*Official* "Please introduce yourself" thread

[gorman]

Right.. figured I better do this.

Hi my name is Dean and I'm a Geek.

Born and Raised in New Zealand, in a city called Whangarei. Which is about home to about 40,000 people. Lived there for around 24 years and then moved to Wellington to continue my chosen Career. Which is Theatre, as a technican. Currently working in Te Papa, the National Museum of New Zealand (and pushing for the MOM exhibit to come here!).

Costumes - Darth Maul (Complete-ish) Boba Fett (Got just about everything, now to paint!)

This site has been more than helpful, and hopefully I can build a Fett worthy of it!

 

[BelaLugosi]

Greetings.

My name is Christov and I am a hopeless Star Wars nut. I trust I am in good company here.

I am 25, I've lived all over the US, but I have settled back in my place of origin: Albuquerque, NM. I am lucky enough to have an -amazingly- beautiful and intelligent girlfriend, Cathy, now for three years. I am tattooed... a lot. I'm a Myspace junkie, a former PuNk / Deathrocker and (quite ironically) a former US Army soldier. Presently, I am an undergrad History/Psychology student. I expect I'll wind up in Academia with a History degree, but I'll see what I can do to avoid that.

Star Wars is wicked-awesome of course, I've been a huge fan for the past two decades. I consider Fett to be the most appealing and sinister of all the Star Wars personalities, hence my draw to this forum.

My first Fett is starting to come together thanks ENTIRELY to you incredibly talented, helpful people. Thank you for the insight and assistance with this ongoing project.

Me:

 

[BigaboyFett]

I am John. I am pretty normal seeming on the outside. But I am still pretty much a kid inside and very close to the surface.

My ID, BigBoyFett, is less about my size and more about the fact my mother met my father at Kips' BigBoy. Fell in love, got married had me, my dad cheated on my mom, then left me and mom when I was 3. Oh how I love Kip's BigBoy!

I have 2 children. Both girls...

I have been with my wife for 14 years. Married for 12 of those years. This is her and my first child. This photo was taken just hours after my daughter almost died from a fall from a second story balcony...

Well, that is a start. We live in Dallas (Grapevine) and I am in advertising and my wife is on faculty at the local University.

Later friends.

John

 

[sargonkiadi]

This looks fun,


My name is Joshua Lang.
I live on Lookout Mountain, GA (middle of no-where)
I have two sisters, a dog, and three pesky felines.
I love gaming (SWG), anime, and recent love for prop building
Warm Regards,
Josh

 

[BigaboyFett]

Though I appear like a prep-dork in my photo. I have 2 tatts and I listen to RATT, WHitesnake and just gave up bouncing in bars in Dallas last year...I am such a bad-a##! With a little cream-wuss filling! HA! And I would like to have a History Duel with you Christov! Later friend.

John

BelaLugosi wrote:
Greetings.

My name is Christov and I am a hopeless Star Wars nut. I trust I am in good company here.

I am 25, I've lived all over the US, but I have settled back in my place of origin: Albuquerque, NM. I am lucky enough to have an -amazingly- beautiful and intelligent girlfriend, Cathy, now for three years. I am tattooed... a lot. I'm a Myspace junkie, a former PuNk / Deathrocker and (quite ironically) a former US Army soldier. Presently, I am an undergrad History/Psychology student. I expect I'll wind up in Academia with a History degree, but I'll see what I can do to avoid that.

Star Wars is wicked-awesome of course, I've been a huge fan for the past two decades. I consider Fett to be the most appealing and sinister of all the Star Wars personalities, hence my draw to this forum.

My first Fett is starting to come together thanks ENTIRELY to you incredibly talented, helpful people. Thank you for the insight and assistance with this ongoing project.

