Preparing the pants
Having a pair of pants and being a costume builder at the same time is not always easy when paint and bondo are involved, so many of my pants were frequently stained with both or even more substances. Fortunately for my Grave Tusken costume, it needed a pair of filthy black pants anyway since the game model featured regular black pants for some strange reason.
The first step of converting these old filthy pants was to remove all labels and grind away the company logo from the waist button to make them look like pants from a galaxy far, far away.
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To me it seems a little odd that they made the Grave Tusken game model from the video game Jedi Knight have regular black pants with standard pockets on it, but that just made it all easier to make for the costume anyway, and both the pants and the hip pouch turned out looking good. Feel free to use any ideas from this tutorial, and good luck preparing your own Grave Tusken pants.
Project details
Project duration - 2 days.
Costs spent - $0 USD.
Accidents - Nope.
Thanks to
The company that made the pants.
Myself for not throwing away the filthy black pants.
The poor animal who's leather I used for the hip pouch.
Project details
Project duration - 2 days.
Costs spent - $0 USD.
Accidents - Nope.
Thanks to
The company that made the pants.
Myself for not throwing away the filthy black pants.
The poor animal who's leather I used for the hip pouch.
Even though the pants were already filthy and full of holes, some more filth and holes were added to make it look even more weathered and generally full of crap.
The Grave Tusken game model featured a black belt on the pants that had long slots instead of holes all along the way, and strangely enough this was just the sort of belt I had available for some reason.
I don't know why I always seem to have exactly what I need for these sorts of things.
I don't know why I always seem to have exactly what I need for these sorts of things.
And now, kids, it's time to make the hip pouch for the pants.
This was made out of a piece of leather that originated from the same jacket that the pauldrons were made of.
This was made out of a piece of leather that originated from the same jacket that the pauldrons were made of.
After the sides of the pouch were sewn together on the inside, the lid was cut out.
The black piece of leather that was featured on the game model was made out of the same leather than I used for the flak vest.
Another piece of the black leather was cut to a small drop shaped piece that was then equipped with Velcro.
The drop shaped piece was then sewn to the lid of the pouch, and another piece of Velcro was sewn onto the front of the pouch.
And sure enough I had just the right brown leather belt for the pouch too that looked nicely weathered and Tusken like.
Almost makes you think I have a machine here that can create whatever I need, doesn't it?
Well then wouldn't I just have made the machine create the whole costume all finished and screen accurate in the first place?
Almost makes you think I have a machine here that can create whatever I need, doesn't it?
Well then wouldn't I just have made the machine create the whole costume all finished and screen accurate in the first place?
Since the belt could easily wrap around a whale, some of it had to be cut away, and a few more holes were made with a hole punching tool.
And here you can see both the finished pants and the hip pouch, ready for plundering Jedi graves and other things.