Minuteman

Hey Billy! Nice suit you got there! One thing I could add: If it really is like I think it is from looking at your pictures (especially the one below) You need to rework the paint of your teeth. The space between the teeth was not painted gray, it was left white. Take a look yours: I hope it is the shadow that makes the space in between look grey, but if not you need to remove this paint. And the original:

Congrats Trooper!

No, this is TM armor. And a very well assembled one, too. Fits you very well Keith! Just the handguards and you are ready for approval/EIB and then maybe Centurion

I got mine from ebay, but you could go to your local automotive store ( AutoTeileUnger e.g. here in Germany) and let them mix RAL 7034 if they don´t have it ready. Probably not the cheapest way. I paid for 400 ml on ebay about 9,50€. And with the red primer...... I was simply to stingy to buy a can of red color for only one microgramm that I need. So I will just hit the inside with a little bit of white color, but the red dust will be missing. Both was present at the originals, so that will not be the apocalypse

What did I drank then when I was in Schruns this year? I´m certain it was a beer with rice starch in it..... doesn´t matter In fact I like all good tasting beers, no matter where they are from .... some Stiegel, Ottakringer, Zipfer or Trumer do the job as well

Thank you Karin! What we have here, we call "Pils" which is real beer, brewed according to the german purity order of 1516 Only water, barley and hops Not your austrian "Spezialbier/Vollbier" where nobody knows what it contains rice starch and so on

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