donnot have the equipment to take a decent snap shot, but I think I saw something that looked like a strap attached to the but of the stock and the bottom of the grip, hanging over Fett' s right shoulder...

Maybe I' m seeing ghosts, it could just aswell be one of his braides hanging over his hand, but it definitly looks like there's a black diagonal line going from his wrist to his shoulder.

Anyone has any thoughts on this?
 
I see it but like you said, it could just be the wookie scalp...although I didnt think they're that long? it seems reasonable that it could be a strap, but there's no way of saying for sure.
 
Can anyone take a screengrab of it somehow??

that would help to see what I' m talking about.

has anyone else brought this up in the past and am I making a fuzz over an old drowned cow... if so, I apologize...
 
Best I can come upi with at the moment.

rotj_blaster-strap.jpg
 
Here's a full screen shot.
After looking at this clip about 50 times, I think there's a combination of 2 things.
First is a shadow being cast from the wookie braids. The light source is coming from directly off-screen within 3 or 4 feet from Boba at about a 90 degree angle. This accounts for the shadow on his armor.
Second is the dark spot coming across his hand. The way it lays across his fist at this particular angle suggests to me that it's a strap.
The first dark spot(the wookie braid shadow) actually moves as you progress the shot from frame to frame, the line across his hand does not. This put together makes me think that there is a strap but we just never noticed it before.:cheers

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hey thanks suspect!!

I' m not exactly the person to judge what it is exactly... but I do agree on the fact that what I saw for a strap, does not move, while other shadows in the same frame do...

I do have to admit I saw it on a tv screen that used to be in Fred Flinstones' appartment, being about as big as a Gameboy screen...

anywho... is it JB in this particular scene? Is anyone in the position to ask him about it? if he remembers ofcourse.
 
well in the scene where Leia is exposed ........

Leia was exposed, I totaly mmissed that scene, and I though the gold bikini was hot. :)

I always thought that the 2 screws in the stock would be a cool place for a strap. (you know, have it loop over the sholder, and back to the stock, so that it hangs under the are.) I konw that's not what we are seeing here, but why are those screws ever there, if not for something like that. I mean, 2 philips head screws aren't much in the way of greeblies, if you know what.
 
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