UPDATE: Fettoo

Wow... that looks... incredibly painful!

Great tat...
But if your a real fett head you'll and snaps to the ammo pouch..lol

I dig the head tilt.

Nice! did you trace it off of a picture or freehand. Either way good luck in getting that.

nice cant wait to see it finish how much is that running you

I just got home from the tattoo shop. It really didn't hurt as bad as I thought it would. Not that there weren't any "magical" spots. There a few details that arent there yet but I'll get those taken care of next round.

Originally Posted by 987654321a

Nice! did you trace it off of a picture or freehand. Either way good luck in getting that.

I could have freehanded it but the image printed out the size I wanted it so I traced it on the backside on a light board and then mirrored it, and thanks.

Originally Posted by jose

nice cant wait to see it finish how much is that running you

It is actually a trade I made with the tattooist. I had something he wanted ant it was just collecting dust in my garage, so... But had I actually paid it would have pro'lly been around $400 to 450.


Here are some pics so far.


The stencil.


In the works.


The artist at work.


Line work done.


My leg from the knee down. So far.

Ugh... Shin tattoos are my biggest fear.
I have extensive work all over my arms, chest, and ribcage, but I'm not sure I could ever sit through a shin tat.



Looking good so far.
Can't wait to see it finished!

It was nothing compared to the knees and feet. If you have can handle your chest and ribcage you could handle the shin, piece of cake. However, now that I think about it... ask me in the morning.

Nice work man, keep the pics coming.

that is a great tattoo!! I like the fact you used the statue as reference, because the pose is just... Fett.

ha ha, little too much for me though, respect for doing that, Í had enough with just the skull logo on my upper arm...

Hey T-Bone, that's awesome!!! Congrats on the awesome tattoo! Would you mind if I used your drawing/tracing to paint a new piece? If so do you have a hi-rez version you could send me?

Thanks bruv,

G-Fett

Thanks all. It's a little tender this morning but being a redhead I've had sunburns that make this feel like a scratch. I just cant wait to color it now. Then start filling in around the rest of my leg, over time, that is. Then we finish the right leg. The artist and I talked a few ideas over and I think he's just as excited as I am. My wife just saw it for the first time this morning and she liked it too.

Originally Posted by Studio Fett

Hey T-Bone, that's awesome!!! Congrats on the awesome tattoo! Would you mind if I used your drawing/tracing to paint a new piece? If so do you have a hi-rez version you could send me?

Thanks bruv,

G-Fett

No problem. I'll shoot you the original scan of the traced drawing.

Originally Posted by t_bone9600

Thanks all. It's a little tender this morning but being a redhead I've had sunburns that make this feel like a scratch. I just cant wait to color it now. Then start filling in around the rest of my leg, over time, that is. Then we finish the right leg. The artist and I talked a few ideas over and I think he's just as excited as I am. My wife just saw it for the first time this morning and she liked it too.



No problem. I'll shoot you the original scan of the traced drawing.

Dude! Thanks alot man! This will rock! I am finishing up one of the coolest paintings I have ever done, then I have to pump out some more Fett stuff, and this will be number 3 on the list.

G-Fett

G-Fett, you have a PM.

Just a small update. Finally got a little color added. I have to be honest. This time around it hurt like Hell in a few places. At least one more sitting, probably two or three, and I'll be done for a while... maybe.


Color: Round One.

Nice man! It's coming out really nice!

El1te

I'm not to sure bout the armor though, are you sure he used US MED Green on that?

Looks amazing TBone.

wow... down the shin. that's hardcore!!

I think it's actually called "True Green." It's really dark, too dark, so we added a little yellow to lighten it up a little.

They were already talking about maybe sending a pic of it in to one of the tattoo mags when it is finished. When both legs are finally "sleeved" though they'll definitely send pics. I just need to finish filling the left one up, get a good line drawing of Slave Leia in the "Look how sexy" pose from ROTJ the posterfor the right shin, and then fill around it. We talked about maybe on my calves having the death star as a center piece on the left and and have it blowing up on the right. Arranging them so that when I put my legs together it looks makes a third death star with side blowing out of it. I dont know if it will work but the idea looks good in my head. Who knows what will end up happening though? It's a living WIP.

Looking sweet bruv...looking sweet!!!

G-Fett

It's been a while since I'v posted an update on this. After the last session I posted I unfortunately picked up an infection at either the lab or the morgue and the green took a hard hit. But we've since then carried on and pretty much finished the color. In a couple weeks we'll go in and start touch ups which, to my understanding, will be a complete re-color. I should have known that lack of pain on the linework would not last. There have been quite a few "magical" moments since then and I'm sure a whole lot more to come. Here is what it looks like now along with the leia piece that will be on the right shin. I know the blue is a little too dark but we're going to go over it with white at the end.

Originally Posted by suspect86

Ugh... Shin tattoos are my biggest fear.
I have extensive work all over my arms, chest, and ribcage, but I'm not sure I could ever sit through a shin tat.



Looking good so far.
Can't wait to see it finished!

Same here, exactly what he said.

The one on the side of my leg kind of tickled...haha... I can imagine the shin being a lot worse I want one across my back, is it really sensitive on the spine?

El1te

Cool!

Working on one myself, due sometime late summer.

dude ,you should have came to alabama and i would have done it. no offense ,but you should have found a guy who could have done a lot better job. i hate to say it, i would have upset to say the least.

there are several guys in ohio that could have done a great job on that.

here is some of my work.

www.myspace.com/tom_cuthbert

JMHO

Originally Posted by TehEl1te

The one on the side of my leg kind of tickled...haha... I can imagine the shin being a lot worse I want one across my back, is it really sensitive on the spine?

El1te

I have two on my back one on the top and one in the middle. The top one hurt really bad, in fact it's my most painful tattoo so far. But I blame the artist for being heavy handed, because the one in the middle felt like the artist was tracing it with a marker.

dang dude! i didn't know you were got it filled in! yowtch


that thing probably swelled up like a mother.... when i had all the filling on my forearm tattoo it was twice the size for like a week it felt like

Originally Posted by CombatBaby

that thing probably swelled up like a mother

Thats why we've only been working on one or two colors at a time. It'll only take so much punishment before it says no more pain today and swells. Not too bad though. The only time it swelled really bad was when I got the infection and it developed into cellulitis. At that point I had a "cankle" there was no form to my calf at all... it just went straight down. I even had to loosen my top shoestrings to put my left shoe on. Thats what caused a lot of the bare spots it just sort of rejected the ink. We'll start fixing it in a couple of weeks though.

Those tattoos are killer. When you doing a Zam and Jango?

Frickin' SWEET!!!!

Originally Posted by Mandalorian Guard

Those tattoos are killer. When you doing a Zam and Jango?

No Zam or Jango... original trilogy only, for now. If I decide to go above the knees and do my upper legs I may do the new trilogy there. But Maul would have to be the center piece.

Originally Posted by Lucksy31

Frickin' SWEET!!!!

Thanks. Shoot me your e-mail addy and I'll send you a couple of pics of the store front with your decals If you would like a copy for a portfolio or something.