Trimming the arms..

I've always observed Chewie to have slender arms. I've also noticed that he has more fur around the wrists, a look I wanted to imitate.

Using my trusty Anakin the mannequin - I trimmed the arm hair that hangs down so it will give the illusion of vein slightly shorter than the wrist/hands. Not a lot taken off but just enough to tell ;-)

Weather that leather!

Not one for the fresh out of the box look, I like Chewie from the OT.. Filthy and worn!

So my bando needed ageing..

Tools:

Dark tan polish, cooking oil,180 grit sand paper, and a shoe polishing brush.

Before:

After:

Then I did a little on the bando itself

End to end, right hand side is much older looking, worn, shiny areas and rough scuffed areas.

Widening the tache

So the last little bit of punching to do on the tache, the cleft area!

I had previously silicone glued the hair up to the centre, but always meant to punch the last few rows in and add to the nostril/nose area to make a more realistic finish 

Starting to add some in :

After I did both sides and hair sprayed those suckas down!

You can see they are up to and just inside the nostrils now and towards the eye 

Tweaking the toes :-)

So I'd noticed the toenails were a little white... So I've made them more natural... And filthed them up again!!

Before

After

Much better!

Foot bump solution

So this is a long standing issue for stilt wearers... The transition from your toes to the stilt toes... It creates a bump in your leg which looks unnatural...

Here's my solution

Bandolier part 2

So I noticed the bandolier strap rings we'rent accurate..

I personally think they used O-rings but you just can't tell

Left Is original 

Right is my newly updated accurate version of the belt ends.

I then installed 3 snaps every 3 boxes so that when I put the bando on I can click it to the body suit

Little billy goats beard!

I've noticed in ANH from the side that Chewie has a kind of goatee 

So I've copied that idea :-)

I then decided I would do some dental world, and cut off the end of the tongue at the back of the mouth.

This bit was rubbing against my chin, not something I'd usually admit to!! 

Trial run!

So the head is almost finished.. Testing out the suit this weekend!

Bandolier accuracy

So I'm updating that bando!

Improved, more screen accurate you cry?? Damn straight it can be improved! 

Here's how I've adjusted mine tonight

Original

Marking out using OT photos

Cut using very sharp Stanley 

Trimming the grey part 2...

A minor update... Trimmed the nose to forehead grey hair and the around re forehead grey right down. Still not enough yet but I need some hair spray and hair brushes to start the girly stuff.

Being a burly mans man I dot own that sorta kit ;-)

This Helped assure me I was going in the right direction and it was coming along ok :-)

Trimming grey facial fur

So I attempted two things tonight...adding more hair to the eyes and trimming the grey on the nose and tache.

There are rolled up papers in the eyes to help the hair glue to the edges 

 Looks great! Still needs stylig etc, but potentially I can see this being perfect!

Still needs a little grey trimming from the nose, but it's hard to tell until they have been combed and blended :-)

Moustache and nose - the greys!

Ok so I've been doing a little tache work. ;-)

I decided to blend a little extra brown into the tache mix just to keep it s little more natural

I use this sculpting tool to spread a really thin layer of silicone

So managed to glue both sides, up to the cleft centre - where i will later punch a small amount of hairs in for effect

Then I did the same to the top of the nose. This will be trimmed right down later

Nose and chin

Heeeeead, shoulders, nose and chin, nose and chin!

Starting to add hair up to the nose. This is still glued down.

Now starting to punch hair into the silicone...

They start with 15 or so hairs, next row is 10, then 5 or so, til I will be down to single hairs!

 

Head fur reaching finale!

Getting really close to adding the finishing touches! My god I'm tired...

Wookiee fluff takes so long to apply... What a diva! Can't wait to one day walk into a posh salon and say "a little off the top please"

So I detailed the nose a tad, I wasn't happy with the current 'skin'

I then added some more black silicone 

It's a little bobbly but it'll dull down when matted. I actually think it's more natural..

I also started approaching the eyes..

Closing in

Small update. Did a little more tonight, using thicker/wider strands of hair as it makes no difference but speeds up the process!

Getting there, hair!

This is going on pretty fast, but I'm not rushing it :-) trying to be neat and precise..

Trying to figure out how the overlaps are going to look wheni get to the ends nearest the nose/mouth.... Hmmmm

Rawrrrrr!!!!!