***Official Thread - Gauntlets and Hoses

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I bought some fuel line hose off the roll at an auto parts store. I don't remember the price but it wasn't that expensive. Depending on how you attach your hoses to your jumpsuit, you will about 7 1/2 feet. 1 1/2 feet per hose should be adequate.
 
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Hey guys I just wanted to point out that the tubing displayed at celebration II was actually a braided translucent blue tube. I have done a few searches and have not been able to find a manufacturer of colored braided tubing. ANyone had any luck with this?
 
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I used stainless steel braided hose...the kind
used on washing machines...and colored them black using
a permanent magic marker. It looks pretty good,
and they have the couplings already attached that you can
screw onto various brass fittings (which made
attaching to the gauntlets much easier!). I bought
them in the plumbing section of my local home depot.
Not exactly movie accurate...but pretty close.
 
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You could always buy some clear hose and dye it blue (which is probably what LFL did). I had to dye some hose yellow for my Ghostbsuters uniform and all I did was run some brown leather dye through it and washed all the excess out. Worked really well:

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You can see the hose on my left leg in that pic. So if they make a dark Blue leather dye, which I'm assuming they do, you might try that meathod out and see how it works.

-Austin
BH-1116
 
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All you did was run it through once and it stuck to the inside?
 
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Kylash327 wrote:All you did was run it through once and it stuck to the inside?

I had to run it through several times, but it started to dye the hose almost instantly.

-Austin
BH-1116
 
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here's a pic of puncher I'm using when I get my new gauntlets ;)

go to www.leatherfactory.com and do a search for "punch"

Again this the one for the front part of jangos right guantlet.

kinda of close but it would do for now

<image src=http://www.leatherfactory.com/graphics/lace_punches_&_chisels/g48-7.jpg>

<image src=http://www.r2ro.com/images/dartsfront.jpg>
 
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this is when the dremmel comes in handy. sharpen that baby up...
 
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Here ya' go!

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A bargin at $24.99 each! :facepalm

OR

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Only a $1.39 each! :)

OR

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$1.29 each! :D

-Austin
BH-1116
 
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Just finishing up on my gauntlets and I'm debating on where
to cut them off at...the middle of the upper arm...the shoulder...
or further up and into the jumpsuit body itself???

What is everyone else doing with theirs? I'd appreciate some
advice. :)
 
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They go in under the outer sleeve of the jumpsuit. I am attaching the ends of the hoses together and they will have a backpack type snap system to attach it to the flightsuit underneath the outer sleeve.
 
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Im having a hard time finding that part. Can someone point me in the right direction and also give me the official name of the part??

Thanks!!



~Bobby
 
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I'm just finishing up my hoses tonight actually and that's the same method I'm doing, the backpack clips. Just using lots of tape and Goop to hold them together.
 
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Okay. I'm ready to start painting my Jango gauntlets. What
is the general consensus as to the best paint/clearcoat combo
to use for them? I have made mine out of sintra/bondo and have primed them with krylon sandable primer. I used Testors
Metalizer (the kind you buff to a nice luster) on the armor and it came out really nice, but have been afraid to clear coat it for fear of dulling it up. The only thing I added over it was R&B (which i'm also afraid to try and clear coat!). Should I use the same method on the gauntlets, or is there some better stuff out there that I can use? I would think I would need to clear coat the gauntlets since they are such a high traffic piece of the costume.
 
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This what I just spent the last hour and a half machining, a set of 4 darts and grappling dart!
Arturo, youre gonna cry when you find out what I made these from....of course, you'll probably spot it.
darts.jpg
 
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