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[Bowfanny]

You should be able to pick up a standard leather needle set from the sewing section of your local Walmart or fabric store to use on that leather Vod. Most leather needles are wedge shaped though so be careful on your stitch lengths. Or if all else fails find a denim needle they are heavy duty as well. As far as sewing it make sure you use a test piece so you don't screw up your main item. Start your stitch, then back stitch(there should be a button or a switch) and then run the length and at the end back stitch again to lock in the stitches.

[Ghostwalker]

awesome! thanks vod!

[Ghostwalker]

Old leather Kama, completely seamed and sewed including the full length belt loop.
New leather Loincloth, completely seamed with sewed in liner.
Ended up doing a fold over the belt and snaps to hold the fold closed.
I decided against quilting at the literal moment of truth (3 sides lined and seamed shut) as it would have been too stiff.
Turns out you can have it wide or stiff or look right*, pick 2.
                                                                                                                                                                *obviously that is subjective







yeah they are hard to see. i know. Only have a flashless iPotato available and no lighter color pants/flightsuits.

back to building legs...

[Bowfanny]

Wide/quilted with a false stiff can be done with craft foam in 1/2 inch thickness.

[Dresdon Acacin]

I figured one would probably be trying to hide a stiff-wait no were not talking about the same thing are we? LOL

the leather looks good though, leather allways looks better

[Ghostwalker]

I agree on the leather. actually turned out pretty cheap too, probably cost less than trying to make another material look good.
And I know just how tight most mando's budgets are but get with the thrift store leather!

I'll try to get some non potato/selfie pics this weekend, suited up and in the daylight.

currently working on the electronics for my radio.
got some radio chatter on a dedicated mp3 player, some of the 501st loops from Youtube and some real world that aren't TOO obviously real world.
I figure at con, in the press of people, nobody will notice or care that it's TK's/TD's reporting in or that they are hearing actual radio chatter from Vietnam. 
Still need to pick up an Aker and mike and a 3.5mm jack splitter. Figuring on adding the Aker up front somewhere, running the chatter player to both the radiobox speakers and the aker for a 3 speaker setup.

color wise im repainting myself a bit. going camouflaged in 3 or 4 tone OD, tan and 2 shades of umber/red in a 1/4" hexagon pattern. unless it ends up looking horrendous in paint testing.
need to acquire some of the metal wax stuff Spanner used ages ago as well, my armor is too clean and unsullied.

[Dresdon Acacin]

Ive actually got comm chatter on a soundboard for my helmet with a tiny momentary switch behind my left earcap that plays the comm audio from Republic Commando  looped over to fill a 200second soundboard.  Its still a WIP(nothigns isntalled) but itll either be RC or CoD comm chatter, definetly leaning towards RC though, I got the comm sound effects on a youtube sound effects compilation, trimmed the mp3 file to what I needed, and then converted that to WAV file

[Ghostwalker]

man I've been lazy! 5 months on and nothing done..
Talking to a friend looking to build his first Mando, linked my thread and realized how long it's been.

Finally got some 5S done on my living room and my workspace. It got to the point where I couldn't work due to being buried with stuff needing to be worked on.

Currently sorting some 60-70lbs of plastic, steel, titanium, carbide and aluminum greeblies I've acquired over the last 6 months.
Piles and piles of tubes, straight-bent-manifold tubing, nozzles, muzzle breaks, darts, nuts - bolts - clamps, gears, end caps, knurled bits, nipples, BTE's, thermal detonator bodies, real buttons, fake buttons, LED's, battery packs, power banks, vent covers, fake vent covers, corrugated steel tubing, cnc machined manifolds. I almost have enough credits for a Masters in Industrial Dumpster Diving .. or a new hyperdrive on Tatooine.
 
I expect to take another week to get done sorting by type and project before I even attempt to finish any projects I've started.
Really want to finish that rifle and the leg armor before AllCon comes around again.