spider1069
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Working on Rey's Staff Love this costume!
Rey - Star Wars: The Force Awakens Build (open for everyone!)
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Hello everyone,
I've been through this thread several times and have gotten so much information. You all are incredible. I am working on this costume for my wife and have just a couple questions.
I have some crinkle cotton fabric that I will use for the dress/wrap. I thought I read on here once how people had made the wrap, but I can't find it. How wide is the fabric? how are the ends and sides finished?
I've also seen several pictures of the leather attachments for the Staff strap. How wide are people making the leather strips for those, 3/4 inch?
I think I have everything else covered for the simple version of Rey. I may have more questions when I move to adding the head wrap, goggles and backpack.
Thanks all,
Madighon
I've been through this thread several times and have gotten so much information. You all are incredible. I am working on this costume for my wife and have just a couple questions.
I have some crinkle cotton fabric that I will use for the dress/wrap. I thought I read on here once how people had made the wrap, but I can't find it. How wide is the fabric? how are the ends and sides finished?
I've also seen several pictures of the leather attachments for the Staff strap. How wide are people making the leather strips for those, 3/4 inch?
I think I have everything else covered for the simple version of Rey. I may have more questions when I move to adding the head wrap, goggles and backpack.
Thanks all,
Madighon
kristen jones
Master Member
Depending on your fabric and how well it gathers you will want your wrap dress to be between 18 and 24 inches wide. the edges and ends are unfinished.
The leather staff straps should be slightly wider than the snaps on the ends of them... about 3/4' of an in ch is a good starting point.
The leather staff straps should be slightly wider than the snaps on the ends of them... about 3/4' of an in ch is a good starting point.
Talaaya
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A friend of mine asked me if I would 3D print the staff for the outfit she was commissioned to do. It was a fun and challenging project! I was asked just to model it, print it, and spray it with filler primer. I haven't seen the final paint job yet. I'm excited!
It was printed in 35 separate pieces, most of which interlocked for ease of alignment and attachment. The wooden dowel they're glued to is actually two dowels which detach from one another and are held together with a threaded insert so it can easily be taken apart for transport.
The 3D model I made:
The photos aren't the best which makes me kinda sad. They were hastily taken right before I had to give the staff away.
Holy cow this thread has gotten long! I'm quoting my own post so no one has to go find it.
I finally got pics of my staff commission I made after I had given it to the person. The last time I had seen it, it was only the gray primer color as seen above. I offered to take it back temporarily to fix it after it had fallen over and broken. I took this opportunity to take some pictures of its final form!
mdb
Sr Member
Excellent
I think, I think our generic stuff is going to match too, so 4" wide, unbleached, elasticated and of the thicker variety Will be scouting this week as I start collecting materials for some workshops (trying to help local Jedi if nothing else
Gonna get some rey queries I'm sure )
Goldhawk
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I made a paper model of the leather straps which I fitted to my staff. Mine came out to be an inch wide.
On another note, how has everyone made the shirt? I need a pattern as I've never done a henley top or a raglan sleeve.
kandell
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Finally ordered my Po-zu boots! Shoutout to the Brexit for saving me $20 XP
My next plan is to get the staff pieces 3D printed and start on the goggles. I have the lenses and some white leather for the top layer. I'm just debating on what I want to use as the base for the goggles (worbla, thibra, etc.). Any recommendations?
My next plan is to get the staff pieces 3D printed and start on the goggles. I have the lenses and some white leather for the top layer. I'm just debating on what I want to use as the base for the goggles (worbla, thibra, etc.). Any recommendations?
kristen jones
Master Member
Well speaking as someone who has made ALOT of goggles LOL....
I've abandoned using the TK faceplate as a base... or anything rigid, for that matter. If you watch closely in the scene when Rey removes her goggles you can see that they have a fair amount of flex to them.
In my V2.0 goggle builds I have gone to using heavy leather hide for the base. It's about 1/8" thick. Using this as a base has worked wonderfully... I can cut it easily to the exact shape that I want, and once the other layers have been bonded to it the whole takes on a semi-rigid quality which holds it's shape very well yet is flexible as the screen used pair. The shape of the lenses which i use give the goggles the face-forming ovular shape that you want, yet because the base is not rigid it can conform to the wearer's face much better than anything solid.
