Documenting My Journey to Becoming Boba Fett
Many have been asking about getting a set of the button greeblies, so I am now offering a full set for purchase!
Now, your Mandalorian style Scout Trooper Tote Bag can look exactly like the screen used prop from season 1 of “The Mandalorian”!
Free Comic Book Day at ACME
ACME Comics & Collectibles
Sioux City, Iowa
Great day for a troop. We even made the local news!
While I don’t have a Mandalorian style Scout Trooper costume, I thought it would be fun to make a Tote Bag from season 1 of “The Mandalorian”…
The bag that was used on the actual prop is an English World War 2 era pack (model P37). I was lucky enough to acquire one before word got out. Now, it’s a lot tougher to find them, and the prices have gone way up. Anyway, the strap connects to the small straps on the bag, so you just have to eyeball it and make your marks…
Since the material is so hard to cleanly drill through, I decided to try applying super glue to the area and then drilling through it after it was dry…
This method makes drilling the holes a lot easier. You just have to keep applying more super glue as you drill down…
Marking the second set of holes…
This is where they will be drilled…
Here is the back side after the binding screws were installed…
And, the front view…
The same steps were repeated for the other end of the strap. And, here’s the finished prop…
Many have been asking about getting a set of the button greeblies, so I am now offering a full set for purchase!
Complete with a captured Grogu. I will just do a little more weathering, mainly to the button bar, but I’m calling this complete…
While I don’t have a Mandalorian style Scout Trooper costume, I thought it would be fun to make a Tote Bag from season 1 of “The Mandalorian”…
The strap that was used on the actual prop is a belt that is currently available. I got this one from Amazon…
The first step is to add the metal loops that are used to connect the strap to the bag. I used a Sharpie to mark the location for the holes that need to be drilled…
Then, I drilled through the strap material…
The weave of the belt makes it a bit tough to get nice defined holes…
I decided to use super glue to seal the edges so they don’t unravel…
These are the metal loops that are used to make the connection…
After the metal loop is slid on, the belt is folded over and silver binding screws are used to secure it in place…
The view of the back side…
At the other end of the belt, the buckle and other hardware needs to be removed…
The back side of the buckle end…
Using a flat screwdriver, the rivet tops were easily popped off…
Then a pair of pliers was used to remove the remaining bits of rivet…
I used my exacto knife to cut the stitch that runs near the buckle…
With the stitch removed, the buckle parts were easily removable…
After sliding the metal loop on, the binding screws simply use the same holes that the original rivets used…
back side of this end of t he strap…
While I don’t have a Mandalorian style Scout Trooper costume, I thought it would be fun to make a Tote Bag from season 1 of “The Mandalorian”…
Time to assemble the parts…
I first drilled some holes for the small screws…
Then created the countersinks on the back…
Here’s how the countersinks look with the screw…
Which leaves this much of the screw to secure the buttons…
The button next to the exposed screw…
After wet sanding the front of the aluminum bar with fine grit sandpaper, I added a piece of tape to act as a guide and placed my template below to help align the buttons…
The buttons were then super glued into place…
Once the super glued was dry, I drilled small holes and added the screws. They also got a bit of super glue to keep them from backing out…
I also added some super glued to the treads of the screws from the front…
The red button lenses were re-installed…
Then the small nail head was super glued into place…
Here’s the completed button bar attached to the flap of the bag…
Many have been asking about getting a set of the button greeblies, so I am now offering a full set for purchase!
While I don’t have a Mandalorian style Scout Trooper costume, I thought it would be fun to make a Tote Bag from season 1 of “The Mandalorian”…
The parts were all wet-sanded, and then sprayed with a final coat of paint…
The parts after the paint has dried…
The parts temporarily placed on the aluminum bar…
Many have been asking about getting a set of the button greeblies, so I am now offering a full set for purchase!
While I don’t have a Mandalorian style Scout Trooper costume, I thought it would be fun to make a Tote Bag from season 1 of “The Mandalorian”…
After drying overnight, the parts were sprayed with a few coats of primer and paint. This will help fill in all of the remaining print lines. They’ll now be left to dry, again…
Many have been asking about getting a set of the button greeblies, so I am now offering a full set for purchase!
While I don’t have a Mandalorian style Scout Trooper costume, I thought it would be fun to make a Tote Bag from season 1 of “The Mandalorian”…
A few layers of filler applied to fill in all of the print lines…
After the filler was dry, it was sanded smooth…
Many have been asking about getting a set of the button greeblies, so I am now offering a full set for purchase!
