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Admiral Ackbar and Mon Calamari characters
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FitKisto88
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Aug '06
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Date Posted:
6/25/07 3:12pm
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Admiral Ackbar and Mon Calamari characters
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6/25/07 3:16pm (2 edits total)
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FitKisto88
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I've noticed there is no information listed for Admiral Ackbar costumes on the faq section. And I couldn't find any direct reference on the search function either.
Do any long-time board members remember if costumes for this character/species were covered on this forum in recent years?
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rodan70
Title: President/CR SIJO FF
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Apr '02
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Date Posted:
8/1/07 3:16pm
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RE: Admiral Ackbar and Mon Calamari characters
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Admiral ackbar would be a cool costume. and not too hard to make either
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Jedi-Loreen
Title: OCSWS Secretary
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Dec '02
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Date Posted:
8/1/07 5:01pm
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RE: Admiral Ackbar and Mon Calamari characters
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I don't remember anything about this costume here in the last few years.
The hardest part of this costume seems to be procuring the hands. I know of several people in the Rebel Legion who have been looking for hands for months and haven't located any.
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Zoom_Cthooga
Title: Former Southern CO Chapter Rep
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Jun '04
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Date Posted:
9/5/07 9:31pm
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RE: Admiral Ackbar and Mon Calamari characters
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Somewhere in my "Room of Projects I Put On Hold When I Started Grad School and Then Forgot About After I Finished Because I Got Sucked Into WoW" is a set of Calamari hand sculpts that I was going to use for my Calamari Jedi when I made one.
I'll try to dig them up this weekend and hope that nothing's been piled on top of them, or fallen next to them. 
I have the head mostly done, too, but I keep it out in the family room to scare children. My workshop's currently full of enough lumber for a 240 foot fence, sooooo once I've got that up in the next month I'll have space again to actually try pulling a mold off it. Which, I might add, I'm scared to death to do. It's pretty big, and the mold will be huge, especially since I'd prefer to do it out of foam latex, or maybe a really light and flexible foam urethane that I can coat with latex so it doesn't come out all clunky and floppy like the lame Don Post or Rubies masks.
Something like say...a Nerf Mon Calamari Muppet head.
 
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rodan70
Title: President/CR SIJO FF
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Date Posted:
1/25 10:19pm
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RE: Admiral Ackbar and Mon Calamari characters
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How the Heck can you make Admiral Ackbar's arms and hands? Any Ideas?
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Zoom_Cthooga
Title: Former Southern CO Chapter Rep
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Date Posted:
1/28 4:29pm
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OH HAI.
Oddly 'nuff, I finally got the workshop cleaned out a couple of weekends ago. Looks like I need to update my links, too. Oops. 
For the heads/hands I was just planning on casting a thin skin of rubber and fill it with some polyfoam to give it structure. That's...the over-simplified idea, anyway. The head is going to be a multiple-part mold with an insert to give enough space to fit your head inside. Same thing with the hands, too.
Oh, and on the hands -- I took castings of each arm from about mid-bicep to my fingertips, and I sculpted the Calamari details on top of those. I made them a little oversized -- I'm only 5'8" and realize that if I ever duplicated these for someone else, it would be nice if they fit a wider range of sizes.
I've also been clean of WoW for a little over 4 weeks, now, so I may actually be posting some real progress pics on this and a couple other projects soon. Maybe even a tutorial, too, if I feel ambitious. I found a couple of the videos off that site somewhat helpful, too.
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Zoom_Cthooga
Title: Former Southern CO Chapter Rep
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Date Posted:
1/28 4:39pm
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Hopefully in the next month I'll have an almost finished product and will just have to learn how to airbrush latex on latex.
I don't have any intentions of making an Ackbar costume, though. A bunch of friends and I used to play Star Wars Galaxies a lot, and I always thought that if I ever did a Jedi costume, it would have to be my SWG Jedi.  And with the Legacy comics being out, doing a Sith-tattooed Calamari would be sweet, too.
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rodan70
Title: President/CR SIJO FF
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Date Posted:
2/3 4:52pm
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RE: Admiral Ackbar and Mon Calamari characters
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That's really cool and helpful. Thank you. Keep us posted.
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Zoom_Cthooga
Title: Former Southern CO Chapter Rep
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Date Posted:
2/4 10:37am
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Happy to say that I now have a mold of the head! There were a few times when I thought the whole thing would crash and burn, but I guess being patient paid off.
It only took...umm...120 pounds of hydrostone, and about 12 hours in a 30-40 degree garage over the course of the weekend to do. It's a 2-part beast. Yoiks. Got a lot of pics, and am working on a tutorial. The mold itself is massive, and doing the initial slip cast is going to be rough. I've casted numerous Klingon prosthetics and superhero eyemasks, but I think the heaviest mold I've ever had to deal with was maybe 15 pounds, and they were all pretty 2-dimensional and required very little movement to get the latex where I needed it.
It's going to take all week to clean up this mold. Will post pics once it looks pretty.
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