White Commando Site - Need INFO!

Hehe...this looks like it's going to be cool! You guys are definately onto something. Keep up the good work and please keep us all posted. Can't wait to see all the goodies you folks are going to add here.

Looks great! Who did that logo? Very cool.
Love that subtitle too. Perfect!

Um... I'll send you pics of my GUNMETAL armor...

In Photoshop, I go to command+I to invert to correct color...WHITE!!!!!

I am gonna get you CENO! My White Krylon itches for you!

HAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

C*E*N*O*B*Y*T*E wrote:
Um... I'll send you pics of my GUNMETAL armor...

Hey TK,

I am doing my best to not copy you specifically...then poof! my avatar is soooo like yours! Oh well, isn't that a form of flattery?

I also appreciate the compliments, I am flattered. I did the logo. It is like the bat shape on the McQuarrie Pre-pro drawings. Also, secretly..."M" shaped!

Do you remember me? I am from Dallas. We have visited a few times. You sent me some cool pics of a neat trip you were invited to. We also do similar things at work...web, illustration, photoshop.

Glad you like that SUPER VERBOSE TAGLINE I put in there! HA! Wow, big nutshell for sure! I heard of a word...succinct. <-- Does not apply to me!

Later Friend,

John S. in Dallas

Trooper TK409 wrote:

Looks great! Who did that logo? Very cool.
Love that subtitle too. Perfect!

Awesome John!!!

Trying to get the time upload my "White Fett" renderings I finished yesterday.

Will post them on TDH as soon as I can.

Geo

C*E*N*O*B*Y*T*E wrote:
Um... I'll send you pics of my GUNMETAL armor...

Ya, ill have to send some of my black armor as well

Looking good

John,
Oh that's right, I remember you now! You even weathered the logo - super nice touch. Can't wait to see the site.

Hey thats cool. You gonna have costume pics of every variation of fett on there?

Okay, here's my White Fett Costume concept!!

Finally!!!

What do ya think?

the white part looks good , but the red x's are off

I know. I'm still trying to get this "load image" stuff. I keep geting an error on the uploading from the free TDH host.

Will keep trying.

Geo

Okay, I keep getting the "Error1120".

Anyone?

try this site
http://imageshack.us/index.php

If you have any spaces or punctuation in your image titles, the image wil not work. You may need to rename your images.

How's this?

I give up!!!! No spaces, just underscores! Ahhhhh!

use the "post an image to an auction" one

Do not abreviate the word "image" in the brackets.

Thanks Dwedd! The abbreviation was done by the hosting site. Curious.

Well at least they are up. Thanks!

I'd like to get them bigger so everyone can see the detail. Maybe I'll try again later and size the graphics differently.

thanks again.

Geo

Look at Geo's cool stuff! He has a lot of stuff to do!!!!

Hey Judz...do you have any pics af a pure white helmet you want to send me??? With and without a T-visor.

Later. I plan to "try" and put some stuff up this week-end.

Happy Thanksgiving! <-- but will be checking back to say hey to buds over weekend!

John

judz dwedd wrote:
Do not abreviate the word "image" in the brackets.

Yea, I really need to get going or I won't even make next Halloween much less C3.

Geo wrote:
Yea, I really need to get going or I won't even make next Halloween much less C3.

You can do it. I made BOTH my Jango and my white mando at the same time. It took me five months, and that includes making my own armor.

...what JD???...you dont have elves working for you like SEEKER???...he types 'pouches' and then they are done

Later
Lewis

I think JD uses his wife a grunt labor to get things done faster.

You're right JD, sleep is way overrated.

Hi All.
I was wondering....Is that a abdomninal plate on Geo's drawing? It's kinda hard to tell, but I don't think McQuarrie's original had that. Maybe I'm wrong, Here's the picture. What does eveyone think?



I would LOVE to figure out how to mold this chest piece. I'd even trade my EL saber to someone if they'd do it for me. (hint, hint).

Corbin Das

Corbin_Das@Starmail.com

It is hard to tell. It could be either. I think Geo's interpretation of McQuarrie's art will be great either way he chooses.

As for moulding this armor, I would imagine Sintra may give fair results. Perhaps Mr. GEO, we could find a caster/prop-maker? Someone who knows fiberglass... Someone that just happens to make very nice gel-coated fiberglass....hmm...who could that be...

Corbin_Das wrote:
Hi All.
I was wondering....Is that a abdomninal plate on Geo's drawing? It's kinda hard to tell, but I don't think McQuarrie's original had that. Maybe I'm wrong, Here's the picture. What does eveyone think?



I would LOVE to figure out how to mold this chest piece. I'd even trade my EL saber to someone if they'd do it for me. (hint, hint).

