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Mandatory Information Name = Justin R. TK ID = 61490 Forum Name = TheRascalKing Legion Profile = https://www.501st.com/members/displaymemberdetails.php?userID=26076 Garrison/Squad = Southern California Garrison, Orange County Squad Armor = Anovos Helmet = Anovos V3 (modified with TrooperBay ESB decals, @justjoseph63 hardware, @ukswrath mic tips) Base Suit Centurion Thread Link = Optional Height = 6ft 0in, or 183cm Weight = 175lbs, or 80kg Boots = Imperial Boots Ammo belt = Anovos Canvas belt = Imperial Issue Holster = Darman's Props Hand Plates = AM Snowtrooper-style Gloves = Rubber chemical gloves Neck Seal = Darman's Props Armor Photos Helmet Off Full Body Front Full Body Back Full Right Full Left Right Side Detail Left Side Detail Action Shot Other than the handguard spacing in the front photo, let me know if anything jumps out at you! Thanks for looking! *Fixed with higher res uploads - thanks for catching that, Glen!

Hi everyone, I joined the 501st as a Tie Pilot Reserve in 2019. After my last troop, I realized that I want to be a stormtrooper. I pulled the trigger and I ordered a ANH Stunt from WTF in March. I recently joined the forum and was awe struck by all the shared knowledge. Wish I'd joined while I was waiting, but I am here now. My BBB came a couple weeks ago and I have started my build. I intend to take my time. I'll probably be asking lots of questions.

Looking SHARP (as usual) Justin! I know you will be going for the "triple crown" (Centurion # 3) with this awesome armor. Just watch those gaps .

Looking good so far. I believe you have the outside bicep pcs. wrong. The outer marked left is the right one. With Walt's kit the right bicep is pretty much round but the left is more oval then round. A water bath later will help round it out. Keep up the great work Future Trooper!

Holy goodness this is some dedication. And I thought my new project of compiling certain build threads into PDF form was time-consuming! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Mandatory Information Name = MisterTK ID = 42185Garrison/Squad = The Outer Rim GarrisonForum Name = Mr Fahrenheit Armor = Authentic Props Helmet = Authentic Props Blaster= 3D printed EIB submission link Optional Height = 5' 11" Weight = 205 lbs Boots = Imperial Boots Canvas belt = AP Hand Plates = Silicone AP Neck Seal = Geeky Pink Holster = AP Armour Photos Full Body Front - hand guards aren't a yellow-ish tint anymore. Right bicep was lowered so the forearms line up better. Full Body Back - filled in the gaps at the bottom of my thighs. Full Right - Dropboxes are lined up with edge of the belt Full Left Abdomen Detail - updated button paint. Removed a bunch so it's not touching the ab plate itself. Cod and Butt Plate Attachment Interior Strapping Helmet Detail Photos Front Sides Back Hovi tip detail Lens Colour - Though it's not as vibrant as the ones from Trooperbay, I used this one from amazon. It's darker, but green. Rubber S-trim Ammo belt Holster Attachment (front and back) Neckseal Blaster left side Blaster right side Blaster back (ring) Thermal detonator (all sides) Boots Ammo Rivet Sniper Knee (all sides) Gloves Shoulder Straps Chest Attachment Shoulder Straps Floating in Back and Elastic Attachment Forearms - shaved down the return edge Thanks all! Fingers crossed!

Wet sanded to 400 and washed them off. Prepped to spray satin white inside. 2 coats and they're white. There are some pinholes, but I'm not worried about precision on the interior. Did anyone else fix interior imperfections? I might not spray gloss on the exterior tomorrow, as waiting only 24 hrs could affect the paint interactions (as depicted in my helmet spraying).

Friend is done priming my Phase 3 helmet! It's now being sent to me to finish up Then it's just the waiting game on my armor.

No hay problema... Estoy decidido a alcanzar el nivel 2 y 3, así que haré los cambios necesarios el mes que viene. ¿Necesito dejar este post abierto o abrir uno nuevo? No problem... Decided to reach levels 2 & 3, so I will make the necessary changes next month. Need to keep this post open or make a new one?

Thanks. I've submitted for Centurion!

