Yeah, right now I'm thinking I'll just order the IB robes. I'm talking to a local seamstress about making gloves and recovering a pair of boots I found. If we can't find suede that matches the robes well enough I'll probably just bite the bullet and buy from IB. Luckily all together, the individual ...

Thanks for the reply! Yeah, right now I've found a local seamstress but it looks like it may cost me more to go through her than to actually buy from IB. I think my next plan is to ask if she's got any tips/experience with recovering boots and/or making gloves. If she can at least do that, that'll s...

Small update, I've been talking to a member here and a local one from my garrison. Currently debating between getting IBs robes or attempting to make my own. Just waiting on the patterns in the Tutorial subforum to get an update. (Anyone know what's going on there?) I'm looking at Fenix Props for th...

Question for you (and anyone that has experience with this): I noted that IB states their inner robes are made of velveteen. The CRL for the ROTJ guard says it shutoff be velvet cloth, which, according to a friend of mine, is velvet in and of itself not velveteen. Is all of that correct and if so do...

Alright, yeah, under armor/tights noted. My wife should be picking up vision insurance for us through her job soon. When I go in for a checkup I'll see what they suggest.

Fair enough on the pants. I had considered that it might be rather warm but I didn't want to be the only pantsless guard out there XD I'll take a look at fabric.com, thanks. There is one other place here at home I need to double check as well. Good tip on getting old/cheap bedsheets as a test! Good ...

Well, I should start one of these sooner or later huh? Right now I don't have any physical progress done on my build but I do have some things in mind and I've got a few questions to help sort out the rest. First up, the helmet. I've been looking at the Fenix Props kit. Does anyone have experience w...