Project: Jedi Wookiee

[admin]

Anyone know how this project is going? It really would be nice to have a Wookie Jedi on board!!

[jedi12]

As soon as he gets it done we will have a wookie jedi on board. He is almost done with it just a little more tweeking and it's done so not much longer

[tanzanlinnear]

I'm really excited to see the end result, particularly the lightsaber

[admin]

Jaryk,
this DietVanillaMike is your friend? I think you've got this gentleman mixed up with your friend locally who is doing the wookie costume.

[jedi12]

OOps hmmmm so I guess we will have two wookie jedi's

[DietVanillaMike]

im currently working on new stilts, i still have to visualize on how im going to do the robes and stuff, and i have no idea how im going to finish the lightsaber ive had two failed attempts now, and have one more idea.

2 jedi wookiees would be awesome, i guess i would say ill be done with the project by the end of summer thats including

* finished lightsaber
* finished robes
* grey hair added
* mouth mechanism
* new stilts?
i have a special idea for his belt too, and im looking for help on making one.

and ill try to keep better updated, with this so everyone thats interested can know whats going on

[jedi12]

Very cool. If you don't mind me asking how tall are you and what does your costume look like

[DietVanillaMike]

im 5' 11" normally, and 7' 8" in costume, im a peppered wookie with auburn, dark brown, black, and grey hair (there are pictures somewhere around on the board)

[Johann Shinobi]

I've been thinking, if you don't want to mess with the stilts you could do a Wookie Padawan costume. That would be the right size i think.

[jedi12]

the other guy that is going to be the other wokkie jedi is 7'1" normally not sure about in costume.nice colors on your costume

[tanzanlinnear]

dietvanillamike said:

im currently working on new stilts, i still have to visualize on how im going to do the robes and stuff, and i have no idea how im going to finish the lightsaber ive had two failed attempts now, and have one more idea.

If you're still having trouble with your lightsaber, I'd be happy to try and do something for you and then ship it over to you when it's completed, my only concern is that I don't really have access to any suitable woods locally, if you could get some decent wood to me, I could work to a design for you if you had something definite in mind, 0r, I could do something similar to this wookie lightsaber I recently saw on eBay:

Let me know if I can be of any help at all

[DietVanillaMike]

yeah thats the tyvokka lightsaber replica, and i would love help on anything right now, i have some wood here, (i live on the side of a freakin mountain currently) what kind should i look for, and how much of it. im willing to pay for any help.

andthe colors i chose make me apear to be an old wookiee, i need to be kind of tall, my new idea for the stilts will work better than the current onesi have, and will make me even taller

[tanzanlinnear]

dietvanillamike said:

yeah thats the tyvokka lightsaber replica, and i would love help on anything right now, i have some wood here, (i live on the side of a freakin mountain currently) what kind should i look for, and how much of it. im willing to pay for any help.

I think a hardwood would be better than a soft wood, as it'd be more dureable, as for the amount of it, just one decent sized stick should suffice. Do you have an actual design concept for the saber, or any design details you'd want included? If you PM me with some details, I'll see what I could come up with for you, and suggest what kind of size chunk of wood would be best to look for. As for price, if you pay for shipping the wood over, and re-imbursement of approved parts (say for the emitter, end cap and activation plate) I'd be happy to do it for free

[Shatir Lavan]

The lower sabre is my wookiee sabre I made. I can't get a second pic up here but on the other side I have an exposed quartz crystal instead of a metal emitter.

[Solinbeb Newau]

Very nice...