WIP: Locitus ESB Boba

locitus

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I though I should start a WIP thread. I bought a "finished" costume by forcebewithya some time ago. It was a great price but needs some upgrades before I'd be completely happy with it.

When I got it in the mail sent from overseas several parts, mostly the jetpack had broke and needed fixing. New shoes had to be bought and I got some MOW now as the included ones are far too big for me. I also modified the helmet to take a more accurate aluminum RF stalk instead of the resin one included with the bobamaker helmet. The braids have already been replaced with real horse hair.

I'm building this for 501st approval, but that's further down the road. First I'm going for halloween. :)

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Here's what it looks like today

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My roadmap is something like this:
  • Get a sidearm and holster - paid and waiting on delivery. FP holster and Mojo sidearm. - DONE
  • Fix missing greblies (knee launchers, toe spikes, etc), try to get as much aluminum as possible. - DONE
  • Replace the leather belt - DONE
  • Replace EE-3 with a new one - DONE
  • Get accurate chest-LED - DONE
  • Replace the jetpack
  • Replace the gauntlets
While trying to save cash for the above I'll try to make little bits and bobs better with what I have.

Way down the road I imagine replacing pretty much everything that have not already been replaced, as I'm not really a "good enough" kind of person. Although chasing down the found parts is honorable I might stop shy of that.

Cheers!
 
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Thanks!

Guess I should add that the knee armour was moved up and the elastics improved between picture 2 and 3. It looks really bad in picture 2, but it's already fixed.
 
Thanks! I haven't forgotten the thong, just haven't gotten around to it yet. But I've prepared by adding a snap inside the cod piece. Getting some 1" elastic and colouring it light blue would work?
 
So, today I got the Fettpride holster and Mojo Fett sidearm that I bought from Major. This is the only "big" thing that I was missing. The rest is missing greblies and replacing some stuff, like the jetpack and gauntlets. So it feels very good and I'm one step closer. :)

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Off to a great start bro...
Nice score on the sidearm and holster too! might wanna get more weathering on the sidearm. ;)
 
Got two packages today, one set of fettronics chest lights and a mini stormtrooper helmet. I've already mounted the lights and I'm feeling very happy about it. Fastest shipping ever. Insane.

I'm thinking I should open up the holes for the lights some more, not all of the digits show through properly, a bit on the bottom or top gets cut off. What's an accurate width and hight of the windows? Or should I just make it fit my lights?

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Thanks guys, but there's a lot of stuff left to be done. And I'm afraid that a lot of my gear ain't cutting it in terms of accuracy so I'll need to replace that before I'm happy. But in the meantime I can have some fun!
 
Hey man! love your costume (I'm so jealous...). I don't know if this will help or not but this is an image of the breast plate used in the actual movie (or so I was told. I got this off another link from a Dented Helmet Forum so don't take my word for it...).cestplate.pngcestplatetilt.png

If I uploaded the pictures wrong, I'm sorry. Please let me know so I can correct it but I hope this helps!
 
That chest armor and vest was never on film, most of the parts are from the Pre-Pro #2 suit, except the left chest plate which is from the Pre-Pro #1 armor, while the abdominal plate is unknown, but possibly made for Pre-Pro #2.

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There was a theory about this suit, and some said that the Pre-Pro #2 was the intended ESB Hero, but because the suit was stolen, they used the today known ESB setup. But this theory is so wrong in so many levels:
1 - Now we know that this suit was never stolen (except the helmet and the jetpack, but long after ESB)
2 - All the Sandy suits (Pre-Pro #2, ROTJ v1 and Sandy) had purely promotional and touring purposes.
3 - The fact that the Pre-Pro #1, Pre-Pro #3 and the ESB Hero share almost the same armor scratches and phisical damage, and the Pre-Pro #3 and ESB Hero 'almost' the same helmet scheme is a perfect proof that this was intended to be on the Empire and not one of the Sandy suits.

See more here ==> The Boba Fett Suit Fact Files
 
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Hopefully we can assume (it's a bad word, I know) that they used the same, or a similar setup for the chest lights independent on who painted the armour, and the cut outs for those lights should be about the same size. Whatever those measurements may be.
 
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