Seeker\'s Finished Jango!! 8-8-04

Couple of udpates. I was never happy with the forehead and the back rim on my helmet, so i decided to sharpen it up. I also made the arrows a bit higher. Ever since i modified my Boba helmet to look like Jango's, I made the rim a little higher causing the arrows to look closer to the rim. I also made the right ear look more the like ther real deal. In the celebration 2 helmet, that part is one whole part. So i bondo the seam together. I hope i never have to remove the stalk ever again. :)

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Also have my new gloves. A big thank you to dgasser for the gloves. Thanks Dana!


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Since I'm going towards Arena look. I modified my Stubby trusters to have vents. I just cut the fiber glass then from the inside glued in some sintra.

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EVERYTIME I think I'm getting just a little bit closer to a Seeker-caliber costume, he just has to pull away even farther. Give us a chance, man! GAH! >:

All kidding aside, great updates, man. I think I'll be doing the same to my nozzles. Where did you say you got those gloves? More importantly, where could I get them? :D

Looking good as usual.:jango:thumbsup

Did you make the whip cord dart yourself?

Thanks fellas.

the gloves came from dgasser. Here's his thread regarding these puppies.

http://tdh.prop-planet.com/viewtopic...c=9536&forum=9

As for the wip/dart cord thingie - that came from yours trully Fettpride. Made out of rubber. That guy is amazing. I guess he realized how much i beat up my armor. Now his making stuff out of rubber. :D

just weathered stuff.

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SEEKER wrote:
just weathered stuff.

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**** YOU TURO, PUT IT ON ALREADY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
-osk

Heck yeah! I have a week 1/2 to have this baby ready. I wanna have the new Jango by Wizard World here in Chicago. Actually I've been dragging the last couple of months. Too many other things to do besides Jango :p

Turo

Dang man! It just gets better everytime! Great work!

I have to second OSK on this one. I want to see full costume pics right now!!! I still need to get a cod like that one, mine is way too small for my body. Looks awesome Turo, can't wait to see the whole thing put together with the all new Arena ensemble.

:lol I didnt read OSK post correctly. I thought he meant If I have put the weathering on already. Screwie me I said "heck yeah!"

But he meant put the armor on already. heh heh. Probably next Wednesday.

****, thats some awesome wheathering that holdster.

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obi sean kenobi wrote:

**** YOU TURO, PUT IT ON ALREADY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
-osk

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He's such a tease.

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Mirax H wrote:

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obi sean kenobi wrote:

**** YOU TURO, PUT IT ON ALREADY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
-osk

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He's such a tease.

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heh heh - hey look! It's arena jango helmet rooling!

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Turo, you my friend are a FREAK!!! :lol

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Mirax H wrote:
Turo, you my friend are a FREAK!!! :lol

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you said it girl!!
turo - you need to quit wasting time taking pics of that helmet and put it on already!
-sean

Heh heh - check out this crazy flash work. Man we could go soooo wrong with flash.

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Now compare to the real deal which was also taking with flash. hhhhmmmmm. so i guess it was deep purple after all.

mine with flash - the real deal with flash - then mine again without flash. Freakie!

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Crazy. I have a suspicion though that your lights and/or camera are very warm.

Finsihed!! Sorry about the font in the pics, but there is toooo many pirates on Ebay now adays.

I also need to finish the dome and weather the backplate.

I'll Post the armor on me on a new thread later this week.

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WOAH!!! AWSOME MAN! Cant wait to see it on you!!!

What is that grey and black thing in the lower right of the 3rd picture? And where's your jet pack?!

****, that looks awesome.When are you going to wear it? :lol

You suck :p You should see what mine looks like right now :lol Dude you are amazing, and I hope mine looks half as good at D*con as yours does. Now get that **** thing on and take some real pictures!!!

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You suck :p You should see what mine looks like right now :lol Dude you are amazing, and I hope mine looks half as good at D*con as yours does. Now get that **** thing on and take some real pictures!!!

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once again, i must concur:
1. turo you do suck
2. i too hope my rig looks as good some day
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3. PUT IT ON ALREADY!!!

turo - if youre reading this - get up from the computer and finish your suit, then take some pics.........

sean

Hee hee - thanks fellaws.

Here's the helmet.

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Arturo, you're a freakin' genius. BTW, have you watched "A Beautiful Mind" yet? All kidding aside, what's your next costume going to be?

I am looking forward to seeing this bad boy in person next weekend. Wizard World Con is the one time I get to pose for pics all day long with Turo, and each year his suit gets better and better. I'll have to dig around from some pics from the past two years so we can see how our suits have progressed.

You mean like this?

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Wizard World 2002

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Wizard World 2003

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WOAH!!! AWSOME MAN! Cant wait to see it on you!!!

What is that grey and black thing in the lower right of the 3rd picture? And where's your jet pack?!

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thats my jet pack harnest. It serves another purpose too. it keeps my codpiece up and high. It will never sag. :)

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Mister_Fett_1975 wrote:
Arturo, you're a freakin' genius. BTW, have you watched "A Beautiful Mind" yet? All kidding aside, what's your next costume going to be?

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I bought it but I havent seen it. I bought just cuz of you. Could you tell me shy should i see it? :D

I gonna be doing a Clonetrooper armor for Celebration 3 and finished off my Boba for that aswell. But I think my girl will be wearing the boba. :p

Turo

Beautiful. Get that sweet suit on already:lol:D

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phantom viper wrote:
Beautiful. Get that sweet suit on already:lol:D

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Dude. Looks great. Frickin' great. **** frickin' great!

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-Rex

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Bountys Hunted wrote:
Dude. Looks great. Frickin' great. **** frickin' great!

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-Rex

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Thanks Rex :)

Now that my computer's working better again, I wanted to check out some of the pictures Arturo's been posting.

I keep seeing all of the pieces 'live' ...........and I still can't believe that's not metal! :lol ;)


How did DCon go?

Best Jango Fett costume I have ever seen. Excellent work. I cant tell yours from the movie suit.

FYI if anyone is interested in how the undersuit was made:

First off, as you all can see, we decided to make it a 2-piece instead of a jumpsuit.
Arturo can tell you all about the short-comings of using a jumpsuit for this costume. I listened to how Arturo wanted to be as far as what it needed to support and how comfortable he wanted it to be and decided right away to go with 2 separate pieces. This works because the entire waist of the undersuit is covered by all of those belts. No one would ever know whether it was one piece or two. He wanted this suit to fit him very well, not too loose and not too tight.
AND a 2-piece is much more comfortable, flexible and able to be much more form-fitting than any jumpsuit could ever be......with out giving the wearer a permanent wedgie.

Arturo brought me about 6 yards of dyed fabric. I asked him to dye it to what ever color he wanted to first, then wash the fabric. That way, if it was going to shrink, it would have already done so before I spent 6 weeks working on this........

Shirt:

I started with Simplicity 7187 men's design-your-own shirt pattern. I used the view "D" collar. I redesigned the sleeves completely to mimic the sleeves in the screen-used costume. Arturo left about 800 reference pictures of every square inch of the costume at my place, so there could be no doubt that it was right.

I made a two-piece sleeve design with an extra wide seam to made the flat-felled seam that is seem on both the front and back of both sets of sleeves.
I had to re-do the sleeves once, because the seam wasn't quite wide enough the first time.

Note: Be sure to add enough seam allowance at those seams. You can't just fake it, you need actual material there for it to look right. Sew and finish/topstitch the front seams first, then do the back. You will have to do this as a tube which is pretty tricky to topstitch a straight seam when you don't have much space to work with.

Note: Pay attention to how the armscye is set into the screen-used piece. It goes completely again sewing logic. Yes, I had to pick out the sleeves twice to get it just right. I added bias tape to the sleeve joins, so the topstitched seam would have enough material behind it to give the correct amount of fabric width.

Note: BY ALL MEANS DO include the back vents as suggested in the shirt pattern. There is a reason they are there. Trust me. I was able to cobble together some of the scraps to add a swath of material straight down the back of the shirt. It allowed Arturo complete movement.

I sewed in the clips Arturo made for the hoses at the back seam of the inner sleeve. We added thumb pulls at the sleeve cuffs so the sleeves would stay in place when Arturo put the gauntlets on.

Before we made all of the changes to the shirt, Arturo could have worn it to work, except maybe it was a little bit too purple back then.......now it's the correct color, but he would have to wear a suit-coat over it if he wanted to wear it to work now.

Pants:

Ah. The lack of commercial men's patterns available at the local fabric store..............
The closest workable pattern I could find was Vogue #1753 men's contemporary suit trousers.
I omitted the pockets and darts in the front, per Arturo's wishes. That part of the costume is very visible and there clearly are no darts in the screen-used costume. I left the darts in the back. There is a reason they are there.
These pants needed no belt loops. So far so good!
I constructed the rest of the zipper-fly front and waist as the pattern specified.
I slightly tapered the legs from just above the knees to a straight end. We left an extra 6 inches of material there before we sized it for the hems.

Before we did the rest of the modifications to the pants, Arturo could have worn those to work as well, but again they were kinda purple. A purple shirt is one thing......purple trousers.............well, maybe Arturo could pull that off! :lol

We had to wait until Arturo had the leg armor pieces done to mark where the openings for the straps needed to go. Then Arturo added a whole lot of snaps for the armor.

I made 8 double welt openings for where the knee and shin armor pieces needed to go. I reinforces these spots with mid-weight fusible interfacing, the kind used for shirt collars and cuffs.
These openings are EXACTLY like what is used on the screen used costume.
After we had all of the armor pieces and belts on and in exactly the right place, we measured for the 1" hems to be in exactly the right place on the shoes. A few more snaps, let out the seat a bit and that's how the suit was made.

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Best Jango Fett costume I have ever seen. Excellent work. I cant tell yours from the movie suit.

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Thanks man. I really appreciate that.

:D

I can't believe it's not metal!

you should have seen him do the rub 'n' buff demo at d-con. jaws were on the floor.

Did someone record the demo? :D I sure wouldn't mind having an mpg of it!

I really wanted to see Arturo's Rub-n-buff demo at DragonCon.

I guess I'll have to have my own private demo..........

Everone meet Kathy. I have to thank Kathy for all her work she has done for me in the past years. Kathy has done all my soft parts on my Jango. She is amazing!!

Thank you Kathy. you kick asse!

As for the demo. I'll make a copy of the vide as soon i get one myself.

Hey Arturo. Very nice Jango. I'm still Jones-ing for the fettpride gauntlets but man, I haven't heard back since I last sent you and trooperkev a pm back in May, I think. Well, hopefully one day my Jango will be complete. Maybe for C3. If not, I'll just wear my stormtrooper.

One thing that occured to me that someone said a long time ago. Artists tend to be perfectionists. I just realized since you are an illustrator, you tend to look at details. I'm also an artist and it occured to me that it must be true. As a contractor, I take a lot of care that the houses I build turn out very well built. Same with all I do, whether I'm bulding, drawing, whatever...and I'm never satisfied with the result. Still I don't think I'll ever get my Jango anywhere near as accurate. By that time, if I'm lucky enough (money talks) to have one that's equally as nice, I think you'll own the actual movie prop costume because you will have won it off of ebay in an exclusive Lucasfilm auction and you will sit there at home behind your computer laughing at all of us! ;)

My hat's off to you, amigo. Felicitaciones!

p.s. Kathy! Great job, nice to see you on board. You may remember me (or not) from the Rebel legion, but it's been so long. Anyway, I have visited your site in the past and seen the costumes you've made for your daughter. You do awesome work. :D

Thanks for the kind words dude. Yes its true we artists tend to want things perfect. we have the eye for that :D. I'm very pleased of what i have now. I think the only thing i will ever replace is the helmet. only if someone has a cast of the real deal, but for now I'm very pleased. and maybe the jumpsuit, thats if i gain weight. :lol

here's some comparison shots.

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seeker that is truly impressive

kevin

Wait, witch one is yours? left or right? Or, are they all of the movie suit?;)

Incredible, Arturo.

You're gonna hate me for saying this, but I still think the jumpsuit needs more blue in it.

Here... hopefully this'll satisfy FBK. :D

http://home.mindspring.com/~ebrummel/jango_blooooo.jpg

:p

Turo, you friggen rock my friend!!! Better than the real deal.

I agree Turo. Your suit sucks and you suck! Stop trying! Just throw it away and give up, dude! :lol

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Incredible, Arturo.

You're gonna hate me for saying this, but I still think the jumpsuit needs more blue in it.

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I was hoping to see this pose (my personsl fav):

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Turo - Kudos man - this suit rocks.

Sean

I missed that one. :(

rub n buff demo?? huh? that would be cool to see, did yo udo the helmet or a sheet of something and where did you get that cool helmet stand at? whats it made from?

No offense intended...just trying to help you achieve perfection, Arturo. Your suit's already 99% accurate and better than anything anyone else will come close to.

I just got the rub-n-buff demo and the sintra demo. :lol

I can't believe how easy it is.....but that might just be how easy Arturo makes it look. ;)

hey seeker... any chance of putting up your demos online?

....I just bought my own first tube of Rub-n-Buff (in gold) today :love

.....don't worry Fettsters----it's NOT for an 'ultimate' "Mango" Fett :rolleyes