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Dr Aphra - Frontcover Version


Tlana

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Hi!

 

I’m currently started to work on Dr Aphra. I choose the front cover version, which is a little bit different from the version inside the comic books.

- The belt buckle is round in state of square

- The vest has red shoulders

- The trousers are dark grey (or brown)

- The shirt has a round neck without slit in the front

- She’s got two blasters

Maybe this version isn’t approvable, because there aren’t so many reference images, but I prefer it, because the version shown inside the books looks to me a little bit too close to Han Solo (don’t get me wrong, I adore Han Solo). So I’ll do it anyway, although it could be that it will end up as a just-for-fun-costume and I hope if I share my pictures and experiences it’ll help other costume builders.

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Here are the pictures of the pilot cap I did in the last days. I used a solid piece of felt to build up the shape while the outside is made of nappa buckskin (and yes, I killed an old leather jacked of my husband for it, and yes, of course he knows).

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Based on your previous work, I am completely thrilled to see you working on something else. :)    

 

I look forward to watching this develop.

 

Please let us know if you need any assistance along the way.

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I wish you had a back image! This is coming along really nicely. Have you scoured the books for some back or side back shots??

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There are some backshots in the comic of this jacket version, but at the moment I'm in the middle of costume sewing for a friend. I'm going to upload those pictures as soon as possible.

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Hi guys!

 

I’m so excided, Dr Aphra will get her own comic series in December – yeah!

Finally the gloves are done. It took me three try’s to get a satisficed result (In the end I had to sew them together by hand, because the edges were too tricky to sew them properly by the machine. They are made of dark grey faux buckskin with red faux leather. I’m planning to make the jacket of the same material.

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Fantastic to hear I'm going to get a twin sister.

I had to make a short break in this project (because I'm helping a friend with her costume and it turned out it is much much more work than I expected) but I'm still in. The trousers are the last part I did so far. I'll load up pics as soon as I can.

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Your work is amazing! I cobbled together a quick Dr. Aphra getup out of duck tape & costume rental accessories for our Rogue One opening night (because Star Wars/why not?) & really want to make a (much more) more legit outfit. Actually why I'm in the Far Eclipse forum, to find out if anyone is working on her CRL or just an outfit in general. You're tops!

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Hi guys!

 

It’s been a long time since I was able to post some updates.

 

In the meantime Dr Aphra has got three more items:

 

the trousers

the T-shirt (I wonder if I should do a decent weathering, because it doesn’t look that white on the front cover).

the goggles / glasses

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still missing:

-the jacket

-the tattoos

-brown contact lenses (maybe)

-the boots (I’m thinking of pimping one pair of my officer boots)

-the belts

-the holster(s)

-and the gun(s)

 

I’m really unsure if there are indeed two guns. It seems to be a second one on the left side. It isn’t to see clearly and the thigh is missing. So it could be a bag too. There is a picture of an other front cover with two blasters (which doesn’t make any sense, because the scope of this DL-44 is on the wrong side to wear it properly on the left thigh). I identified three different blasters in Aphras hands so far,

a DL-44,

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a DH-17

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and a westar-34.

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Which one would be the best choice? Would you suggest one or two blasters?

I'm thankful for any advice.

 

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A warm hello from Switzerland!

 

I have an update. The belts are finished so far, but they could bear some weathering.

 

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In the meantime the tattoo test went terribly wrong.

 

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It looked nicely, but the colour didn't want to stay on the nylon sleeve but on my arm and I spent some time to clean up the grey mess on my skin. So I'm looking for other colour and maybe other material for the sleeve ...

 

 

 

 

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I took a nylon tight and and painted it with edding and alcohol. It didn't work. And a friend of mine told me that I have to use acid-based colour for nylon which is ususlly used for textile industries and not for end users like me, because it needs to be fixed with heat.

Hm ... okay, so I have to find another way. I liked the idea with the tights, because of its light and almost invisible texture.

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I used a sharpie for both of mine and it worked... reasonably well. When I was researching a while back, I saw something called Ink Effects that's supposed to be useful for making tattoo sleeves but haven't gotten a chance to try it yet.

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Hello chaosbria,

 

Sharpy didn't work. Maybe US nylon is different from European one. But anyway I was able to solve the problem with hair dye.

 

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Et voylà!

 

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I had the Idea with the hair dye because I messed a few weeks ago on my tights when I colored my hear. The blurs stayed on the thights.

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