Recent content by Lidocaine

Welcome! I'm in the Portland area too, glad to have another potential Fett in the area!

Magnoli does quality work, he's done a lot of really nice costume related work on the RPF and through his site. I think his Mando soft goods are just getting into peoples hands, but the pictures are looking pretty good! I believe his cummerbund is integrated into the top, but if anything it...

I'd second a new coin, it's been a long time since the last one I think?

I ordered one. I meant to try and see if we'd get any updates at Celebration, but completely forgot to ask.

I didn't get a chance to grab a photo with you in your Kenner, but it looked great! Nicely done!

Amazingly nice guy, and I was so glad to get the chance to meet him last year. I was one of the last folks to meet him, and it was toward the end of the long night and he still took the time to chat me up about my armor. Also, bad helmet hair.

Welcome to the madness Mike!

My current ROTJ helmet is from RS. I'm far from an expert regarding helmets but I've been happy so far with my purchase. I've done around 30 events over the last year with it, and it's held up great. Even survived some knucklehead smacking me in the back of the helmet hard enough to nearly...

I've been called a Teenage Mutant Ninja turtle by a lady... Maybe if I had an ESB jetpack, but come on!

Hah, just noticed we screwed the jetpack thrusters on backwards... Guess I can showcase the system my dad came up with for the thrusters. Sunk and epoxied an bolt into the thruster, and there's just a wingnut washer on the inside of the jetpack. Pretty easy to take on/off when a little bit of...

Got my flight suit and vest back from the seamstress today, got rid of a ton of that extra flight suit... For the vest, I think the arms needed to be tugged down a bit, they got a little hung up on the flight suit. A few steps at a time I guess eh? Not the greatest light, and we were in a rush...

Well, we made it! Just barely, and there's a ton of fixes and tweaks needed. Here's a quick shot my brother in law snapped before we headed out onto the con floor. Knees were super wonky, I had some velcro on the knees, but with the flight suit being baggy, they kept wanting to sag into the...

Thanks! I was able to find all of the rattlecan colors listed in his post at either Home Depot or Lowes without too much hassle. The line striping yellow did react poorly with the humbrol maskol we were using and stained a little. However, I do think that once we weather the armor, I don't think...

T-minus 24 hours before the con. We've been using Stormtrooperguy's rattlecan color guide, and the armor colors have been pretty good, but we've struggled pretty hard with getting the shoulder/knee colors right. My dad actually ended up decanting the yellow and orange into airbrush vials and...

Jetpack is just about ready to get dirty. Need to add the symbols on still. Armor has a layer of yellow, letting that dry tonight and then it's the first round of green on the armor!