darth_ender said:

Now speaking of all this filming action, no one has volunteered any ideas on how to obtain costumes. When we finally decide on what we're filming, where will we get the costumes?

I have a little experience with making big models too (like props and helmets and so on), so if we needed something like that making I might be able to help, but I cannot do material such as the cloth parts of the costumes.

However, there are already hundreds (if not thousands) of people around the world who make extremely accurate costumes and troop (dressing up for conventions, events, etc) in them. I would suggest first finding a film crew, then contacting the group of costumers closest to that filming crew's location.

For example I spoke to a few people near me a few years ago to try to find someone with a good wookiee costume. However, I would then need to find someone near me to film it too. Also I live in England and there are many more people who do this in America.

My recommendation would be find someone studying film making or something similar who lives near a location in America which could pass for Endor. Once that person agrees to film the shots we can find 'actors' who are local to that person, and either make costumes and send them over or find locals with suitable costumes. The downside once again is it is a lot to organise and thus a lot of ways for it to fail.