Young Boba Fett

I might be wrong but based on my 'netsearch of the character,Boba did not inherit his father suit.
I have not been able to read any of the EU books but from what I have been able to piece together(feel free to correct me) Boba return to his father home world to pursure his father career/heritage.He recieved his own Mandalorian armor there.I have not found much on his early days but I am sure there is a few here that can expand on it,if there is anything out there.
Try doing a Wookiepedia on Boba also goto the Boba Fett Fan Club site and read up on the eviews of the Expanded Universe books there.
I hope this has helped and not to far off base.

Originally Posted by tc-2917

As I am nearing completion of My Jango, I am starting the pre-planning of my next build. I want to do a young Boba...

Here is what I am thinking:
if there is a 10yrs between EP2 and EP3 and 20yrs between EP3 and EP4, that would put Boba at about 18-20 for EP3, close to 40 for EP4 correct????

There is only a 3 year gap between episodes 2 & 3, and something like 19 between 3 & 4.


As for inheriting his fathers armor, according to wookiepedia he does:

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Boba_...le_of_Geonosis


Phil

He doesn't. As of LOTF, he's starting to regret it, and it's mentioned that when his father was re-interred on Mandalore, he was buried in his armor.

Check out one of Jango's outfits from Open Seasons for an idea of what Boba might have worn. It's in his OT colors, but on Jango-style armor.

i am not 100% sure on this, but i thought in one of the recent EU books i was reading where Boba Fett goes in search of his daughter he talked about inheriting his fathers helmet. I think. either way i think the idea is really cool. Are there any shots of him in the new tv series coming up?

After reading the link Hellopike shared I stand corrected and can onlly say I must have misunderstood a posted on this site which I can not remeber where I read it.
From the information in the link it seems intresting how that story line was left out of the last movie.Or maybe Lucas did not approve of that character direction plot.
So it would seem that Bobas' armor is infact that of Jangos with some pieces gone for what ever reason and painted the colors we all are familar with.
If I understand what you are wanting to build I would say the paint scheme would be that of a "clean" less weathered look.
Sorry for being incoorect in my orginal posting

Originally Posted by Ceric Neesh

He doesn't. As of LOTF, he's starting to regret it, and it's mentioned that when his father was re-interred on Mandalore, he was buried in his armor.

Check out one of Jango's outfits from Open Seasons for an idea of what Boba might have worn. It's in his OT colors, but on Jango-style armor.

I don't know what "LOTF" please elaborate. As for what I said, I'm just reading what it says on wookipedia. Says two people employed by Jabba the Hutt had Jango's armor re-sized for young Boba. I'd imagine that this is from one of the young adult Boba Fett novels released during episodes 3 and 4. Its goes further to say that his more recognizable armor belonged originally to Jaster Mareel.

Phil

Interesting kind of custom/concept Boba idea. Good luck creating the suit. Do you think, just to tie things together, you might incorporate some of the pre pro suit into the finished job as well? Not as a direct story lineage thing but more as a nod to the costume's evolution? Just an idea.

Oh almost forgot. Hellopike, LOTF is "Legacy of the Force". The new series of novels.

Doesn't Boba Fett inherit Jaster Mereel's armor, which Jango had kept?

Originally Posted by hellopike

There is only a 3 year gap between episodes 2 & 3, and something like 19 between 3 & 4.


Phil

Yes, ur right!!! i was looking at the wrong place on the time line it was 10yrs between 1&2.

I did some concept drawings last night if I find a scanner I post them up. There is some interesting questions and definatly alot of research to figure the armor out!

If you read the young Boba books, Boba only keeps the helmet and the Slave 1. I will need to reread the first book to double check.

That's it. Boba doesn't have any armor resized for him, I don't think, though I could be mistaken. But it wasn't Jango's armor if he did.

I ran across this image and another concept drawing that I forgot to save of boba fighting mace... the narrative stated that before GL decided to make Boba younger that after Mace killed Jango Boba kills Mace. Which would exlpain the signature at the bottom of this pic stating BOBA's ARMOR!!!

I read somewhere that boba received Jaster's armor and that some people actually thought Jaster faked his death and changed his name to boba but actually what happened is that Boba Fett receive his masters armor Jaster because Jaster trained boba to become of the greatest mandalorians ever but i read that on the internet so who knows if its true or not

I remember reading one of the books and I remember something like this in part of the book.

Jango Fett to Boba

Someday the helmet will be yours

The problem is Boba has a greenish armor and Jango has blue.

Originally Posted by tc-2917

I ran across this image and another concept drawing that I forgot to save of boba fighting mace... the narrative stated that before GL decided to make Boba younger that after Mace killed Jango Boba kills Mace. Which would exlpain the signature at the bottom of this pic stating BOBA's ARMOR!!!

In the Art of Star Wars book it says:
"We all assumed it was Boba Fett, but something was wierd, he'd have been too old. But as a placeholder we always called Jango 'Boba Fett'." --Edwin Natividad.

So it wasn't supposed to be Boba, the artists assumed that's who it was all along.

BTW - in the Art of Star Wars book, they have that image along with three others like it, but with different color schemes.

Using the concept pic above I started playing around. This is what I am thinking. Feel free to toss alternatives at me!




use the Pre-Pro hemet w/ eyes
use current boba armor w/ a few less dents and scratches and the Pre-pro decals
Boba Knees
use jango style guantlets color is still pending
use jango leg armor and blasters
use boba shoes and spats
a hybrid jango/boba vest (use a Boba main w/ jango shoulders and same jango leather)
Boba style belt boxes and girth belt
Jango Cod
Jango Flight suit
Boba classic action Jet pack just not as beat up as in ROTJ.

definitely like the jango armor and holster

Also i read this in a book that it said that boba was a collector of all different types of armor old and new what ever he could get his hands on like i read he did a bounty just to get some old style mandalorian armor so he could be wearing any one's armor

Love that picture!!!

