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I admire the mother's initiative! Bullies are jealous about everything. They bully the different because they can't fit them in their imaginary chart of superiority and being different means there's nothing the bullies have that you'd envy. If you live and dress the way you want then your parent must love you and approve of you too, so the bullies hate you for that and will make sure that at school it's their turn to be loved/feared. The worst thing you can do is give them credit. I was not seriously bullied for Star Wars but for being happy, they made constant fun of me because of my intense interests in things that I work with and spend time on today, beside the mockery people insulted me aiming at Star Wars and how I lived in a galaxy far far away and not knowing sh** about the milky way's way of life. But now that I have a stormtrooper armor NOBODY's making fun of me anymore, they are intimidated by the looks and everything that stands behind it. There's the occasional playing the 'Imperial march' whenever I arrive at someone's party, but that's just cute. We will help Katie get a stormtrooper armor ASAP, and it will look awesome, it has to, with a low brow, Matt Dillon style because that looks mean. I believe it will shut everyone else up if instead of abiding by their pathetic rules she dives deeper into what she loves, and Katie will be a stormtrooper she won't care about anything that people think.

Alrighty, after 3 hours work on the hasbro: -Standard prep -Installed a 19mm wide rail -Moved the LED to the back -Modded the front sight -Modded the hengstler counter -Quick epoxy on the doopydoo parts. -Forgot the cylinders. Let's not derail the ANH TK build topic, here's the thread with the rest of the blaster story http://www.whitearmor.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=21245

Lower feedback is from a lower sensitivity, lower mike output and unidirectional pattern, then using higher pressure and higher gain to reach the same output volume to the ear. Since we are many to use similar Aker amps we will have to stress the "speak louder" point more. Feedback gets in through your bones as well to reach your helmet and resonate. It's quite funny.

Voting has started, poll is up. But do read the recent additions to the Q&A first! Interesting points were brought up.

As suggested by people in this thread, I fitted the Aker (white, 10w) inside the chest with an iComm. The Aker is supposedly a bit big for that but it went great for my kit. Now this will answer some of the questions: The iComm, meant to add static burst and voice activation/PTT to your Aker amp. Like Jim says it adds effect to the voice audio as well. I would say it filters the frequencies so you get a much more high-mid, trebley sound that breaks through ambient noise better than the wider range sound you get from plugging your mike directly to the amp. It sounds worse, but you don't need to get a super high volume to be heard, and it works better for the trooper voice. Now you can muffle some of the treble and increase the bass by sticking the speaker inside your chest plate, with your body and the ABS the sound resonates and gets even louder naturally like people wrote in this thread, the sound is muffled a bit but you begin with lots of treble. Problem I had, it hurts my own ears as my ribcage and bones bring the sound to my skull and then to the helmet. So I had to play with the volume control to find the comfortable setting. I did get feedback when it was too loud near the helmet but I would never go on like this anyway. Now a warning about the Olympus ME52 and the iComm used together, it is not an omnidirectional mike with high sensitivity so you will have 40db/mW and slightly lower output impedance... meaning that when you plug it in the iComm you can't just whisper somewhere near the mike you have to talk at least as loud and directly through for your voice to be as loud as the static bursts. For all I know the iComm does not preamplify the Mic In to your specific needs, nor did I find a volume control for the effects alone, so you have to make do or mod. I'm looking into it. Regarding the amp alone distorting your voice, it does that a bit anyway. It's not a huge speaker with a very clean amplifier so frequencies will fall and you will sound a bit "low-fi", your head being in a plastic bucket also add a natural effect to your voice.

I have a question, on how to eliminate the gap beyond what the CRL says. When you successfully shim the gap, I understand the use of webbing straps instead of elastic would help keep the gap minimal, what kind of material overlapping behind the tiny tiny gap would help making the line disappear best? Has anyone tried to fasten the two plates/shim with overlap, inner shim and/or silicone caulk?

Amazing! I've got tears in my eyes haha

To sit down and get back up with class: Chair: Bend your left leg while holding the back support of the chair with the left hand aiming the weight towards the center of gravity of the chair, or on the armrest, or on your thighs to keep balance. Then slowly sit on the edge of the chair, lean back while letting the left hand go. Like Mathias wrote: keep the weight on the gap between the cod/butt plastic, direct the thighs outwards to increase your flexibility. You will sit looking relaxed and your detonator makes no contact with the back support so it doesn't get stuck in anything. To get back up: spread your legs, left hand on left thigh, apply weight there, push on your right foot to bend over the left, right hand on left thigh, balance your weight while you pull your butt up, stand straight, don't forget your helmet. Floor: Twist your left thigh piece outwards, bend your knee and come to a kneel, bend over your trunk and place both hands on the floor, apply weight there and stretch your left leg out to the other foot until you are almost in some sort of push-ups position while you twist your whole body around the butt, place your right foot on the floor, right hand on your right side while facing up, and come to a sitting position. To get back up: same steps in reverse. Garden swing: facing away from the swing, push it furthest back until the seat rises to the level of your butt, grab the back support with either hand and try to snug most of your butt into the seat and lift your feet off the ground and swing the whole into a sitting position. Don't to spill your drink. To get back up: walk backwards while stretching your legs sitting until you have enough weight on both legs and then just walk away. Don't forget your helmet. Triceratops at a science museum: Don't.

