Re: My jawa build with blaster and droid caller (WIP)
More progress getting made on the remaining parts.
After lengthy dye swatch testing, I decided on 2 bottles Rit dark brown, 2 bottles cocoa brown and 2 sunshine orange in 12 gallons of water.
Here are all the formulas I tried, with the one I used in the lower right. It is much more of a rusty, reddish brown than it looks in the swatch pic, which is what I was going for. All the test formulas were done in 1 cup of water.
6 yards ended up not being enough fabric, fortunately, I figured that out before dying and ran out to get some more monk's cloth to give me enough for the hood. Dying this much fabric was a major pain. It took me all day and the heavy wet fabric was hard to work with. I will look at the pre-dyed brown monk's cloth if I ever make another one.
Since the width of the fabric was too short, I made the robe body from a section length wise and folded over with the neck opening cut in the top. Then I marked the location where the sleeve would start under the arm and cut down the sides of the robe to remove some of the material, leaving a short sleeve from the remainder of the width that I used to check the armpit sleeve attachment location. Once I was happy with it, I cut out the openings for the sleeves and attached them. I left them long then marked and trimmed them up with the robe on.
I wanted to make a mock up of the hood first, so I could check the size and shape of it, so I used some gray felt I had laying around.
I still need to tweak the front neck area, work out the ties and the opening might still be a little large. I used 14 gauge wire to hold the shape. I see a lot of people suggesting coaxial cable, but to me the face opening looks a little too perfectly round when that is used.
Boots were done using a slip on boot with a flat sole, she no longer wears. I used hot glue to attach the fabric strips, wrapping the entire boot and using a coat of shoe goo on the bottom to hold the strips on the sole. Using a plastic spreader, I applied 2 more coats of shoe goo over the sole fabric to protect it. It took 2 of the large tubes of shoe goo and a ton of hot glue sticks, but the boots are done (except for weathering). The shoe goo method was suggested by someone on the Krayt Clan forum and it worked out pretty well.
Decided the costume needed a 2nd bandolier, so I got this K98 German WW 2 ammo pouch off of ebay. I like the rivets on it and the dark color to contrast the brown of the other bandolier. My plan is to make a 2 - 2 1/2" leather strap for it to cross the chest and then add a clip to the strap at the right hip so the blaster can hang from it if she gets tired of holding it.
I also made a small strap our of leather to go around the 1903 bandolier, that holds the droid caller.....Pic coming soon.
She's complaining about the heat around her face inside the mask. So if anyone has suggestions on how to add a (9v ?) battery powered fan to my foam mask creation, please post it up.
For now my idea is to try to glue in another small piece of foam to hold the mask fabric out away from her nose and mouth so more air gets in there.
....more progress coming soon.