Jawa costume

Ok, I'll admit this may seem ramdom but with this new area for this I figured you can't hurt to ask.
I have been asked to make a Jawa costume, I know the soft parts will not be an issue for me.
But how do the eyes get done, or should I say how should I do the eyes?
I know they seem really low as opposed to where I think eyes would set normally.
Any ideas or has anyone tackled this before?
Thanks for any help or ideas.
Christi

My sister and I rigged up something that works really well using wire and one of those headband thingys women wear. I'll see if I can find some pics.

there's a guy in the neg doing an awesome jawa writeup right now. it will be in our wiki when he's done, but in the mean time, you could always register there to see it...

http://501neg.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6627

Hey, This is what I came up with last year. It maybe a little over engineered, but it worked.You can find these at Lowe's, The frames come with the battery powered LED attached to the sides. I just remounted the the lights and added the lenses.

I registered to check out the thread if you see my name come through I just want to see the jawa thread. I've been wanting to put together a jawa statue for awhile now.

Here is a diagram I found and used for mine. As usual, I don't remember where but I still have it. If the person who made it reads this, Thanks. For the mask portion though, I sewed one up out of some black cloth material with a velcro closure in the back. I've been meaning to redo the lenses but haven't had time to.




You can see the actual eye holes above the lighted eyes.

That diagram is one of Chris Bartlett's designs. I did a variation on that using small orange reflectors and the LEDs drilled through them for my daughter's Jawa costume.

that looks great webchief!

Webchief, those pics are awesome, what a great costume! Do you have any more of these pics posted anywhere?

G-Fett

Looks fantastic, webchief!

Originally Posted by webchief

That diagram is one of Chris Bartlett's designs.

Ahh yes I remember now. Thanks, Chris for the design, and you webchief for reminding me who did it. BTW... What material did you use for the robe? Is it one of those blankets?

So where is the info for the Jawa that Chris did? I must not be seeing it?
Thanks for the pics and the diagram guys that gives me a bit more insight to this one.
I thought the robe was made from Monks cloth?

It may be monks cloth but I thought I read somewhere that it was some kind of blanket. Then again, I've read so many things during research that it sometimes blurs together.

His Jawa info is actually in the sandtrooper section for the time being.

Oh...No wonder, i saw nothing. Thanks still doing research myself. I went with the Monks cloth myself to simplify things right now, I have a very heavy costume load at the moment for Halloween.
I'll check Chris's sight again.

I hope you can post some pics when you have completed this!

Your costumes ROCK!

I am still working on this one. Trying to locate the wood gun for this at the moment, found a leather bandolier X4 as I am now making 2 of these now... LOL.
The robes are sewn and need to be dyed.
Going to radio shack today to get the goods for the face mask.
And I am running our of time

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*** thanks so much!!!! T-bone9600

I have a bit of a situation with the guns here. Anyone know where to find these. All the ebay sellers are out of their mind if they think I am willing to pay $88 to express ship these guns of the few I have been able to find on ebay with BIN.
I went to walmart as per a suggestion to no avail, So I am really stuck here.
Again looking for a bit of help... sorry and thanks,
Christi

Hey, nice work! Your jawa eyes looked the same as the C-3PO (the crystal/plastic) can you post a close up front pic please?

Hey Christy,

Lemme look at Wally world here and see if they still have any.

I was lucky today and got ahold of 2!!
t-bone thanks so much!!!
Now back to the task at hand the robes....

Great! Lemme know how the work out. Good luck.

Well The Jawas got done just in time for Halloween! We pressed the time line for sure, the masks were being wired up tonight at 5... I'll get some pics up Monday.

Looking forward to them.

Sorry, I don't check the non-Boba threads often here on TDH.

The robes we used for my daughter's Jawa were made from an Egyptian Cotton Herringbone weave blanket. I bought a white one and dyed it to get it the right color by mixing orange and brown RIT dye.

Chris' Jawa plans are on his sandtrooper page on his website tk409.com.

Originally Posted by webchief

That diagram is one of Chris Bartlett's designs. I did a variation on that using small orange reflectors and the LEDs drilled through them for my daughter's Jawa costume.

thats a great Jawa :thumbup

Here are some pics, they are not the best but I really was having issues with the camera.
I'll try to get an album together of all the pics and put it in the Halloween thread.
Christi

Those look great! Your blasters turned out really well. Did you use monks cloth for the robes? What pattern did you use?

Pics look great CBF... you've done an awesome job! just wish my little clone would follow the SW gene...

Great work!!

This is just awesome!!!

great stuff guys!!

Originally Posted by t_bone9600

Those look great! Your blasters turned out really well. Did you use monks cloth for the robes? What pattern did you use?

Thanks, I was pretty happy with the blasters all in all. I was short on time to weather them and the robes. So I was doing that on the morning of Halloween.

Yes I used the monks cloth and dyed it brown. Lots and lots of dye to get a deep warm brown. The pattern is of my own design with a bit of wire around the hood edge.
Christi

Awesome!!! I'm so glad you were able to get these finished in time for the big day. They look great!

Nice! They look great

Very nice indeed! My wife has a Jawa costume as well. We did the same setup that Tbone posted.

Use monk's cloth. You can get it at JoAnn Fabric for $9.99 per yard. Then get Dark Brown RIT Fabric Dye (also at JoAnn). Definately check out these two sites: The first one for the AMAZING mask tutorial:

http://www.td8733.com/Tutorial.html

And this one for the accessories:

http://www.tk1336.com/jawa.html

For the boots, I got a pair of rubber rain boots from Wal Mart. I wrapped them in duck tape, making sure to wrinkle the tape as I put it on. Then I painted with 3 different shades of brown spray paint, then LIGHTLY went over the boots with black spraypaint. They look awesome! You can also get everything you need for the mask from RadioShack, JoAnn Fabric, and the LEDs for the lights, look on eBay first. If they dont have the Panther Vision ones suggested in the tutorial, check at Lowes. In all, my son's costume is coming out to around $350. Im going to put up a website soon with step by step instructions for everything. I'll post a link on here when its done.

excellent work, looks good. 1 of the members in my Garrison made 2 Jawa's for our big exhibition there at the weekend