Project: Jedi Wookiee

[DietVanillaMike]

im new and i just htouhgt since i am just getting started i could keep an updated log of my progressing
Jedi Wookiee

I started this week so this may take awhile

I bought my wookiee head through some dealings on ebay, here is a pic (ill have it by the end of the week and hopefully have at least finished a "wookiee style" saber by then)



here is a list of things i know i will need either very soon or later on

Drywall Stilts
Liquid Latex
Upholstery foam
7'6" - 8'0 Jedi robe , tunic and all that other good stuff

thats all i will add for now if anybody can help with any of this stuff (especially the robes) i would be very grateful

i also need an example of wookiee markings it says the decorate their stuff with honor markings and family markings but ive never seen one that i know of any idea on this?

Michael

[Shatir Lavan]

I would say that if you really wanna make it easy on yourself, you could make a poncho style robe, like Qui-Gon wore on Tatooine and Anakin wore escorting Padme home. Those seem to be more cutting than sewing. Doing that, you could just attach the poncho to football shoulder pads and even do away with the whole torso part of the costume as you would be covered up.

[DietVanillaMike]

thats a good idea, i might do that and just work on legs and stuff first that way i might be able to use it for the premiere and or even CIII

[Ani-Chay Pinn]

I have a wookie costume; actually a Wookie junior costume since I'm so short. So, I was planning on being a Wookie padawan for Saturday night with a Jedi version of the bandolier with pouches instead of ammo. But the bandolier is in doubt since I won't get my sewing machine back from the shop until Sunday at the earliest and I'm not sure I could do all that by hand with all the other things I need to do. Still I have the essential costume and the life-size Yoda muppet to carry around.

[Ris'sa Taun-Setti]

DietVanillaMike said:

im new and i just htouhgt since i am just getting started i could keep an updated log of my progressing
Jedi Wookiee

I started this week so this may take awhile

I bought my wookiee head through some dealings on ebay, here is a pic (ill have it by the end of the week and hopefully have at least finished a "wookiee style" saber by then)



here is a list of things i know i will need either very soon or later on

Drywall Stilts
Liquid Latex
Upholstery foam
7'6" - 8'0 Jedi robe , tunic and all that other good stuff

thats all i will add for now if anybody can help with any of this stuff (especially the robes) i would be very grateful

i also need an example of wookiee markings it says the decorate their stuff with honor markings and family markings but ive never seen one that i know of any idea on this?

Michael

Unless you plan on wearing this suit for short periods of time...I dont think id want to try walking on drywall stilts for any length of time. .... and you will need a spotter as well.

Why not try to find some platform shoes or other type of shoe that you can build up...can hide it under the fur. Stilts are NOT recommended...especially for things like escalators and the like.

Out of curosity... since im looking at something similar myself...how are you doing the fur..or wookiee hair.

;D

[Shatir Lavan]

Those are good safety tips about the stilts, but it also depends on your familiarity with the equipment. One man at my Tae Kwon Do school is a drywaller, and when we renovated our Dojang, he was on those things for the whole day. Now take into account that he's been doing that for a while, so it's a good idea to get comfortable on them without the wookiee suit first. However, I wouldn't dismiss them right off the bat.

[DietVanillaMike]

thanks for all the advice, but i think my dad is going to help me make some stable half stilt half platmorm they are only going to make me about 7'4" but they will be based around my old rollerblading boots for ankle support

for wookiee fur i am going to buy about 25 to 30 bags of Kanekalon its this synthetic hair that is almost like real hair, it can be curled and everything with a low heat curler, you really cant go cheaper with the super cheap synthetic hair becasue it will melt and tear

i really am thinking about just buying a sewing machine and trying to learn, how hard is it to teach yourself to sew?

ill have a lightsaber by the end of the week most likely

[DietVanillaMike]

i found a reference picture for my jedi wookiee!!!


this is amazing i wonder if i can add that cool trim to my robes? hmm ill keep an eye out

[Shatir Lavan]

Check out the shape of the sabre too. Are there more pics with a detail of the sabre that you can post in the wookiee sabre thread?

[DietVanillaMike]

yeah ive been looking for some and i found somebody who makes a replica!

[Clone Commando]

[glow=red,10,300]this is Just a question but how are u going to wear all the fur and stuff ,
do u have some sort of suit with that wookie head? [/glow]

[DietVanillaMike]

i will either buy a gorilla suit and add hair extensions, buy a jumsuit and add hair extensions with hotglue, or make a mesh suit and tie the hair to it to match the head on the suit

ive been told that everything (including molding your own mask with a face cast and everything) takes around 100-150 hours of work, i bought my head and only have to do the easier parts like the suit

did this answer you question? i havent started on the suit yet but very soon i will

[Clone Commando]

[glow=red,10,300][shadow=red,left,10,300]Yah and i tried looking through google about finding some sort of clan symbols they use and couldn't find any but I did see a few picks of ppl at other cons with wookie costumes sorry I don't have a link but u might find it while looking.[/shadow][/glow]

[DietVanillaMike]

hey no problem i found some in my newest aquisition, the ROTS Visual Dictionary, it has some awesome pics of wookiee weapons and you can see designs on them up close

[Clone Commando]

Cool and I'd check ur hilt thread, I left a link in there with a picture of a extendedlightsaber though not a wookie one.