Staar Lord Maan
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Greetings all - I'm 'Staar Lord Maan', and while I don't have a cool hip and groovy avatar just yet, I'm excited to be a part of this community! The first couple paragraphs here are me spouting a lot of history and flowery stuff about the Chris Pratt, so feel free and scroll down to the pictures 
BUT...the first thing I focused on and am almost finished with are the gloves which are worn in the beginning of the movie and are shown on the movie poster.
...and on the toy...
...note the pinkie finger detail where the leather only covers the tip, there.
Okay, slide show time! - supplies needed...
What sold me on the Kobalds was the way the leather covered the first two fingers; it looked very 'space pilot' to me. (that, and they looked ultra cool while holding my Nerf Quadblaster)
...but as I discovered, those had to be covered anyway and I wound up cutting them off and restitching it back together. Imagine my surprise when I saw that the gray foam sub straight had a huge seam allowance!
Cut the shapes needed out and sized them up to the Kobalt gloves, as seen here; 
I used a straight sewing needle, (large) with brown nylon thread. Pull out about a yard and a half of thread, double it over and shove the folded end through the eye of the needle and bam...four thread thickness for your leather stitching. I opted for hand stitching because while we do have an old Singer Sewing machine which would sew through concrete, I'd have to tear apart a set of gloves and pray I could get them reassembled correctly. After I finished any stitch, I would perform a suture stitch to lock the thread down and then I'd dab it with a very small amount of Krazy Glue to be sure. Use of waxed thread migth work, too, but at the end of the day, the wax wears off and things come undone....or you can hire a glove maker, #notme.
<--Run the needle through both layers of leather and then send it back through the loop and pull tight.
Here's my work space, at night - I highly recommend:cool getting the soundtrack, btw...
So, by the time I figured out what I was doing and how, the right glove looked a little rough, but the left one is shaping up quite nicely...
Right Left
The knuckle-pads and the darker colored leather are all cut from parts of the Costco Glove, (which I was certain to use in my gardening to age it, a bit - use water and mud. If you have a set of gloves like this in your garage, use the weathered leather for detail work. I adhered them using common Krazy Glue because I am a flawed impatient human being who can't hand stitch something that small. I put them on there with the suede side up so the definition could be seen rather than it being lost against the same color/texture leather.
Now, scroll up and look closer at the poster image; You'll note that the gloves have longer wrists and tuck into Star Lord's trench coat sleeve, (racing gloves do this, but those are pricey).
On that wrist section, you can see a triangular leather detail which was perfect for covering the branding on the Kobalt glove, so I further-murdured the gardening gloves and popped it onto the wrist, finishing the look.
This is very much a 'one thing at a time' build because there is sooooo much going on in it. The costumers on this movie deserve props...and I shake my fist at them because well...it's only been three days and my fingers are killin' me
ON DECK:
"Awesome Mix Vol 1_LABEL"
I look forward to seeing what you all have to contribute as I move forward and if someone can show me how to add people as friends, here, that'd be great! (yes, gonna buy a premium membership...)
THANK YOU!
Before I start, I wanna' thank Helegak for "Star Lord helmet AND accessories!!! by Helagak" in which he shared all those awesome 3D files for the mask and twin blasters. I had absolutely no idea how I was going to make those and am *still* on the hunt for the boot rocket activation buttons located on Peter Quill's pant legs as well as the boot/ankle rockets and the holster clips for the aforementioned twin blasters. If you have links to these things, I'd love to see them included on this thread, thanks!
Why am i doing this?
After having watched Chris Pratt mention in a press junket interview, (click this, it's near the end of the interview), that he stole pieces of his costume from the production of GOTG so he could go and visit sick kids in a hospital, the fire was lit under me to do the same. I quit my band (and I'm the leader of it), and will be selling a lot of gear to help fund this project as it's not as soul-sucking as being in a band :facepalm) Then I discovered that Chris Pratt actually visited Children's Hospital, that the following Wednesday. That guy is made of awesome, period.
