Iron's Jawa Build

[Irongladiator]

Hello My Fellow Fett's,
Most of you may know me from working on my ROTJ Fett all last year and even continuing into this year with upgrades (That old saying that Fett is never complete). I know it is not 100% accurate but it was one of my most proudest creations that I've ever done! Here's just a few of my favorite pics of that build....
(I have even updated a few things since these last pics) If you're interested in that journey, here's the link: Iron's ROTJ WIP

But enough of my ROTJ Fett, today I wanted to start to walk you though my process of building a static 1:1 Jawa prop. This Jawa will stand at exactly 36" as per an article on starwars.com.....

My inspiration was from a fellow TDH member - Lazerjock ! Who built up this Jawa - which I thought was done great!
(Picture Credit to Lazerjock )

I'm not too concerned about having a budget, and will just add on pieces as need be (I'm sure I'll be adding more). But here are the list of parts that I've come up with so far and will be working with....

Qty	Description	Vendor	Price	Notes
1	1" x 15" Wood Round Base	Lowes	$8.23	The base this will all sit on.
1	2" PVC Pipe 10' Stick	Lowes	$12.31	Will be cut to form the body and arms.
2	2" PVC Cap	Lowes	$5.80	End Caps and mount for hands.
2	2" PVC 45 Degree Angle	Lowes	$2.80/ea	Used for Shoulders.
2	2" PVC 90 Degree Angle	Lowes	$5.75/ea	Used for the Elbows.
1	Scrap piece of 2 x 4	N/A	N/A	To Shape a Foot.
1	2" x 3ft. x 25 ft. Hexagonal Wire	Home Depot	$12.99	Used to form the body.
1	7" Childrens Wood Hands	Amazon	$19.99	For the Hands.
1	Black Child Opera Satin GLoves	Amazon	$3.48	For the Hands.
1	Female Smooth Foam Head	Hobby Lobby	$5.99	For the Head.
1	Black Hockey Mask	Amazon	$9.98	For the Head.
2	Yellow LED's w/ on off Switch	Etsy	$4.95/ea	For the Eyes.
2	Gumball Containers	Fred Meyer	$0.75/ea	For the Eyes.
1	Roll of Brown Leather	Hobby Lobby	$29.99	For the Bandolier/Pouches.
2	Gunmetal Rivets 8mm x 6mm (Pack of 24)	Hobby Lobby	$4.99/ea	For the Bandolier/Pouches.
1	Brass Sam Browne Studs (Pack of 30)	Amazon	$10.99	For the Bandolier/Pouches.
1	Belt Buckle	Hobby Lobby	$2.27	For the Bandolier/Pouches.
1	Ion Rifle	TDH - Lazerjock	N/A	Thanks Lazerjock !
1	2.5" Blue Lightning Plasma Disc	Amazon	$24.99	For the Ion Rifle.
3 Yards	Brown Burlap Fabric	JoAnn's Fabric Store	$15.00	For the Robe.
3 Yards	Black Fabric	JoAnn's Fabric Store	$12.00	For Inside the Robe & Hood.
2.5 Yards	Black Fleece Fabric	Michaels	$4.00	For the Face.
1	Featherlite Boning	Hobby Lobby	$5.99	Used to Shape the Hood Opening.

Stay tuned! More pics and progress to follow!


"UTINNI !!"

Thanks,
-Iron

 

[Lazerjock]

Watching this build with much interest!

 

[RamSkirata]

Irongladiator That is a cool project. I inexplicably will follow this build. Cought my interest!

Lazerjock Have you created a WIP for yours? I musta missed it. Can you point me in the right direction?

 

[Lazerjock]

Irongladiator That is a cool project. I inexplicably will follow this build. Cought my interest!

Lazerjock Have you created a WIP for yours? I musta missed it. Can you point me in the right direction?

No I never created one. I figured this is a bounty hunters forum and Jawas are NOT bounty hunters. Lol
The pictures above are of mine though.
Mine will be at the 501st booth at MegaCon this year if you want to stop by.

 

[Irongladiator]

So again, the inspiration was Lazerjock 's Jawa! Both of us, at the same time, found ourselves building the ROTJ Boba and bounced ideas off one another and even shared items on Fett related things with one another. After admiring his Jawa he sent me the blaster to get me kicked off!

(Picture Credit to Lazerjock )

Which was made from these parts and all held together with Hot Glue.....
(Picture Credit to Lazerjock )

I gave Lazerjock a hard time for priming the stock. As I wanted to stain it so it looked like the 501st Ion Rifle, which looks like this.....

It wasn't too hard to sand it off and before I knew it, I had a clean slate again!

