Big Game

Hunter
F56C47E3-FC8D-4400-92CC-BC6D14DD1FCC.jpeg 0FCD0FD6-79A2-4F75-A010-DB3482FBBE5F.jpeg F56C47E3-FC8D-4400-92CC-BC6D14DD1FCC.jpeg 0FCD0FD6-79A2-4F75-A010-DB3482FBBE5F.jpeg 4E4BD1E6-B979-44C2-AD1C-6F474E7EA7F9.jpeg D453CB52-0C17-444A-B0DA-402298BE3124.jpeg Hey there everyone! This will be my first thread detailing my build for an ESB Fett. I’m sure it’s gonna be a slow build as I work in the film industry which consistently requires long hours and sometimes weekends. On top of that my wife who supports me doing this but will also want my attention from time to time.

A little about my self. I have been a life long fan of SW, but especially a Fett fan since he arrived on the scene. I attempted to make a “1313 Fett” for the last SW celebration in Anaheim. This was my first attempt at cosplaying and making a costume. I taught myself a few skills along the way to make the costume which I thought came out pretty well. It wasn’t 100% complete but, I think it was good and will help me In creating my dream costume along with all the information and advice from the members here.

About a month and a half ago I decided to dive in head first and commit to building a ESB Fett costume. My goal was to make a screen accurate look for the costume with changes or mods to make it more “real”, as in certain parts appearing or functioning more “life like” in my opinion. Those changes should not impede the traditional look of the costume, making it not screen accurate look or hopefully 501st passable. With all that being said, I started ordering and collecting parts to do this.

So, I’m going to start with detailing how I’m doing my bucket. I bought a FPH2 by Wastedfett. It’s a great helmet and the size is pretty good for my big melon (I wear a 7 3/4 hat). To compliment this I ordered a real Borden from Boja Gunner,
Hollow stalk from MachineCraft replicas,
Range topper from Terminal Fetter,
Helmet liner from White Shaddow and
MQ-1 Calculator complete from eBay.

Waiting to get a RF lighting kit soon and still deciding on a remote RF kit.

Today, before work I had some time to kill so I brought my bucket and drummer with me to do a little cutting. I started by trimming the bottom edge of the bucket of the excess edge and resin. I did this with a diamond cutting wheel, being careful of the blade and going slowly. From there out came the “T” visor and used a sanding disk to flatten and level the edges. Also hit the corners with a good old fashion file to work the corners of the visor and mandibles.
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I’ve kept the ears separate and did both sides paint ups. They are now complete except one detail on the right upper ear which is the ‘dot and t’ mark as well as weathering which I will do at the end to the whole helmet. I’ll include pictures to show what I have done for the process and it’s current state.
 
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Well, with the upper cheeks masked off and the lower cheeks and dome unmasked, I laid down the green (78). I let this dry for a few hours and got excited so I peeled the frisket off as well as all the tape to take a good look at my progress. I have to say that I’m super happy with where everything is at so far. There is a lot of detail work to do still but the overall look is something I’m happy with. Still need to do a buff but will wait a little longer to do that before masking everything but the back panels off to do that area.
 

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Nice! How was peeling and seeing such awesome work underneath?

What are you using for a mq-1? Real piece or cast?
 
Nice! How was peeling and seeing such awesome work underneath?

What are you using for a mq-1? Real piece or cast?

Thee is always satisfaction when you see the progress unfold before your eyes. I like peeling the frisket off, especially when you can get big pulls. Hahaha. As far as the MQ-1 goes, I’m using a real one I picked up off eBay. I want a lot of my whole set up to be filme used items but I will also make some exception to make things more real life practical as well
 
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Today I added some of the finer brush detail on my bucket. On top of that I finally added the infamous finger print smudge! I was kinda nervous doing this but, it had to be done! And I’m pretty happy with it. I will hit it with wire wool and bring the tone down a bit with aging. I posted a video of me doing this on Instagram too. @gripjames
 
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