Wolfie's Progress.

I got the gloves , knowing they dont go with the ROTJ, but I like them, and most people wont notice, lol. I'll use them occasionally but I do have proper ones... as from the couple of pictures I took at lunch: (i do wanna do a prepro also, so I am kinda gonna slowly collect parts as I have $$, I need a different helmet and gauntlet, and blaster)


so here are a couple pictures of things done recently...

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the braids are attached to the vest, and the new chest light display board is installed in the back. you can see the wire right now because its not plugged into the battery. when its attached to the battery you can't see it. it looks a little lopsided because its just thrown on the little mannequin half, not closed at all in the back so its leaning a bit.

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the board, uses nylon spacers to attach it to the armor, then wrapped the cord around it and held down with electical tape, battery velcroed down.

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shoes with temporary spikes and weathered. I have metal spikes coming in eventually. i hadnt wanted to spend the money on them, but I decided to go ahead and do it :/

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a finished glove, I'm pretty proud of them, lol. made them myself with out buying them. well I used parade gloves but dyed them and made all the add on bits from tackle twill (the correct material) bleached out grey.. about the right color for ROTJ.
 
WOW, this is really shaping up. Love the chest armor. Nice work on the gauntlets too, i still have some of those lego darts somewhere!
 
Everything looks great!

Looks like you went with the CAboots?

Gauntlets look great? Ruffkin?

Gloves = Very nice job!

I like what you did with the hoses. Did you just rub the shoe polish on the outside of the hose?
 
aye, I just wanted to get done, I may finish the scratch boots at some point, or give them and the materials I bought for them to someone wanting to give it a shot and has small feet lol.

and I just rubbed a light bit of brown shoe polish on the outside. :)

gauntlets are Ruffkin, very close to being too big for me :( lol but I have short forearms.
 
the last little bits of stuff done..

I had some issues with the range finder, so I saved it for last. basically I got a Fettpride range finder that is hollow hoping it would fit the little led unit I got... but it didnt.. and FP was going to send me a new one but his wife got hit really hard with the cancer they hoped was removed :( so I havent even attempted to ask about it as it doesnt even matter in the grand scheme of things.

So I took the one he gave me and cut the bottom off it, thinking I could open the bottom up some and reattach it. Well in the cleaning of the house before we had company stay over a couple weeks back, i think I tossed the bottom part.

so I took the solid resin on that came with the helmet and hacked the bottom off it , drilled it out to fit the led unit... and went to measure it to the FP part. Didnt come close to being the same size :shock: ugh. well I figured I could just bondo that and it would be ok. Well, then I still had to drill out the bottom of the bottom to fit on the range finder stalk. I start that process, opening it up a little then go to measure it to the top of the range stalk.

The top of the range stalk is the exact same width as the entire bottom of the resin part :shock: :cuss: :poom:

figuring I am completely screwed, i'm thinking I might have to cancel being fett on the 16th (this was a couple days ago, before I was sure I could do Fett :p) and I take a few minutes to not knock things over on the porch.. lol. I go back outside and dig through the dremel box for the cutting wheel. hoping the rangefinder stalk is soft enough aluminum, I hack some of the top of it off. still too long :( lol. so I do a little more, and after about 20 minutes of this , shards of little metal flakes all over me.... i have success!!

so I finish cutting out the hole, glue it onto the bottom, build up the sides with bondo, let it sit over night, then sand down the bondo close enough for Government work. and glue on the clear rubber/plastic part, and paint the bottom of the range finder.

I finally hotglued it on to the range stalk tonight and took pictures of the last little bit remaining to be done to the Fett . Wee!

here is a sideways video:
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and a couple pictures right side up, lol
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I guess now that i am done handling the helmet so much, I can get around to cleaning the finger prints and resin dust off the visor lol


so thats that. I will troop it this Saturday. Pics to follow ;)
 
Very nice work. For a newbie like myself who is going to do a fett but feeling slightly overwhelmed at it all, it's nice to see something by others with what order they worked in.
 
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