Hello Justin...Excellent work!!! The butt plate, seems to warp a little?

dark vs light the barrel is where i wasted most of my time today a lot of pinholes to cover and sand prob cover up some more imperfections and on to white hope to finish the upper body by the end of the month

did the final coat of white gloss om some parts and gave it a few coats of clear gloss decided to paint the chest instead of doing another coat of primer

Hello Mister...Very good work with your armor!!! You need to put the link to your [Expert Infantry Request Thread URL]....

It’s perfect bound and laminated - the same format as In the Shadow of Vader. They make a perfect pair

*Update * The books have arrived. We’re busy signing and posting them out. All orders up to 10 th July will have been shipped by Monday 27th July. The book has proven to be so popular that we have ordered another print

I have given my kidney plate a hot water bath. I read through some tutorials and taken some tip advice from fellow troopers before hand. I made a trace outline of the kidney shape, so after the bath and bending, I'll be able to see the difference. Also I made out of scape pieces of wood taped together, some reinforcments to clamp during the process. I was a bit nervous about doing this, but it's something that had to be done. Okay...I have some good news and some bad news. Good news I bent one side of the kidney and as you can see it worked. Once the other side is bent, I'll use this as a reference for aligning the butt plate and ab plate when the time comes to bend thoughts. Bad news The reinforce clamping did not work. The return edge has suffered stress cracks, splits (inside and out)... ...And the entire return edge is warped. Instead of stressing out (usually my first reaction), I stopped working and thought about my options. I think I might have an idea to fix all this. First I'm probable going to have to bend the other side and accept the outcome. Once the kidney is reshaped and fits me better, then I can begin the repair. I was thinking of making some deliberate splits in those big (almost triangle shape)bent areas of the return edge, leveling them straight and trimming the overlapping excess. This way there wouldn't be any stress and the areas would align ready for the next stage. Make a small batch of ABS paste and fill the cracks and splits, followed by the trusted 'wet sand and polish' technique. As for straigtening the whole return edge from the warped areas and the fixed split areas, I could make some reinforcement coverstrips to glue on the inside of the return edge. Use blocks of wood to clamp on the outside of the return and hopefully that would level and straighten the majority of the return. Any unevenness at the top of the return edge, I'd sand over, ABS paste over the top, then sand over the paste with wet sand and polish to level out. At this stage I am open to any and all sudgestions about fixing the cracks and straightening the warped return edge.

KB Props Gauntlets came in wicked fast once they were ordered! For those of you not keeping up, the T&A Gauntlets that came in the kit didn't quite fit my forearms, so I ordered a pair from KB Props, and here's the big diff: The extra inch or so at the front of the gauntlets allows for the back end to be wider. The tapered resin gaunts are great, but I couldn't do the size. Having both sets now, I've found that I can use the Resin top shell and the KB Props lower panel has enough abs on it to make a gauntlet mod. Likewise, the abs gauntlet can use the resin lower panel. Huzzah. I think I'm coming out of this with two functional gauntlets, where I only expected to get one. Here's the side by sides if anyone's interested at all. Really glad I don't have the modify the gauntlets beyond a simple swap of parts. I've pulled the blaster off the shelf and may start some work on that to pass the time. The next time I get to work on the armor, I hope its a three or four day stretch so I can do all the final prep and chrome the last day. So close, but so far.

Good catch! Fixed them with much higher res uploads - thank you! Okay, now lay it on me! hahaha

Starwarsscreencaps.com has great HD screen caps as well, but no time stamps like you just made. Great work