I've abandoned using the TK faceplate as a base... or anything rigid, for that matter. If you watch closely in the scene when Rey removes her goggles you can see that they have a fair amount of flex to them.
In my V2.0 goggle builds I have gone to using heavy leather hide for the base. It's about 1/8" thick. Using this as a base has worked wonderfully... I can cut it easily to the exact shape that I want, and once the other layers have been bonded to it the whole takes on a semi-rigid quality which holds it's shape very well yet is flexible as the screen used pair. The shape of the lenses which i use give the goggles the face-forming ovular shape that you want, yet because the base is not rigid it can conform to the wearer's face much better than anything solid.
kristen jones
Master Member
For what it's worth, here's a look at the pattern I created for my tunic:
The left one is the back, and the right one the front. Fold your fabric in half and place the fold on the right side of the pattern where indicated. Trace and cut. Sew together at side seams and shoulder seams. Bind neckline. Done.
The sleeves are just crescent shaped scarps of fabric sewn on after the fact. I've found it easiest to make those and sew them in place after the shoulder seams are done, but before the side seams are done. That makes lining everything up much easier.
There is probably a pattern out there with raglan sleeves which you could use, but since the raglan seams are almost 100% covered by the wrap dress anyway, i'd decided just to fake those seams in after the fact...which is super simple to do. Just get some thread slightly darker than your tunic to match the screen used tunic's seams and use the overcast (or "sport seam") stitch setting on your sewing machine (the one used on the hems and seams of t shirts) and then just plot out the four diagonal lines on your tunic where the raglan seams would go and stitch a straight line over each of them. It will look right, but you haven't had to go to the trouble of actually making raglan sleeves which you would eventually have to cut off and hide by the wrap dress anyway.
The only detail on my tunic which i need to add now is the rather fancy side seam stitching. it looks to me like a ladder stitch (like the seams on Rey's end-of-movie resistance vest) but I'm not certain.
I agree with Kristen that rigid is no good.
I used foam for mine, 1/4" thick and I heated up the middle to make it a curved shape. I think it has about the right amount of flex to it.
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kristen jones
Master Member
I did something similar with mine... only for the leather I wetted it and shaped it in the nose bridge area. Same result as the foam...and really by the time you layer either with everything else it's going to be strong enough to do what you want. :thumbsup
Goldhawk
Well-Known Member
Thanks, Kristen! This helps a lot!
You're the best!
On the stitching, I think I know what it is. Recently I cut down a jersey shirt that was too big and sewed it back together with thick thread and an overcast stitch at the very edge of the fabric. The shirt naturally pulled away from the seams with wear leaving side seams identical to Rey's.
Now to do it on purpose......
You're the best!
On the stitching, I think I know what it is. Recently I cut down a jersey shirt that was too big and sewed it back together with thick thread and an overcast stitch at the very edge of the fabric. The shirt naturally pulled away from the seams with wear leaving side seams identical to Rey's.
Now to do it on purpose......
kristen jones
Master Member
Hmmmmm.....
Keep me posted on this!
Keep me posted on this!
kandell
New Member
What kind of leather did you use? I have some leftover veg tanned leather around 6-8 ounces and some around 3-4 ounces.
Angelus Lupus
Sr Member
I've got some (used to be) cream leather from our old sofa that I've saved (the reverse is grey). I wonder if I could 'dirty' it up to to right colour with brown shoe polish/dye and get the right look?
kristen jones
Master Member
I suck at the "ounces" metric LOL.
The stuff I used was about 1/8" thick... like belt leather basically.
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For the front of the goggles?
If that's what you're using it for, you wouldn't want to use brown. Rey's goggles are a creamish colour pigskin, which is weathered with a grayish-taupe paint.
Angelus Lupus
Sr Member
Ah, then a very mild 'dirtying' should get that the right colour. There are parts of the leather that are definitely 'cream-ish'
kandell
New Member
What brackets did you use for the lacing parts? I have no idea what I'm doing when it comes to hardware so I don't even know what to search.
kristen jones
Master Member
Redwillow used toggle bolts, i believe.
I use cast parts:
PM if you have questions.
I use cast parts:
PM if you have questions.
kristen jones
Master Member
Yes... most of them, actually. there is very little brown. Maybe a dusting where it's meant to be dirt...but I'd use acrylic paint and drybrush it on.
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Actually, that's what I have done when building the 30 pairs that i have built. :lol
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