Nicky

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.

I love. My countersink drill bit. I like the paint job on the teeth. Free handed? Yeah you should take your time Building the armor slowly, like spending a whole evening on one tiny part, is full of advantages. If it's your first kit your brain is not able to pay attention to everything at once and receive a huge load of information to sink in. If you want it done faster take days off work and cancel your weekend plans, and always do something easy between two more difficult steps I learned to love the butt-joint for ANH builds because it's much prettier and overlap with velcro behind the thighs is not reliable. For the ears, unscrew them, take the edge of a flat table, a sandpaper sheet on, look closely for precision AND RUB, try-fit the ear, RUB, repeat. It's annoying but once you're done you black this boring moment out of your memory. Then of course there isn't any dotted line to show how much you should trim, but using many reference or trooping photos you can see there are ears thinner than others, just that thinner ones stick out less than too wide ones, and at some point you trim extra to reduce the gap between the low section of the ear and the helme's curve, rendering them thinner in appearance, and prettier that way than thick Myself I went a little overboard and sanded down to fit the edge from the dome overlapping edge, the sharp edge of the table and the sand paper shucks came in handy for that detail. I haven't seen any tutorial advising this or paid attention to whether others do that too, so don't just go do the same thing unless the rest of the board advises you to. It's merely pics to give an idea of the thickness of the ear, and how the countersink screws should "sink" into the ears almost completely. From my build: (click to zoom) Also lower the brow a little more to join the "Matt Dillon" club of TK's lol

Ask medieval cosplayers in your region, they know the sh** out of leather and leather looking material suppliers You can also do like me, walk into a fabric store and ask the people who work there for pointers. If they don't have what you need there's no reason for them not to help you find the right store.

Awwww...he's ADORABLE!!!! !

I also use run suspenders around the 2 straps between the chest plate and the ab plate, that way the suspenders are pulled inwards, hide better under the chest plate, and the chest plate gets an extra pull back towards the body in case I bend over or sit down, no breasts physics.

You mean under the ribs, above the ham, around the pancakes? Yeah that's gonna work for sure! Actually I looked at my belt and see it probaby has to do with its soft comfy padding around it that decreases its grip. That theory makes me feel better about myself actually. A belt with good grip is enough

I'm 177 and 80 I wish I had hip bones at least, that the belt alone could hang onto, otherwise it's hopeless. I believe It's not about weight, it's about body shape I'm a sad rectangle who can keep his pants up.