I was reading tonite in my essential guide to characters and it also states
" ... and Boba Fett became what he'd been bred and trained for. He Possesed Jano's reflexes, Jango's ship, Slave I an a set of Manoalorian armor that had once belonged to Jaster Mereel, his fathers Mentor."

It goes on telling different things about Boba's life and how he adapts his armor and vehicles to gain an edge.

It also states how alot of people thought Boba was Jaster, so do you think boba might have left Jaster,s armor un-altered for several years??????

So Boba's armor should show more of a Jaster color scheme in the beggining right?????

well, actually,

If I remember correctly, Jango's armor was Jaster's before it was his.

In Open Seasons jasters armor pretty much looks like an open seasons jango armor except with 2 yellow arrows on the chest armor and the gauntlets are the same color as the main armor.

also in legacy of the force, it is mentioned that his armor at the time was made of mere durasteel, and his friend was telling him to upgrade to true beskar'gam

In Legacy of the force it was stated, and it was posted above. Boba thought to himself that he should have kept dad's old armor so he could wear a plate, as is the custom of some of the mandalorians to wear a piece of armor from fallen loved ones, so it would indicate that Jango was in fact buried with his armor on. Apparently according to young boba books he kept the helmet, but I doubt he would have altered it in color or anything.

In the first Young Boba Fett book it does say that he took Jango Fett's helmet before burying him. He actually uses it to disguise the fact that he's only a child when he's on the banking world to get Jango's money from the vault there. However, later on (a couple books later, I think, when they switched authors between Elizabeth Hand and Terry Bison), it states that for helping his daughter escape, one of the cooks at Jabba's palace had Jango's "armor" resized to fit him. Since you probably couldn't resize the metal part, one can assume they just resized all the "soft" pieces so it fit him better. They don't explain how he happens to "obtain" Jango's armor between the books, but it was my understanding when reading the first book that he only took Jango's helmet before burying him. Later in the Young Boba Fett books, though, he is wearing the armor in the original colors that Jango has it, because either in the book "Pursuit" he repaints it into the familiar scheme that we're used to seeing. So, either it was just an oversight because they switched authors, which is the most likely, or Jango had a spare set stashed away on Slave 1 somewhere, which wouldn't be entirely unlikely, since Boba had a few sets of spare armor.

Hope this helps, dude.

I think there is no officially accurate history on Boba's armor because so many have written about him in the expanded universe. So, I think the best thing to do would be to interpret it as you want. Ive been wanting to make a custom young Boba figure here's what im basing it on Teen Fett Concept Poncho | Flickr - Photo Sharing! with an dirty/weathered jango helmet/jetpack but boba's traditional jumpsuit. I particularly like the gun holster like jangos.

You're late almost 3 years with this answer... And as I know, in the new series of the animated Clone Wars the young Boba Fett blows up his father's helmet while trying to kill Mace Windu and Anakin Skywalker. I don't know about the armor or the rest of the gear...

Respect!

Originally Posted by RafalFett

You're late almost 3 years with this answer... And as I know, in the new series of the animated Clone Wars the young Boba Fett blows up his father's helmet while trying to kill Mace Windu and Anakin Skywalker. I don't know about the armor or the rest of the gear...

Respect!

that's what im trying to say, in the clone wars he blows up the helmet but thats only one source. If you read a lot of what people have been saying on this thread and the expanded universe boba has at least 3 sets of mandalorian armor one being jangos which he dug up and got rezised.
Its contradicting but i personally like the expanded universe story better because its stupid to destroy the armor of an iconic character like they did in clone wars.

It's not possible for him to have resized Jango's, or to have Jango's or Jaster's or any real mandalorian armor. Here's why. The Mandalorians of Jango's and Jaster's era had armor made from beskar, the metal mined from Mandalore, which only mandalorians know how to work into armor/weapons. Beskar as we know is darn near indestructable and can withstand a ligthsaber. Boba's armor was made from durasteel, or duraplast one of them, and was often mocked because of this, as he didn't even own a set of decent armor. In LOTF Boba buries Jango in his armor, and although one can argue that there's an off chance that Jango's armor could have been resized, you could not resize it back again to fit Jango, as you could not replace all that was removed from it in order to make it fit a child Boba. Had Boba been wearing Jango's armor there would have been no dents in the helmet or any of the armor and this website would just be called The Helmet. It's a nice story, but evidence and following events just disprove and retcon Boba wearing Jango's armor.

Originally Posted by mandosoldier

It's not possible for him to have resized Jango's, or to have Jango's or Jaster's or any real mandalorian armor. Here's why. The Mandalorians of Jango's and Jaster's era had armor made from beskar, the metal mined from Mandalore, which only mandalorians know how to work into armor/weapons. Beskar as we know is darn near indestructable and can withstand a ligthsaber. Boba's armor was made from durasteel, or duraplast one of them, and was often mocked because of this, as he didn't even own a set of decent armor. In LOTF Boba buries Jango in his armor, and although one can argue that there's an off chance that Jango's armor could have been resized, you could not resize it back again to fit Jango, as you could not replace all that was removed from it in order to make it fit a child Boba. Had Boba been wearing Jango's armor there would have been no dents in the helmet or any of the armor and this website would just be called The Helmet. It's a nice story, but evidence and following events just disprove and retcon Boba wearing Jango's armor.

Well, according to wookiepedia jango's armor was also made from durasteel so the dent and resizing would totally be a possibility. Wookiepedia could be right or you could be right, I'm personally going to side with them because i like the idea of boba inheriting his father's armor but to each his own.