New CC Jango knee armor

Ciao belli!
Here my last update on my costume.
i rebult my old (made by me!) vacum formed knees armor to use like master

http://inlinethumb41.webshots.com/23...600x600Q85.jpg

http://inlinethumb53.webshots.com/21...600x600Q85.jpg

Silicone mold and first pull in cold cast:cheering

http://inlinethumb02.webshots.com/43...600x600Q85.jpg

http://inlinethumb46.webshots.com/41...600x600Q85.jpg

IMHO the result is very nice.
So i also made the mastrers for the side parts and the molds too
this is the first pull (in CC)

http://inlinethumb59.webshots.com/27...600x600Q85.jpg

and here 2 video (in Italian...),one while i open the mold and 1 of the first pull ( also with a little fight with my girl...:) )

http://good-times.webshots.com/video...01434745tHAvit

http://good-times.webshots.com/video...01434745FmuofQ

About our stupid faces...i only can say that meaby we drunk too much wodka lemon...:cheers

and finally the knee ready to wear!

http://inlinethumb61.webshots.com/41...600x600Q85.jpg

http://inlinethumb61.webshots.com/41...600x600Q85.jpg

http://inlinethumb19.webshots.com/15...600x600Q85.jpg

http://inlinethumb27.webshots.com/40...600x600Q85.jpg

http://inlinethumb41.webshots.com/15...600x600Q85.jpg

http://inlinethumb46.webshots.com/44...600x600Q85.jpg

http://inlinethumb25.webshots.com/43...600x600Q85.jpg

http://inlinethumb18.webshots.com/16...600x600Q85.jpg

http://inlinethumb35.webshots.com/40...600x600Q85.jpg

weathering by my friend snowflake (Saverio)


What do you think?

ARE YOU KIDDING ME! THOSE ARE FREAK'N AWESOME!!!!:drool

They really do look like the real prop!

Awesome work Dark-Side, I'm pretty sure that your first knees were made by you! And, as always, you have done an impresive, clean, and really accurate work!

When I see them it's like see an (good looking, of course) Italian girl, like this :suprise

:lol

Well, no more words :cheers

Awesome!! I want!!!

:thumbup Awesome job mate!

That is cool!!! How do you keep from breaking them when you move? I never did figure that part out.

WOW!!! Those are the ultimate. I just want to keep going back to the pics to look at them over and over again.:thumbup

Those are beauties! No wonder you guys won the last world cup! :lol

i'm the weathering guy here... when Darkside showed me the alu finish i felt my jaws falling away!

About the weathering, i know it's not a great job, but i had very limited resources and time!

anyway, coldcast FTW!!!

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I want some :D :D

Freaking awesome!

You guys better watch out, Dark-Side's head is going to get so BIG that it won't fit into his screen-cast helmet anymore!!!!:lol

Beautiful knees again... as for the weathering, so so!:b J/K:lol

Those most certainly are gorgeous knees, no doubts there. :thumbsup

Still, I'd feel much less paranoid of damaging/breaking them by kneeling if they were Hyperfirm style rubber knees. ;)

Amazing mate !!! really great work ;) (you had it sooo quiet baby ;) !!! XDDD )

Absolutely gorgeous! I want a set. Where is the sign up list? Ha Ha.

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ARE YOU KIDDING ME! THOSE ARE FREAK'N AWESOME!!!!:drool

They really do look like the real prop!

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Ummm Yeah what he said!!!:thumbsup:thumbsup OUTSTANDING!!:suprise

Start the sign up list NOW :D

Ay! Fabrizio,
Those are freaken amazing....:drool
Yo quiero unos si?:D Sign me up if one day if you are
thinking of doing a run...hehe! :thumbsup:jango

Beautiful!!!! If only you sold CC knees... :drool

WOW ! Darkside those are Awesome !

I'm really happy you like my work!
Cruzer,don't worry,my head is ok and my helmet will fit on it perfectly!

