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Go for RS. They are themselves members of the legion, which is nice. And unlike SDS they are not shamelessly lying about their origins.

Usually you go to the guy who made your armour in the first place. Pretty much all of the guys on our list sell replacement parts.

At least it's both cheaper and more accurate than the Don Post statue that was offered back in the day. http://www.propstore.com/product/star-wars-ep-iv-a-new-hope/full-size-don-post-stormtrooper-replica-statue/ http://www.cineshop-museum.com/star-wars-stormtrooper-life-size-statue-don-post,us,4,ODCSWSTORMT.cfm This one asks for almost €12 000!

It must have been. Even the most exclusive (TK) helmet kits are much less than $450.

Nope.

Not even the wayback machine at internet archive

You should obviously not mess around with the pieces after you've unclamped them, just leave them be. My tube just says "for maximum-strengh bond, allow for 24-72 hour dry time"

E-6000 curing time seems to be getting longer every year... I unclamped my pieces after 12 hours in order to free up the clamps for the next piece of armour, and it's survived years of trooping and travels without issue.

Sure.

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TM have extra long shins available if you ask for them.

Assuming the product exists and as pictured, it looks like a legit and pretty good deal. Price is not beyond what I'd consider fair for what it is.

Yes.

If you don't have permission to make copies of the item you're copying, you're recasting whichever way you do it. RS who made moulds from the original stormtrooper armour they own, that was made for the movie and used in it are also recasting. But it's generally, and widely accepted that if you own an original prop you can make copies of it. Although there is certainly some debate on this issue as well, especially for more recent movies that aren't 40 years old already.

Even for a small resin object like the grenade Adam Savage was talking about, if you're only going to make 1 for your "spare", it doesn't make financial sense. Just the silicone and resin you need will set you back that $100 a "legit" 2nd grenade would cost. And then you'd have resin and silicone left overs that you don't need. And it will quickly go bad and become useless. So you'd have to make more than 1 spare. And what are you going to do with all the spares you made just to use up all that leftover resin? Surely you don't need 10 spares? Sell them? Boom, you've just become the bad kind of recaster. You could give them away to your friends who might be doing the same costume. It makes sense, right? But then the guy you've recast looses out on potential customers, and that's almost as bad as selling them yourself. So there's a very, very narrow corridor of scenarios where you can justify recasting, and not either go immoral or put up with a great loss of money and/or time + effort instead of just supporting the artists themselves and keep living a cosy life yourself.

That's the idea yes. You want more wear and tear than a typical stormtrooper. But you don't want to look like the sandtroopers. Also focus more on black and grey dirt, rather than the brown/yellow/black of sandtroopers.

http://www.whitearmor.net/forum/gallery/category/7-general-stormtrooper-reference/

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Hard to overlook things that gets pounded into you until it's second nature.

We'll consider upgrading the server lease next funding round.

We know. Such are the woes of running a large website on a low budget.

People who don't know how to handle guns properly also rarely carry guns the way you think looks realistic, regardless of weight.

I did my service carrying around 9 pounds of FNC assault rifle and a lot more to it. It does not mean I want to troop with one when in costume, regardless of if it's real or not. My trooping E-11, in all aluminum comes in at 1.5 Kg.

You wouldn't want to troop with 9 pounds of steel in you arms regardless of if it was functional or not.

Just what I was thinking!