Home Made Star Wars Costumes
Where to get info/ideas
DH2: The Definitive How-To (Formerly known as "How to Build StormtrooperArmor") The king of Stormtrooper Armor, Jeff Allen, shows you infantastic detail how to build plastic Stormtrooper armor. He also has excellentinstructions on building Tusken Raider costumes, full-metal blaster rifle and some othergreat projects. I can't say enough about the wealth of information at this site.
Sithlord - This is a group of Star Wars costumers inGermany! They have attended many events in costume and even hold a regular monthlydinner in costume! Check out this great bunch of friends in Star Wars!
Imperial Cybernetics and DroidDevelopment - An often updated guide to R2-D2 building. They also sell vitalcomponents.
The Jedi Meditation Chamber- Amber has very complete information on making Jedi robes, lightsabers, comlinks, aquabreathers and much more!
R2-D2 Builder's Club -Features the option to join the club in order to share building tips and info also anexcellent resource for building resources, links, and measurements.
R2-D2 Builder's Page - Somegood plans and measurements here.
Build Your Own Lightsaber - Animpressive site with detailed pictures, parts lists, instructions and links.
Mandalorian Armor Blueprints- Amazing detailed info on everyone's favorite bounty hunter.
Sabers Plus from JediLos - Another great resource for building your own lightsaber! Author is alsoresearching R2-D2 projects.
Project Graflex and Project Naboo- Excellent instructions on building your own lightsabers! This site has got it all- will even have blades in the future!
Obi-Wan's Jedi Academy - Includes greatideas and instructions for building lightsabers.
Star Wars Chicks - Anentertaining website for the fairer sex. Instructions for Pincess Leia's senatorialrobes are in the "Fashion" section.
Little Owl - This page has instructionson building Jedi robes and Princess Leia's senatorial robes.
Star Wars Remake - This is one of themost ambitious projects I have ever seen. These guys remade the entire Star Warsmovie, costumes, spaceships and everything. Not only that, but they did it asteenagers! Not only that, they did it with an old Super 8 camera. Not onlythat, but they started it in 1977 with no internet and few resources! Not only that,they have a perfect R2-D2 replica. Not only they that - they're great guys too!
The Prop Builder's Molding & Casting Handbook by Thurston James ISBN 1-55870-128-1.
This is a must-have book for anyone considering molding and casting. The authorcovers many different materials and their uses. (Highly recommended).
Star Wars, The Visual Dictionary by David West Reynolds ISBN0-7894-3481-4.
Lucas opens the vault wide with this one. It contains hundreds of excellent colorphotos of props and costumes from the movies. (Highly recommended).
Star Wars, The Essential Guide to Weapons and Technology by Bill Smith ISBN0-345-41413-6.
This included useful drawings of weapons and other hand held devices, as well as otherequipment.
Build Your Own Boba Fett Costume This is best place to go for all of you rabid Boba Fett fans. It featuresinstructions on how to build the different armor and costume pieces plus you have theoption of buying the pieces if you prefer!
The Ultimate Boba Fett Costume This site features pictures of several different Star Wars costumes in addition to asection on Boba Fett. Check out the part that describes how to make costume piecefrom sintra plastic!
Hi Impact A groupof very talented people dedicated to building accurate Star Wars costumes and props.
Kal Joren's Jedi Knight Page Includes in-depth instructions on how to build Jedi Knight costumes and lightsabers. Also includes some custom action figures.
Badcard' Imperial WebsiteHome of the PVC Blasters. Badcard has excellent close up pictures of his work.
Imperial Imposters Some more ideas that you can work into your costumes.
www.geocities.com/~special_effect/sw_costumes.html
A site with pictures of the costume displays at the Smithsonian.
Don Post Studios www.thegreatcoverup.com Excellent pictures of the Don Post line of masks and helmets, but that's about it.
Creating the Ultimate Vader - There aresome excellent ideas here that can be used either on your own Vader costume or othercostumes.
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