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Hi everyone, my name is Jim and I'm from Royal Leamington Spa in England! Nobody uses the Royal bit apart from visiting comedians to take the mick and it's really not as posh as it sounds! I started this journey way back in 2019 when the world was a very different place, I bought my kit from RWA along with an E11 kit from Doopy-Doos and began building. The only problem is I have as much proficiency in building things as I do making the Kessel run in 12 parsecs! I started with the E11 and after many mistakes and extra things bought to rectify my weenie-ups I finally finished it and thought, there's no way I'm going to completely ruin my armour by actually attempting to make it! The world then changed and everyone went quiet and my kit stayed in a BBB under the stairs gathering dust. In 2022 I decided enough was enough, (well, my wife did and said I either needed to build it or sell it!), so I decided to seek out somebody to build it for me, they did an amazing job and I only had to make a few adjustments and alterations to get it completely ready for me to troop in. So I am now an official Stormtrooper and it feels amazing! I can't wait to get out there and be part of something that brings so much joy and meet everybody. Happy Easter everyone!

No measurements unfortunately, you may be able to speak with RS Prop's, they may still have the box they found. There are a few builds around https://www.therpf.com/forums/threads/another-drop-of-cargo-star-wars-storage-boxes.244583/ http://r5-d4astromechdroid.blogspot.com/p/scanner-crew-transmitter-storage-box.html?m=1 Lots of 3D files out there, here's one https://cults3d.com/en/3d-model/game/star-wars-imperial-crate-3-2-parts Some interesting crates and barrels for references

Congratulations Jim!!! Welcome to the ranks

Congratulations and welcome to the ranks trooper

Welcome to the ranks Jim!!! There's few things in life more enjoyable that wearing the white armor.

Well done, Jim. Great to have you as part of the UKG family. [emoji16][emoji16][emoji16]

Thanks everyone, you are all to kind..and amazing people. Kind regards xxx Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Only info I could find: The crates were presumably mostly found items and not constructed for the film. The cubes with the grooved sides and round holes on each face, for example, were made of vacuformed plastic, but nobody knows what for. A British company called RS Prop Masters, which makes stormtrooper costumes, says they found one but don't know what they were made for either. Two of these cubes were put together and painted blue to create the carrying case used by the Death Star scanning crew in Docking Bay 327. Oddly, for a working bay used to capture and detain potential miscreants, the set is filled with an assortment of barrels and crates, many of which are out in the open where ships will land. This was probably in part to make the set look busier and real, but also because a cluster of narrow barrels was used to conceal the metal rod used to prop up the Falcon set. The majority of the crates and barrels were probably regular commercial products in common use at the time. Many seem to be large plastic barrels for shipping industrial products or agricultural supplies or whatever, but painted to make them a bit more interesting. From: https://sites.google.com/site/millenniumfalconnotes/part-iic-the-docking-bays

Masking is all done and everything is ready to get primed.

I got busy and managed to not update things here yet. This is the tiny circuit board inside the Disney blaster. It's about 20mm wide which juuuuust fits inside my QD blaster's small inner recess. Not sure if this diagram would be helpful to anyone else in the future, but I referred to it a lot while rewiring the board. And just like that, the old handle is off. It was almost that easy. I used a dremel cut off wheel and sliced through about half of one side, waiting to hit some sparks. No sparks ever appeared, making me think that only glue held the handle in place. Sure enough, there weren't any pins. I snapped the handle off easily by hand after slicing what I sliced. I think this may have broken at some point in the future anyway. I'm amazed it was only glued on. Also, pretty happy with the low amount of gouges I managed to make. They'll be easy to fill. Bolt cut. This gives me access to allow the handle to be bolted in place. The inner plastic on the QD is SOOOO thick. It just insane. Not letting any grass grow under my feet. The handle bolted on easily for a test fit. About 20 minutes of careful measuring followed by two holes and a slot for wires. My blaster was only without a handle for a half hour. Front bolt attachment. SUPER easy access with this nice big hole. I'll also fit the pew-pew brain in this hollow. The rear bolt is a lot more challenging to get to, but a rounded end hex key makes easy work of it. The angle is just right to let things spin and tighten up. This grip is so pretty! So very very pretty. Even without pew-pew noises, this is a solid upgrade already.