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Now the HIPS helmet is transformed completely into a HDPE one: Next is placing the latex for the chipping effect

Use a hoster like photobucket.com to upload more pics.

Take a close look at the photo references - better than the Centurion builds, beacuse they ARE the original For example here: http://www.whitearmor.net/forum/gallery/album/16-lucas-film-archives-joer/

I´ve searched for that tutorial but was not succesfull. Hope that this pic of my armor helps: Just place the snap plate in front of the ridge and the gap will shrink. From your updated photos I think you are good to go ! Well done trooper

No updates for a week, college kept me busy. And also no pictures from the ear fitting - simply forgot to take them. So what I did was: Cleaned and sanded the helmet And then apllied the khaki-color over the primer This week I will challenge the outside

Can´t wait to see you all at CE with your awesome armor

Congrats! First NE armor with EIB, great news for the maker and for you

Phil, have a great time as our new DO! You did good work in the past at "performing triage" to the applications and I believe, that you are the only one who should take over the job. And like everyone else I want to thank you, Mathias for your past and future service

It is accurate not to cut the abdomen plate from the crotch area. Have a look at the photo reference section: Abdomen+crotch is one piece: And black elastic was used to connect the abdomen with the kidney plate: The armor for ANH Stunt and Hero was mostly the same, so no need for special Hero adjustments, except you want to do the Luke Chest mod.

The position looks good, but I wonder why AP supplies such inaccurate Mictips. I got no clue. After a short time you will feel the same and change them

The helmets looks exactly like an AP.

From my personal experience ( Pretty new, so only 6 troops on my tour of duty) I can only tell that I never attended a troop with less than 3 TK´s. Maybe it is a local phenomenon, but we in the German Garrison have a big base of TK´s and TD´s. There are 415 members listed, and around 160 of them have a TK, 40 have a TD and around 20 have a Vader. I can´t complain of this problem of to few people wearing their TK´s and TD´s, although I would feel the same dissatisfaction if it happens here too.

Congratulations! Welcome to the ranks, Dimo!

A little progress today. Test fit after trimming the eyes and teeth: Drilled holes for face and cap´n´back connection: Ears will come tomorrow...

OMG, that was my 300th post! EIB #300 and post #300 Jiha :happy and cheerful birthday:

Looking good! Especially the front looks very nice. The back is screen accurate, have a look here:

Most accurate would be to spraypaint the helmet with the HDPE-khaki color (RAL-7034) and then paint the outside white The interior of most helmets had a white or red paint "dust" over the khaki-green, resulting from bad masking of the helmet while spraypainting the outside. Red color because the primer was red and white because ..... well, we all know In fact it does not matter what color you choose, you can simply leave the inside white, because nobody will see it. Use the right lens material, maybe some sort of mesh behind the teeth and your helmet interior will be invisible for the public

Beer enough in Germany

Hey fellow troopers! After my last ATA helmet build I could not resist to get a new project rolling. It will be a CAP helmet from Scott´s recent run. And after I now know how to build the helmet together I want it to look like a real screen-used one, with the original HDPE-colour showing through and the signs of usage. Already bought the right color-spray: RAL 7034 for the HDPE-khaki-green and RAL 9016 for the white. I´m really impressed by the helmet kit. The pull is detailed, especially the ears are CRISP and the rest of the material like brow and neck trim, mictips, screws and nuts and the lens material are high quality. Can´t stress enough how I like this kit So without further delay - here it is: Updates as soon as time allows

Although I do not like the rivets on your right side beeinig there and on your left side beeing placed in the wrong position, I´m optimistic for your EIB

Always a pleasure to see a well assembled RS helmet

Used google translator english->german for flange but it did not help What I did was I cut everything of the curvature away, but no mm more. So the strips end were they are supposed to end. No armor bites

I just can say how it worked for me. The back of my thighs looked that way when I was approved EIB: I cut everything away and I can move much better now

Another idea would be: keep it the way it is at the moment. Then join face and back and see how it looks with the trim on. Measure twice, cut once ;-)

And Bill: If you fix the points already mentioned you WILL look like a proper Stormtrooper. Keep it up!