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Oof. That's a hard one. Mine was made by a good friend on here daisy! I know on the nite owls grp, excellent leather has been working w 2 501st members trying to develop a pattern I also know debora di meo is working on a pattern as we speak. And her work is good to. Otherwise, I feel ur pain!!!

Hey everyone! I’m starting my Deathwatch build along with 4 other ladies of the legions. I noticed one possible concern with the CRL and the suits available from Keep Trooping and Gwabo. I had my suit custom made as the KT and Gwabo suits did not fit me well so my reference photo below is not from either suit maker - though I initially bought a Gwabo suit. The CRL photo shows 3 rows of batting on the shirt sides (I’ll refer to them as Ribs) between the bottom of the flak vest and top of pant waistband. Since a female waist sits much higher than the hips on the guys, we will all be wearing our pants at our natural waist. This is higher than where the men are wearing their pants and some of us have shorter torsos (partially due to our chests) so it further shortens the space we have between our flak vests and pants. All of us have the same issue when we pull the waist band down to see more ribs and expand the gap: it’s uncomfortable, hard to walk in and looks awful. See the CRL level two verbiage in blue: Flak Vest is sized so it leaves a large gap between the bottom of the Vest and the Belt. Question: Is it safe to say a “large” gap is relative to the gender or body type to allow for longer chests and lower waists? Feedback / assurance appreciated on behalf of all of us working on Deathwatch. I currently have two leather vest color options, grey and off white. I feel like I have seen both approved but it could be the weathering. I will be going with off white. My belt is from Slide Belts. I got the graphite buckle. My holster, pouches & calf boot trim are from Obsessive Passions who did the leather in the CRL photo. My armor & weapons are coming from Jason Litsinger and Jason Poulin (J and J Props) who do amazing scaling, print out of tough resin and do some great painting. I will be having boots custom made by Crowprops as I do not fit in any standard boots. I had good luck with my custom Inferno boots from him, so fingers crossed. I am having the calf cylinder machined out of aluminum as the found plumbing part is currently unavailable and well… shiny. I was able to try on various pieces of armor and the jetpack from garrison mates prior to printing in order to dial in the scale of each piece. The bells and butt seemed to be the most off in scale. I will post an update once my armor, weapons and jetpack are here. Until then, I welcome any feedback on the build. I have built 3 Bo’s and 1 Armorer so I have a few Mando’s under my belt but none with a jetpack so heavy. I’m located in the SF Bay Area and part of the Golden Gate Garrison. My only approved costume is Bo thought I have 1 IO’s and an Iden ready to app. Oya!!

Hello everyone! I'm currently looking to build a Din Djarin BOBF cosplay. I have this flight suit and belt and was wondering if they are a good base to start my build. So far I know the cummerbund is the wrong material and the belt probably needs different pouches

Awesome! I will check those leads out! Thanks

For the weathering of soft goods, I used different colors of Fuller's Earth. I actually bought some from TrooperBay on Etsy. A little goes a long way. I'd sprinkle a little of the cocoa brown on and then rub it into the fabric with my hands and an old brush I had. For the boots/gaiter's, I used the lighter colored (sand) Fuller's Earth, rubbed in on them and sealed it with hairspray! On the chest, I did my silver after the paint. Mine was paint > silver weathering > black wash > brown wash > clear coat Yeah, the yellow/orange parts will look completely different in all kinds of lighting. Not sure why that color doesn't come across well, but it's definitely weird. Oh, also I would try and weather the girth belt as well. I know a lot of people just do the Pet rope and call it good, but getting it closer to the right (darker) color scheme will make it look so much better, IMO.

Thanks for the feedback. It's nice to see the end in sight now! I probably glanced over it but what's the best way for weathering the soft goods like boots/gaiters/sash? I'll probably repaint some of my chest armor and start over with the silver. It's probably the lighting from the pic but in person the shoulders and knees are pretty weathered with brown wash made it go from bright yellow to more orange yellow Sent from my SM-S918U using Tapatalk

A few quick things I noticed: No scarf? Or it appears to be tucked in the suit? Pants/sash need more weathering Boots/gaiters need weathering Hoses are going into sleeve, should go to under the shoulder armor instead Silver(?) weathering on the main chest armor seems a little haphazard and should more replicate/match the shows armor The bottom of the stomach armor should come to just above the end of the flack vest. Yours is too high I feel like the shoulder and knee armor could use a brown wash or weathering to better match the on screen armor The ears on the helmet don't appear to be weathered? They should be Those are what I could see at first glance.

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Did a practice suit up tonight and practice submission pics. If anyone has any suggestions on anything I needs some tweaks I'm all ears. Also I realized after the fact that the battery pack to chest display was hanging out [emoji23] Sent from my SM-S918U using Tapatalk

Yup, just as expected, it was probably a combination of the bright lighting inside the house plus using iPhone’s RAW setting which can mess up the meter’s white balance making it look white. I took this photo outside on a cloudy day (natures own soft box) and placed it beside our window trim (white) and the side wall (bluish gray) for some contrast to show the silver paint 🙂 hope this helps resolve this issue and as always, thanks for the feedback @andyman97 🙂

I’ll double check when I get home, maybe it’s my lighting since we use 5k warmth and 1k lumens for our canned lights 😂 I asked the seller and he said he uses silver paint in all his vibroblades so it’s most probably because of lighting error on my part 😅

Blade looks great but the handle color should be silver instead of white.

Vibro boot knife arrived today and boy does it look nice!

Update on the new mask @Madrox https://drive.google.com/file/d/132amnVVJl4MXS0OthEqbRIvcmCqh1Xjx/view?usp=drivesdk

thanks kaminians comerades

Ok cool! When you upload closeups of everything I'd be happy to look it over for you the best I can. Some other advice I got was to print out the CRL for it and go through it step by step and use it as a checklist

@Caboose93Thanks yeah no worries, definitely going to be in touch with whomever my local person is, just wanted a first-pass look with people who are familiar with approved costumes. My circuit board does have the two silver capacitor things, just not visible in the shots I have. I do have the shoulder dent as well. I'll get closeups uploaded tonight or tomorrow. Thanks!

Hello! I see this is still listed as draft. Do we know when it will be final? And, will there still be any major changes before it becomes final?

Perfect information! Thank you! I’ll take that to thought, I’ve got the stuff coming for the stilts now, so I’m going to start in that direction but I have a feeling this will be a very organic process!! So many different paths to take. I’m open to all input!

Oh and also you would need a jetpack to be able to be approved Edit: Never mind I missed towards the end where you said you have one in the works

So I'm not the best person to ask because I'm not a GML or anything. My advice would be get with your local GML and ask them how close are you to being approvable. That said without seeing closeups of all your armor pieces it's hard to tell but the few things I did see is, the back of the helmet on the vent/circuit board is supposed to have 2 silver button looking things. Does your right shoulder have a dent?

Sorry yeah should have been more clear. The suited up pics are the most recent. Working on getting closeups of all the pieces, just been busy. Will update the original post when I have them though.

Which pics are the most recent? The ones of you fully suited up?

Thank you.

Yes the Boba Fett - Repainted Armor Mandalorian Season 2 is different than his standalone Book of Boba Fett show costume.