Corbin Das

Corbin_Das@Starmail.com

Looks fantastic, very impressive.

Hey guys, sorry for not responding until now. I was out of town for the holiday.

"My" McQuarrie concept Fett was based on multiple drawings that McQuarrie did. I took from what I could find out of ALL of his White Fett sketches and paintings and "interpreted what I thought matched his paintings that he did of Fett (and Han, Chewie and Leia) with Vader in the dining room, and the prison cell block. Maybe I can get BigaBoy to load those pics since I seem to have issues there.

The three view of the White Fett above is different from McQuarries painting if you look close enough. Most of the chest on the painting is covered up so I did what I thought would have been appropriate.

Hey BigaBoy, do you have those painting files?

Geo

Ya know, someone here might already be working on some of that particular armor.

Anyone? Anyone? PM me if you are!

Hmm...that sounds very cool. I wonder if you need investors or buyers...I wonder...

Keep us posted.

judz dwedd wrote:
Ya know, someone here might already be working on some of that particular armor.

Hey Guys, Go Here... http://johnandfelicity.home.comcast.net/

My site server is down until Monday, so I posted on my ISP space.

It needs to be filled with data. Be sure to click the 1st page image!

John

Looking great! I especially love the pic through the window of Slave-1 taking off.

Thanks a lot, it is now up on my site host's space...geez, finally. They decided to relocate their servers the week I bought the space. Oh well. Anyone that has good pics, good information, juicy details of the politics of film making! The crushed egos. The goods...that is what I need!

Please send a PM or release some information on this "someone" that "might" be making some McQuarrie-like armor...Thanks.

judz dwedd wrote:
Ya know, someone here might already be working on some of that particular armor.

Hi everyone.
Well, I just got my fiberglass helmet from Ebay. In looking at the McQuarrie pictures, I noticedthat there isn't supposed to be any slots in the back like the Fett helmet has.
I'd like to try to make this helmet as close to the MQ design as I can. Would you suggest bondo? Liquid steel? I was even thinking of taking a thin sheet of styrene and curving it around the back of the helmet. Ideas?
I also see that the MQ helm doesn't have ear caps. Hmmm...


Corbin Das

Corbin_Das@Starmail.com

In Case you do not read from the top down...I will repeat parts...

Go here and click the star...
http://www.whitecommando.com/

Click outside the star to go to the main part of the site or go here...
http://www.whitecommando.com/main.htm

OK Guys, whoever is going White...send some pics! GEO, SLAVEFIVE, CENOBYTE... Sad to say, we lost ShireFolk...his stuff is for sale.

- There will be a tribute page to Ralph McQuarrie

- Also Joe Johnston - He is from my town! Fort Worth Texas! I live in a suburb...Grapevine...17 miles outside of Fort Worth.

Will get some to you when I can, got video shoot going on this week, gotta make sure my set design and graphics are done and the client's happy.

Geo

*EDIT* I removed the photos to conserve space. They were pretty large. BigaboyFett offered to repost them as a smaller rendering. Thanks John.

The pictures are of another McQuarrie white Mando and several Joe Johnston drawings. I also included something I put together that showed what I felt the back of the MQ helmet looked like in greater detail. Now to figure out how best to modify a helmet to look like this. Bondo to fill in the key slots and carve it in? A sheet of styrene formed over the back of the helmet? Ideas?



Corbin Das

Corbin_Das@Starmail.com

Hey Corbin,

About your images...If you can, edit your post and delete/replace all the images in your last post to this string. I have detached them, but I can't edit your post. I will run them through Photoshop and save for web at high/60...that will get the file size down to less than a quarter than they are now and they will display faster. I can send you links to the images in my server space at http://www.whitecommando.com - plus I think the issues we are having with TDH hosting, as of late, may cause slower image loads.

Now for some notes about the pics...anyone out there willing to work on a custom back half of a soon to be produced helmet, and rangefinder/rangefinder ear-piece to a custom McQuarrie/Johnston helmet? Anyone???? (Judz?)

How about armor, namely chest and abdomen pieces, as seen in the McQuarrie White painting 3-view. I agree, the "rocketeer" type jet pack like GEO's and the McQuarrie cloud city painting could be done cool if the scale was right...but too big...Scuba Fett, or worse...too giant, like Johnston's Mountain Climber Ruck-Sack Jet pack. (Ironically, Johnston was the Director for the Rocketeer.)

Also, notice on the single image of "Boba-Fet" dated June, 1978 that was done by Johnston??? The knees are upside down...just like the images we have seen where Bulloch is in the suit in the Freezing chamber in ESB and his knees are upside down?? Heh???