I uploaded a couple youtube videos recently. One from 2018 that I didn't have an opportunity to edit and upload at the time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_COt9bd0Qg The more recent one I went over some stormtrooper progress, but I've got a poster of Motoko Kusanagi from Ghost in the Shell in the background that isn't quite appropriate for the boards here, so if you want to hear the update it's on my channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63ewYsCifNc Basically I was agonizing again over the particulars for screen accuracy. This time, the stripes in the tears and back traps. So.... I finally went through ANH and wrote down all the scenes with stormtroopers, then went frame-by-frame through the various scenes to get picture grabs for reference and take notes. I used the “A New Hope” disc as part of the “Star Wars: The Complete Saga” blu-ray collection 2015 release (Bar Code# 024543742180 81). I won’t post all the images here (at present there are 1059 images), but I created a new Google Photos album for all of them that is available here: Star Wars: A New Hope - Screenshots - Stormtroopers. This album only covers "A New Hope" stormtroopers: stunt, hero, and sandtroopers (and a couple tie pilots), and shots that include blasters or stormtrooper belts. These can also be downloaded in a zip file in the Stormtrooper folder on my Google Drive: Stormtrooper Folder If I add any new images, they will be in sequential order to match the movie. Image names match the timecode they were pulled from. A note on copyright: These images are protected under Fair Use as they are intended to be used strictly for educational purposes. I highly encourage you to go through the scenes yourself and if you don’t already own a copy, go out and buy one :D. Umm.. just in case you haven’t watched the movie yet??? Spoilers ahead!! Just sayin’. These timecodes will only apply to this version of the movie as it has been edited over the years multiple times (for an idea of how many times and how much it has changed, check out “All Changes Made to Star Wars: A New Hope (Comparison Video) PART I”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNbzSH84mj0 … Han shot first! In case your time codes vary for whatever reason, as an “anchor” point we’ll set the moment the text “Star Wars” appears on screen since it’s a straight cut (it does not fade in). Move forward to the moment the text pops on screen. It should be just over 00:00:28 (+16 frames). Another note, this film is running at 23.98fps NTSC. The original-original may have run at true 24 fps, but the difference between the two fps rates is very slight over the length of the film regardless of version (less than 10 second difference). So whatever time you have, if it differs from 28 seconds into the movie, adjust the following time codes by that value. One way or another, these time codes should get you into the ballpark of a stormtrooper scene if you’re on watching it on a blu-ray copy as mentioned above. Here’s a text run-down of scenes involving stormtroopers as well as a little fun colour commentary. For now, I’ll exclude detail specific notes (counting stripes and the like). But as I go though the pictures, I’ll add the notes here later or somewhere else where it makes sense. (If there is interest / if this hasn’t been done before I can post this somewhere else as well so that it’s more accessible for others.) A New Hope - Stormtooper Scenes (+extras) 00:03:46 (+03) - First appearance. Stormtroopers board Tantive IV and shootout begins. 00:04:31 (+17) - First appearance of Darth Vader. 00:04:52 (+11) - End scene. 00:05:31 (+22) - Stormtroopers escort Tantive IV prisoners. First trooper looks like they are missing their screen-left side drop box. 00:05:41 (+00) - Darth Vader chokes a dude out. Good view of back of helmet – This appears to be a hero helmet due to the reflection visible in the eye later in the scene. View of shoulder strap. 00:05:39 (+13) - Mr. No Stripes appears! (behind the first trooper). Mr. No Stripes does not have the larger button panel on the abdomen. 00:06:17 (+07) - This one bonks their head on the pipe. Clear view through frown cuts. Clear view of green eye tint. 00:06:28 (+13) - Mr. No Stripes shoots Leia! 00:06:29 (+19) - It looks like the shoulderbell may have a connecting strap to the chestplate? 00:06:34 (+20) - End scene with a booty shot. 00:07:27 (+20) - Stormtroopers escort Princess Leia to Darth Vader. Hero helmet scree-left next to Stunt helmet screen-right, front two troopers. 00:07:29 (+15) - The hero’s screen-right bicep looks like the shoulderbell-bicep-strap-anchor-point has ripped off. And for whatever reason, the chestplate looks like this guy is sweating a bit… 00:07:41 (+06) - The bicep was covered with white tape. Thick strap clearly visible between bicep and forearm on the screen-right trooper. It looks like a small portion of the strap was painted white. Shoulderbell strap clearly visible foreground screen-left trooper. Some kind of strapping malfunction at the shoulder? Background screen-left trooper. 