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    Girl member with handme down armour

    in New Member Introductions Archive

    Posted

    Woo! More ladies in white! :) Welcome, Christine!

     

    There are also a lot of guys who are smaller than average (5'4" etc) and I recently helped a super small young lady fit into her super average-sized RS Props kit... :) Something I told her is not to worry about any of the return edges. You will likely have to cut a lot more off the suit. The key is, I think, to retain as much of its shape and form in a smaller (proportional) size. We still have some trimming to do on her as well.

     

    But Diana's build thread is a good reference, and I recommend you start one for yourself so you can post pics and ask questions.

     

    There is also a pinned thread in the Getting Started section, I believe, which compares normal sized armor and scaled-down armor of the same make (for the wife in this case).

    New Member, Where do i buy a suit?

    in New Member Introductions Archive

    Posted

    Welcome, Mike!  

     

    Where you buy a suit depends on whether you wish to join the 501st or just have a new "birthday suit" :P (silly, sorry) I am assuming you found your way here because you want to join the 501st, so you will definitely want to look for one on our Getting Started > Types of Armor list and not buy anything commercial or off ebay, even if the ebay seller says it's 501st approvable (it might be, but with significant heartache and cost).

     

    It also depends on your body type/size, as some armors are easier than others to fit to certain body types.

     

    And thirdly, it also depends on the type of trooper you want to emulate (that is, from which movie - they are all different). So browse around, enjoy the research, get to know some others who are building (in the build threads), and choose wisely! :D

  9. Los Angeles MDA Muscle Walk

    in Field Training Exercises

    Posted · Edited by gmrhodes13
    photo updated

    It's been a long time since I posted a troop! And even though I came as a Jedi (I needed an open-faced costume to wrangle this many people as point of contact for the event) we had a great turn-out of our Endor Party Crashers fire team and two newly approved TKs, and many other amazing people who came from 90+ miles away to support this great charity event.

     

    Sunny California? Nah. Look at those stormy skies! 

     

    We lucked out - the rain was light to none for most of the morning. But as soon as the walkers were crossing the finish line it started to rain more heavily. (I won't say "pour" because I've been places with real rain, but for us it was unusual.) Boba Fett touted a red umbrella and most of the armored guys didn't worry about it, but the soft costumes were getting spongy.

     

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  14. Question on trooping..

    in Off Topic

    Posted

    There's a trooper who does just that - Hip Hop Trooper. look him up. However, he's non-canon and can't use that costume for 501st. (He has other 501st costumes).

     

    For me, I prefer to be mostly in character, but as the "PR representative for the Empire" I am a friendly "in character" trooper. I have been known to get silly and have some fun, too. It very much depends on the event and the attitudes of those I'm trooping with. Never too wacky, though. It's not easy in armor.

     

    Then there was that time I............... never mind. ;)

    Hello from Santa Barbara County, California

    in New Member Introductions Archive

    Posted

    Welcome, Ed! Glad Drew's been keeping you on top of things (Steve too I imagine, for Nova). If only we could get Drew to finish his own TK darn it all!!! :P

     

    I am hoping to work with Echo in the coming months to do some build tutorials and other tutorials on video for FISD. Since I got to Santa Barbara once in a while to visit my mom, maybe we can get together and do one or two as well! :D

  22. Almost finished! Test Fitting. Comments Welcome

    in ANH Build Threads

    Posted

    See what you can do to raise the belt (snaps into the ab are what a lot of us use) and pull your shoulders forward a bit. I use a thin elastic band across my chest under the chest piece to "cheat" my shoulder's more forward. 

     

    I also recommend your left thigh - put padding inside it just above your knee but 90 degrees to the left (so it's the outside of your leg, INSIDE your armor). This should help with the sniper issue.

     

    Lastly I recommend you glue the front of your shoulder bridges down. There is no substitute for the sharp looking glued-down look. If it is glued, heat it a bit and glue it down more so it's flush.

     

    I don't mean to sound mean, but you really, really, really should replace that helmet. :)

  24. Stormtrooper from new Star Wars Rebels TV show

    in Off Topic

    Posted

    This is part clone, part TK... my big complaint is the bobblehead helmet is not a hybrid of clone and TK like I would have expected. There is no sense of evolution there, only the exaggerated art of that style of animation. I'm not really into the superthin human look of CW or Rebels at all... makes costuming hard unless you're a supermodel.

     

    I do want to try to convince my anti-costume husband that maybe one of the Rebels characters - Kanan - will be a good one for him to try. He already has the look... 

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