Halloween did a doozy on the jetpack. When someone tried to give me a hug (don’t; bad idea) the jetpack went crashing to the floor and ended up. Well, see for yourself: The great thing about tearing these apart and repainting them is that if (when) they break you have the confidence and know-how to…

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In an effort to salvage as much of the helmet as I could I made my own back vents out of another piece of Rubbermaid trashcan and an X-Acto knife. It worked OK. I also picked up a desktop calculator from a friend who was selling it on eBay. I recognized her name and it…

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After dealing the ear I got tired of patching stuff on the armor and decided I would repaint it. Then I noticed that the armor I got wasn’t even close to the damage from the movie. So I did A LOT of research. I was ready to put down a ton of money from Boba…

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I took some time to get everything back in order from the ceiling collapse. Since GalaxyCon I was mindful of how poor the earls looked on my helmet. Thinking I could fix the helmet I ordered a couple of pieces from Boba Maker. I sawed off the existing cast-in ear, put some fiberglass and resin…

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GalaxyCon took a toll on a few pieces of the outfit. Here was the last photo taken before packing up: What broke: All of the repairs were super-easy with some industrial strength glue and just making another spike. The great thing about things breaking is that I had the confidence (and repair kit) to quickly…

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Getting ready for GalaxyCon! Though it was not perfect I took the suit to GalaxyCon Raleigh in July 2022. And I sweat out a good 10 pounds with that thing on. About a week prior I went to a wig shop and purchased 72-inch braiding hair to make Wookie braids. I then taught myself to…

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The more I looked at the jetpack’s paint the more I hated it. As you can see, the damaged ares on it look like fingerprint. There are no glyphs on the top or bottom of the center tank nor on the side pieces. I added the rivets. And a lot of the “damage” looks to…

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Thanks to the Carolina Garrison member Ernie Ruffin he pointed out “something” wasn’t “right” about the codpiece. Even after making my own kidney armor I still wasn’t satisfied with it. And GalaxyCon was a couple of weeks away. So I set out to make my own codpiece. In the past year I finished rebuilding a…

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I finally put it all together. I know everything not 501st-approved about it. I am not going to beat myself up on it because it was a very valuable learning experience. If not 501st this would not be a bad set of armor. So it is for sale if you want it.

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If you noticed in the previous post the armor I got did not come with kidney armor. I wasn’t happy about that because I told that the armor had been updated to include kidney armor but it did not. So I went about making my own. This was my first foray into making my own…

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