00:08:04 (+11) Lots of good views here: back traps (left side), ear bumps (left side) (both stunt and hero), Shoulderbell strapping, over-the-shoulder straps, left-side Shoulderbell sweeps (both straight and sweeped), Thermal Detonator positioning, kidney plate mounting hardware visible top return edge (closer on screen-right trooper), forearm return at the elbow edges. Also good views of the E-11 Blasters. There’s a view near direct front-on where you can see the scope. 00:08:29 (+12) End Tantive IV troopers, and shortly after, end scenes on Tantive IV. Get ready for sandy bois! 00:15:08 (+17) - Troopers scouting the desert - Added scene. These appear to be either ESB or ROTJ troopers. Check out the hand guards (scoop style) and the blacked-out frown. Cod is beveled. Abdomen button panels are there but paint is gone. It looks like there are stripes in the tears as well and most of these appear to be “hero” helmets (or at least they have bubble lenses). Troopers with black pauldrons, screen-right has bubble lenses, vocoders are hero style... Recreated scenes? 00:15:27 (+04) - Digital Dewbacks. Stripes in the back traps. I don’t trust these added scenes for accurate representation of true ANH troopers. 00:15:32 (+05) - Original scene. Orange pauldron, stunt helmet. Upper torso shots. White pauldron. No lines in tears. No lines in the back traps. Rear-most ear bump painted black. 15 tube stripes left side (orange pauldron trooper) 14(?) tube stripes (white pauldron trooper). 00:15:35 (+20) - "Look sir, droids!" 00:15:39 (+08) - End scene & transition. 00:43:04 (+20) (4 seconds) - Stormtroopers in the Mos Eisley streets (digital addition). 00:43:19 (+20) - The "Move along" scene. Good shots of heavy backpacks. 00:43:56 (+04) End scene. Some troopers visible in far, mid-ground on Mos Eisley streets. 00:47:31 (+20) (6 seconds) - Scene transition from Cantina interior to troopers questioning people in the streets. Digital trooper & dewback have been added. Digital trooper has knee plates on both sides and is missing knee ammo belt : /. 00:51:43 (+05) (10 seconds) - Checking the side streets looking for the droids. Lots of views of backpacks. 00:54:59 (+21) - HWT & other troopers on their way to attempt to stop the Millennium Falcon. Helmet close-ups. 00:55:13 (+07) - Shootout scene begins! 00:55:40 (+06) - End scene. Millennium Falcon departs as troopers watch on from the streets. Goodbye Mos Eisley! And onto the Death Star 01:05:31 (+05) (5 seconds) - Stormtroopers - in - Spaaaaaaaace. Super far out, but they're there. The area they're in doesn't look like it's inside the ship, so I don't know if this is part of some special field, or if these troopers (or if it should be considered that all armour) have the ability to withstand space...? (I have significant doubts.) 01:05:45 (+17) - Troopers to your stations! Running through the halls. Hero next to stunt again. Troopers board and search the Millennium Falcon. 01:08:04 (+06) "Hey down there" Troopers leave their post to their inevitable doom. Note: Both of these are stunt helmets. Both have return edge at the bottom of the chest. 01:08:05 (+19) - Side (blurry) & Back view of The Grappling Hook trooper. Why this one is outfitted with a grappling hook? - To progress the plot of the storyline of course.. But why in actuality? - What as part of the normal duties of a Death Star Stormtrooper would require the use of a grappling hook? 01:08:15 (+06) - Shots are heard within the Falcon. 01:08:17 (+21) - We're going to have to assume that some time passes in between the previous shot and this one with the commander in the comm room asking TK421 why they're not at their post, because on walking over to the window to look out, like movie magic, Luke walks out from the Falcon. Without having ever done it yet myself I can well tell you that it takes a heck of a lot longer than 5 seconds to don that armour without the inconvenience of having to strip it off someone else's unconscious (probably dead) body first... Note again: Kinda still looks like it’s a stunt helmet. We know this is Luke because in a moment, Han and Chewie bust in and commandeer the comm room. Also, if these troopers were shot as the sound effects suggest, where are the phaser marks? Or perhaps, the guns went off in the process of the struggle. How does one render an armoured stormtrooper unconscious without leaving marks? The world may never know.. 01:08:33 (+07) - *knock-knock-knock-knock* (read as: my comm unit appears to be malfunctioning). 01:08:40 (+17) - Han & Chewie take over the landing bay comm room, with Luke shortly to follow.. Mostly body shots in this scene, not so much with the helmets. Neckseal/under helmet shot. Also Luke hair flip <3. Both Han and Luke are wearing suits that have the shoulderbell "sweep" detail shown on both sides. More shots with Shoulderbell strap. Also, stationary hero helmet in the background, right side visible. 01:10:44 (+12) - Cod Shot!! - haha.. At first it looked like the edge of the right thigh was beveled, but it can be seen here to clearly have a return edge around the top edge. 01:12:28 (+00) - End scene - cuts to hallway scene with Chewie in tow as "prisoner". 01:12:31 (+19) - Hero helmet closeup. High brow. 01:13:02 (+06) - Pretty sure Chewie is checking out that droid's butt.. Hah. 01:13:15 (+10) - Clear view of the S-trim being joined together at the back of the helmet. 01:13:28 (+12) - Stunt troopers in the halls & then Obi Wan sneaking around in the back. 01:13:34 (+08) - End troopers in the scene. 