That is just awesome, Tony! Great tutorial! Gives me inspiration to finally start on my own Boba journey!
That is just awesome, Tony! Great tutorial! Gives me inspiration to finally start on my own Boba journey!
LOL... Your Fett is looking "ok" though TDH members may be cringing
Will it be ESB, ROTJ, SE.....
If you still have extra material from the jacket, you need to still make the ribbed neck.
And here is a 360 view of my ESB Fett for your Ref.
Hope it helps... keep it coming.
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Sixxgunn13, that's one of the nicer Fetts I've seen...really sweet.
Indy Magnoli, your creativity is wowing me. The cardboard box thing is slick. I figured you'd be reduced to foamies on the armor, but you're as good at trading/scavenging as you are at making the costumes!
DISCLAIMER: All of these costumes were made for virtually no hard cash, within three weeks time and were meant to be instantly recognizable while still maintaining my natural desire for accuracy. Corners had to be cut, I'm afraid...
Let's see, thanks to the generosity of CTF, I was able to get some simply plastic knee pieces. I added a couple of blocks of wood to each side, some greeblies I had in my garage, including the tip of a pen:
Sixxgunn13, don't worry... I converted the cut-off sleeves into the neck seal.
I found a head-band at a local $2 shop with a brown hair plait/braid... but they only had one. So, I braided some yarn, for another scalp, but it looked a bit cheesy.
I had decided early on to do the ESB Fett, but realized that some of the nitpicking wasn't going to do for this budget version. So, I decided to go for an Empire of the Jedi Edition version. For the cape, I had a nice dark khaki piece of cotton denim I used to use for one version of my Raiders sandbags. It looks like a nice "half-way" color between the ESB tan and ROTJ green.
I bought a pair of second-hand school uniform shorts for $2 that I converted into the short sleeves of the jumpsuit. I also found a pair of two-tone work gloves from the hardware store that were the same light/dark grey combo as my outfit. The main downside to the gloves was that they had writing on the backs of the hands. I was hoping that, when worn, the sleeves of the jumpsuit and gauntlets would help obscure this...
So far I had this:
Kind regards,
Magnoli
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WARNING: Boba Fett purists may not want to read some of the following posts as they contain several accounts of deliberately allowed inaccuracies!
For the next step, marsattack finished some chest armor for me and I was able to find some more hair braids. (I attached the armor to my windbreaker-vest using snaps.) He also kindly sent me some shin pieces, so I added some shin pockets made from the chest pockets I previously removed:
Yes, I know the shoulder bells are reversed, but I didn't want the cape obscuring my beautifully hand-painted design.You can also see some of the harness I made from one of my kids old backpacks and some more webbing I had laying around.
Kind regards,
Magnoli
Looking really great for no budget, definitely recognizable and better than alot of the "accurate" Fetts you see out there.....
Next up... the gauntlets. As I mentioned above, I was planning on doing the ESB Fett mostly, so I bought all my paints accordingly. I received some raw fiberglass gauntlets from the UK and didn't realize they were ROTJ style until I was ready to prep them. Also ran out of time to do all the greeblies, but here are my mish-mosh quick-and-cheap gauntlets:
The hose is a clear plastic hose I had that I quickly sprayed some silver paint into...
Kind regards,
Magnoli
I was almost out of time and wasn't planning on doing a proper Fett blaster since I couldn't find any cheap guns that I could build from that didn't look very wrong to begin with.
Now, a few of my friends heard about what I was up to and asked what kind of gun Fett carried. After describing it, one donated an old .45 Magnum style airgun and another gave me a plastic scope with a working laser on it. The scope wasn't the right size, but I couldn't resist the idea of the laser being on the top of the gun.
So... what do I do about the stock??? Luckily, RPFer Blaxmyth was over at my place helping me out with the back armor piece (more on that later) and he suggested plywood. To which I replied, "you want to try?"A few days layer, there was a great stock sitting on my back step.
I had an steel pipe from an old vacuum cleaner in my garage, which meant I now had the following to work with:
I couldn't find the right sized tube anywhere in my garage for the main barrel... then one of my friends suggested an empty caulking tube. Perfect!. I used some PVC piping to cover the old cylinder, a couple of hose clamps to attach the scope, a bunch of hot glue, spray paint and Voila!
I modified the leather strap from a vintage camera I had... perfect sling. I couldn't find any suitable greeblies for the stock, but something fell out of the airgun when I was working with it, so I glued it to the new cylinder:
Not perfect, but a heckuva lot better than the Hasbro Droid Blaster I was thinking of giving to Fett originally!
