Flightsuit colours?
- Thread starter Luciano
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Bobamannen
Jr Hunter
Here is the posts I found, hope it helps.
www.thedentedhelmet.com
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Flight Suit - Correct color for ROTJ Boba flight suit.
I want to make a ROTJ Boba costume and I want to be 501st worthy, I know there is a dedicated website for the 501st but none knows Boba like thedentedhelmet. I think it's supposed to be a slightly blueish gray but I have seen straight up khaki colored and I have seen obviously blue. I like the...
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ESB Flightsuit Dye Recipe
I'm getting ready to dye a new flightsuit for my ESB Boba and I have down a lot of digging and reading on the dye colors, but many of the threads I have found have been several years old. With the tendency of companies to tweak dye lots, formulations, and colors, I was just wondering if anyone...
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Mythosaur
Active Hunter
Ultimately it depends on your method of dyeing on how much dye you will need, but a lot of us use a mixture of Rit Evening Blue and Pearl Grey. I highly recommend testing on spare fabric and coming up with a mixture you like best, as well as going in increments on your actual suit, you can always add more dye in. It also depends on which suit you are doing, as they are all a little different. There is also a bunch of information on Rit's website regarding dyeing and especially, reducing colors for test strips as you need less of a dye for less fabric. Hope that all helps, there really isn't a right or wrong way to dye it (in my opinion) and a lot of your color you can get through weathering.
DennisFett1142
Active Hunter
I think I dyed my ESB flight suit 5 times. Adjusting a bit each time between the Evening Blue and Pearl Grey, while also accounting for the color that was on from the previous dye bath. It's a complicated process but the test strips and starting light is definitely the way to go. While I've used the RIT dye remover to restart a flight suit in the past, it's a very harrowing experience!