My goals are as follows... I must say that I like the armor design of the white fett 3-view painting by McQuarrie, plus the Deco-Rocketeer pack like GEO's and a cape like the Fett with Vader image in the Bespin dining room, but not so Poncho-ish. I believe two left gauntlet tops with paired missile housings and tapered undersides may be a good solution for gauntlets. Go to http://www.whitecommando.com and click the star and see the gauntlets a friend of mine is now making...first pics ever released...exclusively on my site.

I am considering a second helmet beside the beige-striped DP95 helmet ala GEO I have posted on my web site. If we can find a Fiberglass caster that can modify a mould for the helmet back per Corbin Das' schematic, or figure a way to trim out the back of a DP95 and replace with Sintra panels and inserts (WHAT A PAIN!), it would be nice to have helmets of similar structure...especially if those wanting to do a white commando-fett, wish to have some uniformity. In this case, I believe custom Fetts of similar design appearing en Masse...will gain more recognition than sort-of, kinda similar, but not quite the same white Fetts.

Thoughts? Corbin? GEO? CENO? KINDREDJEDI? SLAVEFIVE? JUDZ? <--Umm, anyone wanting White Fett Stuff, send this guy some Chat! Anyone? Anyone? Bueller? Bueller?

Get back to me?

who is shirefolk? what happened to him? and where can i buy his stuff?

Shirefolk be a young lad, who hath finded the way of the Fett to be a touch jubbly in the pocket-pouch, and if ye looks in the cargo hold, there may be a Fett part or two for you...but it has been a spell, since he wished to let his stuff go.

What are you wishing to buy? Go to http://www.whitecommando.com/main.htm to see my suit. Go to http://www.whitecommando.com/jangopage.htm to see what a friend makes for my friends.

Goodnight, we shall speak soon.

John

Luther-X is kylecdean@hotmail.com, we talked briefly last night. so are you the one selling shirefolk's stuff?

No, it was in the cargo hold. He had some nice armor, a vest and a Marrow Sun Helmet. I think all is sold except the chest armor.

I make Sintra armor. Most people on TDH think that Sintra armor sucks, but it is inexpensive and easy to work with. Since mine is a white trooper, it is not scrutinized quite so much (at least I hope not)

Visit http://www.whitecommando.com/main.htm

Later!

Luther-X wrote:
Luther-X is kylecdean@hotmail.com, we talked briefly last night. so are you the one selling shirefolk's stuff?

i'm really new to this where is the cargo hold?

On the main page under MISC.
http://tdh.prop-planet.com/viewforum.php?forum=93249782

~Darren

Look at gauntlet darts (I have a dozen or so sets) in cargo bay or at the first page of this string. Later guys.

BigaboyFett wrote:
Look at gauntlet darts (I have a dozen or so sets) in cargo bay or at the first page of this string. Later guys.

Where were those when I needed them last month? I already order a set from some one else.

Hey guys, anyone know the specific time in ESB pre-production, that Lucas and McQuarrie and Johnston decided to switch Fett from a commando to a gangster henchman? Any details? I want to post any debate or details about the character's evolving history (pre-history) as a Mandolorean troop, a member from a group of Clone Wars Special Forces Troops/Veterans, Fett as a member of a squad of "Special or Improved" Stormtroopers, and finally, being a gangster's minion as seen in ESB.

Brak's Buddy, I think you know some stuff. Send me all you can. Everyone that knows, you are welcome to post!

Hi John
While this doesn't answer everything, the book "Dawn of the Bounty Hunters" offers a brief mention:


"At Lucasfilm, Boba Fett was designed by Joe Johnston and Ralph McQuarrie. At an early production stage of The Empire Strikes Back, Boba Fett's costume had been intended for a squad of supercommandos from the Mandalore system. The troops' white-armored suits were to have been equipped with numerous built-in weapons, including wrist lasers, flying backpacks, and rocket darts. In an interview for Star Wars:The Annotated Screenplays, Joe Johnston recalled, " I designed the final version of Boba Fett. Ralph and I both worked on preliminary designs, and we traded ideas back and forth. Originally, Boba Fett was part of a force we called Super Troopers, and they were these really high-tech fighting units, and they all looked alike. That eventually evolved into a single bounty hunter."



While this isn't much, it's a start. I'll see if I can find any more.



Corbin Das

Corbin_Das@Starmail.com

Thanks a lot! I just saw this post. I should check back more often. Later Friends.

John

Just Added! Star Wars web site has very large article on Mandalorians and shock troopers/super troopers. Article Date is January 13, 2005.

Go to http://www.starwars.com to see. You do have to be a member to view.

I can't seem to find the article. whats the url or the title of the article?