Kind regards,
Magnoli
Dude.
as a Boba fett purist,
I still say "very well done"
That's better than a whole lot of custom mandos that spent months piecing their costumes together.
you should be proud.
I'm absolutely astonished at your resourcefulness. Can't wait to see these all being worn together!
This is a great budget-boba.Awesome work
Just...wow. That gun looks superb.
You make me sick!
I think one of the coolest things in this hobby is to see how resourceful people can be and you are top notch in that department!
I really can't wait to see the rest , well done Indy!
Brad
Outstanding efforts all round! Again, I'll compliment you on your resourcefulness...considering the time scales and costs, I think they all look great!
That Fett is awesome! You really inspire me to go on with my Vader after seeing yours. Really great costumes.Soundwave said:
Brilliant work, mate!
I love seeing what folk put together when they can't afford/don't have time to go down the "Years of work, lots of cash = 100% accurate" route!
I originally thought of doing the Fett without a jetpack since time and budget were so limited. But then I was talking to a friend of mine (not specifically an SW fan) who, when I told him I was doing a Boba Fett costume said, "I loved Boba Fett... he had that great jet pack...". So, obviously that was one of his key trademarks.
So, what could I use? I had an old plastic kids table in my garage (left over ten years ago by the previous home owners) some PVC tubing, an old sword box (cardboard tube) and a broken coffee thermos from one of the builders working at our house. Using a wooden down for support, some screws, glue and putty I started with this:
I felt like the next step should be to build up the rocket top so... using a plastic champagne glass, plastic funnel, toy lightsaber "blade" and a plastic toy stolen from my kids toy box, the next step was complete:
For the rocket itself, another plastic champagne glass, another plastic funnel, a spray paint lid to join the two and another lightsaber blade:
Now, the side "booster" jets had me stumped. I looked all over for balls I could use and all the funnels seems too wide. I broke down and went shopping. Found these wierd noise making toys at the $2 shop and a couple of measuring cups seemed the right shape:
Put them together and you have:
I used the legs from the plastic table and some smaller legs from one of my kids little plastic chairs that they broke a few days before I started this project to build up the front the pack. A couple of greeblies (the handle from that wierd toy, some metal thing I found in the garage and some parts from a toy Darth Maul saber). Put it all together and you get:
It was sad to see the smiley faces go, but after some priming, painting and weathering, the end result was this:
I didn't have time to add certain details (like the recesses in the side boosters) so I just did some extra surface painting.
Kind regards,
Magnoli
I didn't realize until near the end that Boba Fett had armor on his back. Luckily, Blaxmyth came to my rescue and after a few hours of heat gunning, we managed to get a piece of ABS to form quite nicely into the piece I needed. I connected the back plate with the shoulder piece using some nuts-and-bolts covered by silver-spray-painted keyboard keys.
Here is the finished Boba Fett. Unfortunately, the writing on the gloves was not hidden, and I ran out of time and resources to make some proper boots (I did manage to make a set of spats half an hour before he arrived to get dressed for that evening):
Here is the entire team... three weeks and virtually no budget:
Here I am relaxing on the evening, assuming the Han Solo "I'm not going anywhere" pose:
Boba Fett started sniping one of the other teams with his laser and they retaliated with some shots of their own:
All in all a successful evening, but a crazy three weeks!
I want to extend my thanks to all the RPFers who managed to get me various pieces over those few weeks, especially CMF and TazVader for their advice, marsattack for the great Boba helmet & armor, Blaxmyth for all his help, my wife for putting up with the huge mess in our dining room and to God for the miracle of helping me pull all this together in time. Deo Gratias!
Kind regards,
Magnoli
That is absolutely insane. You must be proud! Well done!
Great improvisation on the jetpack. The funniest thing about it is that similar thinking went into the components of many of the original props!
Man...what you did is truly inspiring. Very Well Done!
LOL This has to be one of the most inspiring threads I have seen for a while mate lol I really enjoyed it and those smiley faces on the jetpack lol I can't stop laughing. Truly inspired scratch building mate. What's next year? A wookie made from kelp? lol I am sure you could pull it off lol
Regards
TAZ
Love how you made the jetpack! That's awesome!
Daaamn! When I first saw the thread, I thought "No WAY!" Awesome job, just friggin' awesome. Can't believe how well you pulled off Fett
Great, great job on all of them!
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