Me:

 

[elfextra1]

Can't believe I missed this thread.. anyway, here go's:
I'm Jeremy Coleman, I live in Western North Carolina. I am homeschooled. I have more pictures of me with out my helmet than I do with it(none!):

 

[Nutcore]

Hey, My name is Nick Nutcore.I reside in Staten Island, NY (cant wait to get the hell out of here!) I'm a 22 year old College undergrad majoring in Computer Science and soon to be minoring in Japanese language and culture. I'm a big collector or action figures, kubricks, Anime models and such. The walls of my bedroom are wallpapered with star wars figures. I've been Fett obsessed since I was about 13. Oh my 18th birthday I ran to the tattoo parlor and permenitly decalred my Fett obsession lol.

*from the darkhorse comic Enemy of The Empire*
I decided that I wanted a lifesize Fett gracing my house/costume so I started looking into building my own and I started comming across all these site, build your own bobafett.com and tk409 and so on and I was really inspired to start this prop building hobby, all the creativeness and resourcefulness and just how talented all you guys are is quite intruging and very inspiring.All the molding and casting and vaccuforming etc.. i wanna learn it all. Its all great!Afer a while I finally Spent the money and got a fiberglass "mystery" bucket from Jordy which included a resin caculator PC board for behind the keyholes, the bucket looks great and I cant wait to get started. I actually came across this site when I was researching the animated chest display( which i am attempting to build) and I've already have gotten soooo many ideas from you guys, so thank you and I'm proud to be a new member of this awesome community of talented indivudals.

 

[shortimer52]

Hello to all, I guess I could join in on the fun. Names Pogo and ill leave it at that. Been a Fett fan for a long time and have been trying to work on a Fett for about 4 years. Now I have the places to get stuff so it's not a problem. I'm unemployed right now waiting for school to start in Jan. I was in the Marines for 4 years and joined the active Army, went into Iraq with the Marines as a in between man for them and the Army Patriot missiles. If it was in the air at any point I saw it on radar, except that ultra light Iraq flew to spy on us. Felt bad for the guy flying that thing. Any ways I'm a Firefighter for the Army reserves in Houston. Thats what I'm trying to do in real life. Live most kids dreams as a firefighter, and the chicks dig it. Got a GF thats 21 and I'm 26, I figure you got to get them young.
It's been a crazy 8 years of my life and it doesn look like it's going to let up any time soon!!!


Messed up the link at the bottom,,,, thats my PIMP Pic

 

[BelaLugosi]

HOOAH! welcome aboard.

 

[bobafett669]

I am Bobafett669, Real name: Michael Koenig. Reside in Flower Mound Texas, New member of the 501st, Star Garrison BH-1869. I have always been a star wars fan but never even dreamed of having my own suit until I can across TK-409's website and he directed me here. With a lot of help from the forums I have almost completed my Jango suit ans will be attending CIII and hopefully will meet some new friends. I have not actually met anyone I have spoken with on the boards. I built almost off of my suit except the flightsuit and vest which I have made for me. I worked with Chaucer44 on getting a bunch of jet pack kits for some people and even though it was alot of work I am really impressed with the job i did for a first timer.

I have a Boba Helmet I bought from Mobius in hopes on one day completing a Boba suit but so far I am just finishing up my Jango.

I am a huge hockey fan and play weekly in an adult recreational league. I go to the gym 3 times a week and I own 2 small internet based businesss in addition to my fill time job with Travelocity. I own and run a toy collectibles site site called koenigscollectibls and also run an aquarium service and maintanence business. I referee kids roller hockey games on the weekends and try to fit my prop building into this busy schedule somewhere. Kristen, Chris, Turo, Mobius, Chaucer44, and many others were a great help in getting my suit completed. I hope to meet up with them in April at CIII?

 

[Jaster Blaster]

Hello Fellow members. Here I am without the helmet, and the hot woman next to me is my girlfriend.

