FunkyTrigger

Some people think about getting Armour and out there trooping. To be honest the build, the research, your forum friend and the people that you troop with are very important areas to build on. Build the Armour yourself, make it look good and fit you, rather than get a ready built off the self suit. Whilst building and researching you will achieve EIB for no extra cost and you will learn the difference between ANH, ESB & ROTJ. This FISD forum is equipped with a good search facility. Good luck.

Wow. Spot on

Re: the CRL Both your current canvas belt and ammo AB belt are fine for basic 501st approval. You are covered if basic is all thy you want.

Phil Gregory 3796 EIB A4

Phil Gregory 3796 centurion A4

Hi Niklas, I am from the UK Garisson, please send me a link to your auction if you would like me to investigate.

Just bend the clips down a bit. Are they metal or aluminum ? Metal will bend easily. Ali is a bit brittle, be careful.

Sorry to throw a spanner in the works about the TD. In your pic of the rear of the TD, we can clearly see it sitting on the back on the belt. From the direct back view on the pics that we see, this is not normally what we are supposed to see. We are supposed to see the TD button panels on top. We are not supposed to see much of the metal clip under the panel and not to see the mounting rivets. You may be able to simply correct the TD look by giving the TD a slight twist whilst still connected to the brackets. Try and hide the bottom mounts from direct view, and show a bit more of the TD top button panel. The round top thumb button is usually facing towards the top

It's all written on the posts of his EIB application request as applied for today.

@svache your attitude to comments and improving your armour is superb and admirable!! If ever I encounter someone negative again, I'm proudly going to refer them here.

@svache your attitude to comments and improving your armour is superb and admirable!! If ever I encounter someone negative again, I'm proudly going to refer them here.

Hi guys, To all of you.. I understand that you have all been working as a team to build and photograph this. Congrats on his EIB pass. All comments from Clamps, Mathias and I are posted on the EIB thread. Good luck to all of your outpost on working hard together on this and I look forward to seeing more of your EIB applications. Phil

Yes we are referring to the width of the canvas belt. Those Darmann holsters are too long, we've seen loads recently in EIB requests. The holster shouldn't really be longer than your thigh. Our common recommendation is to holster your gun, then cut the excess from the bottom of the holster. These wont affect your EIB app, but we try to make you look as best you can for Centurion so it's up to you if you wish to improve your look. If you could run your canvas belt through a sewing machine and get it to the narrower width, then trim the end of your AB belt to the AB buttons, then your AB belt may be salvageable for centurion. I would have a go, there's nothing to loose.

Congratulations on being awarded your EIB. I am pleased that both Clamps and Mathias have given constructive comments. I made these notes earlier and I think they have all been covered by the others... Both shoulder bells too far out. Right side AB shim too bowed out Left shin rear cover strip Right hand guard not glued down properly. TD rivet too close to panel and thus on show. Thigh ammo pack missing correct bottom rounded curve Messy vocoder painting Messy ear bump black surround painting. Front right shoulder strap not glued down properly, lifted corner. ------- On reflection, take a look a your right hand guard and the rivet positioning on your TD.

Hi Travis, with reference to what I said about your AB belt corners, may I ask how wide your canvas belt is? This may be the problem. The canvas belt is supposed to be slightly thinner is diameter than the width of the front ammo belt.

Hi Travis As requested, you have PM'd me to give your latest armour build pics a once over and pass honest feedback. I have read your entire build thread before posting. To start with, you have brought two good ideas to the build table here. The first is your contour gauge for judging the ear shape. This is a simple and brilliant idea. You have researched and found a sticky pad to apply to that back of your snap poppers before applying the glue. In your first pic, the full frontal pic, we can see the overall shape and fit of your armour on you. This is form fitted to your frame and looks very good. You actually look like a stormtrooper!. I think that you may need a tighter fitting under suit for your top half eventually as it looks a bit baggy in the shoulder area. I can see that your top shoulder bells are nice and close to your shoulder straps. A straight down arms pic will assess if they are close enough to your chest plate. I am sure that they will be. The large gap that we see at present is due to your proud to be in armour pose. I think that the AB and Kidney shims that you have added are good and will get you an EIB pass. For centurion, you will need the 6 side rivets and to try and blend the shim seam in a bit better as the new rules require to see a single seam line rather than the two that you have there. Your Front AB belt corners , I think maybe have been trimmed too much for centurion. You need Mathias to comment on this. It looks OK for EIB It may be salvageable, if you trim the end of the belt up to the edge of the ab buttons. The ab buttons are supposed to be at the belt edge. If this is done, then maybe the corner cuts that you have made won’t appear to be such large triangles. Your back view picture looks perfect in respect to the armour. The Shoulders, backplate, kidney and butt plate all spot on. I presume that you know that your Thermal detonator is missing from the back of the belt. Your rear shoulder straps are missing the white tie down elastics to hold them down and in place. If they are there, as I think I can see one in your LEFT side facing pics, then you may need to slightly heat and re bend the back shoulder straps so that they sit better on the back plate. I cannot see a tie down strap on your RIGHT hand facing side view shot. This strap is lifted too high at the back. Your right rear shin, was not closed properly for the picture. How much helmet padding do you have in the top of your helmet? It seems to be very high up from your neck in the rear shots. I suspect that as you are still building the helmet, that perhaps it is balancing on your head at present with no padding to help keep it in the right place. So, overall its very good. You’re nearly there to finish and a good quality build, with only a few tweaks required. I hope this helps and is the kind of review that you wanted.