01:13:49 (+21) - Elevator Scene: Good closeup on back trap stripes. 01:15:02 (+04) - Close up on the back of the helmet, but it's fast and a little blurry. In the same second, the back of the trim is visible again to be seamed together at the middle-back of the helmet. 01:15:13 (+10) - It’s looking like there is some kind of material on the inside of the chest and backplates. 01:15:27 (+00) - "We're all fine here now, thank you. How are you?" 01:16:03 (+00) - "Aren't you a little short for a stormtrooper?" 01:16:19 (+18) - End scene. 01:17:10 (+22) - Han, no more helmet. Shootout with stunt troopers. 01:19:04 (+13) - End scene and into the garbage chute. Now these are the real dirty boys.... Rolling around in garbage. 01:22:10 (+14) - Cut to C3PO's handheld communicator and you can actually see “HOVI MIX Pa 2.” written on the communicator. 01:22:15 (+18) - Enter stunt troopers into the comm room. One of the guys in back hits their head on the door… I laughed out loud seeing this again, haha. The S-Trims in this scene appear to vary on whether they join at the back or not (or at least some of them have been seamed together better than others). 01:23:01 (+21) - Cut back to garbage masher. Cut to landing bay (Falcon & troopers in the background). Cut back to garbage masher. Cut back to R2D2. Cut back to garbage masher. Cut to C3PO. Cut back to garbage masher. Cut back to C3PO. I don't know why I bothered to detail that, but these cuts are getting ever shorter... 01:24:08 (+00) - "Will you shut up and listen to me! Shut down all garbage mashers on the detention level, will ya?! Do you copy? Shut down all garbage mashers on the detention level!" -squiiiisssshhhh- 01:24:45 (+05) - "We're alright!" 01:24:51 (+15) - End scene. 01:25:19 (+09) - Troopers pass by in the background while Obi shuts down the gravity field controls. 01:25:39 (+08) - Han and Luke ditch the suits but keep the belts. Another view of Luke's suit here shows the bottom edge is cut straight. Han's in the background even from a distance it's easy to see the return edge. 01:26:07 (+20) - Bye-bye now dirty "hero" suits! disappearing around the corner. 01:26:19 (+08) - Obi is still at it deactivating the tractor beam. Troopers are on the lookout. 01:26:34 (+00) - "Do you know what's going on?" "Maybe it's another drill." They really need to work on communication skills in the management at the Death Star... 01:26:48 (+00) - More jedi mind tricks. - alarmed: "What was that?" Reminds me of Elder Scrolls games (I must be hearing things...) 01:26:53 (+09) - End scene. 01:27:01 (+05) (9 seconds) - Troopers hanging out around the Falcon, probably standing guard while the murder(?) of the two troopers that got mugged onboard is investigated? 01:27:18 (+13) - Another shootout in the hallway. 01:28:07 (+13) - The grapling hook scene! 01:28:32 (+09) - Mr. No stripes reappears! And he’s got the big button panel this time. 01:28:33 (+06) - Willhelm scream! 01:28:55 (+06) - Boots! Scuffed up, black on the bottom, slight heel. You can see the side fabric U bit of the boots here (painted white). May be good lower calf reference. 01:29:10 (+15) - Belly troopers! 01:29:13 (+11) - End scene. Cut to troopers running through the halls again. 01:29:21 (+16) - End with Obi Wan sneaking around the halls again. 01:29:31 (+00) (3 seconds) - Troopers hanging around the Falcon again. 01:29:39 (+05) - Running the halls again, chasing after Han & Chewie. 01:29:50 (+18) - End scene. 01:31:26 (+05) - Troopers around the Falcon again. Luke & Leia join back up with Han & Chewie. 01:31:48 (+09) - Lightsaber battle is taking place in a room off the bay with the Falcon. Troopers in the background. 01:31:51 (+07) - Trooper Closeup! Hero Helmet. Blurry stunt helmet in the background. 01:31:52 (+18) - Troopers abandon their post to watch the lightsaber battle. 01:32:35 (+01) - Trooper's shoulderbell is all blown out - waaay out of place. Almost looks like they disjointed their shoulder. 01:33:09 (+20) - Falcon exists the Death Star Bay. End Scene. Bye Death Star! 01:34:28 (+00) - Incoming tie pilot scenes. 01:35:58 (+14) - All the tie fighters are destroyed. 01:46:15 (+20) (2 seconds) - Momentary scene of troopers running about behind the gunports as the X-Wing fighters launch their mission on the Death Star. 01:46:48 (+11) (2 seconds) - Troopers running about through the halls. 01:47:13 (+20) - Troopers fall victim to blast attacks that make it to the inside halls! - How can the walls be so thin? Or the blasts from such small fighter ships be so strong? 01:47:17 (+20) - End scene. 01:47:41 (+23) (1 second) - Troopers in background while the gunners get blasted out. 01:47:55 (+17) - Get ready for more Tie fighters! 01:48:27 (+22) (1 second) - Darth walking the halls, stunt trooper walks off screen. 01:48:33 (+22) (2 seconds) - Tie fighter pilots directed to follow Vader. 01:52:44 (+23) (2 seconds) - Troopers in the hallways get shook up by the first attempt to drop the missiles into the Death Star Weak point. This is the last scene with stormtroopers. 01:56:44 (+09) - Han, Chewie, and the Millennium Falcon swoop in to the rescue. End tie fighter pilot scenes. Vader goes spinning off into the void. 01:57:10 (+20) - Death Star go boom. Goodbye ANH Stormtroopers - and everyone else on that station!