The number doesn't reflect any trooper record, it's esthetic. Unfair would be to mark "generations" distinguishing original 4-digits members from the 5 digits, and have all 5-digits ranked in the same way. I would agree about the members who've gotten their number this summer, there was barely any choice for numbers to feel related to. If with 99999 numbers if you can't find your favorite one available but find the 9 next closest ones then why not. Also I can't complain about mine

The GML should look into their application status if it is pending for something. My online application was submitted during the 4-digits era so it froze for some time. LMO needed new 5-digits numbers from me but neither did I or the GML hear about it so it took someone to look into it and then "waaaait a second!". So yeah, ask GML.

You mean if the phone will work when you dial the number? Yes it will I'm not spending the international tax but if someone with a very charismatic voice could give a quick call we will receive an answer very quickly. Avoid early/late/lunch calls for better results.

It's more of an opportunity if you happen to find one cheap. But it's not really an issue, I bought the Hasbro this summer because I saw hundreds of them that cost only $27+tax, considering the >$60 tag on Amazon/ebay if you even find any I told myself "what the hell?". I always wanted to have a main and a backup (Hasbro) and I suspected there would be a back order on the doopydoo full resin kit. If you're going to have the doopydoo's conversion kit and have it delivered to you in the US, then why not get the full resin kit for the price of a Hasbro alone on ebay that you will need to convert? Doopydoo has the full kit back in stock as of now (sept 18th 9AM GMT) To stay in topic I ordered from Doopydoo Augst 31st and received it September 13th.

For centurion the Willrow Wood detachment will taste the ice cream made from the costume, if it doesn't taste cloudy - it's a no go. To contribute a bit to this thread: Congratz!..So skinny. I don't know how much work involved in looking less skinny once it's fitted and done but I followed the Ladies panel and it was said that you can either make the armor fit you, or you can make your body fit the armor. Not that you would have to eat triple cheeseburgers but add padding to the costume. In your case it's probably too late for resizing the diameter of the limbs but boosting the size of the trunk and shoulder length would make the helmet look less big on you. It's something to consider if you sometimes get a hold of a new prettier kit to start over with

What the hell is this trigger. And where's the bolt lever. Ok, that was easy to sort out UK is kinda slow so we'll see when the full kit shows up, I was in back order for awhile. I'll have to troop in Helsingborg with the Hasbro. I have to ask since you're swedish, what would you call, in shopping swedish, the primer paint and "gun metal" lookish that is most suitable? And maybe specific label names wouldn't hurt

That'd be a great solution yes! Ah! That's good thinking, after awhile trooping I had too many cable showing failures it just makes me angry haha

Ahh! Well good then, the plan was two kits, I'll make the second one a full kit. (to lend out to visiting troopers taking the plane without their piece) I can't see the difference yet on photos

Is the full resin kit potentially much better looking and EIB-able? I don't intend on spending thousands on a real steel de-armed or smuggle a metal replica haha... but the plan was having a cheap hasbro for a first one as I happened to be at Disneyland, and then a full kit for accuracy and gear love.

I thought first you wrote "and I am in love with him", and got jealous immediately. I also fell in love with my armor supplier! Haha.. Good luck!

Let's ask Popeye what he thinks about that statement.

I use http://www.postimage.org because of its lighter interface compared to Photobucket. I don't know about Photobucket but in Postimage you can have generated a forum [ img ] code for all the photos in one album arranged in one line or 1,2,3 columns thumbnail links. It goes fast.

But how hard can it be! The Disney stores in the parks offer shipping, I'm sure if we had the e-mail of one of the clerks working there they could patch us up

Like it says on my sig, TK 54321. Since today! What I've done in addition to the stuff above: -Glue the shoulder bridges -Improve the strapping around the trunk -Paint the ear screws (lol ear scr...uhum.) -Tried webbing straps for the cod piece, switched back to elastic and fastened with duct tape. I happily trooped 30+ hours at CVI in Florida, volunteered or helped many times at 501st booths and Shoot-a-trooper (you don't know about sweat drowning until you've done 2h at shoot-a-trooper), marched with fellow troopers, hung out with cool costumers, played around with kids. The armor is rrrreally comfortable I found out I could kneel, sit down, run (the white armor panel ) in it quite easily. Had trooping been a job well I must say I love my new job. I met so many 501st members from all around the globe, great, fun, nice people! Received plenty of armor tips and feedback from FISD members and staff, it's such a great opportunity to see so many armors and have yours checked out IRL. If you want to test drive your armor, CVI is really the place! You guys all seem to love newbies Let's light this post up with photos from CVI where I appear (look for the "Matt Dillon brow" trooper): Takes about a month to hunt down all your CVI photos around the net Next to-do: -Hasbro conversion, got all the parts waiting. -Split rivets on ab/kidney plate for accuracy. (Thanks Tom!) -Lose my tummy and add tabs to reduce the side gap to less than 1 inch (goodbye pancake tummy). -Attach icomm unit that's being delivered soon, inside the chest plate. Excitement to improve improve improve!

TK 54321 http://www.501st.com/members/displaymemberdetails.php?userID=14765 Hugs.

Hasbro sells thousands of them at Disneyland for 27 bucks, take Star Tours a dozen times while you're at it.

Your TK is really pretty! Inspirational thread. The only thing that stuck out to me is the larger diameter of the biceps versus the forearms but I guess you can "gym that issue away" lol. Blaster is really cool too, I like the clean and hard metal tone of it.