MartinSivertsen

Very nice thread I like the small historylessons and digging for (correct) info. :-D

Thanks you guys and girls!

Really stunning, and such great work for the stormtrooper-community!

Wow. Already commented and discussed this on facebook, and I would really like one, despite the HDPE not holding paint at all.

That's what we're hoping for, that you swedes will come over and spend the weekend with us!

This year, as the past few years, the Nordic Garrison made their presence felt at the parade in Trondheim, during the national day 17th of may. This was my first time attending the parade, and it was a really fun experience. We used the downstairs club at my work as a changing area and hangout before and after the parade, and we ended up being 23 troopers walking the streets of Trondheim. We tried to spread out and walk in formation to really take up space and make an impact in the parade. Which I really think worked out good, we got a lot of exposure, and thousands of people had showed up to view the parade even though the weather was really bad. One of the troopers arranged a pole-cam to be on top of the banner and film the entire parade, the movie will have to be edited but I think it turned out good! Here I am being an exemplary posterboy for Norway and the 501st Legion, this picture showed up on imgur and had over 170.000 views 24 hours after the parade: And there were a few videos that surfaced on youtube that same evening and the days after, here's one where I saw my girlfriend and ran over to give her a hug: And here's another one I got sent by a nice girl: After the parade, we walked up to the westfront of the Nidaros Cathedral and took a picture of all attending troopers and support, quite fitting, as we are planning to design a patch for the troopers in Nidaros using the westfront of the Cathedral as an iconic image with TIE-fighters flying over it. As we came back to our changingarea we already started to plan towards next years parade, shooting for 50 attending troopers, where many of them hopefully will be troppers travelling from other cities (and hopefully neighbouring countries), and many of them troopers based in Trondheim. We are growing at a rapid pace, with 16 confirmed members of The 501st Legion and at least 8 people at different stages of building their first costume! We might have our own C3PO and R2D2 even, and with 2013 marking 30 years since the release of Return of The Jedi, we might have to find a way to mark that in some way too. See you around!

I like it! That TM fits you like a glove! I'll be at Legoland too, so see you there :-D

Very nice! All the best to all involved, I like both Brian Muir and the guys at RS, so this is really great.

Sorry for going a little bit off-topic here, but Vern, I have to ask, WHY do you write the way you do, with a whole line space between each sentence, and sometimes splitting up the sentences mid-sentence. I see you have fairly correct grammar elsewhere, so it can't be that you are illiterate. And you have to have noticed that everyone else writes differently than you. Which leads me to think you're perpetuating this style of writing just to be unique, well it defeats its purpose. Would you please consider writing as we all have agreed upon? You know, correct spelling and grammar goes a long way if you want to be taken seriously. Consider it kind advice from a fellow trooper.

Very nice, looking forward to following this.

Very nice.

Nicely done, great use of an FX-suit! :-D Looks awesome!

This is the kind of meticulous information that I love! More from the same source: a quote from Roger Christian in another interview "On Star Wars, I went off on my own to the gun-hire place and got a Sterling sub-machine gun ...and adapted it with super-glue and other bits, Babty's gave me the permission to do it because they knew me well, and I created the first storm-troopers' weapon out of those and showed them to George and said 'Look, they can fire on the stage so you get smoke and fire, and backfiring…I hated in previous films that they just gave you a little 'beep'; it didn't look menacing. And George just loved it."

This might be old news to some, but it was news to me. The Original Stormtrooper on Facebook (Brian Muir): https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Original-Stormtrooper/308958205795601 just posted this information, and I thought it would be nice to share with you all. Roger Christian - Set Decorator - Star Wars A New Hope (responsible for sourcing, making and assembling the original E11 blaster) Roger Christian says: September 28, 2009 at 12:11 pm As the Set Decorator on A New Hope, I had the responsibility of creating and preparing all the weapons and action props for the first Star Wars. I myself made the very first weapons and the first one I made was the Storm Troopers Blaster. It was made by me by hand with a Stirling sub machine gun and rubber weather stripping and super glue and actually used in the movie. George Lucas and John Barry came to the gun hire facility in London where I spent a few days creating all the guns. George stayed with me as well for a few hours and we created some weapons together. https://www.facebook.com/pages/Roger-Christian/104103006292151 Cheers!

Nice, clean build. Looks good! Interesting choice to attach the holster via snaps to the kindeyplate instead of to the belt

What an amazing workload! Super impressed with with the results, can't wait to see it finished

I love the look of primed parts, they have so much innate potential! Looks AWESOME by the way

"These molds were casted by a re-cast helmet made by molds casted by an original helmet" Could be any number of things, but upon closer inspection they look a bit weird, sort of squished, and it's made from a hero helmet. And to my knowledge no hero helmets were ever recovered and re-casted, only stunt-helmets that were re-casted and modified to look like the hero version.

I can't imagine Paul doing anything other than SA... ;-)

Very clean and nice. Great job, as always :-D

You're off to a great start! Wow.

Thanks for being the shining beacon in a sea of white :-)

This is a real female dog! The nerve.

I only use the VOX mode, no hassle and really easy to use. You speak and it activates and ends with a *ksschk*. Fantastic!

Spitting image! That is so cool!