About make them in Hyperfirm i want say this:
My philosophy for my :jangocostume is to try to have all the pieces "movie accurate".That means,try to reproduce the same shape with the same materials.
So in the real jango costume the knee are in fiberglass (meaby also CC) but not in rubber\Hyperfirm.
Other point... this my first CC pull in my life, and speaking with Cruzer, I understad tha i was really lucky to find the right "formula" for a really nice CC looking with out make 10 test pull and buy special kind of resins.
You never could have the same result with Hyperfirm.
I made a stupid joke with some my friends telling them that my knees was made in real aluminum and everyone belived that!
If i use the polish for the silver on them, you can use them like a mirrow!

About the damaging/breaking, i can say that my first knee was in "ugly plastic" vacumformed (no ABS or STIRENE) and i never broken them while i was trooping.(i only broke a side piece in the bag when i was going on the C4 in LA...) Those are in fiberglass, and for a normal use ( walk,make pics with people and kids or display) they are enought strong:)

Sure that if you want go on Kamino and make a match fight with obi wan, you should broken them! http://digilander.iol.it/vizzentbego/Violent/doa17.gif

"RUN" mmmm in this moment i really don't have a lot time to make a big run...this weekend i'll try to make another kit just to understand better the time to make them and how much material i must use...after i will estimate price and how many copies i'll can do.


P.S. Teacher Cruzer please correct all my english errors!

P.P.S. FettOfficer I'm not Spanish....I'm Italian!.....:lol

:?I didn't undertand a word you said!:b
As for Spanish and Italian, isn't it the same thing! You and Benkenove sure do look like twins!:D

This is like waving candy in front of a bunch of kids and then not sharing, if you can't do a run. Don't you guys take like 3 hours lunches over there?:suprise Maybe you can hire Snowflake. Let me know if you need any help.

where do we sign up? niiiice.

Dark-side, I'm sure that your CC resin knees are plenty strong... I'm just a paranoid sort. I'm always terrified that after all of the hard work I put into scratch building my own knee armor ( and glueing my fingers together more than once ), that I'll kneel down once for a photo with a little fan and have my knee explode.

For me, having rubber knees would be more for my piece of mind than any thing else. With that said, I still think that your CC knees are absolutely georgeous and if I had the opportunity to purchase a set from you, I'd jump at the chance. ;)

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:?I didn't undertand a word you said!:b
As for Spanish and Italian, isn't it the same thing! You and Benkenove sure do look like twins!:D

This is like waving candy in front of a bunch of kids and then not sharing, if you can't do a run. Don't you guys take like 3 hours lunches over there?:suprise Maybe you can hire Snowflake. Let me know if you need any help.

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You said that me and Ben look like twins because we have long hair,so i can tell you that this is your twins

http://www.billiardinstructor.org/images/8ball.jpg

loooooooooooooooooooool

And....I have 2 hours for the lunch and i go to my house to eat Spaghetti alla carbonara, Spaghetti all'amatriciana and other kind of Italian pasta:drool!
So i can't also make CC knees in that time!:D

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Originally Posted by Dark-Side

You said that me and Ben look like twins because we have long hair,so i can tell you that this is your twins

http://www.billiardinstructor.org/images/8ball.jpg

loooooooooooooooooooool

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:lol And Cruzer, Twins?! I think that not twins... maybe brothers? :D

J/k! :lol

I look, and re-look, and re-look, and re-look, and re-look... your knees DS, sometimes I think that you have the real ones!

:cheers

:lol Make the knees. :lol

CC would be sweet, but I'd be happy with just plain fiberglass casts of those babies.

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:lol Make the knees. :lol

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Yup! Make the knees Fab....hehe!:D
And as far as being Italian so sorry dude!....LOL :lol/ J/K
I know you are italian bro...just thought I throw in some
spanish in there .....hehe! Next time might be some German.:D

Very nice work. The knees off WOF templates?

