TK-4088

Just approved this morning, TK-4088 requesting 501st Trooper Status http://www.501st.com/members/displaymember.php?userID=12592&costumeID=1

the e6000 when used right is really great. when i first started my build i didnt use clamps and just put the glue down and then hand held it in place for a few mins. this of course was when i was doing snaps and the snaps just popped right off. So after failing i did the right thing and clamped it down and left it either overnight or while i was at work after putting on the glue and i never had another issue with things popping off or not glueing properly.

just remember it could have been alot worse, you could be sitting on a set of rubies.

Do not buy from makerofthings. There are alot of resources here that with a little bit of research you will find a wealth of knowledge and the right path to getting the right armor you need. By the looks of things from your other thread you have already been given some good starting points so i wont repeat what they have already stated lol.

k good to know, that is a real easy fix, just cut it back. thanks for the input

ok well i was wrong in my reply. I remeasured the strips on the arms and they are a bit big, i will try to trim the front ones down but as they are tight on my arms i cant make them smaller. also the biceps might be swapped, they are right according to this thread but thats for the ROTJ biceps and not the ANH, so i am looking through screen shots again.

Absolutely, i posted here looking for exactly this. The thermal det is exactly 7.5 total from one end to the other, i have another picture of it measured, it does look long i know i think this is from cutting off to much so that more gray is shown then should be. I will have to compare the arm assembles again, i might have switched them like you said. The strips are 20 cm wide on the front and 25 on the back for fit. i really have no idea how to make them smaller or look smaller and still be able to fit in the armor. I see now that i posted the old pictures of the helmet painting, i ended up sanded down all of the black vent lines and using blue tape to give them a clean edge, i will have to post a new picture of this when i get a chance lol. The blue lines have been removed and i have ordered some tube stripes from TK-4510. Thank you for taking the time to review my build, any advice is greatly appreciated. The way i see it, if someone else notices something i missed then the quality is improved.

Back to the armor build - Armor pre cut and laid out Cut, Primed and drying still not shiney And now for the sexy shine Soon as the neckseal and gloves come in there will be more coming all suited up, please let me know if you see anything that needs fixing, Special thanks go out to other troopers who have made some of this possible,in no order what so ever, MissingPieces - his tutorial threads in the FLG forums TKittell - Canvas belt supplier. TK8280 - leather holster TK-4510 - Humbrol paint and tube stripes TK6294 - MR 1506 amp TKboots - the boots of course

Alright, i started this project back in May of this year, and then ran into a few snags and stressful moments, however here i am just days from being done and i wanted to share this over here and get some opinions, comments, and criticism. I have recently been sharing this all over at the Florida Garrison boards and now for your viewing pleasure from the beginning. The Box inside the box - not shiney The bucket - uncut The bucket - you can see i got really excited and cut to much here The bucket - bondo to the rescue - at this time i was contacted by ATA who offered to hook me up with replacement ears but i went with the bondo and was really happy with that. The bucket now - plus how not to paint tube stripes do not paint tube stripes free hand like this, it is wrong in just so many ways lol *ATA

Something that was pointed out to me a few days back was that the vocoder should rounded off in the middle three so it does not look like it has been blended into one. It might just be that the picture is not clear enough though. But from what i do see it looks like the middle three lines have blended into one. In the fourth and fifth pictures is that a gray strap i see? But yea you are off to a good start.

Today i received my TKboots, i ordered a 10 even though i am a 10.5 wide with everything else i wear. I actually might have to wear two pairs of socks because they are a bit loose on me lol, but other wise they are a great fit. One step closer to being a real TK.

ah yea i see what you did there, i wish my fix was that simple, but i totally chopped off more then i should have lol, bondo will fix it but before i do that i wanted to make sure everything else looked right cause once i bondo it, everything is pretty much in place from there on out. From my eye it looks good, but a second or third opinion on the rest is what i am looking for.

So here i am in the middle of a full ATA build, just finished triming up the the armor, sanding comes next, the e-11 hasbro mod is in the primer stage and drying, and the bucket has been trimmed up, screwed up and awaiting some bondo fixing as you will see here in the photos. However before i fix my over excited trimming i wanted to grab a second opinion on the bucket, as you can see here, i got way excited on trimming of the ear pieces so i am going to bondo those up. thanks in advance for any advice you can provide