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Sure... Currently its a Sandy (yep I turned a bright white PVC suit into a dirty Sandy!) Here it was prior to going sandy:

I have a PVC RS suit, and its super flexy and very bright white. I also have one of their PVC lids and its plenty white. Over time the ABS may well yellow a bit, but if you look at some folks that have had an ABS TM suit for years its still white. It really depends on how you store it. If you store it in sunlight it is going to yellow. The down side of PVC is that you cant make ABS Paste to repair any cracks that may develop. With ABS if you get a crack, as long as you have saved back scraps of the same color abs, you can mix them with a bit of acetone and make a paste that after a little light sanding not only repairs the crack, but blends in pretty well. With the PVC it wont melt in acetone (just get sorta soft and break apart) which means no easy way to repair a crack that is pretty seamless. Just my experience with both plastics, YMMV If I had it to do over I would probably buy an ABS kit over the PVC Kit, but its just a preference not really anything at all wrong with PVC.

Well perfect cgi idealism gave us the prequels... You want idealized make a clone. You want to recreate the wonky non perfect cgi recreations from the three movies that we all fell in love with.....

I like prop replica better than idealized.

Done.

Word of advise on the loop and bar screws. Once you tighten them add a drop of superglue or fingernail polish to the nut on the end. I have had them work loose on a troop. Once I dropped a little glue on them though they have stayed put on both my RS and TM armors with original strapping. Looking great so far!

*raises hand* ohhh me me me! Centurion CFO ROTJ

Late to the party, but Paul hit it on the head..add foam: (not the sniper I know, but I had added foam in this pick as you can see to keep the shin from rotating while walking) This is my TM Suit. Here is my CFO ROTJ suit but you can see the foam behind the sniper here. Works well.

I use the screen used style on all my suits. Essentially the same as Lee but the elastic is glued to the front of the thighs instead of snaps. Works great ( so will the snaps).

Just to chime in I'd say I know the series of events that led to this and I am sorry it came to this but I can totally see where she is coming from. I have 3 sets of her guards and they are top notch and I will continue to recommend her guards to any and all and I look forward to that neck seal. Her guards have graced many an EIB and centurion, and police officer and SWAT aspirant and no doubt will continue to do so. Good luck Karin I will miss you.

Very Nice! His sale thread caused me to order a new one from him to go with my TM ANH hero lid. Looks great on the armor!

I heard recently that there was a trooper in the raid on the Tantive with 2 left handguards. Wondering if anyone had a pic? I cant seem to find him in the screen caps on this site, but im not on the best screen at the moment. Thanks!

Looks good to me. Tube stripe stickers were never placed at exact positions by the prop department. I don't think his look so off to me but that's my opinion. Also not sure what the complaint is on the shoulder bridges unless the pictures posted are updates. The bridges look secured to me. In Jedi the were velcroed not glued so they should not sit as flush as say an ANH bridge that was glued. Grats on your EIB status! (Pending) we can always use more ROTJ tks! (Yeah I'm biased . )

Funnily Enough, I know a guy who is painting his TK Red because he could not source red magma armor

I finally dug out my Making Magic CD, which will not run on Windows vista or 7. I had to dig out an old laptop to play it on. It is a DOS based program but it has some pretty good production photos (some of the cropped down ones are on starwarshelmets). I appologize for the quality, but I have no Idea how to screenshot a Dos program and so I took a picture of the screen with my phone, and the screen is a pretty low res one as you can imigine since its old enough to run dos... Look at what I see at the base of the table with all the trooper helmets: Is that a sandy with a cardboardbox mocking up the backpack? It is certainly a dirty armor set. Look at that black strap from chest to back. Look at the rivets on the shoulder bridges. and the extra long flexy shoulder bridges. Seems more and more likely these were tour suits used in the production. You can see in other pictures of just white TKs running around the longer bridges as well. And look who is photobombing in the background here: is that the back of a sandy? pretty dirty (could be the same one with his box gone) Another thing I can now see in the big picture (not shown sorry) is that the helmets on the table are held together with a rivet in the cap-n-back to the faceplate similar to ANH lids. not any real new insight but I thought it neat.

Thanks, most people HATE these guys but I figure someone has to document em Here is my Best guess on parts used for the pack. I know the water filters are not Exact, the problem is I have no idea other than dumb luck what would get me an exact match. the ones available locally are close to the right size/shape, but have some different molding that makes them not an exact match. All the products shown are simply to give you an idea where I am comming from in my thought process. I know they are not a 100% match yet, but I am getting there... I stated in the pic that I thought the ribbed top section of the pack was a pump head (I was thinking they got it the same time they got the flexy water hose like for ponds) but the more I look at it the more it look slike a small engine cylinder head, which may explain the thing at the bottom of the pack if it was an air filter housing for the same small engine. something like this:

Good news then. I'll take the iron to mine!

No 1.5 diameter Flat it's 2.5 Firehouse direct is where I got mine. http://www.firehosedirect.com/1-1-2-single-jacket-uncoupled-hose/

Just thought I would stop by and mention this guy went on to become this (no NOT the Tusken! ) As this was my first build, I had made some mistakes, that thankfully the use of E6000 on the suit allowed me to correct as I got more experience, and getting dirty helped the rest. I use my TM suit (with an RS Lid) as my ESB now. BEFORE: AFTER Looks better no?

As I was trying to get a better idea of what the little "radar Dish" thingy was on the pack I took a closer look at the trooper with the possibly painted ab buttons. As you can see in the red square the buttons are the same color as the dirt/weathering in the smaller red square, they are also hit or miss covered. I am sure they were unpainted and when the dirt was applied, since they were a high point they got dirt on them. The Blue square shows the cut angle pipe, not an elbow (you can actually see a hollow on the other side in another shot if you lighten it way up in photoshop) and it looks like the dish part is sort of a dome shape. It reminds me of something but my visual memory is failing me at the moment. Yellow square is just pointing out where I am positive the chest to back elastic band is and the troopers side chest molding is tucked behind it. All the armor made with trim that I have seen have a single piece of trim on each side (thats why his whole bottom is missing not just a part of it) So this trooper should not have had a break in the molding there unless it was cut, or tucked behind the elastic. if you look close you can actually see it has lifted a bit from the chest and then stops abruptly at a line that is consistant with the chest to back elastic seen on other tour suits/ROTJ suits. So for original strapping people, there was a strap there I am sure of it.

hmm. I just looked at your INC thread, and your belting looks a bit different than mine. Where did you get it? Is yours shiney or is it just the lighting/weathering? Mine is the same weave, but is more of a flat color. Also yours seems to be not as "poofy" as mine, in othere words lays flatter. Did it just come that way or did you do something to it? I did not see sew lines other than the velcro at the back.... Yours: Mine:

I just figured out that there were 2 different packs used in the SE. It looks like only one trooper had the "new" version. When I was going back over the Anatomy of a Dewback to get as much pack details as I could I noticed that the pack pulled ou tof the box was missing its pump head and second hose. also looked like the top of the gray(white?) cylinder (thermos, water filter?) was different. At first I was like huh must have gotten knocked loose in transit or something, since you can even see the hole that the second hose would have went in on the left side when he spins the pack. I then went on to watch the desert scenes and what do you know, that pack was used like that in the movie on this guy: Looks like you never see him from the back as all the others you get a side/back view of do have the 2 hoses and rounded top on the thermos waterfilter thingy. Based on the documentary I think this is the guy wearing that pack. I'll be building the pack the gentle giant bust is based on however, as I think it is more interesting, and is being worn by the second binoc sandy (the one hose pack troopers patrol buddy), which is who I think I will try to build. Just thought Id share that there looks like there were 2 different packs used on the SE sandy.

I used my SSMD tm to work out some measurements on the pack as well. Basically taking a part I knew the dimensions of (belt and drop box) I was able to use the POWER of MATHAMATICS, (stop lookin at me like that...Back off man, I'm a Scientist!) to determine some basic dimensions. I know there is some inherent inaccuracy there as perspective, and camera angle etc will throw off the measurements, but I was able to get results that more or less make sense to me so while not completely 100% to the mm as they would be if I could get the real pack in hand (anyone know someone that knows someone that could get me a tour into the vault?) I think they are close enough for me to start hitting the hardware stores and trying to find some matching bits and bobs.

The hose came in for the belting and I grabbed a few pics of the hose unmodified in any way. This is single jacket hose, the very light duty hose. So for a belt it is plenty strong enough, and you can get a needle through it (I tried). weave detail Inside showing the rubber, as I push it open. Its natural state is this: so it already wants to lay mostly flat here it is wrapped around my waist, which I found was hard to take a picture of, but should still give an idea. And here I have wrapped it tightly around my CFO leg armor to give an Idea of color and what it would look like on the costume. It is a little thick looking perhaps, and could stand to be ironed flat, or maybe sewn in some way. Possibly have the two sides glued...or for that matter cut most of the back off and secure the rolled over edges. I am happy with it and may just leave it the way it is, but since I had to buy 25 feet of it I have some play room so I may try some different things out. I actually like the thickness of it for the holster/blaster. It should hold up much better than the thin belting I have on my ROTJ now which as you can see from my EIB and Centurion threads puckers around the holster rivets and pulls down with a blaster in it.

ok got a few pics of the hose unmodified in any way. This is single jacket hose, the very light duty hose. So for a belt it is plenty strong enough, and you can get a needle through it (I tried). weave detail Inside showing the rubber, as I push it open. Its natural state is this: so it already wants to lay mostly flat here it is wrapped around my waist, which I found was hard to take a picture of, but should still give an idea. And here I have wrapped it tightly around my CFO leg armor to give an Idea of color and what it would look like on the costume. It is a little thick looking perhaps, and could stand to be ironed flat, or maybe sewn in some way. Possibly have the two sides glued...or for that matter cut most of the back off and secure the rolled over edges. I am happy with it and may just leave it the way it is, but since I had to buy 25 feet of it I have some play room so I may try some different things out. I actually like the thickness of it for the holster/blaster. It should hold up much better than the thin belting I have on my ROTJ now which as you can see from my EIB and Centurion threads puckers around the holster rivets and pulls down with a blaster in it.