I think its no different than any costume... all depends on the quality lvl the person wants to obtain . I too am  working on a wookiee but I troop as Han Solo. I have seen many quality lvls of Han solo.., its to easy to be critical of other peoples work. What I try to do is give the costume a ver.#.. (Example )This is my Han Solo ver 1.0... 2.0 is in the works. I do not think making a difficult costume like a Wookiee is any different. We are limited with the skills we have, and learn as we go. Some would say the wookies that you see are a " Work in progress".

 

I had the great opportunity to meet Mat down at Dragon Con this year. He has one of the best Wookies out there, and yet even he will tell you that he has plans for change. I know he was not happy with his mask and was building a new one.

 

 

All depends on the quality lvl the person wants to obtain. I know most of these guys bust their butts to bring you what you see... and have plans for upgrades.

 

On a technical Note:

 

If a person was good with clay.. they could sculpt the wookie feet. Make a casting of the feet.... and use any number of products like Silicone foam to mold the feet. There are many new silicone based paints to apply a paint that will survive the flex that wookiee feet will cause. Once the feet are pained there are many ways to attach fur/ stilts to the feet. There are also many issues feet can go thru when stilts are being used .... because in most of our cases.. we are not blessed with height like Peter M. was. So yeah, feet can look really bad. I think maybe before saying anything about peoples feet though, you need to look at the original costume that was used in the original movies... the feet look like hell.

 

I am sure you can see now, that there is more to feet than you realize

 

In the end... we all do the best we can.

 

Bob