Phayze
Well-Known Member
well, after changing my mind about a hundred times on the details, I've finally finished and taken pics of my custom dark Jedi. This will be worn by me if/when we make it out of pre-production on our fanfilm and get to the actual filming (hopefully this spring/summer), but for now it's being modeled by my lovely assistant: Headless Bill.
The material that I bought for the red outer tunic met only two of my three criteria for costuming material (texture, cost and color), so it's a bit stiff. I'll be beating the crap out of it over the next week or two to loosen it up.
The Inner most layer is a black under armor mock turtle neck and the grey inner tunic is just a dickey. The vest was actually stolen from my Luke ROTJ costume, because I've always loved the design and my original idea didn't work out the way I wanted it too.
Depending on how I feel when it comes to filming a certain scene in our fan film, I may add this lovely mantled cloak for dramatic effect (I might throw it in the dryer to get the wrinkles out first . . . probably not, though)
The boots you may have seen me mention in my rivet thread a couple of weeks ago. I made a vinyl upper and glued/riveted it to an all black Converse All-Star (sacrilege, I know, but they're a little too narrow for everyday use). The straps are a wide, black elastic that I found with the belt-making supplies at the fabric store.
Accessorize. These are my butt-kicking weight lifting gloves that I got at Dick's Sporting Goods. I haven't decided how to cover the swoosh, but it'll probably just involve black tape.
And of course, no Jedi (fallen or otherwise) is complete without his saber. It's a very basic design with no frills to get in the way while fighting. It started life as a long chrome sink pipe which I sanded down to the brass and a piece of PVC pipe that I dremeled beyond recognition and plasti-dipped (although I regret it - I'm still considering taking it apart and stripping the plasti-dip off so I can paint it instead). It's simple, but's balanced well and fun to fight with.
Hope you like.
EDIT: Oh, I forgot to mention that I will, in fact, be wearing pants even though they aren't shown. They're just basic black drawsting pants with elastic around the cuffs to keep them from riding up in the boots.
The material that I bought for the red outer tunic met only two of my three criteria for costuming material (texture, cost and color), so it's a bit stiff. I'll be beating the crap out of it over the next week or two to loosen it up.
The Inner most layer is a black under armor mock turtle neck and the grey inner tunic is just a dickey. The vest was actually stolen from my Luke ROTJ costume, because I've always loved the design and my original idea didn't work out the way I wanted it too.
Depending on how I feel when it comes to filming a certain scene in our fan film, I may add this lovely mantled cloak for dramatic effect (I might throw it in the dryer to get the wrinkles out first . . . probably not, though
)
The boots you may have seen me mention in my rivet thread a couple of weeks ago. I made a vinyl upper and glued/riveted it to an all black Converse All-Star (sacrilege, I know, but they're a little too narrow for everyday use). The straps are a wide, black elastic that I found with the belt-making supplies at the fabric store.
Accessorize. These are my butt-kicking weight lifting gloves that I got at Dick's Sporting Goods. I haven't decided how to cover the swoosh, but it'll probably just involve black tape.
And of course, no Jedi (fallen or otherwise) is complete without his saber. It's a very basic design with no frills to get in the way while fighting. It started life as a long chrome sink pipe which I sanded down to the brass and a piece of PVC pipe that I dremeled beyond recognition and plasti-dipped (although I regret it - I'm still considering taking it apart and stripping the plasti-dip off so I can paint it instead). It's simple, but's balanced well and fun to fight with.
Hope you like.
EDIT: Oh, I forgot to mention that I will, in fact, be wearing pants even though they aren't shown. They're just basic black drawsting pants with elastic around the cuffs to keep them from riding up in the boots.
