Being a real-life Fett (Page 1 of 2)

That's cool, do you have pictures of it?

That looks cool!!

I don't have a Boba costume. I was once in a thrift store and saw some blue-grey matereal, and I immediately imagined a flight suit like Boba's. So I bought it. I never did make it into a flight suit, but maybe someday I'll get around to it. And then I'd need to find a helmet, armor, boots, belt, and other stuff....

Wow, how much did it cost you to make that?
Damn, I'd love to have a Fett costume. I do have the money for it, but I don't think my parents would want me spending my hard earned money on a silly costume, especially since I'll be having to attend college in less than two years.
We have a costume day at our school every year around Halloween. It would be so awesome if on my senior year I came to school on costume day dressed as Boba Fett!! I'd seriously consider doing it if the cost was less than $250, but I highly doubt that... heh.

Sharpy, your friend has a cool costume!

As close as I come is a helmet.  I put it on once, and our cat freaked. She's pushing 17 lbs, and has all the grace of a bull elephant in full rage, so we try NOT to freak her out too often.  The resulting destruction to the house is more than the laughs are worth.  The helmet came from an old comic store my husband managed. I think it was for a haloween costume, or something.  Can't see a damn thing with it on, but it looks kewl on my shelf.  Makes a statement.

Yeah... it's certainly cost a bit of money to put together... but whenever I think about the money I look at him and say damn, he looks so cool...

I used to make armor when I was in the SCA. Dishing cold steel sucks, but it was the way we did our helms  by pounding out quarters. Mine is referred to as the brain bucket. I hate hate hate working metal. The top part was the hardest for me, and it looks like something you'd expect a Star Trek villian to wear.

However, there's a cool bit of techonology to make it much easier:  spun metal tops.
You can get these from a few armorers on the web, they come in a few sizes, and form a much nicer, cohesive top that doesn't require a weld, or, joining via a band and rivets.

We actually got a few at one event, then I told my DH my metal banging was limited to listening to Judas Priest, no more armor making for dainty old me. 

If you run a search on SCA armorers, you may be able to find someone who sells the domes (they are very cost effective, and they're an easy way to top a metal helm without making yourself insane, or, beating your arm bones and sholder to death).

Thanks for that info Ursula. I'm googling it up now.

Hopefully save my right shoulder buy bying it already completed. (I've been hammering the top on an anvil trying to get an even roundness for the top.) Unfortunately I suck at making completley rounded tops. =\

Take care.

Good luck!
Weh you need a rounder shape it's easier to dish (We did ours in a tree stump that had a round gouge in it, made by a chain saw), then we pulled by beating it over first a trailer hitch, and then a round metal ball  thing (we made the stuff at this guy's house, I think he got the ball from another armorer). I only used the anvil for my knees, and the articulated pieces of the leg, as they didn't require that much curve. Still scwered it up anyway.  I'd go to bed at night and my arm felt like a wet noodle, and I'm no light weight either.  You're hard core, doing it the old fashioned way, but it does feel neat when you get a product and can use it.

That's why I had my second set of armor pre-made , tfrom his guy named Ice Falcon.  I think he was IceFalconArmorie?  He had sweet shoulders, did good work.

My husband got an anvil a few years back as a gift from my grandfather, and a stump from a friend, and keeps talking about more metal work.  I just cringe and pretend I don't hear.

The first time I put on armor, I felt ten feet tall. The first time I fought in armor to qualify for the SCA fights, I felt like Luke Skywalker. I came late to the battle, and there was this one Marshall willing to vet me in so I could join the fray. He was very well reputed and I figured he'd hand my *** to me on a platter.  So I jammed on my helm, and the moment they yelled "Lay On"  the helm fell down over my eyes, and the foam padding blocked my view. I thought, great, I'm screwed, I can't even see this guy!  But I heard him rattling around, and I was a viking, so I had a huge round shield which made it easy to block anything coming from his general direction. Everyone was screaming to strike, but I couldn't see a damn thing. I figured, hell, if Luke Skywalker can pull it off, so could I, right?  Somehow I figured a likely shot and nailed him dead on in the head , to the amazement of the crowd, and myself.  So maybe there is something to this force thing?

Good luck!  The first time you put on the completed suit, you'll feel invincible.
Post the pictures once your finished!

Hehe, youre correct in your doubts. A decent Fett costume would cost quite a bit more than $250.

I'm only half-way done with my TIE Pilot costume...which really (aside from other small things and helmet gadgetry, as well as my homemade A/C system to keep me cool during long troops in the Florida sun) is a helmet, a flightsuit, armor chest and back, a box, and some tubing.

At the moment I have my helmet (a Classic Action), which Ive modified a bit...I ordered a flightsuit...and have my tubing...and fiberglass to make the armor. Thats run me over $100. The gloves and boots I already had. By all means, though, what I have so far should have cost more in the area of...$400-550.

Boba Fett...a lot more armor. The helmets also suck, so they need to be heavily modified (painting, new visor, maybe even a little re-shaping). The cheapest way to make a good Fett suit would be to learn how to vaccuform ABS plastic (not too hard, really). Even then, youre looking at a nifty price tag.

'Course, Im talking about 501st quality costumes. You could make a below-par costume for under $200, that would look good to the average person.

Ursula -- What years were you in the SCA, just out of curiosity?  I noticed on the old boards that you're in upstate, which was where I lived when I was in the SCA.  Heck, we might even know each other, although probably not.  I moved away and got out of it quite a while ago.

But I fought, too.  I still have my armor around somewhere.  Nice 14th c. brigandine, with great helm AND gauntlets (Our group had a professional armoror).  But my body armor got busted right around the time I left, so I never fixed it.

I have to admit, I look at the Mandalorian armor, and think that it's so wrong in so many ways.  Too many open areas, for instance.  And where's Boba's leg armor, dammit?

Ooh, two SCA-ers!  Sadly, I've never fought in SCA.  I just stick with dancing, costumes, and developing my persona--10th century Russian with Arab/Viking influences.  What has me confused right now is why the name Guy Rolandson sounds so familiar, considering that I'm in a different kingdom.

I would love to make my own Fett suit someday (or better yet, a female Mandalorian suit) but I figure that's best left to when I'm out of school and have more time (not to mention money).