build your own tusken raider thread

[MANDO]

Wow that looks great! :clap Real metal?

 

[Boba Ben]

Looks amazing.

 

[FLOSI]

Yup, aluminum tubing. Worked great! I'll be putting together a second sometime soon. Thanks Ben and Mando!

 

[Niltusk]

Brilliant custom work gents. Anyone ever attempt a female?

 

[bidufarewell]

Re-did my Tusken Raider head. All aluminum eyes, tusks and horns now. The only thing Hasbro is the mouth/nose.

Perfection!:clap

 

[barryo]

awesome work flosarita.........:clap

did you use a dremmel to cut those vents in the eye tubes?........nice touch however you did it.

 

[j14]

Thats looking great Chaka.

I love how the wrappings look so natural and did you use leather straps around the mouth piece?

 

[FLOSI]

:wave Thanks Barry. Yeah, I just dremeled away some slots at the base there.

j14, I'm not sure if you were talking abuut my head or one Chaka did earlier but I did use leather wrappings around the mouth piece.

 

[j14]

:wave Thanks Barry. Yeah, I just dremeled away some slots at the base there.

j14, I'm not sure if you were talking abuut my head or one Chaka did earlier but I did use leather wrappings around the mouth piece.

Well bugger me...sorry Flosi for some reason I had a brain fart and thought this was Chakas thread, many apologies.

I really like what you've done with this guy.

How small is that aluminum tubing???

I may have to "borrow" some of your ideas when I eventully get around to going this guy.

Jay.

 

[FLOSI]

I can get you the measurments when I get home, j. Like I was saying, I'm going to start a new one. With this head I removed the Hasbro pieces I had in place, drilled holes and then glued in the metal bits. For the second I'm going to start with a bare head and place the metal parts prior to doing the wraps. I'm hoping I can get the placement of evertything a bit better. Guess I better hit up ebay for a new TR so I can get going on it.

 

[feroze13]

Looks fantastic Flosi!!!

 

[Chakaman]

Flosi, that head is SPOT ON. Superb job. :clap :clap

I used plastic tubes painted silver. I too only used the mouhtpiece, the Hasbro eye tubes are too big in my opinion. Yours looks much better than the one I did a while back. It looks like you are holding a lifesize head! So cool!

Here is the one I did a couple of years ago, as you can see it needs an upgrade.

 

[FLOSI]

Thank you, Chaka! I think that head looks great, like all of your work.

I'll get the measurements posted on here soon for the tubing I used. The eyes are about as wide as the openings for the Hasbro eyes. As for the tusks I used two sets of tubes, one that was just wide enough for the other slip inside to get that layered effect. Anyone with a Dremel and a cutting attachment can whip the parts up pretty quick, assuming you wanted to put a new one together.

I’m ready to do another but the issue I'm having is finding a Tusken Raider for a decent price on eBay... all the ones with Gaffi sticks are all BIN for over 25 bucks, which is silly for what I need. Guess I'm just being cheap. :lol

Anyone else swap out the middle section of their Gaffi stick for a smaller metal rod? Was thinking about doing that too.

 

[FLOSI]

I'm posting this here for my benefit as much as everyone elses :lol I thought I'd try my hand at building my next head in a similar way to how this guy is doing his 1:1 heads here.

https://www.tk1336.com/tuskenraider.html

 

[Chakaman]

Thanks for the link Flosi.

 

[FLOSI]

YW, Chaka! I was going to start working on the second head tonight but that might have to wait now....

How about bandoliers? Anyone have any suggestions?

These look good:
https://www.war-toys.com/nmfjammobandoliertan.aspx

https://www.war-toys.com/rickyfoster-thompsonammopouch.aspx

 

[Chakaman]

It looks like two Thompson ammo pouches along the waist and British 1903 bandoliers around the shoulders. There are a couple bandoliers on ebay, but $14 and overseas.

 

[FLOSI]

Ah, so the bandoliers are that old? I don't think I'll go with anything screen accurate, just going for a good overall look.

 

[barryo]

you could always cut the originals off the plastic belt and add your own cloth one..........you would just need to weather it some.

 

[Chakaman]

you could always cut the originals off the plastic belt and add your own cloth one..........you would just need to weather it some.

thats a great idea. I guess I had forgotton what the Hasbro bandoliers looked like.