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Originally Posted by MaldorianGuard

Very nice work. The knees off WOF templates?

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Not from the WoF templates :thumbsup That's better ;)

"Less spaghetti!
More cold cast!"



:b

"Desideriamo il freddo lanciare!"

GO CC!...GO CC!....GO CC! :cheering

As Cruzer has said... :lol

Why?! Why you did them!?! :cry Now I want ones! :cry

:cheers

PS: I know that you're doing a lot of work, and that it's not easy (the cold cast) so take your time :thumbsup

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Originally Posted by Cruzer

"Desideriamo il freddo lanciare!"

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this doesn't mean nothing in italian!:lol

Sure it does. It means "***************************!"

I keep coming back to these and I have to say that I keep putting my teeth under my pillow at night and waking up to a matchbox full of pennies! When will the Fett Fairy leave me a set of these? I'm running out of chompers!

:cheers

ok gentlemen,
I'm thinking to make a small (5 kit) run and i would know if there is someone interested
the kit is:

-CC knees armor trimmed
-aluminun darts (new design)

the price will be 145 euro (more or less 195$) + shipping

Let me know :)

Nice job man.

I'm glad you guys are figureing the cold cast way.

Arturo

GO! And get them if you can! They're the best knees that I have ever seen! Cold Cast (as the real) and the kit comes with aluminium darths and trimmed! They're just 195$ for all! :D

What are you waiting for! I will get my kit as soon as posible! :cheering

Nice work Dark-Side :cheers

Bummer...that's way more than I can afford.

I'll take a pair, and I may also know someone else who will need a pair soon. I'll check with them and get back to you.:thumbsup
These are going to look really good with my cc gauntlets and backplate!:D

Oh, and I can help out with shipping costs to the U.S. people, if desired, by having all the U.S. orders shipped to me first.

Dark-Side, you might want to start a new thread with a new title so people are aware you've decided to do a limited run.:)

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I'll take a pair, and I may also know someone else who will need a pair soon. I'll check with them and get back to you.:thumbsup
These are going to look really good with my cc gauntlets and backplate!:D

Oh, and I can help out with shipping costs to the U.S. people, if desired, by having all the U.S. orders shipped to me first.

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Yup! That will be me that needs a pair very desperately.:cry
I'm in........:thumbsup

Any chance of getting a set without the aluminium darts?

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Originally Posted by FettFanatic

Any chance of getting a set without the aluminium darts?

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Sure, but I remind you that only my new darts will fit on my CC knees.
This pic will help explain why...

http://inlinethumb64.webshots.com/21...600x600Q85.jpg

I made this upgrade to make them like the real one.

FettFanatic did you buy in the past the knee darts from me? If yes i can tell how you could modify them...but if you don't have the right tools will be almost impossible:doh...


I want give you some more info on my knee...
I did not use any tamplete from some one else.Design,dimensions,masters,molds, it's all my work!:)

The kit will include all of the pieces trimmed, the darts (new version), and will be ready to assemble.
The knees are very easy to build and you can build them to your knee size.
I used CA glue and a small piece of styrene, 5 min. of work and done!
The perfect size is a knee 12 cm wide.

http://inlinethumb18.webshots.com/40...600x600Q85.jpg

For guys with big knees, these knees are narrow...so before buying them, check the width of your knee!!!

Update on the INTERESTED list

0- Cruzer
He is out of the list:D...

1 - GBH
2 - marcvs66
3 - Florida_Phi
4 - FettOfficer
5 -

Without the darts, the price is 120 Euro.
If Cruzer helps me with the shipping. I'll pay the international shipping to his house so that you'll only pay domestic shipping:thumbsup

Are those last two pictures of the actual knees or of yours...I can't tell!:suprise That small attention to detail you captured in the top knee darts is exquisite!!! :thumbup

I'm also thinking I'll assemble/reinforce mine with some 1/16" x 1" aluminum stock and some Devon Platic Weld that runs along the entire top. I did it this way to reinforce some JD Jango knees and repair some FP Boba knees and it worked like a charm!

