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Finished Clone Trooper boots

admin — Thu, 20 May 2010 02:39:25 +0000

We’ve finished the clone trooper boots, sent them off and got them back. The customer has wanted them to make a larger statement visually to make his feet look more in proportion with the armor. To accomplish that we used a heavier leather, a round toe and added a quarter of an inch to the sole height. Right idea but it tipped over toward the clown shoe look when he put them on. Would have been perfect on a taller person, however …. We are going to go back to a regular last for him and reconstruct the boots. It’s one of those idea that looks good on paper but didn’t translate well.

Boot for Clone Trooper

Toe detail for Clone Trooper boot

The Florida squadron standardized the style for the boot and adds an ABS plastic band across the arch and a piece of ABS plastic “armor” on the top of the toe piece. They make and provide those pieces and we add the snaps so that they can be set in place. The two guys who make them will provide them to anyone wishing to use their design.

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Clone Trooper boots in progress

admin — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 01:29:19 +0000

With the very specific specifications that the Tampa clone trooper group had settled on for their boots, we decided to make a vinyl mock-up for fit and to allow the the details to be drawn directly on the boots. That would insure that the finished boots would exactly meet their design specs. We also asked for a sample of the armor pieces that were going to be provided by their armor maker so that the attachment points would match the pieces. Since the boots had never actually been made we modified the design to include a zipper on the inside of the boots so it would tuck up under the leg armor. Everything is back from the fitting and we can start the actual boots.

Mock-up with design details

Toe detail on mock-up

Existing boot for reference

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Clone Trooper and Final Fantasy Boots

admin — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 23:23:20 +0000

I had an old customer contact me last year to make him a pair of Clone Trooper boots from the Star Wars movies. The research turned up no pictures of actual footwear but the information that the armor had all been computer generated. Major gasp of surprise! I dug out the Visual Dictionaries and went through the pictures. It was an interesting meeting at the shop. We had plenty of time since the armor was still in production and there was really no deadline. The guys made up nine different sets of bits and pieces to try to get something that you could actually get your foot into and would look like the pictures. Since the bottom of the boot looked like it had been inspired by some sort of sport shoe, we did a soft toe. To get the seamless look of no opening, added a zipper in the front which would be covered by a molded leather spat attached with Velcro. Then added the strap. It actually was a very close real world interpretation of the Elite Clone Trooper picture that we used as a reference.

We’ve had another request for a pair and he’d like them more as a pull on boot. Since he’s not opposed to adding a zipper on the inside of the boot, we can use a more conventional type of construction. He, however has armor issues that we’ll need to address. The back of the leg armor is rubbing holes in the boots he’s now using.

The troops had just finished patting themselves on the backs for pulling off the Clone boots when a request for a boot based on his Final Fantasy character arrived. That one just required cleaning up a computer generated drawing. Pulled that one off too.

white Clone Trooper boots

boots for Final Fantsy character

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