As a follow up to this, I finally met up with Chris this past weekend, and he presented me with a nice heavy framed copy of this poster. It had a little note to me, and a hand drawn little Boba on the bottom, as well as Jeremy Bulloch's autograph, all great little touches to an already cool piece of art.
I had first met Chris 7 or so years ago, and when he asked me to pose for this artwork (and get changed into ESB), of course I said yes. Chris, fellow artist Joe Corroney and I spent an hour in Chris' garage last May with a couple lighting rigs, getting the pose angle to match what the lighting source would be if this artwork would have been a real photograph, matching shadows and such. Chris took a bunch of pictures to work with which would eventually dump into his background he had already created.
Now to go off topic a bit....
After we were done with all the main pictures for the artwork, I asked if they'd take some other random shots of my costume, as I really hadn't taken any in a long time. Joe posed me into various poses at random while Chris again snapped the shots. Here's a few of those pics....
These pics were taken at a completely different angle than the "real" pics were, so the lighting isn't the same and being done quickly on the fly, I think they turned out great. Here's my suit since I haven't shown it off around here in a really long time. Thanks again, Chris!
Yes, I know the hammer on my blaster is missing. Shhh....
.....and for those who want to know components:
My suit is heavily Magic of Myth based, because I saw that exhibit in person 8-10 times in two different cities, so that's the Boba I'm used to. It is based so much so that I filled in the right shoulder bell dents because that exhibit didn't have them, and intentionally got an ESB light blue jumpsuit, which I weathered down much like the M.O.M. suit is. I did try and keep it mostly true to ROTJ in that I used an ROTJ codpiece (AOSW reference pics), didn't put that un-natural looking black streak on the left shoulder bell and the jetpack was painted by a variety of source pics since I had no great pics of the backside of the M.O.M. exhibit when I painted it.
Thanks to Art Andrews for all the high res photos he took of the M.O.M. exhibit suit. It gave me plenty of hours sitting in front of the monitor, trying to match up individual armor weathering with a paintbrush. The lighting in these pics wash it out some. It's pretty intricate up close in person. I'm fairly proud of it.
Helmet: Picked up used off of mrgr8ness a few years ago (painted by him as well). It's a 1996 Don Post (yeah, that's right) with a Bobamaker visor. I upgraded it a bit last year with a new Fettpride right ear cap and ROTJ rangefinder, and then repainted the whole ear to closer match M.O.M. reference pics. I also added a self-contained voice amp wired to two laptop speakers, one hidden behind the drilled out sections of the Borden connector, the other behind the little rectangle on the other side, in which I drilled a small hole.
The entire rest of the costume was painted and weathered by me, using that Rogue Studios paint list:
Jetpack: Bradleyfett, with DeanO metal working light beacon.
Armor: Fettpride (most parts modified by me to more M.O.M. accuracy). Metal knee darts by psberetta.
Chest lights: Shackman (turned off for photo shoot).
Gauntlets: Fettpride, with right gauntlet metal darts by Ruffkintoy and left gauntlet Radio Shack setup for the flamethrower nozzles. Right single hose, M.O.M. style.
Shin tools: Bradleyfett
Jumpsuit/spats: JK2 costumers
Vest: JK2 costumers
Neckseal: TK409
Gloves: Slave1
Boots: Mark Cheng (I painted them a darker shade and did M.O.M. weathering to them) - Can't see in pics.
Cape: TK409
Braids: Julie - her horsehair M.O.M. set
Girth belt: Local tack shop. I colored myself.
Ammo belt: Leather, by Sith Camaro
Saddlebags: JK2 costumers
Blaster: Mixture of Fettdad and Ruffkintoy components. Even though you can't really tell in this lighting, it's painted M.O.M. style, with multi colored weathering, and it's not black!