The5thHorseman

No, as i said in a previous post, it broke when i was attempting to bend it so i had to buy a new thinner one. (And regarding the music choice ) http://img23.imageshack.us/img23/3050/jkxg.jpg

Some updates since the last time: I painted and glued the ab buttons, being very attentive to not put them upside down ! And also almost finished the belt, the hoslter isn't affixed yet because it's to my brother's house right now I also bent some metal with my bare hands ^^ (in fact it's almost true because i have no vise ) to make these shiny TD clips ! I've painted the screwheads in black after i took the pics. I haven't glued any TD parts yet because i plan to mod the endcaps as gmrhodes13 did, to be able to remove them in case i want to detach the clips: And i've begun handpainting the helmet. Let's give life to that baby ! But now in France it's time to go to bed !

It's been a while since the last update , so these last days i decided to tackle some work on that blaster and now my scope rail and counter bracket are finally done ! It was tuff because i have no vise but i'm really proud of the result and i feel like the hardest is now behind me And there's always that self satisfaction of doing things by your own Soon this gun should looks like an E-11 and no longer like a Sterling !

Hi everyone, Ok so now i’m really starting my build thread! I’ve been pushing it back later for too long now . I was always telling me “I do that and I begin my threadâ€, “again this and I start it, for realâ€, “oh, and this too…â€, etc…! I’ve begun working on my kit at mid-March and I can’t believe it’s been 3 months since and the armor isn’t finished yet! But the build is coming to his end right now, and almost all the boxes “done†are check on my “to-do list†J I didn't take pics of the whole build but let's try to make a little retrospective of it. The journey began with that Brown Box full of AP-ness (I’m proud, I’ve just made a pun in another language than my mother tongue ^^): But trust me, AP doesn’t line with happiness at all as almost all the halves seem to don't match with their opposite… All the untrimmed pieces lay down on my little student’s bed: D’ya want a sweet? ^^ Trimming time: I did all the trimming with the Score&Snap technique. Just the best technique there is once your hand becomes sure enough. The first cut… …And the first bleed But it worth it, here is my first trimmed piece: The first cuts are really pretty intimidating, especially when you begin trimming the big parts, but I do admit that after a little time you become really confident in you and you just cut it without any fear of screwing it all! First rounded cut… And… …Second Bleed ^^!! Yes sir! This one was pretty nasty and I remember having to stop trimming for the day (the night besides ). It's funny because my first though was to avoid putting blood on the armor Splitting the butt from the kydney: Even if I trimmed the lid in last, this step was still a bit scary :s Blindness is over Above all, DO NOT sneeze now ! The easy work’s over: In fact, you quickly realized that the trimming is the easier step compared to what’s next, you can almost do it in “brain-off†mode. Fitting & gluing: The magnet-crown : I dunno why but it reminds J.Christ with the crown of thorns ? There’s no turning back now, rivets are set: Ears… hum… what can I say about them… DAMN PAIN IN THE A**!! Took me a whole day to fit both of them! Because the worse in that step is to realize that when you’ve done the first one, after having sweat all the water of your body, curse the entire world because it didn’t want to fit, you still have the second one to do!! AP forearms… Trust me, they really don’t want to go together! The forearms, especially the first one I mounted, gave me some good headaches. You have to deal with a lot of shape issues and I gained a lot of confidence in myself after having assembled these. First cover-strip drying. Yes I hadn’t received my magnets yet ^^: So, who’s « Clamps » now ^^! Much easier with some magnets: Very first test fitting! Only the left arm was glued together and nothing was strapped but i couldn't resist ! And after that I almost stopped taking pics . The following is one of the only one I took: First torso fitting test. Behold the underwear and the wookie style I cut off A LOT on the back of the thighs ! Thrilling time: My last cover strip drying. I don’t know for you but trust me, at this time I felt really good, even relieved!! It definitely deserved a pic! My thighs-gather, you can even notice the theory of it near the strap for the left thigh: Thighs on!!! And finally… The first whole (almost) fitting test! I dressed up all by myself, my bro was here but he told me “démerde-toi tout seul!†which in polite English would be translated by “Help yourself†First feedbacks: Strap up all in place is hard, really hard but once all is attached together you do feel good in the armor… unless you put the lid on ! When you put the lid, the nightmare just suddenly begins! You can’t see your feet, you can’t see your arms, and you can’t even see your hands, man!! I was holding my e-11 but I wasn’t seeing it at all. You can’t see what’s in front of you if it’s too low and my lenses aren’t even already installed! So not only you can’t see a damn thing with this helmet but the little you can see, you’re seeing it in green… The truth is: You must suffer to be a Stormtrooper! So now what I still have to do: - Glue the ab buttons (done since) - Glue the hooks for the shins (question about it below) - Fit and glue the Sniper knee plate (I'm so scared about it, i've read some many "horrors" concerning the AP knee plate) - Finish the belt - Finish the TD - Finish the helmet... So now the question about the shins. If i go the accurate way with the hooks it creates a pretty big gap compared to the innacurate way: So, what should i do ? Go with the accurate way no matter the gap, the innacurate, or maybe just take off the loop i did to make the hooks more easy to set, to lose some thickness ? Pfffiou... fortunately i'm seeing the end of the tunnel. The following in the next post soon (i hope !)

