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As expected the concept art does show OT style Stormtroopers, but please swap your leg armor around troopers Yes it's only concept art, we'll have to wait and see what era armor they use, I'd guess R1/Mandalorian since that's currently being used in other series but then again it has been getting pretty beaten up as seen in Series 2 of The Mandalorian.

It would be great to see the OT style TKs.

I've used similar before and they have held up well

First time suiting up the top. I definitely need to cut some relief in the neck. It's harder to put this on by yourself than I thought. Getting all the parts on and snapped is kinda uncomfortable. Didn't want to ruin my neck seal. Just kinda a first fit. I wish the shoulder bells were a bit bigger but all in all. I'm happy with it. Back to building!

Great work on this Ben. I didn't realize how much work needs to go into this armor. The results are great so far and can't wait to see this completed. Keep up the great work and updates.

Browsing various threads here, I noticed something about my bucket... BEFORE I didn't do the best job of painting my vocoder. It's not terrible, but there's room for improvement. The AP helmet is pretty soft in this area and the vocoder isn't well defined. I struggled with figuring out what to paint... 2 years ago. When this build started. heh. Also, the hovi tips are not so white. Again, not terrible, but could be improved. These are the built-in-speaker tips from Ukswrath, which I really really like. They just need a bit more white. AFTER! While maybe still not perfect, this is a LOT better IMO. Worth the half hour of careful painting, measuring, and repainting. I also redid the inside of my bucket. I want to get the SHA and headphones built in and working, so I needed to move some stuff around. The ICOMM and amp used to be basically next to my ears. I had some padding at the top that was making the helmet flop around. And the USB battery used to sit in the very back, which caused the helmet to always be slowly pivoting backwards and obscuring my view. Everything now fits better and it's much more comfy. Happy with these small changes. I managed to drop my Hyperfirm and the counter popped off. It was held on by standard CA glue which was pretty crusty and sparse. Black stuff to the rescue!!! I sanded down the blaster side and matching side on the counter to remove all old CA glue. A quick coating of black stuff... Repaired. Hopefully much more resilient than the old crusty superglue. And finally, more magnet boxes from @Scimitar! These ones are in a slightly sexier black, complete with shadow trooper-sourced ABS covers. These are going on the other side of the torso to keep alignment correct. And since there's far less visibility on this side, I installed them a bit differently. Each set of magnet boxes got polarity and positioning figured out, then set aside. Then I sanded and E6000'd the area and all boxes. Next, I installed a box on one half of the armor, being very careful to line up the seem edge with the box edge. Some blue tape was applied to keep the box from shifting forward when it's buddy appeared for glue-down. Finally, I added the matching box, applied a little force to keep them in place temporarily, and repeated on the 2nd pair above. Located, glued, placed, and clamped. And there they sat another 2 days. Everything was dry enough tonight that I got to try things on and inspect the alignment... and it's just epic. No bulging. No gap. The belt doesn't skew anything. Nothing but perfection. These magnet boxes are something else. Huge thanks to Eric for sending them. And, well, everything else in this build. It would still be in a sad brown box in storage if not for him.

Here's the 3D files I made which others are more than welcome to download. First Order Stormtrooper Front Belt Box Blocks (For the Imperial Surplus Kit) https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5098627 First Order Belt Pouch Filler (For Trooper Bay Pouches) https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5098577

-Here it is:!

Would love to see your model used for the Jump Trooper, Heavy trooper and even the Jungle trooper from one of the holocrons (the green Phase 3 trooper with a poncho) I could not find an image of the jungle trooper but I would love to make it.

Here we go...belt time! Heated ABS in oven on a sheet of aluminium at 230 for about 5 min. Worked great! Still have to finish the teeth but you get the idea =)

Does anyone else think that The Bad Batch's Hunter has a very similar helmet to this one? First thing I noticed when seeing him appear in the Clone Wars

My theroy is that the clone troopers will get an upgrade to there amour that being the phase 3 one. So when the clone rebellion starts we can differentiate them from the rebel clones who still use phase 2 ones.

I think the TK Troopers are pretty much their replacement sadly. But hey, we can hope the TK Troopers armor will be for the early recruits and the remaining Clones get the Phase 3. Also update on my build: I got my Clone Parts! Gonna do some test fits and see what needs improvement before my TK parts arrive

Kinda sad to have not seen this armor in the Bad Batch yet, considering just how big of a fanboy Dave Feloni is with video games. Really hoping we get to see Vader keep his 501st clones together for as long as possible like what happened in legends.

Hey man I used you're model in a battlefront 2 mod that brings phase 3 501st to the game! I hope you like it!

Well, it has been a busy past few months, BUT I am back with an update on progress! Just stenciled the tube stripes and the 501st paint on the helmet, and picked out a visor. I'm going with a mirrored Chrome visor (Aquired from TrooperbayShop on Etsy, which is where my pauldron and mag pouches also came from) since it does look like their visors are mirrored in-game (but like Phase 1 helmets I think a Black/Dark Blue Visor would work too). I'm still trying out different blues to use for the 501st markings, and the tube stripes will be painted black as per in-game (but I feel like dark blue would work too). My armor is finishing nicely over at 850ArmorWorks, and should be shipped sometime in the next two months, then I'll just need to paint and weather them and hopefully be able to fit after waiting so long xD