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Showtime!
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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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Repainting the original jetpack
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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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In cod(piece) we trust
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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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First look
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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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Homemade kidney armor
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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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The rest of the Mark 1 armor arrives
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The rest of the armor arrived and I was so excited about it I wanted to get a photo. If not going for 501st this would be completely fine. But it is not at all 501st. I won’t go into it any further.
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Not Fett related – my original BSG Viper jacket!
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So this isn’t Boba Fett build related but is cool nonetheless. A friend gifted me this screen-worn jacket from the original Battlestar Galactica from 1979. I wore it to get my photo with Katie Sackhoff and Giancarlo Esposito at GalaxyCon Raleigh. This was taken in June so yeah I was burning up. I also tore…
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The (first) helmet arrives
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Not to poo on their quality, I got what I ordered. It just is not 501st approved. Anyway, the helmet arrived. This is it. This is how it came. There is a more recent post with a side-by-comparison but, as you can see, there are several issues: And yes, that is my “Boba & Pugs”…
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That was stupid
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Going for screen-accurate authenticity I ordered rubber inner padding pieces. When putting them in there is no room for my big head. Waste of money. Don’t do it, especially if you plan on adding features such as rangefinder servo, fans, etc.
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Soft Parts
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I ordered the flight suit, pouches, vest, neck seal, gloves, girth belt, Wookie braids and ammo pouches off of Etsy. Let me discuss the good: The flight suit and vest were handmade in Bolivia. I have a seamstress take my measurements and sent them in and they did a phenomenal job with them. The only…