Nice work, for some reason your images are showing very small @ 248 x 441 pixels so very hard to seen any details, you may want to add some higher resolution images.

Fernando Baro TK29415 Centurión A4 Mario http://www.whitearmor.net/eib/certificates/29415-centurion.png

The Nico bucket is coming along nicely. I was in on the initial offering of the files and I have his Shoretrooper bucket as well. Now all you need to do is order a set of RO armor and you will be on your way

So...an interesting "development" regarding the AM kits. As I mentioned previously, I have an AM2.0 kit that I built into a Sandy: As it's a Sandy, there are a few leftover bits. As I unboxed, unwrapped (Dave does an amazing job in wrapping and protecting all the pieces!...although I abhor the "packing peanuts"), and inventoried the new kit, some of the pulls seemed "off." So I dug out parts from the kit I purchased in 2016 to compare. In this pic, the top row is 2016, bottom row is 2020: Shoulder straps...2020 on the left, 2016 on the right: Belt...2020 top, 2016 bottom: Belt...top view...both 2020 with 2016 on the bottom: This isn't meant to slag off Dave, as I don't believe he actually does the pulls (as I understand it...I could be wrong). This is more of an informational/"isn't that interesting" post. Still, the quality of the ABS is great, there are a lot of extras, including plenty for cover strips. But, I'll be using my left over pieces as needed over the newer versions.

Welcome Kyle. I guess I will be very up to date with your build , anyway glad to see you on FISD and yes this should be moved to the build thread so I guess one of the mods will move it at some point. FYI Dark Side Closet (On FB) (The undershirt is $165, and the knee gaskets are $50 plus $10 for U.S. shipping) Endor Finders ROTK Gloves $55.00 Reach out to Praetorian Blasters on FB for a price and turnaround for a Rogue One Rubber E-11. Or if you are lucky you may find a used Hyperfirm HFX RO E-11 for sale here. Expect to pay about 200 for a rubber one.

Friend's almost done sanding and priming. Just needs to print the chin piece then it's off to me

Some other examples

This might be of interest to you. I did a bit of research on this a few months back, too, and had this bookmarked: http://www.blizzardforce.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=61&t=3290&p=24947&hilit=Blaster+difference#p24947