Chewbacca Finished 1/1 costume..Pics relinked from photbucket to imgur!

chefhawk

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Ive been obsessing about building a chewbacca costume. I currently troop as a vader, but after wearing a mates chewbacca, ultimatly wanted my own to wear/troop with.

As I've said before, I was born with one hand and its never stopped me doing stuf...ever.

Ultimately i wanted to reproduce the most screen accurate representation of the character I love.

The build started with my son and I doing a face cast...which was a bit of a cockup, so i bought some more alginate and re did the process.

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The next stage was to sculpt using chavaunt clay over the cast of my face. Ive never sculpted before. This took about two/three weeks to a stage that i was pleased with.


Then after a lot of casting and injecting silicone and hair laying up/punching hair.

Here is a test of the mouth mech..

I've made the "feet" and i'm about 60 percent through the suit build which is latchhooking like a possessed Gollum!

The mask is made from fiberglass, metal, wire, silicone,resin, hair and paint.
The mouth opens and wire pulls the lips up. Ive also installed a fan.
After four/five months solid work I hope i did the character Justice.


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cheers
 
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Re: Chewbacca build- finally finished the mask.A.N.H

Thanks for the support guys.

Its one of those builds that you just dont know how the final product/prop will look till its completed.

Thanks again

chef
 
Re: Chewbacca build- finally finished the mask.A.N.H

Hi there,

wow ... that looks amazing ... to actually punch hairs like that takes great perseverance and endurance ... 2 thumbs up!

Chaim
 
Re: Chewbacca build- finally finished the mask.A.N.H

That looks amazing! The fur looks really authentic and the face is perfect.
 
Re: Chewbacca build- finally finished the mask.A.N.H

I thought I would do a comp of the Lucasfilm mask of chewie and my mask

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any guesses as to which is which>>?
 
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