I estimate shipping from my home would be about $5-$10 for people in the U.S.:thumbsup

i just want let you know that the Euro is going down vs US$, so now 145 euro are more or less 185 US$ and not 195 US$ like 3 days ago.

So, I think it's a good news for the american buyers:)

Free bump! 1 slot without name, it's just 185$ with darths! :cheering Aluminium darths :thumbup

Go for it guys! ;)

Beautiful!!

If it's still available I'd like to get on the list. :D Those knees are truly beautiful.

i'm going to have to start saving...all these jango parts are not going to make my bank balance healthy..lol


nice work bruv,keep it up!

if you can fit me to the list ide really like a set with darts.

just an update for the guys on my list...
After the double confirmation via PM, i started to work on them:)

This is the status of my work

http://inlinethumb36.webshots.com/40...600x600Q85.jpg

TB750,BobaFettSlave_1

Do you really want buy a kit?:)

They look stunning. Aren't they meant to be CC though?
You likely to do a bigger run the future?

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Originally Posted by Dark-Side

just an update for the guys on my list...
After the double confirmation via PM, i started to work on them:)

This is the status of my work

http://inlinethumb36.webshots.com/40...600x600Q85.jpg

TB750,BobaFettSlave_1

Do you really want buy a kit?:)

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Originally Posted by Dark-Side

TB750

Do you really want buy a kit?:)

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Yep, I'm definitely interested and would like the knee darts as well! :D

very cool :D .


I would ask for a set but I'd rather give a shot at making my own.

looking good Fabrizio....:D
Did you receive my pm sent on 10/23 ?

Fabrizio - those are a thing of beauty! Looks like they polish up nicely to that screen-accurate CC-finish... I am thrilled that one set of these has my name one it! Keep up the good work.

this is the final list!

0- Cruzer
1 - GBH
2 - marcvs66
3 - Florida_Phi
4 - FettOfficer
5 - TB750
6 - BobaFettSlave_1

Now I'm making the kit for the TB750.
I already ordered the aluminum and i think the next week i start to work on the darts.
This weekend i'll try to find the time to buffed some kit...:wacko

you gots a pm reply :D

I'll take mine rough trimmed and unbuffed to save you some work. Oh, and I think I already have a pair of your knee darts, but I need to check to make sure. If so, I can alter them to fit.:thumbsup

Woo! Hoo!....Looking forward to them...:thumbsup:jango

update

darts (new design) done!:cheers
http://inlinethumb15.webshots.com/41...600x600Q85.jpg

nice darts

Are the laying down ones skewed? they appear stretched.

It's probably just the camera angle.

are

no no ,it's the camera angle!:thumbsup
http://inlinethumb02.webshots.com/43...600x600Q85.jpg

Nicely indeed...:thumbsup
I assume we're just about done, ready to ship and accept
payment. :)

Now the other ones look too short!:D

UPDATE
This weekend i worked on the kit.
All the kit are trimmed and i opened all the holes for the darts.
I also buffed the 40% of them...i stoped the work when i didn't feel anymore the right arm! :wacko

The next weekend propably the kit will be 100% ready!:thumbsup

Those darts are things of beauty!:thumbsup

Ehi, Dark!
Non è che per un connazionale potresti fare uno sconticino? ^^
Scherzi a parte, complimenti!
Sembrano davvero fatti bene!

wow, those are some good looking knees ^_^

is it to late to get on this run?