 

[Delta9]

My name is Timothy Sullivan, I live in Dyer, Indiana, right outside Chicago. I'm 28 years old and I live with my wonderful girlfriend Suzie(her only flaw is that she doesnt like Star Wars) and our two kids, Jonathan and Zoe. I work in oil refineries all over, we specialize in entering confined inert atmospheres, which means I get to wear really cool astronaut helmets and go inside chemical reactors, really it sucks. In my spare time I practice Brazilian jiu jitsu and every so often I compete in no holds barred fights. I cant wait to go to CIII, it will be my first convention ever. Its my sons birthday the weekend of CIII, he will be 4, and he is fanatical about Star Wars(my girlfriend says I brainwashed him) and he is goin as a jedi. Well thats about it, Ive enjoyed reading everyones bio on this thread, so I thought I'd add mine. Heres a pic of me at my pc.

 

[askywalker98]

DUDE! You got a DELL!! I almost freaked out when I saw myself in this thread lol!

 

[Goro]

Hello to all! Since I was not here for long time I wanna intoduce myself again. My name is Goro (my real name is also Goro) and I am from Japan. 35 years old married for ten years and got two kids. Been a FETT fan for a long time and also love sculpting which few of you might know my George Lucas in Carbonite sculpture... Also love to collect cool props and replicas. Can't wait to see everyone at C3!

All my best regards,
Goro

 

[Darth Deaton]

Well, my names virgil, and i live in easternkentucky also, and umm i have been a fan since they rereleased the movies when my cuz. kev. made me go see them with him, i have been collecting sine then once i had my big collection built up my father cleaned one summer while i was away and i lost almost all cept. what little i have left is not much but im getting back on my feet with it all now wish me luck, hope to make some good collecting friends on here.

 

[Dent ghost 8]

Hey everybody

My name is Michael Eubank. Im 20 yrs old from Darlington, SC. I have been doing costume work since I was a senior in high school and a Star Wars fan since...ever.

I first got into costuming while surfing the net one day and stumbled across Mark Bradleys, Build Your Own Boba Fett. I decided, "Hey, I can do this!" So, I got some paint, some plexiglass and superglue and tried to fashion an armor vest from an old t-shirt. My first attempt ended in failure....

Coming out much wiser, I registered on ebay and snagged a DP 97 Boba Fett helmet. Later, I bought a complete Jango armor set. I had originally planned to make Boba Fett, but money began to run tight at one point and I decided against MORE paint and chose a custom Mandalorian.

To date, I am still not completed with my 2 yr-long endeavor, but it is begining to take shape. Most of the painting and modifications are complete, but a couple of pieces are missing. My hope is to have the suit ready in time for D-Con 05.

On top of my wish list is a Darth Vader, though i think it may be some time down the road before that becomes a reality. In the mean time, I hope to have a stormtrooper, Imperial Officer and X-Wing Pilot.

Heres my pic

 

[shortimer52]

Hello to all! Since I was not here for long time I wanna intoduce myself again. My name is Goro (my real name is also Goro) and I am from Japan. 35 years old married for ten years and got two kids. Been a FETT fan for a long time and also love sculpting which few of you might know my George Lucas in Carbonite sculpture... Also love to collect cool props and replicas. Can't wait to see everyone at C3!

All my best regards,
Goro

George Lucas in Carbonite sculpture is awesome!!!!!!!!!

 

[Slade]

Hiya's I am Allan Patrick Bignell J.R. I'm second of the AL name. Well anyway I been a fan of Boba Fett for a long time and now that I got a cool custom to call my own I just like it. ( p.s ) suit is coming just got to wait a week now probably.

I'm 17 years old and I consider myself a warrior at heart. Mandalorian warrior that is. :cheers

Heres me sorry if I don't have a pic of my real face yet. But in the words of Boba Fett this is my face. :cheers

 

[phantomfett]

Hey everyone! My real name's Bryan, and I too have been blessed with a very wonderful and lovely wife. I'm 29, and have been into costumes since I was a kid. It's all my mom's fault!

