MartinSivertsen

Seems like you have a decent solution to the thigh problem, I'd say "go for it!"

Looking good! Inner/rear bolt and spring and everything! Looks very nice with the weathering and all. Another very nice doooydoo build. These blasters are such good value. They can be made to look a million dollars, but are actually pretty cheap, all things considered. Edit: VERY nice weathering...

I concur on the subject of the bluray box being worth it just for the bonus material. I was also one of those that bought it despite not having a bluray player.

I had no trouble with Doopydoos and recieved my kit a week or two after I ordered it, without delays. The kit is now built and I am extremely happy with it. You'll find the build in the build section of the blasters forum.

Thanks Rolf!

That looks good!

Christ, what a modification. I don't think I'd have the nerves to do that. Praising myself happy that I'm 6ft tall and pretty much spot on for a TM suit without modification. I'm looking forward to seeing this one done!

I made it so the two parts are detachable from eachother. I inserted the cylinder bit first, and just pushed the long bit with the cocking handle into the slot and the pins securely into the cylinder bit. If you understand what i mean. I haven't glued them together. Yet. Hehe.

He looks a little famished. I guess the slender build (of the suit), particularly the forearms give me that impression. I'm probably in the same boat as the others here with having seen too many fan-made/built suits and have become used to that. It might come down to personal preference too, what do I know... Edit: Two right forearms? I see the raised edge on the left one (where the cover strip goes) is on the back.

I'm 6ft 154pounds, and a TM fits me perfect. No shims or anything.

Those Mathias linked to are awesome. I have 20 of them myself, and I still could need a few more! I'm stacking them two on top of each other, feeling it has a little more pull, so I use four magnets each including clamps on the ends when gluing on finishing strips on arms and legs, just to keep the strip laying flush and nice against the seam.

Too bad Stukatrooper made all his pictures private...

Just be careful when cutting the screws, because they get really hot and can melt the plastic in worst case! I would remove them from the helmet before I cut them.

How did this turn out?

Check this thread out, it helped me out a lot with regards to trimming the ears: http://forum.whitearmor.net/index.php?showtopic=10140&st=0&p=127994&fromsearch=1entry127994

Yeah, that would be awesome! I'll start finishing my TK now and start trooping soon

I'll add the spring and wires from cylinders to counter later. Need to focus on finishing the suit for now Thank you very much for the kind words!

Finished! I like the "used" look so I weathered a little on the rough side. Nothing too much, just enough to give it some realism.

It turned out really nice! Great weathering, and I also love that you replaced the front sight with a more accurate one.

Have you tried spraying the plastic with a primer before applying the white?

Thanks for the kind words I was going to redirect you to my tutorial, but as you're looking for a simpler version, I don't know what to recommend that would look good - but still be very easy to manufacture. I suppose you might just cut out a piece of ABS or similar thin plastic in the shape of the piece i made, and glue the cocking handle to that, and then glue that in the slot. Might be hard to get it to sit securely without having anything behind it...

Painted the scope. The color is a lot more golden and yellow than this picture depicts. And check out the detail on these scopes!

And here it is, all primed and ready for paint. There's probably a few small tweaks I could have done, but I have to say enough is enough. I want to see this blaster finished now

Now for the rear bolt. I have spent waaay longer time on this build than I could have, but I just have been taking my time and enjoying the build. Trying to make it a little more accurate here and there. There are of course a lot more that could have been done on this build, that's the beauty of building with resin, it's so easily customizable. I used the cap from a pen to make an inner bolt basis. The inner diameter of the doopydoos is about 22mm, and the cap is closer to 20mm, so not a really snug fit, but as close as I got without going out and buying something else. TK8505 works in plastic, so he volunteered to fill the cap with plastic, to make it solid, which was very practial and worked out really well. Used a small piece of wood which I filed and sanded down to fit into the rail Then I found a piece of plastic which I layed over the rail/hole and drew and cut out on to make the continuation of the strip on the ejector port Drilled small holes on the two pieces and installed small pins to hold them securely in place. I ended up mounting all the pins in the piece of wood, or else I wouldn't be able to insert the pen cap inside the blaster before assembling the pieces together. Drilled a small hole in the cocking handle and another hole through the piece of wood and into the cap having a long pin going into the cocking handle and well into the other two pieces, so it can really take a beating and be pulled without risk of anything coming loose. Then I actually superglued the cocking handle deep on the pin, and glued that to the piece of wood. Notice I've also glued on the piece of plastic that's going to resemble the continuation of the strip on the ejector port. Here's how it looks mounted together And here it is with the cap inside the blaster and the woodpiece with cockinghandle inserted securely making it a functioning sliding cocking handle with rear bolt. Now I can actually insert a spring and screw the endcap on, and the spring will push the bolt forward.