YouCantBe Sidious

Death Trooper Build Day ** - **) Trimmed and assembled shins and forearms. Just waiting on extra abs strips in the mail to complete cover strips on forearms. Legs almost complete. Weathering done on shins and boots. Added bandages. Wasn't satisfied. Added huge zombie bite prosthetic. Nice bite out of right calf. Doing the same to forearm. Cut hole. Glued prosthetic bite to fore sale sign bits. Glued and clamped and after last cover strip is added, I will complete weathering. Some of the excess blood will wipe off with weathering to reveal bite a little better.

There's a pizza... There's a pizza coming... I know I know... Freeze up always sounded like pizza to me... This coming from a metal guy whose friends were all punk! Sooo, I got to see all of the greatness like Suicidal Tendencies and GBH, , Social D, Slayer, Metallica, Exploited and even GG Allin... God help me! What a mix, but that last one scarred my memories for a lifetime!

Bought a 2nd set yesterday after reading this. I bought a set back in November or December for the same price. Can't beat it! The price rocks and the sizing, durability and comfort are top notch!

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The gray military grade ones are the same I've added to my TK and WIP Death Trooper buckets. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004RCLM8Q/ref=oh_details_o00_s00_i00 Works great!

Happy Birthday from Dallas!

Mine made me laugh. Seemed everyone had serious names and Sidious being the emperor, made me laugh. You Cant Be Sidious

I read this and started thinking about lamb skin... Just kidding...

Come to think of it, that 3 punch thing would work for the CRL: "Rivets on the left side ... blah blah blah ... equally spaced out along the depth of the armor and about 10mm from the edge. They may be painted white, or not. Note:For the original used TK armor, this type of rivets where, bifurcated rivets or split rivet."

Don't try this at home...

Death Trooper Build - Day 7: Some beautiful untrimmed AP bits showed up today. I started trimming and will post progress pics once there's something worth taking photos of. Weekdays suck, I had a FFB draft tonight, so I barely got anything done.

Day 6: Went to go see Iron Maiden, so all I did was a test fit when I got home. Still missing: belt, shins, forearms, drop boxes and need to strap down the chest and back a bit lower.

Thanks Carlos! I will log in and accept!

You're very welcome man! If you want to promote anything you're building or selling on our page, please feel free to. I will make sure it gets shared!

Shared on my band's FaceBook. We have around 3,000 friends on there mate. http://www.facebook.com/RIVETHEAD

Congrats Carlos!

Thanks Jim! That would rock to see a nice troop of zombies. Scary as hell too, I would imagine... Day 4 and 5 - Death Trooper Build - weekdays (so after work = less work time) Added more weathering to biceps and shoulder bells. Gluing in snap plates (I use the strap material instead of ABS) More damage added to bucket: More weathering added to ab, cod, back, etc. Ripped out straps and added suspenders- that's what's clamped and gluing here. More weathering on thighs and bandages added for good taste. A bit more weathering on chest plate. and back Next step will be to trim and build AP legs, belt and forearms. Should be arriving soon!

Yes - the nylon type strap material with the snaps in it, is my prefered method for snaps, as you showed above in the photos. It holds very well and doesn't crack like ABS has a tendency to if you use thin bits.

I like using the excess strapping material. It bends and adheres very well to the curves and corners of the armor.

I'm adding random scratches to the kit with my TK number. My thought being that as this TK was going crazy and slowly becoming a zombie, he was losing his mind and scratching his TK number into his own armor before becoming completely undead.

Build Day 3: Used ATA parts arrived today. Nice and clean! Damage added with exit wound to back. Ripped armor and exposed flesh in chest piece. Thighs with open rips (thighs are being shimmed - mine are a little bit bigger, so I had to rip the back joins apart and I have inner strips gluing now before adding outer strips), biceps with damage and shoulder bells with scratches.

Thanks Derrek! Using the excess nasty fleshy bits from the mask I used for the helmet, has provided me with lots of extra flesh to used under cracks in the armor. It looks and feels great (or nasty)!

Death Trooper Kit Day 2: Added damage, scratches, paint weathering, cracks with exposed fleshy bits and plenty of "fresh scab" blood.

Armor build day 1: Received used FX ab, butt and back and biceps. Removed rivets from used kit. Started from scratch and added strapping, buttons, snaps and side rivets - all to EIB standards.

We're having an armor party at my house tomorrow man. It's posted on Star Garrison. PM me of you don't see it and want to come round. We're going to grill up some food as well!