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Aye, Thanks mate!

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Great Trooper!! Almost there !!!

Looking good, William, and Sha Sha will be with your shortly! As Glen mentioned, the drop boxes are still wandering a little and need some more alignment. Easy fix! Drop boxes are vertically aligned with the end of the ammo belt These pics are from your current submission Because a close-up was not visible in your EI submission this item was not seen, but as per the CRL for Level 3 the return edges in the "hump" area will need to be trimmed out. 4 minutes with a Dremel should do the trick! No return edge on the inside of the front of the forearm is allowed. To completely eliminate the gap between the ab/kidney it looks as if you have room to tighten your belt a bit. Ideally there no gap between the abdomen and kidney armor Almost there, sir!!

yeah me too... pre ordered it so just waiting it to arrive, these are always as good as the accompanying movie! I wish there was more in movie Sith Trooper seeing these images!

Nice work trooper

Nice work, you may have to watch your drop box placement, a little E6000 can hold the elastic in place I'd also check you spacing on the TD, gap between end caps and plate look a little small Good luck with approval

Nice mod

Wow awesome build

Great work Trooper !!!

thanks mate. Appreciate that.

The lady herself, the lovely Liz More.

Well, it’s been a few months, but I’ve managed to get a bit more done. Huge thanks to you @MoSc0ut! I really appreciate your help with everything so far. The big challenge for me was just figuring out where to trim everything to, and getting over the fear of cutting something wrong! With continuing to pour over all of the ref, Jim’s help, and the new TK build YouTube tutorial series from Rob at RS Propmaster’s, I feel like I have a good picture of where I’m going now. Spent a nice afternoon just before Christmas at @MoSc0ut’s house boiling armor, and got the shoulder bells widened out to fit. After showing me how, Jim was kind enough to let me take home his canning pot so I could make my kidney, butt, and ab plates fit a little bit better. After that, I finished trimming and gluing the arms and biceps. Next, I started trimming the shoulder bells that we’d shaped, but I’m a little worried that I trimmed them back too much in an effort to get them properly rounded, so I set them aside for now... Following the RS YouTube series, I next finished up trimming and sanding the torso pieces, got my 3mm drill bit, and drilled the holes and installed the brackets for the strapping. Once I had the brackets installed, I had to do a test fit with tape to make sure everything lined up Pretty happy with it so far! I thought it was interesting that RS puts the two outside top brackets of the kidney plate right in the bend where the return edge meets the outer face to minimize bending... Now, working on cutting/gluing some spare bits of abs to the return edges for reenforcement as I have been advised to do by several different troopers! Next up, getting the torso strapping sorted! Working on deciding how to approach the kidney to ab strapping in a more robust way than the screen accurate webbing. I’ve seen some good ideas so far from heavy duty strips of rubber to thicker more immobile webbing, but suggestions are more than welcome! I have some nice scrap leather lying around so was even debating using that.

It was actually Liz Moore that sculpted the helmet. Not Liz Smith

Looks like you have the same shield as Tony.. I’m really trying to figure out how to replicate that forearm mount. Makes it look so much better than what I’ve been considering trying to make with just ABS and foam. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I wouldn't trim anything just yet until you have your strapping worked out, it looks as if your thighs want to come up quite a bit. You may even need to add an inner shim on the inside of the thighs to allow them to come up more. Just watch the curvature when trimming, always compare with the gallery section or screen references

Use a USB battery pack such like you would use to top up a phone. The small ones will run 2 5v fans for about 6-7 hours before it dies on you and being small fit in the helmet just fine. I made my own wired as per the diagram above