Then I proceeded to stain it. (Used Home Depot's Varathane Provincial & Varathane Sealer)

You may have noticed but the barrel also came unglued, so I had to find a creative way to get it back on there and if you know me I like to improve on designs and took it upon myself to strengthen & reinforce it! Since I was using 2" PVC for my Jawa Mannequin, and seeing as how Lazerjock used 2" PVC pieces to create the Ion Rifle, I was able to cut off a small piece and sand a little of it off so the barrel could be reattached! Using super glue, it'll probably be awhile before this comes unglued again. Also, my little Ryobi Sander is just great! It makes such short work of things.

I'm not too worried about the PVC Peeking from inside the barrel, because much like how Lazerjock had that little blue lightning effect. I got the same thing, which hides that PVC Piece!

More to come!

-Iron

 

[Irongladiator]

I started working on my Mannequin and began with the base. I started by mounting the end cap to the base via bolt. I also counter-sank the bolt so it wasn't so tipsy.

Then, using my wife's shoe (Size 6 - shes petite hehe!) I trace out a portion of the toe onto my scrap block of 2 x 4 and also trace out a circle from the wooden base.....

I then proceeded to build my mannequin, cutting various sizes of 2" PVC Pipe and putting it all together. In addition, I also used my handy dandy Ryobi sander and was able to form the wooden foot....

Now I just have to secure the foot to the base - but I have an idea for that!

I also made sure my height was right at 36" (3 feet).....

You can see the yardstick show it at 35" but with it being on the 1" base - well, there ya go!

Best,
-Iron

 

[Irongladiator]

I then began working on my leather pouches. I wasn't sure how much leather I needed so I bought a pretty big roll from Hobby Lobby. Also picked up the associated Rivets From Hobby Lobby as well as some Sam Browne Studs from Amazon.

Using a simple template found online (and attached here - I'm not quite sure who the credit goes to for making that template available for all to see/use) I was able to trace it out onto the leather and got it all cut out. The leather was not thick and very easy to work with Rivets went on without issue as did the Sam Browne Studs.

I have enough material to make another one, and that's what I'm going to do. Once completed I'll toss it in the Cargo Hold to see if anyone wants it. (See if I can't re-coup some of the cost for this Jawa) But first I'm gonna make a Bandolier, but am waiting to see how big I need to make it once more of the Jawa is complete.

More to follow, stay tuned!

Regards,
-Iron

 

[Lazerjock]

The real leather pouches look good. Next time I'm going to use leather too.

 

[Irongladiator]

I've seen many options out there for how to do the hands. I've opt'd to go with a set of child/Jawa sized wooden hands that can articulate and be positioned. Please note, that these hands are stiff and could possibly hold the blaster by themselves. But knowing me, I'll probably reinforce it so the blaster doesn't slip and fall off. I also needed to get a pair of child/Jawa sized black gloves to fit the hands And both came this past weekend!

And how do the wooden hands look when grasping the Ion Rifle and the gloves fitted on the wooden hands?

I felt that the gloves properly fitted them and it look very good in the way the hands grasped the Ion Rifle. Now, how to get them attached to the Mannequin? For that, I decided to use 2" PVC End Caps with the Wooden Hands Attached directly to them via wood screws.....

The base of the Wooden Hand is 1.5" in diameter. I tried to look for a PVC adapter locally that would go from 2" to 1.5" and couldn't find one. So I opt'd for the End Caps instead. My hope is that the robe will hang off just before the wrist which will hide the 2" PVC End Cap. If not, I may have to look for an alternate solution. Let me know what you guys think.


Cheers.
-Iron

 

[Lazerjock]

Those are really small hands even for a child.
Eagar to see them holding the blaster on the Jawa.

 

[RamSkirata]

Irongladiator I really like your progress! And youre posting fast, too! Lazerjock thank you for turning him on to this
Im getting Ideas here ... Can totally see myself building one of these and putting him on the workbench as a mascot

 

[Irongladiator]

Those are really small hands even for a child.
Eagar to see them holding the blaster on the Jawa.

Lazerjock
My wife is a Pre-School teacher and she teaches their "3's Class". On average, most 3 year old kids are about 35" to 38" in height (about the height of a Jawa). Yes, school is out but the Pre-School is doing summer camps! My wife forgot her lunch yesterday and I went out with her lunch and my Wooden hand and Yardstick. I found a boy that was about an inch taller than my yardstick! And his hands were the same size as the wooden hand! It was funny, those kids had never seen a wooden hand like that and were absolutely fascinated by it.


Even though the Jawa's are NOT human (Humanoids) they were played by actual kids in ANH! I just wanted to make sure the ratio of the hands were in line with someone that would be about 36" tall. Because like you, I also felt like they were really small. But it seems like they'll do the job and look right.

