chwbcc
New Member
Hello everyone, I have been a long time lurker here and finally broke down and decided to start my Chewbacca Build. Dougie Fett has inspired me to give it a try... (I've only read his WIP thread about a 1000 times) I finally think I can scrape together the funds and self confidence to give the build my best effort.
I will be building it is stages.
Just a little background. I am 6'4" and I used to work at WDW and had the honor of portraying everyone's favorite wookie during Star Wars Weekends for many years.
I know what you are saying! 6'4"... WTF, Chew is like a BILLION feet taller than that! And you are right. However there were secrets that we used to make us taller. Dougie Fett touched the most basic. Shoe lifts.
Granted our shoe lifts were not as drastic as the stilts I have seen around the site but never-the-less we wore 4-5" shoe shells to increase our height. The rest of the height was gained at the top of our head.
I stood a good 7 feet tall at the top of my head. It's not exactly the right height but standing next to the average person (5'11"-6'2") I looked enormous!
I hope to bring to this build my working knowledge of the suits used at Disney and the shortcuts discovered by the other Wookie Builders here on the RFP. Now on with the build!
Stage 1 ~ Feet (Shoe Shells)
I bought some matting from Walmart (Found in the Exercise Section for $20) to build some Warhammer costumes. I started building a foam Bolter but have really lost interest since my other pieces and parts are not coming together like I wanted. So I've moved on to something that makes more sense to me right now.
The first step was to freestyle an outline of a foot onto the foam. I marked out all the toes and the nails as well. I sketched in the basic details and I will used these as a guide when I start to dremmel out the detail later on.
Next cut out the first piece and duplicated it 4 more times. I will need 8 layers of foam for each foot to build up to 4".
I will be gluing these together with Gorilla Glue (AKA Wookie Glue) later this weekend after I purchase more mat.
There will be (2) 2" wide velcro straps sandwiched between the top two layers to help secure my shoes to the shell and a layer of female Velcro add to the top of the Shell to hold a pair of bottom Velcro Shoes. (which I will need to make as well.
The Fur will also be attached using velcro so I can remove it and clean it after a long day of trooping. But that my friends is for another WIP Post.
Right now check out the photos below:
I will be building it is stages.
- Stage I ~ Feet
- Stage II ~ Undersuit
- Stage III ~ Fur
- Stage IV ~ Head, Part 1 - Underskull
- Stage V ~ Head, Part 2 - Skin
- Stage VI ~ Head, Part 3 - Fur
- Stage VII ~ Dance at Star War Celebration VI
Just a little background. I am 6'4" and I used to work at WDW and had the honor of portraying everyone's favorite wookie during Star Wars Weekends for many years.
I know what you are saying! 6'4"... WTF, Chew is like a BILLION feet taller than that! And you are right. However there were secrets that we used to make us taller. Dougie Fett touched the most basic. Shoe lifts.
Granted our shoe lifts were not as drastic as the stilts I have seen around the site but never-the-less we wore 4-5" shoe shells to increase our height. The rest of the height was gained at the top of our head.
I stood a good 7 feet tall at the top of my head. It's not exactly the right height but standing next to the average person (5'11"-6'2") I looked enormous!
I hope to bring to this build my working knowledge of the suits used at Disney and the shortcuts discovered by the other Wookie Builders here on the RFP. Now on with the build!
Stage 1 ~ Feet (Shoe Shells)
I bought some matting from Walmart (Found in the Exercise Section for $20) to build some Warhammer costumes. I started building a foam Bolter but have really lost interest since my other pieces and parts are not coming together like I wanted. So I've moved on to something that makes more sense to me right now.
The first step was to freestyle an outline of a foot onto the foam. I marked out all the toes and the nails as well. I sketched in the basic details and I will used these as a guide when I start to dremmel out the detail later on.
Next cut out the first piece and duplicated it 4 more times. I will need 8 layers of foam for each foot to build up to 4".
I will be gluing these together with Gorilla Glue (AKA Wookie Glue) later this weekend after I purchase more mat.
There will be (2) 2" wide velcro straps sandwiched between the top two layers to help secure my shoes to the shell and a layer of female Velcro add to the top of the Shell to hold a pair of bottom Velcro Shoes. (which I will need to make as well.
The Fur will also be attached using velcro so I can remove it and clean it after a long day of trooping. But that my friends is for another WIP Post.
Right now check out the photos below: