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Here’s your befalling to accomplish your actual own Jabba the Hut out of irrigation tubing, foam, LOTS of hot cement and a few added supplies. Booty some pics and accelerate them to us!
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Video afterwards the jump.
The food were appealing basic:
* 3/4″ central bore semi-rigid irrigation tubing. This is the being you would coffin in your backyard for sprinklers. This was about $30 for 50′, and we concluded up application a LOT added than we thought… about the accomplished role!
* 1″ blubbery cream added acclimated for mattresses. This came from a abatement abundance (Building 19). We concluded up application 5 or 6 queen sized mattress sheets. It was about $20 a sheet
* A abate bulk of 2″ and 1/2″ foam. 2″ for the lower anatomy and 1/2″ for the features
* LOTS of hot glue. TONS of it… apparently 6 big accoutrements of the 12″ sticks from a accouterments store
* The bark is “Jet Set” from Joann fabrics. Basically non agleam spandex. I anticipate we acclimated 20 yards of it. Yay for 1/2 off coupons!
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* 3M 77 aerosol adhesive. This is how the bark sticks to the foam. We acclimated 4 cans.
* Bright artificial bowls for the eyes. We corrective the abdomen of the bowls, so the alfresco shiny. This is a little tricky, but I’ll get into that later.
* Paint. All sorts of stuff! The abject covering was 1 gallon of animal chicken abode paint. We attenuated it out a LOT (2 genitalia baptize to 1 allotment paint) and sprayed it assimilate him with a pump aerosol acclimated for backyard chemicals. Not so acceptable for the aerosol (or my driveway!), but it did the trick.
* Assorted lengths of PVC pipe. These are acclimated for the arms, the tail, and whatever abroad seems acceptable at the time.
OK, abundant words, let’s get some pictures!
This is Jabba’s skeleton. We took the irrigation tubing and angled it into a ship’s bark blazon shape. It is cantankerous anchored and busted calm to authority that shape, aback this blazon of tubing will eventually backslide aback to a straighter position.
The 2″ cream was busted to the aqueduct all around. This makes up Jabba’s lower body. We larboard one ancillary open, area the appendage will join.
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We fabricated a covering like abutment for the head. 2 lengths of tube angled to arches and busted together. We acclimated a few 8″ lenghts of PVC to act as couplers amid the lower anatomy and the upper, so that the covering supports can bead in. You can see that here:
Next is his head. We took a area of cream and aloof threw it over the arch supports, again drew curve on it with a bilker area it looked like it should be cut. We again hot alert the edges of the cream calm to anatomy the basal shape. The appendage was fabricated the aforementioned way… aloof booty the sheet, aberration and about-face it til it looked good, again cut and glue.
Then a allotment of cream was added in to one ancillary to ample out the blow of the armpit area:
A quick carve with a knife, and Jabba was accessible for a snack!
Mark, the capital artistic force abaft the architecture techniques and detailing, spent the black alive on affection buildup. He took the thinner cream and cut it to shape, again hot alert it area it was needed.
At this point we capital to accomplish abiding that the skinning action was activity to assignment so we jumped advanced to that allotment of things and skinned the tail:
The bark was done by blanket the cream in aerosol adhering again agreement the bolt bottomward on it, folding the bolt the way that Jabba’s bark is folded.
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After the aboriginal annular of skinning, we fabricated the appropriate arm. Aforementioned deal, acid cream and hot gluing it together.
We again skinned the high body, aforementioned way as the tail. The accoutrements are captivated to the anatomy via continued strips of bolt alert to the anatomy and the arm. The adaptable bolt lets the accoutrements move freely.
Next came the painting. This allotment was fun. We went to Home Depot to get some paint. We best up a gallon of abode acrylic that looked like a acceptable Jabba color. I acclimated a actinic aerosol from my barn to band it down. We attenuated it out 2:1 water:paint, and it went on analogously and fast!
Now to the eyes. We acclimated artificial bowls for the eyes, painting the insides. This is a ambagious way to paint. Normally, if you appetite a red apparent with a chicken band on it, you would acrylic the affair red, again put the chicken on top. When you are painting central a bright surface, you put the chicken first, again the red. So it took a bit of mapping out colors to get it right.
And there they are. We fabricated abiding to get the askew eyes that Jabba generally has.
The detail painting was done via airbrush, and absolutely brought out his features:
The aftermost detail was the mouth. It is absolutely simple… a blush bolt bag sewn up and alert to the central of his mouth, again airbrushed to accent bottomward the colors a bit. A aperture was cut in the basal of the bag, and the argot was alert in. The argot is a allotment of 1/2″ cream with the bolt aerosol alert to it The bolt wraps about and is alert calm underneath. This lets you ability into the argot from the central to move it.
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