Recent content by PhantomBlade

Not dead, just been busy don't have the attention span to make two kits at once it turns out. Jetpack harness from Bobamaker turned up today, and it's lovely. Highly recommend! Will need to sort an fairly serious compression top however because the chest strap location doesn't even remotely...

Left chest piece is getting the slots cut out but is also in the kit. Neo armour, gauntlets Machine craft replica rocket, flamethrower nozzles, knee darts, gauntlet darts. Chest decals from Etsy Chest display from etsy

For Sale ROTJ armour set from NeoFett, along with the gauntlets set (vacuum formed left top shell, not fibreglass). I've trimmed the armour, and started painting it. Some pieces have an aluminium base coat, other pieces are green and were going to be layered backwards as I wasn't sure which...

So this pretty arrived today!!! Soft gear from CB studios arrived too, been a busy week.

Close enough? I know they're not great, but hopefully they'll do. Going to try to learn how to do pineapple knots with some leather lace I found, as well as add some red cotton wraps and I think there might be some white involved somewhere too. Made from artificial hair, original braids were...

Progress has all but ground to a halt. The local guy who's meant to be making my armour freely admits he's made no progress. I've finally given up and opened a Paypal dispute against Woody Howton for the braids. He's completely ignoring messages and it's been 6 months since I placed the order...

Aaaaaah. I see. I had the reference shot from behind, where the belts were behaving badly. I may curl up and cry if I have to find another belt :( suppose I can sell this one if I need to. See what a month of hard work brings. Will be very hangry haha.

Ignoring the vest for a bit. Weight loss is in progress so please forgive the fat gut and definitely more than 3-4 inches of webbing. It's about 7 inches gap at the moment. Are they stacked correctly? The Mando in me wants to put the girth belt perfectly centred under the ammo belt but the movie...

Sweet, I'm inclined to agree. It's a desperately faint grey (but probably a shade darker than what I can at least see on my screen, who knows what the CRL team are expected to do after the colour has been through a camera lens and then onto a monitor....), I've seen some vests look a lot darker...

Colour advice please :) Couldn't find 'off white' sateen at my local shop that wasn't distinctly cream, so I"ve dyed it myself. Is it dark enough? Or does it need another swim in the dye bucket? The first attempt.......went wrong. It's a gorgeous mottled dark grey. So on to the custom it goes...

I've been entertaining myself building a clone while waiting for the armour. Have made some progress on Boba however. Mum has practically finished the cape, just needs trimming to length and I might look at making the greeblie. I've repainted the boots. Again. Couldn't convince the splotching...

Thanks mate, shall do (Alpha really is a ray of sunshine isn't he). I'm hoping to have another go at them this week. I soaked a lot of the paint out that I added, but the original splotches are refusing to budge. So I think I might have to pretty much start again. Paint the whole boot a light...

The second picture, which is the condition the boots arrived in, certainly does look like ink splotches. I'm assuming the original owner of the boots never bothered trying to get approved with them. If however it's the first picture you're referring to with the boots significantly darker (which...

What I started with

I loathe weathering with a passion. Too dark?