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Everything total dry it was time to start assembly, which took a few days having to wait for E6000 to dry on some pieces before final assembly. Also added some small decals to emulate screws/bolts with some black decal sheet I had handy. Fully assembled and black tube added, was some left over TV aerial coaxial wire I had handy, holds it's position when bent, added the screen accurate plastic tie to the handle too . Also added a rubber stopper on the bottom of the shaft so it can rest on the ground without being scratched. Complete and test with the Aker amp, cable runs down the arm to the handle, So that's about where it is at for now, as I say it's far from being 100% accurate but version 2 will definitely be in the works soon.

As the title suggests this is version 1 of the electroprod, the more I researched the more I want to change some things but for now with what references are available this will do, will still bring some smiles at our next convention. These are the 3D files from 9142 Props & Armory who kindly shared them for free on Facebook. So first up get printing. There are red lights in the top chamber so I had to come up with a holder for some LED's, I'm using round for now but they do appear that they may actually be rectangle in some images BUT can confirm this when TROS comes out on DVD soon. Version 1 holder didn't have sides but I found the light would reflect and show the internal shaft so version 2 (which I forgot to photograph) has closed sides. For the opaque sheet I used some plastic from an A4 folder cover. Pretty much all of my props have lights and sound so this one would be no exception, you definitely get a different reaction from people when they can hear and see a prop in action. Had some lightsabers handy which I picked up from local markets cheap so I gutted one, worked out how to wire the led's and added a momentary switch and a 3.5mm speaker jack which a cable will run from up my arm to an Aker amp. For the head of the shaft the tips appear silver BUT as I noticed in the movie there us a blue glow emitted when the electroprod is used so I decided to use some clear filament and add some high bright led's to them and edited the files so they would be hollow. Appears I forgot to take any photos of the pipe but it's just standard plumbing pvc pipe, used the reference of the trooper holding the electroprod and scaled up to size. The mid section box also appears to have a light, for now I've just made this white but I can change that later. Added the momentary switch to the bottom of this section and the 3.5mm jack to the rear of the shaft behind. Electronics lengthened and test fitted. Now that all the electronics had been modified and test fitted it was time to glue the sliced pieces together and sand ready for spray putty. Spray putty applied, left for 24 hours then sanded. No major issues so on to primer. Next paint everything and let dry.

Beautiful work, well done

You may have to let me know if you have spares, think the coin bug just bit me

AM would allow for some Dad padding

FISD Coins - How Many Do You Have? I was going through my bag of merchandise yesterday and for a person that really doesn't collect coins I noticed I do have a few, especially FISD coins which then had me interested in finding out how many FISD coins are there out there. So I headed on to the 501st coin database (you can find here https://trading.501st.com/index.php) and WOW I was a little surprised, albeit there are a lot of variant coins, anniversary, EIB, command etc but seems I've got a ways to go if I wanted to try and collect them all and I don't have enough testicles or arms for them all Not that impressive at the moment. So how many coins do you have ?

You'll find a lot of great references in the "gallery section" https://www.whitearmor.net/forum/gallery/category/28-r1-tk-reference/

For those having a read through here is a similar thread on the subject

Nothing better than BBB's, good luck with the build

Hello and welcome aboard

Looking forwards to seeing the build progress, great idea to purchase untrimmed, a little extra work but it's nice to have some extra material just in case

Looking good, just something we used in auto paint trade, if you give a very light mist coat of black, then give everything a very light sand it will show you if you have any dips or scratches remaining. Or you can even just wet the pieces and tilt them to the light, again it will help show any dips or scratches. Chrome shows up every little distortion so the little extra work you put in now will show in the end

Best update my list: Approved: TK - ANH Stunt L3 TK - ANH Hero L3 TK - ESB L3 TK - Heavy Weapons Trooper TK - TFA L3 TK - TLJ L3 TK - TLJ-E L3 ID - Officer ANH L3, Lt Tanbris L2, Lt Jir L2, Lt Childsen L2, 2nd Lt L2, Lt Com Praji L2, Lt Treidum L2 ID - Warrant ANH L2, ROTJ L3, Maj Hewex L2, Joff L2, Col Dyer L2 DZ - Jawa ANH DZ - Tusken ANH TB - Biker Scout Lancer L2 IC - Crewman ANH L3, ESB L3, ROTJ L3 IC - Mechanical Crew L3 TI - Reserve Pilot IG - Gunner TR - Guard ROTJ IN - Navy Trooper ANH L3, ESB L3, ROTJ L3 IN - Navy Dress Uniform ESB L2, ROTJ L2, Sgt Bean L2 ID - Line Officer - Olive Retired: CT - Clone Trooper No CRL: TX - Sith Trooper

Just came to mind, anything happen with this?

Congratulations trooper and welcome to the ranks, what a nice way to remember your father.

Have you checked the 3D section https://www.whitearmor.net/forum/topic/45172-first-order-se-44cs-tfa-tlj/

Hello and welcome aboard, you can also reach out to members locally, you can find a list of garrisons and squads here https://www.501st.com/members/displayUnits.php

Elastic can stretch after the first few times of wearing, doubling over the elastic can help. Looking good trooper

Hello many of us use an online image host then copy links into your thread

Image can be seen

Congratulations trooper and welcome to the ranks

Great news trooper, looking forward to seeing you with TKID, once approved you can request higher access here

Using a long block of wood with sandpaper wrapped around can help get trim lines straighter, very handing when cutting long pieces such as thighs, shins etc I've not had a lot to do with AM so never noticed the width before. Also pays to have a look through other AM centurion build threads to see what has passed previously, here is one of the last

Missed the second image. What kit is that, they look very narrow

Looks like you are missing the front large tab? When ever in doubt head to the "Gallery Section" lots of references there