Dday

Great to hear! It's a great place here, full of information and even fuller of people willing to lend a hand. Save your change, then buy a suit, build it and live the dream!

If you are larger you will surely need to get a RT mod suit. He will shim based on your custom sizes, so the armor is the right size from the get go. Look him up and send him a message.

Tony, This guy posted this like 2 years ago and hasn't been back, Great conversation in here, but most people had written it off for dead I think

Well, to be fair, it's not really my idea, I've seen it in other builds. So just something I liked from the way other people built

Hi Jordan. Nice job on the suit. A few pointers I"ve learned while building my suit. Connect the forearms and the biceps together. It looks like the bicep is a touch high, if it's possible to take it down half an inch, I would do this. Then run a strap from the forearm to the bicep. Once this strap is there, it will give you some more wrist movement since they won't be riding so low and will help cover the large elbow gap. In your 3rd picture, I see the back of the right calf has a pointy end sticking out at the bottom, you'll want to shave that and curve it as best as possible, just so it's not scraping your boot and poking your heel while moving. The left shin looks a bit odd at the connection, like it's really far overlapped. If this is the case, you'll want to try and even that out to butt join/cover strip. Your left thigh seems a bit wide around the bottom and your sniper plate is hidden under it. You will have to cut a taper in the thighs to remove the cowbell effect and let the sniper plate stay out from behind the thigh. Also, your drop boxes seem a bit low. I'd check out some of the EIB and centurion submissions for a good distance. I know you don't want to go for EIB/cent right now, but this is a quick fix that will make things better for you in the long run. Good job, keep tweaking!

If he has offered to shim/trim based on your listed sizings, I would take him up on it. It will save you a lot of time in the build. As your first kit, it would be nice to do it yourself, but the comfort of knowing that it's gonna fit out of the box is huge.

You need to be approved by an Admin. They need to cross check your TK number and list you as an already approved Stormtrooper in their database. Then you can put in for EIB.

ah, ok. Def replace the chest. ATA makes a very affordable chest piece, contact supertrooper here on FISD for quotes on pieces. there are several other sources for pieces you will need trooperbay.com and the ongoing sales forum are great spots to get gear.

The hand guards are also wrong, plus you will need a belt. Oh and a helmet.

What does Presumed Fed mean?

I decided to snap some photos before painting because I'm waiting for the E11 to dry from adding some of the parts on. I've fabricated a new scope rail, the default one isn't meant to attach correctly. Glued on all parts, primed everything. My guess is I can paint in about 2 hours once the E11 has set better. It's pretty warm and dry outside the last few days, so I find the E11 has a good starter set in about 2 hours. Body will be flat black, handle will be gloss black. Once I get the base black down I will paint the bolt silver and maybe add some weathering to the usual places. Overall, not very impressed with the quality of this resin cast, but it's sure easy enough to do. I think if I do this again (which I will with a droopys kit) I'll do more sanding and initial prep, to make the lines smoother, however droopys kit is a much cleaner kit so I probably won't have to bother like on this one. I'm not going to add a hengstler/power cells to this one because I want to resell it and if it's this way, it can be either ANH or ESB. The buyer can pick which they want to do and add the necessary parts. Drilling the holes for hex bolts Ejection cover ended up snapped off due to poor casting and wasn't salvageable. So I cut it off and smoothed the line Added some of the shafts form a couple of used rivets to add some stability to this part. CA glued them in so they don't go anywhere. The primed and glued gun, almost in final state. Just need to paint the scope and rail, final paint the gun, add the parts together, then viola!

He is here on the forums under he name troopermaster. Just start to type it in the PM section and it will autofill.

I had to get the lenses separately, but I asked for Hero and that was the only part he said he didn't have. I'm hopeful that it will be an awesome specimen of a Hero helmet. Ship date is looking like the end of September at last notification, so getting closer now. I'll surely take 300millions of photos.

Well, on my kit I drilled the holes to the exact width the screws ask for, it means they only get a small bite, but with a dab of CA glue inside, it's a done deal. The problem is with this stuff vs wood or something else, is it has 0 give. so when you screw into it, it's not like wood where the side gives away a little to make a bigger hole, it just stays exactly where it is. The other possibility is your mold is bubbles and doesn't have a lot of internal strength due to this. The droopy I have seen aren't bubbled at all compared to my resin version, so my guess is the hole is to small. At this point, put some CA glue in the crack, clamp it together, then if needed add some filler and sand it down again. redrill the hole a little bigger and retry it.

Has anyone out there done a RT-Mod Hero style? I'm interested in photos of your helmet. I've ordered a Hero helmet from Rob and I'm getting restless so was hoping to get some photos from anyone who has one of these. Thanks! dday

I hacked off the screws and glued on the bolt heads. Since it was a solid resin cast, I should have just screwed them in. They look a bit goofy around the seam, I'm guessing it will clean up with paint since it will begin to look more solid as paint covers them. I put on the primer and will start painting tomorrow. No photos uploaded yet, but will put them in tomorrow after painting for a full update.

That sounds good to me!

Nah, he uses the same mold, I used my dremel to add those details myself. I used my droopys kit as a visual guide thats waiting for this build to finish to add the details. The droopys details are spot on.

Carlos, The snaps at the bottom of the chest and top of the ab, I"m assuming these are to connect the 2 together? Did you not want to do the suspender type inside as well?

Yes, I had the same problem. 2 hardware stores later, I've got smooth heads as well. It should be fine though

Locitus is 100% on that most of the things are super easy to add as you are building the suit. There are a few minor things you can do later, but the majority of the details you add are easy enough to plan into the build from the start.

So I did a lot of cleanup on this one and am almost ready to drill out the 3 hex holes (2 front, 1 bottom of the handle) but I bought the wrong ones! Hah, I got the 8mm head, but in actuality, it looks like I need the 10MM head as it's to small right now. Also, the ones I got do not have ribs around the head, they are smooth. Oh well, back to the store. It's almost ready to prime, sand and paint. I just need to finish the detailing on the magazine and scope, put in the hex heads and paint. It's been sunny the last days, so I was hoping to get it done and ready to paint ASAP, plus, not to mention waiting for gluing time... Adding detailing to the magazine, dremel ran out of power so waiting on a charge. The ejection port guard was super bubbled in the mold so I had to take some extra off around the edge and was super thin in the middle as you can see where it cracked. I'm going to have to try and put some model window maker or something to fill this and seal it before painting.

I look forward to seeing it! I have had to put the build on pause the last weeks, I ran out of snaps, but I got 160 more snaps coming tomorrow, great deal too, only 30 cents a piece! I have counted, I will need approx 70 snaps to complete a suit, so I bought more for when I get and put together my second suit in October.

love it, waiting to see it in sellable form

That's not a bad price based on what I've seen around.