Irongladiator I really like your progress! And youre posting fast, too! Lazerjock thank you for turning him on to this
Im getting Ideas here ... Can totally see myself building one of these and putting him on the workbench as a mascot

RamSkirata
Thanks man! This is definitely a chill build and not as stressful as the ROTJ Fett! (Let me say the Fett was stressful, but fun as Hell at the same time!)

Best,
-Iron

 

[Lazerjock]

Lazerjock
My wife is a Pre-School teacher and she teaches their "3's Class". On average, most 3 year old kids are about 35" to 38" in height (about the height of a Jawa). Yes, school is out but the Pre-School is doing summer camps! My wife forgot her lunch yesterday and I went out with her lunch and my Wooden hand and Yardstick. I found a boy that was about an inch taller than my yardstick! And his hands were the same size as the wooden hand!

I would have never guessed.

 

[ShortFuse]

Great work so far Matt. I’ve been wanting to do one of these since I saw Chris’. Unfortunately, right now the last thing I need is another project.

 

[Irongladiator]

ShortFuse
And besides.....I know you have a Boba Maker Helmet v4 to restore!

 

[Irongladiator]

Got a little further on the Jawa today. I turned the white PVC into black PVC, so as no white will show through the robes.


Here was the idea behind getting the wooden foot attached....

I had to get a little creative and carve a notch into the 2x4 for the bracket. (Also had to paint the bracket black)

I also worked on getting the chicken wire fixed on the wood base. Which was pretty easy, just a washer and a wood screw that went between the twisted wire. The chicken wire is so that when the robes fall over the Jawa that they have some shape to it. I just need to form it up a bit more

And here it all is so far! I have it pictured with the Ion Rifle a little too....

For the Ion Rifle I WILL have to come up with a solution, it is too heavy for the fingers to hold it in place - as you can see the tie wrap I have on it to secure it. The other hand that's underneath the barrel is fine. And the wrists are definitely strong enough to hold up the Ion Rifle. My idea is that since it is wood hands to use an eye hook and with smaller tie wraps get it locked in place. Maybe in the Ring Finger and Palm.

The other thought was maybe Velcro. I just don't wanna stick Velcro on the Ion Rifle.

-Iron

 

[Lazerjock]

On mine I drilled 2 tiny holes in the back of the blaster at the balance point then fished stove pipe wire through and attach it to the chest of the Jawa. This way it is removable if I want to and the holes are so tiny no one will ever see them. I can also fill them if needed.

 

[ShortFuse]

ShortFuse

And besides.....I know you have a Boba Maker Helmet v4 to restore!
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I know. That’s one of them. Right now I’m remodeling our kitchen.

 

[Irongladiator]

Another Jawa Update,
I went on a search to find a way to mount that styrofoam head I have. I was thinking about using a bowl and mounting it to the top PVC of my Mannequin. But instead I ended up using a Lid from a Jar.....

I then painted the Lid Black to match as well as my Styrofoam head.....

I also spent some time getting the Hockey Mask prepped to be made....

For the LED eyes a lot of people use empty gumball containers, using sand paper you scuff them out from the inside to give it that frosted-like appearance. I'm also using the Gumball Container Caps to hot glue the LED's in place. Thankfully the little bulby thing from the inside of the cap was a good, in that I didn't have to measure where the center would be and make my cut....I simply cut it out.

After I cut it out I also painted the inside of the cap white in the hopes that the LED will reflect off of it and shine brighter.

Speaking of shining brighter, the LED's I have when turned on in a dark room seem to have a very hot center.....

I was able to remedy this issue but lightly sanding with some 320 grit sand paper the bulb of the LED....

Note, sand just the top and a little on the top's sides, till you find that happy medium.


In addition, I also got a little bit further with the Jawa's Ion Rifle, I was able to paint it up with some Vallejo "Natural Steel" (70.864) and then using some Vallejo "Black" (70.950) for soot/burn effect. I wanna attempt little spots of rust as well, but I'm super nervous about it, as I'm NOT good or confident at all with rusting effects using paints. So I found a little video on YouTube that I may take a stab at trying. The video I speak of is this....

He got some pretty good effect off of it, So I'm pretty stoked to give it a try, if successful, I'll be re-doing my ROTJ Fett EE-3 Blaster with it too!

But here is my rifle now......using a dremel I was able to give it some good scratching effect showcasing that this Jawa has been through some stuff.

Lemme know whatcha guys think so far!

Thanks,
-Iron

 

[Lazerjock]

Hey Iron,
It's really coming along. One thing I noticed...The gum ball acorn containers you chose seem to be too large.
All of the Jawas I troop with use the mini containers.

Other that that I think you nailed it!