So not long after I made a decent budget version of the costume for around £35
Now I'm back at it and looking to upgrade it massively... Whether or not I'll be at RL level with it remains to be seen, but stay tuned.
The first major part of these upgrades was to pattern a new vest. I'd previously heavily modified a ladies leather jacket and, while it didn't turn out too badly, it's far from accurate.
So I spent about an hour drafting a pattern and the following day I made a mock up. Overall I'm really happy with the proportions, some small adjustments needed but nothing major.
I decided early on that my vest would be a canvas alternative as using leather would be costly, and I feel fairly wasteful on a piece that gets slathered in white paint. I did a test run over a scrap of blue canvas I had lying around and I have to say I'm happy with how it turned out!
Next up was to add to my under stocked original belt. When I first made the costume I didn't have a great deal of reference so it used to consist of the lock picks, the rectangular leather pouch, droid caller, and leather loop. Since then I've added the large shapeless pouch, the coaxium holster with Co2 cannister, and the visor. I made all of these with no patterns and used a combination of rattle can paints and acrylics to weather.
Next up was one of the big jobs - Han's Corellia trousers are unique in the pantheon of Han costumes in that they're most like standard jeans - two standard front pockets and one rear patch pocket make them much easier to modify a pair of standard jeans. I did this by removing one back pocket and adding the large leather patch, I also sewed in a faux seam on the inside of each leg to create the illusion of the stripes being set in.
Next up came adding the stripes themselves. I used siser brick vinyl - there was no grey available so I used white and weathered it down but I can confidently say I will NEVER use brick vinyl again... Not only will it not adhere properly regardless of how much heat you put on it, the show side is prone to melting, and it has a tendency to shift while warm too! Luckily the slight wonkiness of my stripes is easily disguised while wearing the trousers.
One of the few carry overs from my first take on this costume is the boots - these cost me £3 on eBay and I then used a combination of black, white, and brown acrylics to add that dirty, briney build up.
The jeans also got a heavy pass of weathering in a similar manner! Here's my first test fit of the lower half of the costume... I've since added a little more light weathering to blend the top and bottom of the legs better.
I'm also slowly gathering parts for my final vest; the communicator greeblie is a 3D printed Jyn Erso I got from thingiverse and the Imperial disks are mud trooper ear disks from The Aluminium Falcon - I've of course ordered three!
That's all for now but stay tuned for more!
