annybarros
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Hi guys. So I'm planning to cosplay Han Solo for a local event and for the Episode VII premiere, but a genderbend version, and since I'm spending a lot of my money on my cosplay of Loki, I had no choice but make it from everything that I could found around the house. Hopefully, I already had a blue jeans that work perfect with the one he uses in ANH, so I just bought red satin ribbon and then I painted the lines (leaving a gap of 0,5 cm between each blue and red line) with dark blue fabric paint and then I sewed by hand on both sides of the pants.
For the vest, I took a white jacket that my mom gave me (she actually bought it on a thrift shop, so I not spent a lot in this part also). I ripped of the sleeves and cut the jacket a little shorter. I use both of the sleeves to make all the pockets that are found in the original vest, and them I dye the vest using black dye. Super easy and anyone can do it. I'm really happy with this part because this vest looks awesome, and I actually can wear with in my daily basis which is good to me. And since it had a lot of pockets, I can put my stuff on all of these pockets and I don't have to bother on carry a bag around the event.
And now the blaster. Yeah, the gun. By far, my bigger problem. I'm not a pro at making props, and I didn't have money to buy proper materials, so everything that I'm using for the blaster is stuff that I found around the house. I just search for a good reference pictures of the blaster and the start building up. The main body of the blaster is a sandwich of cardboard and eva foam (1mm and 2mm). Is working well by far. For the gun barrel (I don't know the name lol) I body of a thread tube (I don't know the name either), covered with eva foam and the detail is made of 1mm craft foam. and the there's a pvc pipe, the white part is the cap of a bottle of disinfectant and the cone part is made out of foam. Not the most beautiful thing, but a least looks like the original one (I little bit). I'm still finish the handle of the gun. I'm gonna start the boot cover and the holster soon and I'll post when I finished.
For the vest, I took a white jacket that my mom gave me (she actually bought it on a thrift shop, so I not spent a lot in this part also). I ripped of the sleeves and cut the jacket a little shorter. I use both of the sleeves to make all the pockets that are found in the original vest, and them I dye the vest using black dye. Super easy and anyone can do it. I'm really happy with this part because this vest looks awesome, and I actually can wear with in my daily basis which is good to me. And since it had a lot of pockets, I can put my stuff on all of these pockets and I don't have to bother on carry a bag around the event.
And now the blaster. Yeah, the gun. By far, my bigger problem. I'm not a pro at making props, and I didn't have money to buy proper materials, so everything that I'm using for the blaster is stuff that I found around the house. I just search for a good reference pictures of the blaster and the start building up. The main body of the blaster is a sandwich of cardboard and eva foam (1mm and 2mm). Is working well by far. For the gun barrel (I don't know the name lol) I body of a thread tube (I don't know the name either), covered with eva foam and the detail is made of 1mm craft foam. and the there's a pvc pipe, the white part is the cap of a bottle of disinfectant and the cone part is made out of foam. Not the most beautiful thing, but a least looks like the original one (I little bit). I'm still finish the handle of the gun. I'm gonna start the boot cover and the holster soon and I'll post when I finished.