hey guys adam savage here in my cave with a show and tell and shockingly it's chewbacca
related uh i am a avid chewbacca cosplayer i have taken chewbacca out and about at at least
three or four cons i have a stunning chewbacca costume made in part by mark puttenus of new
england wiki works and uh the mask was built by the incomparable tom spina and his incredible team
uh i recently did a one-day build of remaking my wookie feet
uh so the costume is much easier to wear now and all of that was sort of like a
pushing me towards really completing my chewy ensemble and that meant it was time
to make chewie's bow caster and i apologize to everybody i made this off camera yeah
it happens it happens it happens more frequently than you'd think um bowcasters
i have i have almost i think i have three full bow casters in various states
uh of broken and accurate and inaccurate over the years that i collected
a few years ago actually i think just a couple years ago i picked up a really nice vocaster kit
on the rpf and that's where the main frame of this came which is a casting out of the correct
out of the correct crossbow that the original bowcaster is built from
and as you're looking at close-up details of this bowcaster please if you're if you're a
real trooper you'll recognize that there's some things about this broadcaster that are
slightly out of cannon that are slightly not perfectly correct that's okay with me
after looking at dozens and dozens and dozens of pictures hundreds of pictures of bow
casters behind the scenes photos every image i could find every research thread on the rpf
uh or the various star wars groups uh after all of that research it's really hard to pinpoint
that there is a single er bow caster because sometimes it looks like it changes even from
scene to scene but what i attempted to do was a new hope bowcaster from the first star wars film
um i had two of the correct uh uh tasco scopes although these are a little too new they're a
reasonable form factor they're fine i had a morgan 13 built a single point scope which i cleaned up
painted and made a mount for these scope rings which you can see me tapping right here in this
close-up i built those myself yeah i built them out of delrin and i'm really pleased with how
they came out delrin in fact turned out to be the linchpin for this build all the big major
chunks in here including the front sight are all built out of the delrin and it's just it's much
easier to work with than steel or aluminum and for propage it's way more durable and lighter or it's
not more durable sorry it's not more durable but it's way lighter and it's way easier on my tools
to work with so delrin uh i think for gun stuff is going to be a much more regular go-to for me
um i then weathered this with some fuller's earth and some acrylic and oil washes and
i now have the bowcaster of my dreams this is this is my favorite bow caster it feels it doesn't just
look the part because it really does to me look the part when i put it on with my chewing costume
i will by the end of this video put on my true costume i promise when i put it on with
my chewy costume it also feels like chewie's bow caster should feel yeah it really does um
yeah that's a quick and dirty but this is my uh my beautiful my beautiful chewy bow caster um i
have one mod i'm thinking of making because this is very hard to transport i may at some point
take this front uh uh take the bow up here and i may hinge it i may make hinges so it folds down
and into itself um it's just so hard to move this thing around because it's three feet in
every dimension uh that may be something that i end up doing as a one-day build in a few weeks
or a few months who knows when inspiration will strike and now here are some shots of me with
my bow caster fully dressed up as chewbacca thank you guys for joining me i will see you next time
i think you would agree this is the right bill caster for my chewie i know
i know that this armor sling is not canon i know it's a little bit the wrong color
and the wrong shape i don't care i love how old it looks it's perfect for my bowcaster