Recent content by Peregrinus

Thought I'd give this a solid six months before checking in. Don't know if you've been able to wrangle life into cooperating enough to let you work on this. :)

Ahh... Take the time you need. And let me know if I can assist in any way (though I'm not sure how). I presume you have one of the base pistols to reference.

Your model does look very nice. And accurate within certain tolerances. The O.D. of that 1/4" copper pipe I mentioned is about 5/16", so a 3/8" dowel is easily close enough, especially as an anchor/fitting for the hose, which goes unseen. As for the tube forward of the fittings, here's my...

I am not averse to some elbow grease. I hollowed out relevant areas in the housing of Germaine's stellar First Order SE-44C to make room for a bead tilt switch and battery compartment (battery held in with the rear block when it's screwed in place), and perma-mounted the sight rail to the...

Late to the party, but wanted to add that the images I referenced for the connectors are here in the gallery, of the ROTJ suit on display, with laser calipers. Makes pretty accurate measurements possible, thanks to that. And remember that the found parts I used are for pipe, where the 1/8" I...

Hey, Gil. :) I know all too well how Darth Real Life™ can deal one a thorough bollicking, so this is in no way an impatient poke. I wanted to give you a few more months since the last word on the matter this past Spring to see if you'd had a chance to make any further progress, and if you had...

Because real life keeps interfering, I finally got the test-fit done. I'd have to have fiddled with placement more than I felt like, and obviously the plates all need to get shifted up a little to get the spacing just so. I just stuck the belly plate a bit above my navel, and butted the collar...

It's not in the gallery here, which I consider pretty thorough. It's apparently one of the photos Alan Harris has at autographing sessions. @RafalFett, presented for you to sift into your "dressing Boba" photo timeline. If someone has the actual photo and is willing to submit it in higher...

Well, all I know is that Jeremy was 6'1" at the time he filmed ESB, and Alan Harris was only a little taller. And as that's my height, too (and average build), anything accurately studio-scaled should fit me as it fit them, more or less... I'll print out your templates and see how it looks. :)...

I'm curious what prompted the size reduction. New data? More accurate measurements? --Jonah

Here's the most natural-light lit picture of the PrePro 2 suit that I can find (all the ESB shots are much more strongly lit): And my custom underway under similar lighting: For context, the paint-up I'm doing is based on the idea of matching the gray-primer/POG scheme of the helmet, under...

Weird... I did color chips, too. I'll see if I can find them. Once I was able to compare the dried paint (on various brightnesses of primer) I didn't keep track of them. --Jonah

I'm asking if you're going by the color chip online or comparing bottles in person. I took my last bottle of US Med Green in and compared it to every green several stores had -- not just Testors -- and the Euro I Dark Green (if I'm remembering right, still trying to dig out where I put them all)...

When Testors bought the other companies, they discontinued colors that were already represented in their line of paints. The response I got from them a couple years ago was the exact match is 2050 in their enamel line -- Olive Drab ANA613 - Flat, in their WWII US & UK militiary colors. Or, for...

Well, as with the ROTS Vader mask, they made the Jango helmet so it's actually symmetrical in overall dimensions. The severe asymmetry of the Boba helmet is not there. Looks like they averaged out the right and left sides, rather than making one side or the other "correct" and altering the other...