The hardest is done ! Great job with the sanding/grinding, i turned out very well. And have you tested to slide the cocking handle all the way along the sliding track ? Because sometimes even if you followed the template well you may have to widen the opening a bit. PS: You can do better with the dremel cuttuing blade

Don't bother too much redoing them, they look perfect to me !

Man, you've just saved my day with this tip !! Great tutorial ! Thanks

When you heat a piece of ABS with a lighter, just don't put the flame in contact with the ABS. This way you should avoid the piece to blacken (even if with all your sanding it looks white again )

I don't think this video has been made for a legal purpose... ... but it will may be useful for someone.

It's nice to see another DVH pipe build However, I think you did a mistake with the holes at the bottom of the folding stock They aren't supposed to go through the whole folding stock because in fact this is 2 pieces inserted into each other. Here is a pic from the dm101's thread to understand what i mean:

I just hope you'll managed to cut the ejector port in that pipe without too much issues . The PVC pipe isn't the best but the advantage of it is that you can make the difficultly reachable cuts with an x-acto. Good luck !

I agree with Paul about the holster placement. You can clearly see the common placement on both trooper on the left and the right on this pic: A part from that this is a really great looking armor ! Good luck on your aproval !!

"chi va piano, va sano" Même si ça te prend beaucoup de temps je pense que le sentiment de fierté d'avoir monté cette armure par toi même sera extrêmement valorisant et compensera toutes ces heures de galère . Perso, je vois le bout de mon build ! Quasiment tous les collages sont finis (il me manque juste la sniper knee plate et les shoulder bridges), la majeure partie du strapping est fini, plus que l'arrière des mollets et la jonction cod/butt, et le casque est à 50% je dirais. En fait maintenant, il me reste surtout à faire la ceinture et ce qui y est accroché (drop boxes/TD/holster). Donc si jamais tu as d'autres questions, j’essaierais de t'aider avec plaisir !

Good luck with your thighs, so long this was easily the hardest parts to put together with my AP kit (but i still haven't glued the sniper knee plate )!

Just read some EIB/Centurion submissions and you will find your answers http://www.whitearmor.net/forum/forum/113-advanced-tactics/

Should be something like that:

Dans ce cas là , fait très gaffe, j'ai déjà eu de mauvaises expériences avec le fait de chauffer l'armure (bon ok, j'y allais au briquet ) mais tout de même vas-y progressivement avec la chaleur et prend ton temps Et sinon pourquoi ne pas tenter les crochets au final ? Je suis en train de faire les miens, et si tu veux je te redis de l'efficacité ou non du système si ça t'intéresse.

Ok, au vu des photos, j'ai l'impression que ton vrai problème est que le velcro ne reste pas collé à l'armure une fois scratché ensemble. Quel colle utilise-tu, e6000 ? Si oui, dans ce cas tu peux peut-être essayer de changer pour un type de colle plus puissante, et si t'es très courageux tu peux prendre une colle de type CyanoAcrylate qui est très très puissante. Mais attention, une fois collé c'est quasiment impossible à décoller; et aussi faire un test avant par ce que je ne suis pas sur de l'interaction de la CA glue avec le velcro (j'ai peur que le velcro "boive" la colle). Et sinon tu peux tenter de chauffer l'arrière de tes mollets jusqu'à les refermer ce qui devrait soulager la tension exercé sur le velcro lorsqu'ils sont fermés et éviter qu'il se décolle. Je te comprend tout à fait, j'ai tendance à être exactement pareil !!

Tu sais, avoir un jour entre les deux parties du mollet à l'arrière est quasiment normal. C'est la manière dont est fait l'armure. Après, sans photos il est assez difficile de se prononcer par rapport à ton cas. Et sinon, pour exemple, les mollets de l'armure (TM ) de Dday certifié Centurion à 100% :

It should work now ! Thank you for telling me

You made a great job with the Euro runs by providing better rails ! I've already found some identical aluminum strips as you described, i just need to buy them

There's an interesting way to cut the cod here on the board by Darth Voorhees, and IMHO it seems better than just put some velcro. http://www.whitearmor.net/forum/topic/3473-another-way-to-cuttin-the-cod/

Hi everyone, I found some time between two cover strips, snaps, straps and other kind of stuff to work a little on my DVH blaster. Don't expect major progress, it's only small, almost useless details that had to be done to satisfy my (god damn) perfectionism . First, that little piece located on the bottom of the mag well. I don't even know what is it but it was missing so I added it thanks to a small piece of ABS shaped to fit and some 2 parts epoxy: And then i fixed the front muzzle/pipe junction again with 2 parts epoxy. A bit harder to do than I expected but now it's done and it looks better than before ! And a front pic to show the flat area preserved Now I really need to do my scope and hengstler rails but when I was hammering the aluminium rail provided it broke (damn I would have done a bad blacksmith ) !!! So i have to find a new rail right now...

So will I be the only one to have the guts to use the resin T-tracks provided ^^ ?!? Or maybe I'm just the only one too much greedy about his money !! Good luck with your build. I'll be following it if ever you need some advice

I'm almost sure this armor isn't an AP. I'm building one and a lot of parts look different. But I will let the final word to the experts. Apart from that, you're looking good in this armor. There's just the elbow gap that could be reduced by lowering your biceps. And also the left shoulder bell that could be brought more forward.