My first Star Wars costume was Obi-Wan Kenobi when I was in the Second Grade way back in 1982! The costuming bug died off until about 1991, when I got completely obsessed with Phantom of the Opera. From there, I started playing with plaster and mask making. My love for Phantom steered me towards getting a degree in Theatre. While there, I learned about sewing and building cool props and set pieces. In 1997, I decided to tackle a Boba Fett costume. My mom taught me how to use a sewing machine, I learned about vacuforming , and it took off from there! I have yet to even finish my first suit. After a few years of R & D, I realized it was going to get expensive quick if I didn't plan well. So I took a step back to get my life on track, and focused on one piece at a time. And I'm still not done with it....

I joined the Air Force in '00, and I'm still proud to be serving. I just got promoted in March, and we're expecting our first baby in about a month. It's a boy! I hope he likes Star Wars.... My wife said I'd have to let him be Boba and I'd have to be Jango, at which point I whined in a very pathetic sounding voice," But I'm Boba...." She almost fell out of her chair.

I also had a detour to Fett show up in 2001. I got access to a Phantom costume I had been dying to make in college, but had like 3 pictures to work from. I was told by someone working on the show that their costume cost them over $10,000 to make, so I waited 'til the time was right. Enter 2001....The costume was on display in San Antonio, so I took over 100 pics of it. I also figured out who made it, so I took a chance and gave them a call. Best phone call I ever made for costuming. I now own stage used masks and other pieces from the show, and have a kick ass start on that costume. There's so much beading and hand work though, that it will take a while to finish. I even had parts of my outfit made by the people who made the originals. Score! I'll try to post a pic of my hat later.

 

[Puck]

Howdy!

My name is Kevin, I'm 24 and live in Tampa Bay, Florida. I'm not married but have been dating my girlfriend Kara since July 04, we have no children at all, well except for my Ford Mustang, thats my baby.

I'm an ex-Disney animation intern. Unforunatly my internship eneded quickly when Disney closed thier animation studio in Orlando. Since then I have been trying to figure a way to get my carrier back on track.
At the moment I'm in the process of producing 2 series of comic books with the hopes of getting noticed again. :confused

I have been into prop making since I was about 18, currently I'm working on 2 custom Mandalorian trooper's (Yellow), as seen in Jango Fett "Open Seasons". I have also made dozens of sets of TK armor in the past. My current prop portfolio includes a finished RPD Stars (Apocalypse Cannon) uniform, and a 99.5% complete Jason Voorhees (Friday the 13th 6-7 Cannon) costume. I hope to next work on making 2 biker scouts, so that my gf and I can troop at Star Wars Weekends. Hopefully next year with the rest of the FL501st garrison.

My few non art related hobbies are, Ice Hockey and video games. I have been playing Ice Hockey since I was 14, and have won 7 unoffical state roller hockey championships, and came pretty close a season ago to winnng my first Ice Hockey championship. Quick disclaimer!!! I don't mean to sound "cocky" by saying I won them, but since I'm the goalie, I can hummbly say that I with out being egotistic.
As far as video games go I have not been able to play them as much as I would like, but hopefully next fall once my girlfriend and I move into our new apt., I can do some catching up. Right now I only have a Nintendo Game Cube but plan on getting a Xbox this summer. I know I've missed the boat.

As you can guess my main intrest is Star Wars, particulary Mandalorians. One day hopefully before Lucas croaks he can include a small Mandalorian army in a Star Wars movie, but doubt it. My other hobbies are pretty typical for a guy, I love my car and Mustang's in general. I'm a big sports fan I love the Miami Hurricanes / Dolphins, and the Tampa Bay Lightning *GO BOLTS! I don't really follow sports that don't include constant violence, in fact I don't even consider them "sports", more like "games", at least in my book.

Currently I work at Allstate Insurance as a paralegal. Hopefully once I get my art carrier back on track I can make some money doing what I love and escape the corporate rat race.

I don't have a digital camera right now so I will have to take pic's the old fashioned way and post them later.