Darth Aloha

Looks good to me. Vern has good weathering tips. If you choose to do so you'll have an even better looking blaster. Seems to be a doopy build no? -Eric

So.... I've been attending this gym class for no reason!? Whew. I'm glad because these jumping jacks are tough to do in armor. -Eric

Unquestioned spelling! (Until now) -Eric

You'll go blind doing that (I see euphemisms everywhere) -Eric

Wooooo new bicep hook tutorial. Said in Mr Burns voice: Excellent!

MikeD called and he wants his facial hair from the Sabotage video back ASAP. Who made your spiffy looking shiny armor? -Eric Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Please don't cut the bells. Yes please glue the knee plate back on. I suggest e-6000 because it isn't as brittle as the CA glue. My CA glued knee came apart easily even after scuffing the area a bit. And on the thighs... I wouldn't trim too much off until the whole kit is together and strapped. That way if you need to reshape or taper you will be able to be a sense of where/how it sits on him. Otherwise it looks good for the blue tape phase. How did you attach the belt to the.. Belt? -Eric

What are you using for a switch and to what device? -E Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

How's it feel to be able to sit down in costume?

Looks good from this angle. If you're taking photos again maybe another one from the side closer. The cover strips look so nice on an RT build. I really can't judge the thighs without seeing them worn. He's at all stoked yet? -Eric

Yep. Thanks Mike. The distance from plastic belt to first rivet doesnt' work for all body types... but the other measurements stay true. Sheesh! Someone really needs to do something about how terrible the forum search is. For reals. Just say'n etc... Oh wait. Crap. -Eric

What the Canuck said. Especially about waiting until everything is together to attach shoulder bridges. Someone had a diagram of holster placement measurements somewhere but I can't find it. Maybe it was a bill hag thingy? -Eric

Must... have... fart machine. Incredible! Amazing work. -Eric

Well the hasbro shouldn't stop you from EIB'ing. Help us to get to 300 before the new year! -Eric

Congrats Clinton on approval and your merry first troop. Looked like a fun one. Please report to the Swede manning the imperial personnel office down the hall from detention block AA-23 to apply for your EIB badge ASAP. Aloha, -Eric

Not a dickish question at all. Because I like the way it looks. It's non screen accurate and totally non canon but i dig it. De gustibus non est disputandum. It will make the helmet heavier of course... and from I can tell so far... smellier too. -Eric

Hopefully the truck bed liner smell goes away eventually. It's somewhat noxious. I may regret doing it and its non canon-ness but I really like the way a helmet looks when its blacked out inside. Has anyone tried using this rubberized undercoating stuff from bondo? I saw it at the hardware store today next to the truck bed liner spray goop: -Eric

Scoot the ab/cod up and the chest will come up... so will the kidney to meet the back. You can see in the butt shot that its all hanging too low like a saggy ABS diaper. What happens with the tall dudes is that the space between the ab buttons and the bottom edge of the chest is quite large compared to the ones you see on screen. It's better to have the chest up properly I think. Here are a couple blatantly narcissistic photos of me and the placement of my chest... I actually think my ab/cod is a little low in these photos. I may need to shorten the elastic between chest and ab a bit to lower the chest and raise the ab. Oh and my drop box elastics were hot glued on right before we arrived and also hang too low. That's been corrected. I'm all the way to the left... obviously. Would you believe those are RT-MOD shins on Julie? For reals: Never mind the FX guy... ..but we have cheerleaders. The short dude is an unweathered TD that just got deployed over on MEPD. -Eric

Rounded heads. The DO will pass you with them but they're not right IMHO. My RT helmet only had two screws above and below the ear rank. I bought a cheap electrical socket cover that came with prepainted white screws that match the ones Rob uses. The ear screws should look more like this one (from the helmet ATA kit): Here's the Dave M helmet from Starwarshelmets.com showing the flat flatheads:

I think there are a ton of Centurion with hand painted stickers.... while I'm not Centurion yet here are the hand painted stickers on my RT (with the wrong ear screws too): Here's Boomshakra's RT helmet from his Centurion request thread:

I assumed that the RT helmet vocoder is a sticker. Make with the paint if it is -Eric