I do appreciate that it is hard to receive critiscm. Some people seem to fall apart. Some people choose to argue with you. Some people take the comments and improve their Armour. What you have to appreciate that it is also hard to be a constructive critic. I don't mean the type the make a critiscm and run, or the type that criticize and offer bad advice. I try to be a constructive critic (or praiser) and ill stay around afterwards to take the flack for the comment. This is where I differ from most. Personally I cannot stand seeing praise comments for something that is glaringly wrong. The guy needs help! Not to be dulled into a false sense of security. Lets get you to EIB or the first Centurion if that's what you want. If the changes don't Cost you any money to do, just a bit of labour and changes then let's do them. Good luck on your builds mate. Ps. Your top shoulder bell straps could do with being slightly shorter too

Some good advice there about the heatgun from Nicky. Your sniper plate looked great. Your overall TK look, looked great and nicely in proportion. I use nylon webbing for the chest to back plate connection under the shoulder bridges, the rest is all elastics. I only had concern about your choice to use Velcro to hold your thighs up and the use of riveting the straps direct to the plastic. On your arms you have shown that you use popper snap connectors on their construction. You should have followed this through also to the thighs by gluing on male popper snaps. It's not to late to address this. It is inevitable that Velcro will let you down at some awkward point.

Hi Svache. Here's a question for you. If there are faults with your stormtrooper look. Would you rather have honest comments back to help you correct your Armour? Or would you like loads of comments back saying ... That's great! That's really swell! You look great in your Armour!! Be prepared if your applying for your EIB. The whole point of the Armour build is to look the part and to correct and adjust what is wrong. False positive comments are totally stupid and pointless in my honest opinion.

I think that the thighs need improvement however the photos are too small for me to pick out detail and offer advice. The shape of the thighs around the crotch is way wrong. I can't tell from the small pics if you have the thighs on the wrong legs or if they are rotated too far round from the centre front line seam. If you can post up better pics or an EIB application then I'm sure we can help you further.

Hi Vern, if you go back and re-read the one and only post from TM Paul, who also falls into the more experienced category, you will read is simple suggestion that a holster overall length shouldn't really be longer than your thigh. This is a great suggestion to follow and also serves to address varying other length holsters that we see on ANH and ESB submissions. It also helps direct builders to focus on form fitting Armour. There are many decisions to make when building your Armour about cuts, shims, cover strip widths and now holster lengths. The best solution I've seen for tall, short, fat and skinny troopers is to build the Armour to suit your size frame. At the end of the day, this is what always ends up looking best

You haven't mentioned your Armour brand there, but it looks like TM to me. Am I right? Tell tale bells, AB plate, crotch

Nice Mo Bro, @Jreeveo! @Dday, I loved your summary about the functional split rivets and hence not being able to flat pack the Armour after

Can we help you with cover strips ? They look infinitely better overall and are required definitely for Centurion. Here are a few tips to help you with cover strips. You will need an extra pair of hands, or ... some rare earth magnets Some plastic spring clamps Or Plastic weld I need to write a tutorial on how to do this with plastic weld first then add cover strips.

That video is total bull. His helmets are nothing like the originals, he lies the whole way through it about being the sculptor, He did vac form the originals, sadly he didn't keep the moulds and has been recasting other people's work using his original work done in 77 as a cover up. He's taken credit for The original sculptors work. He runs the SDS supply business. Don't get suckered in by him. If his gear was good and original he would have earnt a reputation that we would all be buying from, but as it stands I think that RS and TM are the most accurate kit your gonna see out there and get. I had an SDS lid that I got rid of through Shame once I learnt about this guy and the history. You need to speak about him with Matt Sparling, Carbonitekid if your up for some education.