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Steve Braund 12212 EIB A4

 

Thanks and nice to meet you at MCM Mathias, I was the guy with the long hair and beard in the RS PVC ;-)

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Thanks Glen :-)

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Wooooooppwooopwoooppppp!!

Thank you SO much!

I will have some time next week here as it's half term holidays, so I will be cracking away at those improvements.

Thank you for the very detailed feedback, it will help me on my journey to Centurion hopefully :-)

 

I may celebrate with a beer now :-)

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Thanks Jim!! Certainly was fun to do, and to troop in, a WHOLE different ball game to Vader :-)

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Thanks Matt, easy to do if required. ;-)

 

Yes, been looking at TK Boots, seen a couple of the guys with the shiny ones, think overall the TK ones looked best.

:-)

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Thanks everyone!

Yes, I will lower that a bit, but won't be able to too much as I don't want to see the holes left by the old snaps ;-)

 

Drop boxes have in fact been raised to meet the belt since those clearance pictures were taking, they sit here now....

 

 

Would the paint on the crotch rivet have an impact on Centurion or EIB? I say that because I know it's not screen accurate, but I wanted a super white clean an shiny perfect Persil Trooper look ;-)

 

Thanks again guys :-)

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And so I am!! Actually hadn't spotted that until just now, TBH it was a very quick kit up for pictures, my bad! :-)

The biceps, yup, quite roomy at present, but I'm addressing that by increasing my arm size instead of decreasing the armour as part of my quest to be a better Vader too ;-)

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Name : Steve Braund

TKID : 12212

Forum name : Hoggzman

Garrison : UKG

 

Armour : RS

Helmet : RS

Blaster : Doopydoos full kit.

 

Height : 6'

Weight 13st 2

Boots : RS

Canvas Belt : RS

Hand plates : RS latex

Neck seal : Made by me

Holster : RS

 

FULL BODY SHOTS

 

Front

 

Left

 

Rear

 

Right

 

 

DETAIL SHOTS

 

Ab buttons

 

Left kidney / ab

 

Shoulder bridge

 

TD

 

Neck seal

 

Gloves

 

Belt

 

Holster

 

Cod strap

 

 

 

STRAPING

Internal chest

 

Shoulder elastic

 

 

BLASTER

 

Left

 

Right

 

Spring

 

 

HELMET

 

Front

 

Left

 

Rear

 

Right

 

Hovi tip

 

Lens

 

 

Aaaaaaand ACTION!

There's one, set for stun....

 

 

 

Thank you for your consideration folks. :-)

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[Darth Fader's RS PVC TK build.]

Next I had a crack at a bicep. I measured and trimmed and measured and trimmed to get the correct fit round my arm, keeping a return edge on the top part of the bicep

 

 

but removed the return along the bottom edge

 

 

as this seemed after some research to be the way that were on screen, and also because it will help me bend my arm without too many pinches. I will use some internal foam to pad these out as I wanted to allow room for my arm to get bigger...

To join the two halves I've used 15mm cover strips and butt joints as recommended, the corners of the strips just slightly rounded.

 

 

Next with these I will add some internal strips to add overall strength.

[Darth Fader's RS PVC TK build.]

Next I trimmed the end caps and the centre plate down for the thermal detonator / O2 canister on the belt.

Easiest way I found to do this for the centre plate was score the circular part, then cut up to it, almost creating teeth, which could then be bent backwards and snapped off, them sanded flat.

 

 

Next, I cut the end caps down, sanded and popped these on, E6000 the centre plate in position after sanding that smooth at the edges, and firmly strap in place for 24 hours curing time.

 

[Darth Fader's RS PVC TK build.]

Hi all.

 

So, for the troops where I can't do Vader, and to annoy my Wife ready for when she's built her Jawa, I decided it was time to build myself a TK.

 

After lots of research, asking questions and thinking about the finish I wanted, I decided to go down the idealised TK route, what I imagined, rather than what they actually looked like on screen, controversial I know, but there we go.

 

So I ordered myself a set of RS PVC from the lovely, and very nice to deal with, Rob, Si and Andrea at RS.

 

Just a matter of a few days later, this little beauty arrives....

 

 

Very exciting!

 

So, here we go....

I've decided to start with the shins.

I've cut my two 20mm wide front cover strips, trimmed the return ages on the inside top to a first pass (I may trim down more after a test fit, but I figure it's sensible to trim less than more, you can't glue it back on when it's gone) and clamped together shin number one overnight with good old E6000.

 

 

To get the front strip in the position I wanted, I offered it up to the shins, and marked the inner most edge where I wanted it (furthest away from the edge) the measured 10mm out, and marked here. I figured 10mm on each shin side = 20mm, which should give me a nice central strip without too much flat front shin poking out either side, I wanted a nice curved look to the front as I'd seen in most reference photographs I've studied.

 

This is where I'm at right now.

 

 

Not a lot, but it's a start :-)

[ABS vs PVC]

I'm wrestling with the same decision here, this post has been very useful, thanks to everyone who contributed.

 

Still haven't decided however...;-)

[And another hello from Essex!]

Hi Sam. Yeah I'm glued to their forum right now, some uber useful stuff there and some lovely people, just like here.

Sure thing mate yeah, would love to help you out if I can, I'll happily pm you any little gems that I find along the path to the dark side ;-)

[And another hello from Essex!]

Thanks Kevin, I have indeed applied over there too.

Can't tell you how excited we are about this here, can't wait to get suited up for the first time. :-)

[And another hello from Essex!]

Hi all, I'm Steve, I'm Claire's other half.

I'm actually looking to put together a top notch set of Vader armour to accompany by better half. I don't know if anyone on here has any advice, or would know anyone that does, as I'm keen to do a good job!

 

Many thanks everyone :-)

[Hello from Essex, UK from a female future TK]

Ahh hello, don't I know you from somewhere?