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Adalia-Durron
Title: Oceania RSA
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Date Posted:
10/6/05 6:48am
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RE: Mara Jade costume
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LOL! Its easy to explain.....at least I think it is, I've never really tried. I just 'hang' with other Kypites, and as they understand, there is nothing to explain! 
But Mara is the lady that rocks......for sure.
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JediRacer8
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Kyp is sexy. Enough said  Except for that horrible pic in the character guide where he resembles Conan.
I talked to the woman at the herb store I go to about henna dyes once. She didn't have any packaged kits but showed me the henna powders she had. No red unfortunately unless I wanted to special order some. She said you mix the powder with some other stuff and work it through your hair like a gel, but she had never personally tried it. It stains very dark and very easily so you would have to be really careful not to stain your bathtub or sink. I didn't order any because I either want a dye that will last several months, or one that will wash out right away (I don't want to keep re-coloring every month). Plus the fact that she had never tried it herself scared me a little as I didn't want to be the guinea pig.
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Adalia-Durron
Title: Oceania RSA
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Date Posted:
10/17/05 7:27am
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RE: Mara Jade costume
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My Completed Mara...
Taken yesterday at Supa Nova Convention in Sydney with the Terror Australis Garrison - 501st. 
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Minder
Title: Former FF City Rep Ottawa, ON
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Date Posted:
10/17/05 9:29am
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The link wont work for me, it says Forbidden 
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SilverJedi331
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I saw some good fabric at Wal Mart a little while ago. and i just bought some material for the holster for 3.97 a yard.
I tried the sandpaper technique. I bought the finest sandpaper there was. its still a bit shiney but not as much as before. im not sure if I want to take a heavier sandpaper to it, so i think im just going to leave it as is.
I also bought the material for the cape, which i'll be working on without a pattern, so wish me luck. hopefully i can pull this off hehe.
question: where can i find a decent inexpensive blaster? with buying all the other parts to the costume im a little broke, so anything that looks similar would be good for now.
Also, with the hair dye, Henna sticks to your hair like permanent dye and wont wash out, so if youre looking for something temporary, i probably wouldnt use that. I've been trying to get my hair to be a decent red color. the last one i tried was Hydrience. and even though it was supposed to be permanent, it washed out in about 2 weeks leaving me with a dull coppery color. but the initial color was a really nice fiery red. I know they make a semi-permanent dye also. ive used it before and it seemed to wash out pretty well. but it also depends on what kind of hair you have. my hair rejects hair dye for some reason and wont dye easily, so i sometimes end up having to use two boxes instead of one. I was thinking of doing Feria next. I'm on a mission to find something, anything, that will come close to what i want.
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ThePariah
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Date Posted:
10/17/05 12:40pm
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Have you tried Herbal Essences? Everyone says it's good. (That's the brand Zahn used. ) Stay away from Garnier 100% brand reds, though--my mom once tried it and the color was horrid. Regular Garnier is fine.
Hey, if you're looking for a cheap blaster, how about asking "Reaper" Ed for help? I got my Princess Leia sporting blaster from him for only $25, because it's just a super-light plastic gun with a long muzzle epoxyed onto it. Ed is your man for all your blaster needs.
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Jade-Walker
Title: FanForce Commander
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Date Posted:
10/17/05 2:13pm
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My blaster is a glock style child's gun. Its in the holster all the time anyways, so doesn't really matter what it looks like for my costume.
My belting is real leather that I dyed and finished myself and then had a shoe repair guy in my town piece all the parts together for me. Expensive but worth every penny! I used a bridle piece for the circle in the back. Its very pretty, although you never really get to see it because of the cape.
As far as the cape goes, when you make it, don't make the shoulders too defined. Keep all the pieces almost like triangles--no curve for the shoulder. Capes come out much better that way.
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Darth_Lego_Maul
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10/17/05 4:53pm
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I have her outfit down and I have a really good wig for the costume (my hair is pretty short and won't work for any costume). I'm wondering what people did for the other parts of the costume, such as the gloves. I'm also wondering if people made their lightsabers. I'm guessing that you did because the pictures look good, but if you didn't you did a good job of finding ones that really work in the pictures.
I apologize if all of this was covered not too long ago. I did look through several pages of posts, but I have fractured my back so, as you can imagine, I am not currently functioning at the best of my ability.
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Adalia-Durron
Title: Oceania RSA
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10/17/05 6:54pm
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Sorry, my last link didnt work....this is the Terror Australis 501st taken Sunday at Supa Nova in Sydney. And thats me in my Mara in the front row with 'Anakin' 
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Jade-Walker
Title: FanForce Commander
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Date Posted:
10/18/05 5:13am
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LEGO: My gloves are just leather gloves I bought at K-Mart. Sabers can go a couple of ways. You can do the FX Mace--right color but wrong hilt. Or a graflex hilt. Or the Anakin FX would work since its like Luke's ESB one. Or the actual Mara hilt. Parks made the original for Decipher. That's what I have as well as a Luke ESB saber. Depends on what version of Mara you're going for.
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Lelila_
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10/18/05 6:46am
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If you're going darker with the color, it will last no matter what type (permanent or semi). Henna lasts about 6-8 weeks, and is really good for your hair, so that may actually be the way to go. The wash-out types won't show up in red tones at all.
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Lelila_
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Jade-Walker, where did you find a children's toy handgun? I haven't been able to find any remotely realistic-looking guns for a while.
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Jade-Walker
Title: FanForce Commander
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Date Posted:
10/18/05 1:44pm
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I found it at Party City. It has a red tip that I really need to do a paint job on. Otherwise its fine
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seswa
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Date Posted:
10/19/05 1:37pm
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i just wanted to say thanks to everyone on this thread, as i got some really excellent ideas and tips from ya'll.
pics of me in version 1 Mara:
http://www.nwaflorida.com/mara/pages/DSC_0131_jpg.htm
Pics of me in version 2 Mara:
http://www.nwaflorida.com/mara2/
im still not 100% happy with the top (it flattens my chest out) but its something that only i seem to notice when at events so it works for now.
now on to the next botched attempt at sewing!
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Jade-Walker
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Date Posted:
10/19/05 6:50pm
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That looks great Nice job.
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