I can't wait to don the costume of the most awesome character I've seen in a movie since Han Solo...(who shot first). ...Right...enough fan-g33k1ng,
Please have a look here for my initial post regarding what I'm up to, I go into things ad nauseum, there. (regurgitating it here would be redundantly redundant).Before I start, I wanna' thank Helegak for "Star Lord helmet AND accessories!!! by Helagak" in which he shared all those awesome 3D files for the mask and twin blasters. I had absolutely no idea how I was going to make those and am *still* on the hunt for the boot rocket activation buttons located on Peter Quill's pant legs as well as the boot/ankle rockets and the holster clips for the aforementioned twin blasters. If you have links to these things, I'd love to see them included on this thread, thanks!
Why am i doing this?
After having watched Chris Pratt mention in a press junket interview, (click this, it's near the end of the interview), that he stole pieces of his costume from the production of GOTG so he could go and visit sick kids in a hospital, the fire was lit under me to do the same. I quit my band (and I'm the leader of it), and will be selling a lot of gear to help fund this project as it's not as soul-sucking as being in a band :facepalm) Then I discovered that Chris Pratt actually visited Children's Hospital, that the following Wednesday. That guy is made of awesome, period.
I can't wait to don the costume of the most awesome character I've seen in a movie since Han Solo...(who shot first). ...Right...enough fan-g33k1ng,
BUT...the first thing I focused on and am almost finished with are the gloves which are worn in the beginning of the movie and are shown on the movie poster.
...and on the toy......note the pinkie finger detail where the leather only covers the tip, there.Okay, slide show time! - supplies needed...
What sold me on the Kobalds was the way the leather covered the first two fingers; it looked very 'space pilot' to me. (that, and they looked ultra cool while holding my Nerf Quadblaster)
...but as I discovered, those had to be covered anyway and I wound up cutting them off and restitching it back together. Imagine my surprise when I saw that the gray foam sub straight had a huge seam allowance! Cut the shapes needed out and sized them up to the Kobalt gloves, as seen here; I used a straight sewing needle, (large) with brown nylon thread. Pull out about a yard and a half of thread, double it over and shove the folded end through the eye of the needle and bam...four thread thickness for your leather stitching. I opted for hand stitching because while we do have an old Singer Sewing machine which would sew through concrete, I'd have to tear apart a set of gloves and pray I could get them reassembled correctly. After I finished any stitch, I would perform a suture stitch to lock the thread down and then I'd dab it with a very small amount of Krazy Glue to be sure. Use of waxed thread migth work, too, but at the end of the day, the wax wears off and things come undone....or you can hire a glove maker, #notme.
<--Run the needle through both layers of leather and then send it back through the loop and pull tight.Here's my work space, at night - I highly recommend:cool getting the soundtrack, btw...
So, by the time I figured out what I was doing and how, the right glove looked a little rough, but the left one is shaping up quite nicely...
Right Left
The knuckle-pads and the darker colored leather are all cut from parts of the Costco Glove, (which I was certain to use in my gardening to age it, a bit - use water and mud. If you have a set of gloves like this in your garage, use the weathered leather for detail work. I adhered them using common Krazy Glue because I am a flawed impatient human being who can't hand stitch something that small. I put them on there with the suede side up so the definition could be seen rather than it being lost against the same color/texture leather.
Now, scroll up and look closer at the poster image; You'll note that the gloves have longer wrists and tuck into Star Lord's trench coat sleeve, (racing gloves do this, but those are pricey).
On that wrist section, you can see a triangular leather detail which was perfect for covering the branding on the Kobalt glove, so I further-murdured the gardening gloves and popped it onto the wrist, finishing the look.
This is very much a 'one thing at a time' build because there is sooooo much going on in it. The costumers on this movie deserve props...and I shake my fist at them because well...it's only been three days and my fingers are killin' me
ON DECK:
"Awesome Mix Vol 1_LABEL"
I look forward to seeing what you all have to contribute as I move forward and if someone can show me how to add people as friends, here, that'd be great! (yes, gonna buy a premium membership...)
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