Clamps

On your front traps. You should not have an angled or curved black line and grey near he brow trim. I believe it should come straight across only parallel to brow line.

"Right weird" not wear

Glad to see the same right wear look as mine where it looks pinched in compared to left side. Be sure to paint screws white on the ears.

alrighty, some more slow, minor progress, actually I consider this pretty significant progress. I have the torso strapping done. Will still require some adjusting to get just right, but its close enough to help move things to the next steps. Added some rivets to the sides and cod Also replaced the thigh ammo pack with smaller rivets. bigger rivet (shown again here) for reference These are 1/4" diameter and post length. They are all cap rivets, as split are not easy to come by around here, and honestly, these are good enough for this kit. Here is a front view with everything tossed on for fun. will need to shorten up the thighs a bit as well as the shins. Arms might just be ok, will strap them up tonight.

Oops. Forgot the boring image. Tapatalk is not allowing me to edit lately. So here ya go:

More straps and snaps and Velcro added to the mix. Getting close to being able to fit the body and then trim the sides. Once all that is all done I can move to finalizing height of thighs and shins and forearms. All of that though happens after a 2-ish week hiatus with the family.

congrats on your EIB trooper, the fixes noted by Steve will be easy breezy for you.

Oops hit send too quickly. Will use elastic/Velcro to hold chest to kidney. Added elastic to shoulder bell. Prep work seen below

Time to start putting together a strapping system for the torso. I'll be using a bit more Velcro vs snaps for this build. Butt to kidney will have four fixed straps. I added the two snaps to the butt tab. Kidney to back will be two large Velcro patches.

they were there, but I chose not to use them as I wanted to use the Cap rivet style, working towards mini-eib or centurion ) the guy packing the boxes is a F'ing rock star, don't you forget it mr man!

I will respectfully disagree Jason, the 2nd bump from back does appear on a few occasions in ANH and has up to now been EIB and Centurion accepted. IA couple of references on Helmets of Star Wars (screen used photos) show this and I believe Mr. No Stripes does as well. ... http://www.starwarshelmets.com/original-ANH-Stunt-Stormtrooper-armor-helmets.htm The trooper on the far right in the back as Leia address Vader for first time is also not rear stripe: To address my AP shoulder issue, I moved the snap connection at the shoulder bridge farther forward towards chest, then on the bell itself, moved the snap connection off centre towards the back of the bell to force rotate it forward a bit.

Belt is complete with drop boxes installed. Not sure if I plan on actually installing a holster or not. we'll see. Hand plates have some stretchy installed: Thigh ammo belt installed, though I realized my cap rivets are not scaled appropriately and thus look too big. I will buy smaller ones and replace sometime over the summer.

Yesterday was build a belt and neck seal day. Belt turned out nicely. Width is about 60mm based on my conversion math from full sized belt. Here it is with and without plastic belt (still needs covers added). Neck seal attempt one is so so. Not 100 % happy. Things went mostly wrong when I added the material around the bottom. I must not have shaped it right as it sits all kind of fubar. No photos to share with that hot mess. I'll attempt round two this week. I have a couple ideals on how to do a better job.

So in regards to sniper plate. Yes I left a tiny amount of return on the bottom of the plate but not enough to have a material impact on install. Anywho. She's on there and holding strong!! I decided to wedge the boy into the kit last night to get a feel for how things are going. He yelped a couple times from sharp edges and return edges digging in. But overall I think we're on track. Note the missing forearm is because I had to re glue coverstrip after heat gun allowed it to come up. I will wait until I have undersuit and boots before final length trimming on the limbs. Heading out to buy fabric for belt today and extra strapping supplies. This morning I supplemented my coffee with a bunch of return edge removal. Lexan scissors once again are fantastic!! Here's half of the pile from just return edge removal. Have a great weekend everyone.

Coverstrips on legs are ~16mm. I don't recall if I left any lip on bottom or not. I can check when I get home. Anywho. It's on there with plenty of e6000 so it's all good. As for 2nd legs. TBD. I wanna get everything together and see from there. I'm hitting the fabric store this weekend to get belt material and a few added items for strapping. My goal is to have everything assembled before my trip to Cali in a couple weeks. Still looking for boots and undersuit.

Time to bump this up with an update. Tonight was heat gun night. Used it to put a bend on belt: Thigh ammo pack: Also on shins to tighten up the rear after front coverstrip applied. And same with forearms. Here the rear cover strips are applied and drying. Lastly I put a little twist to the sniper plate as it just doesn't wanna sit right without a ton of force. Not as bad as AP but it will require some finesse. Here it is clamped and overly glued Last item of the night was to tap 1/8" hole for cap rivets in ammo pack.

Last night of minor progress for a while because I did something silly; signed on for 3 says of Niagara Falls Comic Con 2nd coverstrips on biceps Rear coverstrip on right shin. 2nd coat of paint on an buttons. So I put sealed thighs on son a bit snug but I still need to remove a lot of return edge and most likely some height ;from tops. I put them on daughter and I can get my whole hand inside along with her leg. Gonna need to pad this for her. Ugh making it work for both is gonna be a big challenge. Cya next week kids.

Good evening. Today's progress: Coverstrip on back of thighs Coverstrip on 1/2 biceps Coverstrip to rear of left shin And there they are...Clamps have come outta hiding.

Oh Q, not to worry. There will be a plethora of clamps used )

On the belt (plastic portion) I scaled down the 45 degree corners from 12.7mm (1/2") to about 10mm. Marked and cut and sanded. ------- And I topped off my evening with gluing thigh front coverstrips. First I cut my strips and put a bit of soft 45 degree angles on the ends. Sanded back side. Sanded top of thigh where contact with coverstrip occurs: Then added a bead of E6000 to coverstrip , spread it evenly, wait a minute or two to let it set a bit and then applied it to thigh. Using clamps and magnets to hold in place. Rewarding my progress with a nice Hobgoblin beer.

A bit of progress today. First I fixed the hovi tips. As you recall when installed to expose the entire Hovi, the whole thing sticks out too far. I trimmed the nub off: Than I enlarged the whole and inserted so that about 10-15% of the Hovi remains inside the bucket. Then E6000 the heck out of it. The results: ------------- Plopped a hit of paint on the ab buttons. Will need a 2nd cost and cleanup.

compared to my son, yeah, she is major skinny. But even with with my son, there was A LOT of material that came off the back sides of the limbs. The fronts were only trimmed to the correct size to support coverstrips while maintaining the small ridge. I do also still plan to strip a large amount of the return edges. I expect there will be material taken from the ab/kidney as well.

Another day, another pile of trimmings. All limbs are trimmed to my son's size. While 2" shorter than my daughter, he is definitely thicker in all areas. Here are the trimmed limbs pre- glueing: Poor girl is a beam pole, gonna have to pad it out when she wears it: On the bucket topic, I pulled out the Hovi tips and plan to install them farther back, which means I'll have to lose a bit of the back half to the inside of the bucket. But it's really needed so they do not stick out so far and look like protruding tusks. Photos to come once I size things down and install.

well done newsletter team!!

ah, so I got it in my head that I wanted to trim the though ammo belt. Using the common tutorial of a paint can to make the curve on a full size kit, I measured a paint can outer diameter and then reduced that measurement by 20%. So I went from 65mm to 52mm. I then devices that in half and used a cutting compass to knock out a 52mm circle out of spare ABS. I then cut that in half and used it to align to the end/bottom of the thigh ammo pack and traced the curve. finally, Lexan scissors to cut and topped off with a bit of 240 grit sandpaper. Voila: