My Wife's FINISHED Zam

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Since I have been getting close to completion on my wife's Zam and there has been a little bit of interest in the stuff I made for her and offer to others that I would show some of the finished/almost finished parts. So here's what we've got done so far. There are a few parts not shown that are finished, like I have MonCal's aluminum barrel blaster.

In terms of breakdown of who made what -
Foot armor - my sculpt
Toe armor - my sculpt w/ screen cast toe spikes
Handplates - Left is screen cast, right is my sculpt
Thumbguards - my sculpt
Misc colored greeblies - my sculpts
Chest armor - my sculpt
Hose Connector - ZamIAm
Stomach Armor - my leatherwork
Crescent moon - screen cast
Horseshoe - ZamIAm
Ovary Bits - screen cast
Hose - from a Spot Bot carpet cleaner (bought a replacement hose online)
Shins - my sculpt
Gauntlets - my sculpts
Helmet - from original DCB run but I had to resculpt/cast the binoc bridge
Skirt - My leatherwork w/ wife's help for lacing
Holster - My leatherwork, formed to MonCal's awesome aluminum blaster

For the bodysuit we have ZamIAm's custom neoprene. We have the boots with correct sole, though they are not finished, and we have the leather for the remaining pieces like the vest, cummerbund, and veil. We are trying to get everything done by SDCC this year.




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Beautiful work. Can't wait to see it all together!

Thanks. I can't wait to finish it either. Seems like its been forever. I just want it to be done.

Looks good, can't wait to see it finished :)
greetings for the Snowball xD

Awesome!!!

Finally! I want to see it together dude, especially with your jango.

Yeah, hopefully there will be some good photos with my wife's Zam and my Jango at SDCC this year. We will also get some professional photos done together at some point.

Wow! Amazing work! Really cool!

Excellent Start!

Thanks, but I sure hope this is a lot more than a start!! We basically just need to finish the undersuit, vest and cummerbund and its done. It's taken 3 years to get to this point.

Outstanding :suprise. Would be cool to see that one done and worn.

Amazing work!!! Wish I was going to SDCC to see it in person - maybe next year. Hope you'll get plenty of pics (Dumb question... but needs to be said! LOL). Noticed the hose right off the bat... I like it better than mine... :)

Thanks, yeah we are right down to the wire in terms of finishing for SDCC. My wife's new sewing machine arrived busted and its going to take too long to get a replacement or get it fixed, so we had to revert to her 1967 Kenmore, which ironically is the only sewing machine out of the 3 that she owns that functions properly.

The hose is pretty nice. I searched all over for something good. That was the best I could find and its still nowhere near perfect, but its close enough. There is someone on ebay that sells with buy it now, the Bissell Spot Bot hose for around $25 (that's where we got ours).

This is the hose I got and from this seller, but I think I paid less: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...=390191976573&

(it's BIN w/ multiple available so I don't think there should be a problem posting the auction)

Well, she finished the top of the undersuit yesterday. Considering she didn't do a mockup (she just dove right into the neoprene due to time constraints) and had never sewn neoprene and her first two sewing machine options both wouldn't work it came out well. Her original sewing machine wasn't powerful enough. Then she bought a new sewing machine which arrived broken. So she had to use the 1967 kenmore. The machine is quite powerful and steady, but the downside is that it is inside a cabinet, so making the sleeves attach to the top was a huge PAIN. Also, her serger did not cooperate with the material fully, so that option kind of went out the window in addition to her other two sewing machines. The welt seams were easy though.

*envies*:cheering

Nice to see this featured on Facebook - the TDH page! :D

Woah cool! Thanks for notifying me of that. I had no idea.

Looking awesome!!

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Looks good, can't wait to see it finished :)
greetings for the Snowball xD

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Snowball has decided to take over the sewing responsibilities

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No costume is complete without feline supervision.... ;)

She likes to do more than supervise...like lay on top of stuff we are trying to work on.

Anyway today was an awesome day. I finally found fels naptha soap locally. I must have visited a dozen stores before I finally found one that carried it.

There is a livejournal community dedicated to those feline "helpers". My cat has silk seeking radar affixed to the top of his head. They certainly don't work as ears...

Looking great :) SDCC should be all kinds of spectacular fun this year so I hope you guys have fun :)

Awesome!!! That looks very awesome. Inspiring me to go redo parts of mine. I'm so glad she's trooping SDCC. I trooped it as Zam last year, but I am not going this year, so she can "carry the torch." Awesome...

Keep posting pics. And how are you going to attach your cummerbund to the belt bits? Just curious.

Deunan Shiruba

They will be attached with lace and if that doesn't seem to hold then maybe we'll add some velcro. Honestly at this point we are so crammed for time we are just focused on making it wearable for a day at SDCC. If anything has issues we will just have to deal with it later. Actually right now I'm more worried about how to attach the chest armor assembly. I've seen various harness ideas but still haven't come up with a solid plan.

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Many more pics coming later, but here are a couple taken by Bonnie Burton for the SW Blog.

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Thanks to Lesley Farquhar for the pics:

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That looks awesome, great job!

Excellent! Great work on a tough costume. And a nice Jango too. A Zam that looks that good deserves a rifle. If you're interested , send me a PM.
Westarsmith

you both look awesome!

Thanks for the compliments! This was probably the most difficult costume I've attempted to date...it was a lot of work and used my entire skillset.

Awesome Zam!!! Wonderful pictures too!!! Hope I can see it in person sometime soon!

It's costume's like this that make a GML's job very easy.

Thank you for all the compliments! I can't believe 3 years of work has finally paid off. Foxbat did such a great job - and his attention to detail (while occasionally driving me crazy) really makes this costume. Hopefully I will meet you all in the future. We will be at C5 - but the costume isn't coming :(

That is one awesome Zam! well done! Like Nathan said...builds like this makes a GMLs job easy!

Thanks to Nathan's quick approval, she is now a member of the 501st! She is now BH 5830 (my TK # backwards, he he).

Hopefully with the generous help of another member, she will be adding the rifle to the costume. We plan to have some professional photos done in a studio sometime after CV.

SO AWESOME! Looks perfect! I personally think a zam would be harder to make than anything!

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Great work.....What's the next project?;)

hey Fox...she looks awesome...great job! I have been so distant from the zammer thread since i got into my own Jango project...its awesome to have another Jango Zam married couple running around! lol

That Zam looks awesome!

You look great together!

Thanks everyone! Here's a couple of videos of us at the San Diego Padres Clone Wars night...dancing on the dugout to YMCA.

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Great stuff! That final shot of the young boy in video two said it all: BIG SMILE! :)

OMGosh! That is so, so great! LOVE, LOVE, LOVE it!

I must've missed this.... That is just too funny! Zam doing the YMCA! LOL

Man You guys look great, way to go . Both of you did a stellar job on your costumes !

Looks awesome!!!

WOW great job both yall.. WAtch out ZAM you know he has a poison dart.... I KID I KID !! lol

very nice work...

Awesome you guy's look Great! Though I have to say, gotta love the "two step" Kenobi. I bet the kids loved it!

Really, really well done!

Great WORK!!!