Hello my fellow Fetts,
I do hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving and didn't fill up on Turkey too much that the flight suit either is too snug or doesn't zip up fully.
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Just a few updates...
First, a very minor one, Since I've fixed my thrusters to my Jet Pack I never did like how the metal washer was up against the fiberglass. When Boba Maker sends out his JP's it has washers included for the Jet Pack's thrusters. Which has a rubberized backing to them. I've always kinda liked that added feature...
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So I got some thin black hobby foam, trimmed out the size and fixed it via epoxy. Which I think I like this better than the idea of bare metal being pressed against the fiberglass...
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In addition, I also added in a 2nd Vaporizer to the smoke kit for additional smoke - one vaporizer per thruster. Before I had used a T shaped splitter to share the smoke with both thrusters. The name of the smoke kit vendor again is "
Spoon Makes". Her kits make it so you can add up to three vaporizers if needed. She also had a nifty mount that fit perfectly in Boba Makers Jet Pack. I trimmed the mount a little - got it epoxied in place and trimmed out a small temporary piece of plexiglass that I held underneath as I added in hot glue to the back side making it very solid!
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I'm one of those who believes in being somewhat neat and tidy so I took a bit of extra effort in getting the smoke lines secured and out of the way. And yes those extra wires from the light beacon drives me crazy. Later, I'll trim those down and get em' re-soldered.
I also wanted to add in another cool idea I was pondering. Which I thought may make for some super cool photo ops. The idea? Well in ROTJ during the Sail Barge scene right before Boba is laughably launched into the Sarlacc Pit. We see Boba engage his Right Gauntlet in an attempt to ensnare Luke Skywalker with his grappling hook....
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Something that we see again in
The Mandalorian Season 2 Episode 8 "
The Rescue"....
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Now in ROTJ we never see what the ending hook looks like. So I went searching for a replica hook and the closest I found was a
vendor on Etsy that offers a metal hook for Jango's Gauntlet. Which looks real good in my honest opinion. Here is a pic I found in the
Jango Fett Media Page on TDH...
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And here is that Grappling Hook from the Vendor on Etsy....
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Again, I thought it was a very good likeness and replica. Plus, I like that Kamino feel it had about it too - like the "
Kamino Saberdart". After speaking with the Vendor about my idea I had asked if he could tap a hole so I could epoxy a rope into it. And he said no problem, and actually did one better. He threaded it and gave me a screw with a hole. The idea being....
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And here is what I got....
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The way the rope looked like to me in ROTJ was a white rope - so I got 3/16 in by 50 Feet of white nylon rope at Home Depot....
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Which I was able to insert into the provided bolt and then burned the end so it would fatten up a bit so it couldn't be pulled back out....
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Which makes this nice in the event that the rope ever needs to be replaced due to being frayed or damaged. And here is what it looks like size wise in my hand....
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Also I knew 50 feet would be too much rope so I cut it down to 25 feet. And that leads us to the question of "
How did you mount it on your Gauntlet?" And for this I had to think about what I wanted to do. But in the end I wanted to stay kinda true to ROTJ which if you look closely shows the rope coming out from under
that section of the Gauntlet. As opposed to the Mandalorian shows it coming out of the little hole in
that section....
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So the idea was to make it appear like in ROTJ, kinda like this....
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So how did I accomplish that? I actually used a Gorilla Super Glue Cap...
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Using my sander I got it shaved in half and then used my Dremel to come after it to put in some rare earth magnets...
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I then painted the superglue cap the same as my Gauntlet Color....
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I then used epoxy for the magnets...
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Then on the lower clamshell of my Boba Maker Gauntlets I put my rope greeblie in place and placed the magnets. Once I had them right where I wanted them I layed epoxy over the magnets....
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I only got to use it once at a small con I went to that weekend. And on Spider-Man no less!
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This shot alone with the characters not being fully in frame (
Wish the person taking the pic woulda backed up more) made me rethink the length of my rope and I knocked off 5 feet, so now it is 20 feet of rope.
Look for more pics in the future of me using my Grappling Hook!
I have a few more things to share, but I thinks that's enough to digest for now.
Cheers,
-Iron