Work in Progress...

[tanzanlinnear]

Still by no means complete, this is how things're looking so far...

[JediKai]

Looks good. Especially the cloak. The tunic looks red in this photo....is that part of the "work in progress" or do you intend it to be red?

[Seda Navilli]

Lookin good Tanzan.

Kai - If you turn the brightness up you can see that the tunics is more of a rust colour.

Is the belt a more OT style one? And your saber blade looks a little short there

But seriously, very nice job. Did you sew it yourself? Is the robe a Mystik Merchant one?

[tanzanlinnear]

jedikai said:

Looks good. Especially the cloak. The tunic looks red in this photo....is that part of the "work in progress" or do you intend it to be red?

The tunic is supposed to be a terracottery color, but that was how it photographed (late night with flash) I'm still debating whether to run it through another dye cycle of dark brown to tone it down further.

seda said:

Lookin good Tanzan.

Kai - If you turn the brightness up you can see that the tunics is more of a rust colour.

Is the belt a more OT style one? And your saber blade looks a little short there

But seriously, very nice job. Did you sew it yourself? Is the robe a Mystik Merchant one?

Thanks, Seda You're absolutely right about the tunic color, that was simply how it photographed for some reason...

The belt is also part of the 'in progress' phase, as I have one on order, that was just two different sized leather belts worn over each other to get the basic effect Hee hee, the saber is slightly angled toward the camera, but I thought that as well, so I reworked the original picture

I didn't sew it myself, it was a gi I ordered a while back before the 'no gi' addition to the Code was made... Master Darklighter suggested that I continue with making it and see if it will be accepted (as I couldn't return the gi for refund) The cloak is indeed from Mystik Merchant I'd recommend them to anyone that is looking for a robe or cloak as the craftsmanship is amazing, and their service is incredible.

[tanzanlinnear]

My belt arrived today... Wish it had been here before, so I could've worn it with the costume ;D
apfoister.proboards9.com/index.cgi?board=Belts&action=display&n=1&thread=3933
I'm still debating about what to do with my boots, and I'm thinking of giving the costume another dye session so I can get the pants really dark chocolatey brown, and tone the terracotta from the red hues back into the brown. Without realizing it, I've unintentionally been recreating Anakin's ATOC costume, purely because I liked various aspects of it or colors, and unwittingly pieced it all back together ;D

[Seda Navilli]

Heh heh yep thats what happened with my costume, it started to look so much like Obi Wan's that I thought bugger it - I'll make a Canon Obi Wan replica

Whats wrong with the boots you have there? They look fine to me...

[JediKai]

Thanks for the clarification.

Actually, my monitor is tuned for photo editing with Photoshop.

[Ky-Wan Zann]

Looking pretty good so far man. Glad to see some variations in the costumes and Jedi wear. The loak looks good

[tanzanlinnear]

seda said:

Heh heh yep thats what happened with my costume, it started to look so much like Obi Wan's that I thought bugger it - I'll make a Canon Obi Wan replica

Whats wrong with the boots you have there? They look fine to me...

Hee hee, I'm still not intentionally making a replica of Anakin's costume, it just... happens to be.... very similar... ;D
The boots are black vinyl riding boots... With the brown of the tabards (to be made) and the belt, I'm going to have to have brown boots, but I'll try and dye them rather than bye a new pair. However, I might be getting some money through soon, and if I do, I thought I might treat myself to a pair that had a more 'rugged' look to them, like Qui-Gon's Even if I get the more rugged ones, they're still going to have to be dyed, as they only come in black ;D

jedikai said:

Thanks for the clarification.

Actually, my monitor is tuned for photo editing with Photoshop.

No problem Thanks for the comments

kywanzann said:

Looking pretty good so far man. Glad to see some variations in the costumes and Jedi wear. The loak looks good

Thanks I think the cloak is what really pulls it all together. My mother in law loves cloaks, and when she saw me try on the whole thing, insisted we get some photos ;D

[Nova Darklighter]

Tanzan, try adding a small amount of black dye to the brown dye, that might help darken it a bit. NOTE: I said a SNALL amount! Tho' i like the idea of terra cotta, if you just used a brown dye & got that shade, an 1/8 to a 1/4 of a black dye package to a whole pack of brown dye should help darken the dye colour.

[tanzanlinnear]

Thanks, Nova To get that color (which has photographed a much more vibrant red than it actually is) I actually used two dyes. First terracotta,which was a horrible orangey rust color, so I then used a dark burgendy (they didn't have dark brown and I was impatient ;D ) and it's come out much closer to the color of Anakin's tunic in ATOC, but still leaning more towards the red spectrum than the brown, hence the need for another dye session

[Nova Darklighter]

You might want to try just a dark brown first, since the colour combo was what got you this shade, just doing a sraight dark brown dye might do it, I thought you had just used a brown or rust coloured dye.

[JediKai]

There's a member of our local rebel legion whose tunic photographs as red, no matter who takes the photo.! You might be having the same problem. I've see his in person and his tunic is brown, maybe "terra cotta" like yours.

[tanzanlinnear]

novadarklighter said:

You might want to try just a dark brown first, since the colour combo was what got you this shade, just doing a sraight dark brown dye might do it, I thought you had just used a brown or rust coloured dye.

I think a dark brown will do either one of two things: It'll either mute the brightness of the color, or it'll completely over-power it and it'll go brown. However... When I initially dyed the pants with the dark brown, they came out as a kind of grey/brown rather than the deep chocolate brown I'd intended, so I have a feeling that another dye session will simply mute the color and shift it from red to brown, but not necessarily make it any lighter

jedikai said:

There's a member of our local rebel legion whose tunic photographs as red, no matter who takes the photo.! You might be having the same problem. I've see his in person and his tunic is brown, maybe "terra cotta" like yours.

It could well just be a case of how the fabrics respond to the light, but thinking about it, are the photos taken with .35mm cameras, or digital? The ones my in laws used to photograph me were digital, and that had serious red eye, and also added more red to my skin tone, so it could well be a result of the photographic process itself

[Nova Darklighter]

If you just want to mute the red, try a brown tint, use a brown dye, w/ maybe a bit of the terra cotta or a burnt sienna added, then use a bit of extra water, than might do it. to bad you don't have some scruds of the fabric to test dye. Then again, maybe it is the camera and the computers, if you like the colour that it is, and if you ask a few varied people what colour they think it is and the majority answer brown or rust, then go for it, and leave it be until you've washed it a few times, which will change the colour somewhat anyway. On my computer I'd have said it was the shade of brown called OXBLOOD in shoe leather, named for it's resemblence to the colour of dried oxblood on the wood of the slaughterhouse floor.