Demmoc
Hunter
I was born the same year A New Hope was released so Star Wars has always been part of my life. My poor wife has to run around when EP1 was released to collect coke cans that had the EP1 characters on them, she had to go with me to fan events and dress up as Princess Leia for numerous Halloweens, had to drive all around Indiana to every Target when they released the new Boba helmets so I could get several of them, has had to put up with my Star Wars nerdyness for 16 years and had to continually make more room for my growing Star Wars collection until we had a child back in 2004 when I sold a large portion of my collection. When I did this, I focused on narrowing down what I collected and it centered around my all time favorite character, Boba Fett.
Now, I'm a fairly crafty guy and I started a Boba costume over 15 years ago and it has slowly gotten upgraded every since (as you can probably see in my profile pic with my version 1 costume from back in 2000) I have NEVER purchased a kit or prefab item. It's always been 100% hand made by myself with found parts or self crafted parts but the exception was always the helmets. I usually take a store bought one and mod it to look more convincing. So I finally decided to start a scratch build helmet and have been working on it for many months now between other projects.
The first helmet interruption was the mailbox last winter. What self respecting Fett lover would get his mail in a normal boring standard issue mailbox? Not this guy.....
So then it was back to work on my Helmet.... until I got side tracked again by building my jetpack for the EPVII release and my 11 year old son's Halloween costume.....
Back to the helmet......
But then a friend of mine was over in my shop and saw a fully scratch built Stormtrooper blaster that I had in a big box of parts. He made fun of me because it's an even older project than any of my Fett projects, so I decided to finish it and then decided while I was on the blaster kick, I'd repaint my Boba blaster.
FINALLY!!! It's time to finish my Boba helmet that's now taken me over a year to complete!!! Will this ever get finished?!!
The answer to that is, no...... We bought a new couch a month ago and the little couch arm, remote holder thing that I used on the old couch won't fit on the new one so I need an end table to hold my beer and remotes while I watch TV. Something you need to know about me is that I love guns, guitars and cars as well as Boba so I figured that a custom made Boba guitar body made into an end table would be the way to go so I put my helmet on hold AGAIN and came up with this. When it's done it will lay flat and be bolted to a mic stand that has been cut short to end table height. I'm starting to think there might be something wrong with me...
Now with that almost done i was back to my helmet last night!!!! (the visor is only to hold shape, not the permanent one) So, I'm fairly happy with it so far but this has been a little bigger challenge than anticipated. The entire reason I'm posting this thread is so the community will keep me accountable and I feel like I need to keep you updated so I finally finish this thing!!! I started printing the paint templates out today so hopefully by this weekend nothing else will get in my way of finishing this crazy thing!
I will throw a disclaimer in here. I love doing this stuff and most of it isn't exact 501st quality and I'm ok with that. So if you notice on my jetpack that I haven't put the piano keys on or that my beacon doesn't light up, that's ok with me. I do this stuff for me but feedback is always appreciated!
My wife told me I can't paint my 72 Plymouth in the style of Boba but I think some red trim and a big visor on the hood with some battle damage would make it better......... Do I have a problem? Even my house is close to Boba green
So with this all said, you can probably see that I try to use humor to mask the fact that I may be a little obsessed with this bounty hunter. Now if I can stop being distracted by other Boba projects, I might be able to get my bucket finished before the release of Rouge One. Not holding my breath but I'm going to give it the old college try. Besides, I have 4 other decent helmets to wear if I don't but they aren't as good looking as what I hope this one to be. Anyone else have this problem of wanting to have everything Boba surrounding you?
I was even watching Futurama a while back and noticed that the vent on the wall at planet express is in the exact shape of the bottom vent of Boba's jetpack........
I may be obsessed but what a great hobby to have!!
Now, I'm a fairly crafty guy and I started a Boba costume over 15 years ago and it has slowly gotten upgraded every since (as you can probably see in my profile pic with my version 1 costume from back in 2000) I have NEVER purchased a kit or prefab item. It's always been 100% hand made by myself with found parts or self crafted parts but the exception was always the helmets. I usually take a store bought one and mod it to look more convincing. So I finally decided to start a scratch build helmet and have been working on it for many months now between other projects.
The first helmet interruption was the mailbox last winter. What self respecting Fett lover would get his mail in a normal boring standard issue mailbox? Not this guy.....
So then it was back to work on my Helmet.... until I got side tracked again by building my jetpack for the EPVII release and my 11 year old son's Halloween costume.....
Back to the helmet......
But then a friend of mine was over in my shop and saw a fully scratch built Stormtrooper blaster that I had in a big box of parts. He made fun of me because it's an even older project than any of my Fett projects, so I decided to finish it and then decided while I was on the blaster kick, I'd repaint my Boba blaster.
FINALLY!!! It's time to finish my Boba helmet that's now taken me over a year to complete!!! Will this ever get finished?!!
The answer to that is, no...... We bought a new couch a month ago and the little couch arm, remote holder thing that I used on the old couch won't fit on the new one so I need an end table to hold my beer and remotes while I watch TV. Something you need to know about me is that I love guns, guitars and cars as well as Boba so I figured that a custom made Boba guitar body made into an end table would be the way to go so I put my helmet on hold AGAIN and came up with this. When it's done it will lay flat and be bolted to a mic stand that has been cut short to end table height. I'm starting to think there might be something wrong with me...
Now with that almost done i was back to my helmet last night!!!! (the visor is only to hold shape, not the permanent one) So, I'm fairly happy with it so far but this has been a little bigger challenge than anticipated. The entire reason I'm posting this thread is so the community will keep me accountable and I feel like I need to keep you updated so I finally finish this thing!!! I started printing the paint templates out today so hopefully by this weekend nothing else will get in my way of finishing this crazy thing!
I will throw a disclaimer in here. I love doing this stuff and most of it isn't exact 501st quality and I'm ok with that. So if you notice on my jetpack that I haven't put the piano keys on or that my beacon doesn't light up, that's ok with me. I do this stuff for me but feedback is always appreciated!
My wife told me I can't paint my 72 Plymouth in the style of Boba but I think some red trim and a big visor on the hood with some battle damage would make it better......... Do I have a problem? Even my house is close to Boba green
So with this all said, you can probably see that I try to use humor to mask the fact that I may be a little obsessed with this bounty hunter. Now if I can stop being distracted by other Boba projects, I might be able to get my bucket finished before the release of Rouge One. Not holding my breath but I'm going to give it the old college try. Besides, I have 4 other decent helmets to wear if I don't but they aren't as good looking as what I hope this one to be. Anyone else have this problem of wanting to have everything Boba surrounding you?
I was even watching Futurama a while back and noticed that the vent on the wall at planet express is in the exact shape of the bottom vent of Boba's jetpack........
I may be obsessed but what a great hobby to have!!
Everything else...yep seems normal to me!