Ahhhh - the smell of freshly milled aluminum parts... it's a thing of beauty. I am so stoked, that I signed up for this run... Great work, Dark-Side (as always)... I can't wait to see these knees first-person. Do you think, these will make it to the US in time for Christmas?

mastro92
hahahahahahh, mi sa che nn ti rendi conto che razza di rottura di scatole è fare questi pezzi! Cmq ho un paio di kit usciti nn perfettamente,se ti interassa posso venderti quelli,ovviamente a meno soldi!:thumbsup
P.S. se vuoi parlarmi in italiano è meglio farlo via PM.;)

C1RCA
Do you really want buy a kit???

marcvs66
hahahahahah Aluminun N°5 ,the parfum!:lol:lol
If everything will goes like i think, this weekend I'll finish everything and i could ship the box to Lorenzo next week!
I'll ship it with fast shipping (3-5 working days) soooooo.... if this year the small Marcus was a good child, meaby Santa will give him the knee for Christmas!:cheering

Hey Fabrizio,
I'm sure we are all excited and can't wait till these babies
are shipped.:cheering This is one of the best XMAS gift I purchased
for myself...hehe! lol :D

When the next run gonna start Fabrizio?

yeah i would

any chance of doing another run of these sweet looking knees.

Hei Dark-Side,

Adihelrel boslere lere dezzi llejejer ciovne herle hocon?:D

PM sent to ya Dark Side

Cruzer,sometimes i don't understand what yuo say....:D

Mandalorian Guard, C1RCA, marcus1632, TheDentedOne

ok guys, if you are really interest ,i could make a new run (5 kit) for dic\gen:thumbsup

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mastro92
hahahahahahh, mi sa che nn ti rendi conto che razza di rottura di scatole è fare questi pezzi! Cmq ho un paio di kit usciti nn perfettamente,se ti interassa posso venderti quelli,ovviamente a meno soldi!:thumbsup
P.S. se vuoi parlarmi in italiano è meglio farlo via PM.;)

C1RCA
Do you really want buy a kit???

marcvs66
hahahahahah Aluminun N°5 ,the parfum!:lol:lol
If everything will goes like i think, this weekend I'll finish everything and i could ship the box to Lorenzo next week!
I'll ship it with fast shipping (3-5 working days) soooooo.... if this year the small Marcus was a good child, meaby Santa will give him the knee for Christmas!:cheering

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Uhm..... The "not perfect" kits seem attractive.....
PM sent

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Originally Posted by Dark-Side

marcvs66
If everything will goes like i think, this weekend I'll finish everything and i could ship the box to Lorenzo next week!

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You're the man!

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I'll ship it with fast shipping (3-5 working days) soooooo.... if this year the small Marcus was a good child, maybe Santa will give him the knee for Christmas!:cheering

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Ouch... Santa will give me the knee this year... that's gonna hurt... hehe... why don't I just make my wife pay for the Jango knees and have her give them to me for Christmas instead of all that Santa-business... yeah - that sounds like a better plan! Screw Santa... since I am from Germany originally, I am all about the Christkind anyway! Santa always used to creep me out as a kid...

Keep up the good work.

YES I am defenatly interested in getting a set of knees

awsum knees parts and def good for even painted if for a boba :)

PM'd ya

im still interested pm me

those are awesome

95% done!:thumbsup

http://inlinethumb64.webshots.com/41...600x600Q85.jpg

http://inlinethumb61.webshots.com/43...600x600Q85.jpg

yes...in my garage is very cold!:)

Some cool work that is!

Great Looking work Fab! :thumbsup

:cheers

PM sent on the guys on the list.:)

Galactic Bounty Hunter ,please clear some space in your PMs :)

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PM sent on the guys on the list.:)

Galactic Bounty Hunter ,please clear some space in your PMs :)

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DONE!!! :) :thumbsup

:cheers

Payment sent ....WooHoo!!! :cheers
Can't wait.....hehe! :thumbsup:jango

Payment sent! Fabrizio ROCKS!!!

Payment sent! Fabrizio does, indeed, rock! :D

I'm waiting the last 2 payments...Once everyone has paid, i'll ship the stuff to Cruzer!:thumbsup