Airborne Trooper

Since I'm not in the detachment, I didn't see this go to vote about the kidney notches. I'll update my notch since I have a shim on my sandie.

See you in the dunes soon!

Unless they are on Mos Eisley, they won't be on the detachment I've already had a discussion on MEPD on trying to claim ownership to the "heavy weapons troopers" on Rogue One.

I absolutely love my Blaster pouches. It killed me when I had to take some sandpaper to scuff and weather them up. Just did a little sanding on the edges. I used brown acrylic paint and also kicked them around in a dirt patch for weathering.

I don't know any inside information. I just know ATA's wait times are ridiculous. So you're going to have a ATA and TM hero builds?

This looks like a nice alternative to a scout that most guys choose when they are tired of TK/TD's limited mobility. I wouldn't mind doing one of these for an alt summer costume but I still have my hopes on doing a Snowtrooper to use in these NY winters.

Helmet is looking great! When do you get your armor? Sometime 2017/18?

Just need Jason to get his approval and need Kirk to get his PO status!

Take that pauldron off until you dirty that armor! It's like staring into the sun it's so bright.

If I turn off my work firewall I can see all your photos. Guess it's nice to be an administrator

OK I get it. Battery trays are pretty terrible.

I'm curious to know what's wrong with the current 12v setup to your antigravity battery?

For the shims you want a piece acting as the extention flush with the end of the kidney and a insider back used to connect the two parts. Then you fill in the seam with ABS paste, sand, and smooth.

Spoiler: the death star ends up getting destroyed TWICE!

No problemo! You'll need a few troops to fine tune armor bites. I'm still making small adjustments here and there for comfort. I'll never be able to sit down or run but I'll at least be comfortable standing and interacting with people during troops.

Shims look good. You may want to go back and consider swapping the shoulder straps to elastic instead of nylon. It's ok for basic approval though if that's all you're aiming for. Gap from the shoulder bell to shoulder straps are fine.... only TKs need to be touching. Once you have a pack and pauldron on, it's hard to tell let alone try to get them touching. For your knee plate issue, put a piece of foam on the top of the shin and put another on the back of your thigh.

I bought the first version when it came out and my kids liked it for about a day and was bored with it. Those type of games are just huge money pits IMHO. My brother in law has every single skylanders including the variants for the first few of those games. Custom shelves full and now his son could care less about them.

Thanks for the link

I can get undressed by myself but putting things on by myself doesn't work. My wife usually goes to troops with me so she is extremely helpful making sure my belt is on tight and straight. I put on all the armor, side pouches, and she fastens the belt. I put my pack on and get it snug. Once that's on she has to help me with my arms and getting the shoulder bells snapped in place. If I put my pack on after the arms I can't move my arms nearly as much. The pauldron goes on last. Right before leaving the changing area I put my gloves and bucket on.

My wife loves to wash my undersuit after doing 3 troops in one day like on May 4th hahahaha

Chris, thanks for the kind words. Even though I'm a dirty sandtrooper, I figured I would cross post and help out anyone looking for information. I spent 8 years with my unit, 9 years total Army and deployed twice to Iraq. My first deployment we lost 22 men so the least I can do is pay my respect and homage to my brothers.

It's official, I am a deployed Police Officer aka level 2 Sandtrooper!

Are you young with an old man's face or old with a young man's face?

You could have gotten those at the PX too but probably not as cheap. I love mine

Buy me a round trip airline ticket and I'll do it for you I haven't been "home" in a few years. Wouldn't mind catching a Braves game just to watch them win last place in MLB.