Smitty

Wonderful Job on the armor! Between this and your E-11 blaster you might possibly have the finest setup in the whole 501st.

Rock out with your sock out boss! Good luck with that meeting and dont forget to put the new coversheet on your TPS reports.

Better yet, here are your pics. Welcome to the FISD Soldier boy!

You need 2 strips of T track, One strip over the holes on each side of the barrel. Great looking FX build by the way. Excellent thigh taper!

Well you could also make a silicone cast from the outside of the helmet and then make your mold from the silicone casting and the helmet would gain some size that way. That would make the helmet one plastic thickness larger minus any shrinkage that occurs.

A totally awesome discovery! Look at the the right thigh ripple on the trooper taking a shot to the shoulder 2 pics up!

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I just ordered a new set of CABoots today. If you notice that the price on ebay is $60 plus $15 for shipping whereas on thier website its $70 plus $15 shipping. I just discovered that if your size isnt listed on ebay you can call CABoots and ask for the $60 price in boots that are your size and they will discount thier price to match thier ebay auction. Or they did for me at least.

I take back what I said after looking at it side by side with the original. That may very well have come from a ROTJ lid. Rockin!

Nice looking helmet! I would venture to say that the helmet has more ties to ANH than to ROTJ tho.

Arrrggghhh!!! It wont make it in time for the knighting but I got a pair of Nomex flight gloves just laying around believe it or not. Need em?

Junk Products, junk owner, junk period. Steer clear of Star Fortress! Plus he's child pornography fugitive from the states. He and his products are total garbage.

Doing what we can do to solve troopers problems

I'm a post wh0re, thats my excuse *if you type in the actual word wh0re it gets changed to slave leia? Man no respect for metal bikinis these days...*

Mad skillz!

Sew a small black square of fabric over the logo?

I have owned all 3 as well (CAP, TE2 and TE) CAP and TE2 are clearly winners over the TE. The TE suffered from a weak pull and a large indention in the top of the dome. Its very much a toss up between the TE2 and the CAP in my opinion. I like the thick AND sharp pull of the CAP faceplate and the ear caps are beautiful. But the TE2 bumpy cap-n-back shows much more detail than the CAP and if there is 2 things in this world I'm a sucker for its redheads and an extremely bumpy cap-n-back.

I would like to see a close up of the NGB's frown if anyone has a pic of that. Never mind, I found the pics I was looking for. If it was recast from a TE2, I would be surprised. I'm still leaning more towards a TE bucket, and Paul, who's to say he didn't get permission? If it is from a TE bucket, TE probably sold him the rights to it. After all TE sold the rights to everyone else that would buy them.

The chips in the brow are proof alone that the helmet is recast and not an original sculpt. I've filled in those chips with bondo so many times I could spot them even if my eyes were gouged out with ewok spears. Ok the original pics are now gone so you can no longer see the brow chips. Chances are if you get a good looking helmet and it has a row of chips missing right across the front above where the brow trim goes AND YOU DID NOT GET IT FROM TE2, then its a recast. Or a very slim possibility its an old TE. The chips were already present in the molds when TE sent the molds to TE2. The CAP helmet molds that had the brow chips were recast from a TE bucket that was cast from the same molds now owned by TE2. As far as I know, no one has had the indecency to recast a TE2 at this point since he is one of the few people that actually dished out money for molds. I'm sure it wont be long before it happens though.

Recast out of Germany. Comes from the TE line. Could be a recast of either a TE, TE2 or a CAP. Those are the only 3 established helmets that have the brow chips which the NGB bucket shows as well. Ive heard good things about it.

What I have experienced is the Wal Mart kit will work well with screencast armor but it will feedback pretty bad with FX armor with it behind the chest plate. Wouldnt think it would matter much but I guess the way the armor is shaped has something to do with it. The Scott Respirator Small Talk amp is clearly the better of the two units.

Don't forget that Stomper has some nice ones too!

Truly magnificent looking armor and weapons!!!!

Derek PM sent

Nomex is pretty much choice for Expert Infantryman. Not only that but I have an extra pair available