How-to Make Starwars Boba Fett Arm Gauntlets Halloween Costume

This is how i made the arm gauntlets for my Boba Fett Starwars halloween costume. The professional ones run about $300 and since i had more time than i did money...i made my own. I did not document the building process, which took about a week but I will show you the different parts of construction of the gauntlets that may help someone else with their project.

Since there was not a a lot of information about making Boba Fett gauntlets, I was left to figure it out for myself... To start both gauntlets i needed something round to go over my forearms, so i went shopping at wal-mart and found tombstone flower vases...yes, the vases that sit on tombstones in the cemetery. I cut out the bottoms and pulled out all the styrofoam in them. Next i used a small bow saw and cut down the middle so they would expand over my hand when putting them on.

I used screws drilled through the inside/out to mount the foamboard. I cut out the shapes I needed based on pics of the arm gauntlets used in the movies, hot glued them into place and covered them with papermache. After everything dried, i gave them a coat of silver paint. let dry, used liquid latex to make battle worn scares, let dry, then the color paint.

This is the left arm gauntlet. Built the same as the right.

The LED stick lites really set the costume off.

I want to thank all those do-it-yourself Fett websites for helping me put mine together:

http://www.tk409.com/fett.html#

http://www.angelfire.com/scifi/cantinacostumes/BF_armor_inst_page.htm

http://www.darthblade.com/costumes/boba_fett/bobafett.htm

http://mercs.firespray.net/

http://www.bobamaker.co.uk/

http://www.stormtrooperguy.com/bobafett/

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