HockeyTrooper
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Roger,
From a fellow 70th member, welcome to the FISD! We've had an influx of servicemen this year it seems building TKs, so you'll fit right in. One of our soon-to-be-members, MisterFubar, did what it sounds like your plan is and ordered most of his stuff while he was deployed and then worked on putting it all together once he got back home. Chookaboom listed most of the links I would point you towards for questions, so with that said, good luck! And if you have any questions along the way, feel free to shoot me a message.
-Bennett
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Impressive. Most impressive.
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I'll be watching this closely. A wireless system would make wiring for my C-3PO mic/speakers much easier.
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I believe that is an FX bucket. Personally, I'd say look into vetted makers here for a more accurate helmet. The FX buckets have either already been removed from the approvable list or have been extensively discussed as getting removed from "acceptable." If someone has a picture they can post side-by-side of a finished FX and one of the more accurate buckets, you'll see a huge difference.
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They will glue w/ E 6000. It is how I have my sniper knee plate attach.
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It is difficult and takes some practice/getting used to. I've finally got it to where I can do everything except attach my thermal detonator without help (as long as I don't have a snap malfunction).
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I believe TK_Leper also posted a youtube somewhere of how to make them as well.
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You can get the chem gloves at wal-mart, lowe's, home depot or most hardware stores I think.
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Looks to me like you've done a great job so far!
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Ha! Funny title for this thread. I fully expected you to have photos of some very bad builds.
I thought the same thing! Looking forward to seeing a family of kits come together at once!
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Looking good, Nathan. Looking forward to getting a chance to meet you and take a look at your armor work. I'll have my stuff as well if there is anything you want to look at.
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Looks like that was a lot of fun! Love Gordon's E-3PO/TC-14 (looking forward to him going gold though!)
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Looks like it was a great event!
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As they have said before me, ATA is a good kit for a nice price and will work very nicely for you. To give you an idea price-wise (without telling you ATA's armor pricing or any of the other supplier's prices) I spent about $1100 total on my costume. This included my gun, the mods to it, my boots, my canvas belt, my holster, my thermal detonator, neck seal, paint/decals, snaps/straps, mic/amp. I splurged on a few of my items that I could have gotten elsewhere. I believe it would be within reason to build a kit completely for under $1000 if you wanted to.
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It sounds like you are looking for a place to store things while trooping. Some people make their thermal detonator canister so that it opens on one end and can be used to store keys and things. I'd imagine you could have a pouch you could put on your belt for keeping things, but not necessarily at canon events. It might be something you'd want to make sure is removable I like the idea of this as somewhere you could put FISD cards or 501st cards to hand out to kids. Or if you go sandtrooper, they get pouches anyways I believe. For a standard TK though you would want to make sure it is removable, not used at canon events and not present in your submission photos. Those are my thoughts on it.
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Like Locitus said. You can either use velcro, snaps or snap buckles (http://www.strapworks.com/Plastic_Harware_s/18.htm?gclid=CMHyj8a8_rICFcxcMgodpiQAKg). Snap buckles will hold the best for you, but I think most people use snap/snap plate combos.
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They bit me too, literally right when I took them out of the box. First thing I got from them was a good sized blood blister.
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I think my wait on ATA was about 11 weeks, which isn't too bad at all. Look at the other end of the spectrum...I will probably get my 3PO "armor" pieces about a year after I was placed on the list, lol. But I know the supplier will deliver, he has a great reputation pretty much everywhere in the Star Wars costuming world.
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Yep, they even have a toy line put together already.
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Pictures and what type of helmet would help us to be able to direct you to the best source, but as Steve said, Panda's thread is great.
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According to the how-to you did it the hard way. lol I like the soldering iron method.
Yeah, I definitely did it the hard way. I dig the nylon snaps using the soddering iron. Eventually I'm going to go back and redo my strap system for my entire torso...maybe after 3PO...and med school
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Here is a great How To for 3 different methods:
http://www.whitearmor.net/forum/topic/20999-howto-make-snap-plates-3-different-ways/
Based on looking at those, I'm pretty sure when I made my snaps plates I used the wrong end of the snap on the plate. Putting the male snap in the plate seems to work much better than having the female snap in the plate (which is the mistake I made).
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Hey Tony,
My kit currently uses a bit of both. I actually made plastic snap plates, then glued nylon over the back of that, then glued the whole thing to the armor where I needed it. It's a bit messy and doesn't look as good as it could. The reason I had to do this was because the "rounded" end of the snap plate would sit or glue very easily on my armor, so I added the nylon to get better surface contact.
One probably I had with strictly Nylon as a plate is getting the snap to come together nicely through the nylon. It is pretty thick stuff and you have to cut the hole, then give it a really good pounding to make it work.
What I would recommend though is following one of the recent threads I have seen in the How To. Whoever did it made their plastic snap plates then used a heat gun to carefully press the snaps "back side" so it was flush or close to flush with the plate. If I can locate the thread I'll link it to you.
-Bennett
Shin Velcro
in Hard Armor (General Discussion)
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That is how I have seen it on most and how it appears on mine. The key is to make sure on both shins that the side you can see the velcro from is on inner side of both legs, so that if someone were looking at you from the side they wouldn't notice it at all.