WastedWishes
New Hunter
Thank you for sharing! They all look great!
WIP Ammo pouches fully functionnal
- Thread starter StrumFett
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Thanks Wastedwishes !
Here is the belt assembly tutorial. It's the method i used but others are possible. I hope to post pics of my belt finished soon (just hundreds of holes to do for sewings...).
Next (and last) step will be the weathering.
I update Post #1 with the files
Here is the belt assembly tutorial. It's the method i used but others are possible. I hope to post pics of my belt finished soon (just hundreds of holes to do for sewings...).
Next (and last) step will be the weathering.
I update Post #1 with the files
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Hi all!
Here is some pics of finished pouches. For the belt, i had to redo it because of bad quality glue ( hundreds of sewing lost....
)
For the sewings i see on ref pics that they aren't completely white. so i use tea to color them.
The sewings in the belt are still missing
And a pic took during assembling step
Here is some pics of finished pouches. For the belt, i had to redo it because of bad quality glue ( hundreds of sewing lost....
)For the sewings i see on ref pics that they aren't completely white. so i use tea to color them.
The sewings in the belt are still missing
And a pic took during assembling step
Hi everyone,
Have just finished sewings of my belt.....I think it would be better using a sewing machine but i'm happy to see how it turned
i have just to put the buttons and the gromets
For the button, they are already primered
i found an Humbrol color that can match (in reality it's more dark and brown than on the pic).
Have just finished sewings of my belt.....I think it would be better using a sewing machine but i'm happy to see how it turned
i have just to put the buttons and the gromets
For the button, they are already primered
i found an Humbrol color that can match (in reality it's more dark and brown than on the pic).
RafalFett
Well-Known Hunter
It looks excellent! There's one last thing you must do to achieve the look of the original ammo belt: the way the ammo pouch's flap is slightly folded to follow the top and front edges.
You might do the edges with a hot iron or by holding the folded flap in a vice (or something).
Awesome build and attention to details!
You might do the edges with a hot iron or by holding the folded flap in a vice (or something).
Awesome build and attention to details!
RafalFett
Well-Known Hunter
Oh my... That ammo belt looks killer, the best I've seen so far! Can't wait to see it 'fixed'. I'm surprised that nobody used your templates so far. I love your works and it seems that you have a lot of fun doing each and every part, especially that you work like an expert. Just keep up the quality work!
Syper
Active Hunter
Great job Brother!!! I enjoyed my coffee checking all your pics. I would love to make my own version with white vinyl then paint it. All the pre-pro's and promotional Fetts had a cheap vinyl look to them. Just my opinion but I feel a painted vinyl look is more accurate than a new looking leather ammo belt.
RafalFett
Well-Known Hunter
That's true! But this means that when you paint all the hard parts, you must paint it first white then silver and then the rest of the colors? The original suit was all white but when the character change occured, they sanded the white and started all over again with the different paint schemes. Or you can always do some 'reverse engineering' (method used by superjedi in this thread ==> Weathering my new 99centTaco ammo belt) by painting some fine white scratches to replicate the white-under-the-paint look.
Wow! words miss me... specially from Captain Precision
you are too kind Rafal! But don't forget that your advices helped me a lot to lead this project up to the end.
Thanks a lot Bro!
I agree with you. But the purpose of my costume is to troop with. So i was afraid that a painted belt was not rather resistant in time.
So i chose to use a material which had a correct color and weather it after. My idea is to make my Fett more "realistic" with functional parts (rangefinder, pouches, blaster...).
I try to fix the flap using an extra pouch.
1 ) I cut about 4 millimeter at the beginning of the flap
2 ) I marked the folds using an iron. Adjusted temperature to synthetic and used a wet cloth to avoid damaging the leather.
Here's the result :
Is it better ?
I still need to add wheatering but it's not the most difficult part if i start on a good base.
It gave me ideas of an evolution of the pouches :
- integrate one of the magnet in the wood structure to avoid a too big thickness of the part of the flap which is glue in the front of the pouch(-> more accurate).
- some evolutions to the leather pattern to simplify the shape and assembling.
I will certainly make a version 2 of the pouches later when all other part will be finished.
1 ) I cut about 4 millimeter at the beginning of the flap
2 ) I marked the folds using an iron. Adjusted temperature to synthetic and used a wet cloth to avoid damaging the leather.
Here's the result :
Is it better ?
I still need to add wheatering but it's not the most difficult part if i start on a good base.
It gave me ideas of an evolution of the pouches :
- integrate one of the magnet in the wood structure to avoid a too big thickness of the part of the flap which is glue in the front of the pouch(-> more accurate).
- some evolutions to the leather pattern to simplify the shape and assembling.
I will certainly make a version 2 of the pouches later when all other part will be finished.
