General Obi-Wan Kenobi TCW S1 W.I.P. by LMC3

lmc3 () · Last edited by lmc3 () on Thu Nov 16, 2017 5:46 am; edited 1 time in total

After unsuccessfully trying to get started on this costume for a couple of years (finding a good tailor is not an easy task!), I'm finally ready to roll! All the pieces of the puzzle have been assembled and now I just need to do the work.

What I'm working with:

My thanks to Kevin @ Imperial Surplus, Warren @ Tailors of Mos Eisley, and Shay Kenobi here on the forum for all of their help/advice in getting to this point!

My goal is to have this completed and approved for Celebration! Looking forward to comments / feedback to help me get this finished! ^_^

Cheers,
Leonard

Kaall Ytan () · Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2017 3:31 am Post subject:

Looking forward to seing how you handle the chestplates and collar.
I got the same kit from KWDesigns and have had little feedback or finished pictures from Kevin for the assembly of those parts.

Shaugi () · Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2017 7:26 pm Post subject:

ooooh.....didn't know Kevin did the chest armour piece too Surprised

lmc3 () · Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2017 5:03 am Post subject:

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lmc3 () · Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2017 5:07 am Post subject:

Got my legs, shoulder bells, and hand plates trimmed up. Still need to sand them down but, hey, it's progress! Started on one of the arms today - hoping to be done trimming up parts by the end of this week. Will post some more pics then.

Kaall Ytan () · Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2017 7:59 pm Post subject:

lmc3 () · Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2017 4:14 pm Post subject:

Thanks for the info on how you did the collar Kaall! Still thinking about how to do that myself. I noticed in that other "Mythos" build thread that it appeared to be a rubber collar all around. Interesting.

Anyway, finished trimming up biceps and forearms last weekend. Hoping to get everything sanded down and start assembling some parts this weekend. ^_^

blitz1027 (Zadok) · Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2017 6:31 pm Post subject:

Something you should be aware of that I noticed from the pics you posted is that your boots are the realistic (movie) version of the clone boots and not the animated style of clone boots.

In TCW Obi-Wan wears animated style clone boots not the Realistic version
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lmc3 () · Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2017 7:34 pm Post subject:

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lmc3 () · Posted: Fri Apr 21, 2017 7:13 pm Post subject:

Sorry for the lack of updates over the past 2 months. Work, life, etc... My goal of finishing in time for Celebration did not happen. Not much progress to report other than continued trimming and sanding of the parts. I ended up having to get a new Dremel as the first one I bought was just too underpowered for some of the thicker armor parts.

I did finally get around to gluing one of the forearms and one of the biceps. Decided to go the e6000 route. Takes a lot more time to dry than CA glue, but wanted to have the flexibility of pulling it apart if I made a mistake.

lmc3 () · Posted: Sat Aug 05, 2017 8:21 pm Post subject:

Not a ton of progress since my last post, although I did get some advice regarding the seamless join of the armor and long story short, I need to re-do my armor. Good thing I used e6000! So, I will be working on that this weekend.

Also, moving my pics from Photobucket to another service and will update the links.

Lora Skywalker () · Posted: Sat Aug 05, 2017 8:22 pm Post subject:

Good luck with all of that. Smile

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lmc3 () · Posted: Thu Nov 16, 2017 5:50 am Post subject:

Finally got my picture links restored. Hope to have time to post some updates on my build in the near future.

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