General Fidelis

Happy belated birthday, my soon-to-be-clone brother! That's quite the nice gift gift you got there. If you get tired of it, PM me for my address. I've never seen a pic of the PSP's screen resolution. Looks pretty dang sweet!

Interesting, Paul. Being a hardcore TK pro, I would have thought you'd be partial to the EIII bucket. Personally, I like the phase II better simply becasue it's a hybrid.

Word. I'm waiting to see what SciFire comes up with. They're making slow progress on an original EII (phase I) bucket. C6 is the best out there right now, but it's friggin' rare and, IMHO, the jowl is too big. Of course, I wouldn't kick it out of bed.

I know, but it looks more symmetrical than the ANH/ESB bucket due to the face collapse. Does it not? Actually, you bring up a good point. Were the helmets intentionally built asymmetrically or was that aspect not supposed to be noticed and overanalyzed by sicko fans (like me)? Wish could ask Brian Muir. I think it would be a cool in-universe back story to have the Emperor hand pick an artist and appoint him/her/it as Imperial Sculptor. There could then be some sort of background story about how an aymmetrical "face" is more menacing or something like that. I say that, because I do believe GL would have wanted pefectly symmetrical helmets/armor for all imperials if he had the choice back then. That was kinda the point with using the uniform, individual-less aspects of the Nazis.

Bernard, Steelblitz (over @ CT.NET) was told by his resin supply rep that Tulips brand fabric paint works well on this rubber. You can pick it up at Michael's in the fabric paint isle. I used it on my OSCS belt and elbows and worked great. I airbrushed it on without having to thin it out. Great part is, you can use acrylic paint on top of it with no problem!

I watched Hardware Wars again a few years ago. Wasn't as funny as I remembered it to be back in the day. Thumbs Wars, on the other hand is figgin' hilarious! Gets funnier everytime I watch it! "Oh, you must be the cry baby." "Come along, cry baby." "I am a puppet." How 'bout Crunchy's facial expressions?! Love the Spaceballs too! Instant classic.

It recently occurred to me that the designs of replica clone trooper and stormtrooper costumes are almost completely opposite from one another. Bear with me here. After spending almost a year piecing together my clone, the desire has always been to make everything perfectly symmetrical and uniform. Since there was never an actual clone costume built by ILM, costumers must work hard to turn fan-made (usually lumpy and irregular) piceces of plastic into CG qulaity, perfectly symmetrical armor. Doing it "right", requires a lot of time trimming, gluing, Bondo'ing, sanding, filling, sanding, etc.. The ironic part of this is that here, everyone is trying to make their armor asymmetrical. I was suprised to learn that a more symmetrical ROTJ helmet was turned it into a less symmetrical ANH bucket. I understand that the real ANH sculpt was asymmetrical and that's what folks are going for, screen accuracy. I'm all for it. It just seemed odd to me that, to be as screen accurate as possible, this time around I'll want to be crooked. I'm sure this has come up several times, but I'm curious as to what the you TK enthusiasts think. If ILM had the technology then that we have now, would the stormtrooper armor be perfectly symmetrical or not? After all, humans are asymmetrical, so why wouldn't their armor be the same? Was this planned from the beginning or just a limit of available technology? Vader is a good example of what I'm talking about. Back in the day, he was lopsided. Today, he's not. Please share your insights with a noob. Semper, General Fidelis

I'm more than happy to support this site. I have been and will be using it (and the accumulated knowledge of it's members) to get my TK builds aquired and "finished". Can't wait to get that Elite status! Titanium purchased!

Little late chiming in, but a big thank you to all my fellow vets out the there! Semper Fi to my Devil Dog brothers!!!

I'm still learning about what I'm looking at here, but I think I am qualified to give you kudos for a job well done and congratulations on becoming the 1st Elite ROTJ stormtrooper. You look like you walked right off the screen, brother. No wonder you're taking your time to do your clone build right the first time.

WOW! That was fast! Thanx, bro.

I'd like 501st access, Sir! Thanx, brother! Tom http://www.501st.com/members/displaymember...cfm?userID=8601