Long winded I know...Well, I met my deadline...barely. I worked every day after work and the weekends until 930-10pm and extremely late nights on the weekends. I was up until 1130pm on Sunday night to make it wearable. I didn't get to stop and take many pictures of the work I was doing, but I will upload pics of the final product when I get a chance. One of my favorite parts are the gauntlets. A lot of work, but they turned out great. I didn't rush anything but the process in which I moved from project to project. I sometimes get lost in the zone of admiring the work I've just done/staring at parts/ect. I knew I had a deadline to meet, so it was all business from that point. I approached the deadline with the attitude of, if the quality suffered, I wouldn't make the event. I've worked on this too long to rush my new parts. 3 years come December. So I took my time and made it count. I'm not finished by any means, and several things need attention/weathering/touching up, but the goal was producing something wearable short term that looked good and represented Fett well.
Several new projects in the mix. I'm re-painting the chest, shoulders, cod, and kidney, as I now have all new Viva Fett armor. The knees and collar are my new Viva Fett armor, so those will stay. I will be weatehring those more. The gloves were temporary fixes so they will also be tossed as they were fabric painted by my wife and mom who helped me out in a last minute pinch. It was either that or no gloves. I chose painted gloves which were actually presentable. My Clothears gloves on order, not sure when they will make it. I did pretty much finish painting/weathering my Jetpack, and love it. I still need to paint the base of the upper rocket yellowish orange, but it's pretty much done. I didn't notice that part was painted until after I was on the way to work yesterday morning, and the event was that night. I will say, the Jetpack is an awesome project. It is also another Viva Fett made part that will stay. My Belt sat too low so I will adjust that. And my thong strap was too loose, so that will be adjusted as well.
All in all, my costume held up pretty well last night. My [USER=6849]Bigdane[/USER] Jetpack harness got returned to sender in Denmark from the US so I didn't have that. I had to think something up that would work temporarily until he can ship it to me again. Not sure when I will get that in hand, but I made it work for now. I basically rigged a through bolt systems to sinching straps which actually worked really well and was pretty comfortable all night. It was pretty well hidden, but not canon. Looking forward to that harness. My leather sling is on order for the EE-3 from [USER=5198]ConvergenceProp[/USER]. I didn't finish the shin tools as the paint stirrer is on backorder and my squeegee isn't cut/painted. With all that said, I'm pretty happy with how it turned out so far. The kids loved it. My wife dressed up as the Mask. She's nuts ha. My daughter dressed up as the Pink Ranger, she's into the OG Rangers. And my brother is a huge Captain America fan, so he went as Cap. Thanks for following along so far and for all the help along the way. I really love this community. Few things in life are better than Fett! More polishing and adjustments to come. I will list all of the vendors who have supplied me when I post the final project fyi. Still a work in progress. 
