Start of a chewbacca

Post by **huntman** » Sat Apr 17, 2010 11:00 pm

Thought i would shair the progress of my chewbacca im working on. It start's of as this

Then I sew a pattern for pants and a shirt . I forgot to take a pic of the pants before but here is the shirt

Here are the pants in progress

and the pants when its finished front

and the back

Ill do some thinning with some thinning shears and give it a good combing

Post by **huntman** » Sat Apr 17, 2010 11:01 pm

Next is the Bowcaster started of as this

Then i did some holling out of the stock and butt

Then added some dials

and scopes

Post by **huntman** » Sat Apr 17, 2010 11:02 pm

Here is my Bandolier and Pouch

I should have my mask in a few weeks so more to come

Post by **TK118** » Sat Apr 17, 2010 11:04 pm

WOW ! Fantastic work ! Cant wait to see the final thing !

Post by **Marvinrobot** » Sat Apr 17, 2010 11:21 pm

Awesome work Jon had a great time today look forward to the next one!

Post by **Mr Fett** » Sun Apr 18, 2010 12:15 am

Wow, killer work! That's shaping up nicely!

Website · Post by **138** » Sun Apr 18, 2010 12:40 am

Truely amazing

Post by **Fleetfang** » Sun Apr 18, 2010 5:49 pm

Bitchin!

Post by **TK3446** » Sun Apr 18, 2010 6:47 pm

Awesome!

Website · Post by **Rebel Doughboy** » Sun Apr 18, 2010 7:49 pm

Post by **BDA TK7503** » Mon Apr 19, 2010 9:11 am

Great work

Post by **Jodo** » Mon Apr 19, 2010 9:28 am

Looks like you skinned him.

Looks great mate!

Post by **SHortTrooper** » Tue Apr 20, 2010 10:18 am

so thats how that costume is made!!! Pretty cool!

Where do you get the fur from and how do you attach it? With a hook and latch tool?

ShortTRooper (Diana)

Post by **huntman** » Tue Apr 20, 2010 12:10 pm

SHortTrooper wrote:

so thats how that costume is made!!! Pretty cool!

Where do you get the fur from and how do you attach it? With a hook and latch tool?

ShortTRooper (Diana)

Its not fur that im using its a Synthetic hair and yes I am using a latch tool its like making a rug. Ill post some
more pic's to night of the process

Post by **SHortTrooper** » Tue Apr 20, 2010 12:56 pm

huntman wrote:
SHortTrooper wrote:

so thats how that costume is made!!! Pretty cool!

Where do you get the fur from and how do you attach it? With a hook and latch tool?

ShortTRooper (Diana)

Its not fur that im using its a Synthetic hair and yes I am using a latch tool its like making a rug. Ill post some more pic's to night of the process

Sorry I should of said fake fur.....

BTW, where do you get the fake fur from, and how much did you have to get to make the Chewbacca? I'm guessing quite a lot....

that must take a lot of work to get that done and your doing a great job...

ShortTrooper (Diana)

Post by **huntman** » Tue Apr 20, 2010 2:04 pm

I got the hair from http://ikickshins.net/bulk.htm hair color #27 about 30 and #44 about 20
and some other brow and grey's to blend in.

Post by **TK3446** » Tue Apr 20, 2010 2:08 pm

I can't imagine how many bags of hair your needing. WOW!

Post by **huntman** » Tue Apr 20, 2010 2:25 pm

So first i take the hair and cut it in two then blowdry and straighten the hair and take a small amount about 10 strands of hair
and latch hook it into the mesh

cut in two and blowdry

small amount about 10 or so strands of hair

then latch hook

then repeat I go in rolls straight across

Post by **huntman** » Thu Apr 22, 2010 3:38 am

and 7 hours later

and from the back

Post by **huntman** » Thu Apr 22, 2010 3:39 am

and 7 hours later

and from the back