Hello there! 
I've recently had an unexpected desire to make a replica of young Obi-Wan's belt from Episode I to utilize some of my new basic leather craft skills and bang out a quick project in-between other task. While I didn't do a super deep dive into all the ins and outs of the original belts, I did a little bit of scaling work to nail down the basic dimensions of a 2.5" wide main belt with a 0.5" wide top belt and the rough location of the button studs and buckle. A Covertec clip and some original pen lid "food capsules" that I made over 20 years ago helped confirm things.
I wanted a really deep brown colour so I gave all the leather pieces a few coats of "Walnut" dye and some neatsfoot oil to darken things nicely.
After a top coat to seal it all I assembled everything with the button studs and affixed the loops around the top belt attaching to either side of the buckle.
You'll note that I decided on this type of closure at the back, which will work best for the display application this belt is destined for. A couple of the same button studs used to align the top belt pop through a couple holes on the other end of the belt flap. The ends of the top belt pieces are riveted in place. All of this attachment gets hidden by the "keeper" which I made from a loop of the same 2.5" wide leather as the main belt.
I used the same 8-9 oz leather for the main belt, top belt, and the keeper loop, while I used some thinner leather (probably like 6-7 oz) to make the little loops that affix the top belt around the buckle, which appears to mimic the construction of the originals.
I gave the leather a little "pre-weathering" before assembly, but will likely rough things up a bit more over time. But for now, it's done!
I'd love to track down some resin cast pouches with some lineage to the originals if there are some out there, so if anyone has any up for grabs or can point me in the direction of some, please do let me know! If that doesn't happen, I might take a stab at sculpting some myself and casting them in resin. The method of attaching the pouches to the belt using Covertec clips seems so silly to me, but that's how they did it in TPM, so I might have to do the same. The metal clips utilized for AOTC and ROTS is a much cleaner approach, but it's a TPM version I'm after so...
I've recently had an unexpected desire to make a replica of young Obi-Wan's belt from Episode I to utilize some of my new basic leather craft skills and bang out a quick project in-between other task. While I didn't do a super deep dive into all the ins and outs of the original belts, I did a little bit of scaling work to nail down the basic dimensions of a 2.5" wide main belt with a 0.5" wide top belt and the rough location of the button studs and buckle. A Covertec clip and some original pen lid "food capsules" that I made over 20 years ago helped confirm things.
I wanted a really deep brown colour so I gave all the leather pieces a few coats of "Walnut" dye and some neatsfoot oil to darken things nicely.
After a top coat to seal it all I assembled everything with the button studs and affixed the loops around the top belt attaching to either side of the buckle.
You'll note that I decided on this type of closure at the back, which will work best for the display application this belt is destined for. A couple of the same button studs used to align the top belt pop through a couple holes on the other end of the belt flap. The ends of the top belt pieces are riveted in place. All of this attachment gets hidden by the "keeper" which I made from a loop of the same 2.5" wide leather as the main belt.
I used the same 8-9 oz leather for the main belt, top belt, and the keeper loop, while I used some thinner leather (probably like 6-7 oz) to make the little loops that affix the top belt around the buckle, which appears to mimic the construction of the originals.
I gave the leather a little "pre-weathering" before assembly, but will likely rough things up a bit more over time. But for now, it's done!
I'd love to track down some resin cast pouches with some lineage to the originals if there are some out there, so if anyone has any up for grabs or can point me in the direction of some, please do let me know! If that doesn't happen, I might take a stab at sculpting some myself and casting them in resin. The method of attaching the pouches to the belt using Covertec clips seems so silly to me, but that's how they did it in TPM, so I might have to do the same. The metal clips utilized for AOTC and ROTS is a much cleaner approach, but it's a TPM version I'm after so...
