TK Sparky

Armor : CAP-W Helmet : CAP-W Blaster : Hasbro with Doopydoo conversion kit Height : 5'10" Weight : 235lbs Boots : TKBoots Handplates : CAP-W Neckseal : Trooper Bay Canvas Belt : Gabe Flores I hope this is enough photos. I think i got everything off the checklist. Let me know if you need anything else - or if i need to fix something. Thanks!

Hi TK 62284 requesting 501st status. http://www.501st.com/members/displaymemberdetails.php?userID=16640 Thanks!

Im wearing a CAP set made by Scooch..

(Im kidding)

Im kinda digging the Vader pauldron...

the HWT looks "heavy"....just sayin

So - if i wish to be ridculed and mocked - wear a pauldron with my ANH TK.

I was wondering if there was any standard or rules regarding wearing a pauldron while trooping. I have a ANH TK and they do not wear pauldrons in the movies - but I like the look. Im not really interested in swicthing to sandy or some other varaint of the TK. But i would like to get one and wear it trooping. Is this allowed?

Ok cool - ill check it out. I know where that OSH is.

Looks great. Im going to try that on the pieces that im not happy with. Thanks for the advice.

Ok - good advice. Any sugesstions on what do now? All my armor is painted. Some of the pieces look great - like the cheast plate. And some like the shoulder bells have that grainy finish - if i was to wet sand and do the 3 light coats you talk about - do you think it would handle it?

Where did you find that paint?

So I bought HIPS kits from Scooch about 6 months ago and have been working on it ever since. This last weekend fianlly got it all together and submitted my photos. While everything looks nice on the photos, im a little unhappy with the finish from the paint that i used and figured i would ask around here and see what you guys recomend on the paint. I have been using Rust-Oleum Painters Touch Ultra Cover flat white primer from home depot (it was the only brand that claimed it works on plastic) as a base primer. Then I would wet sand, and top coat with two coats of Rust-Olenum Professional High Performance Enamel in gloss white. And i would get one of two results - it would dry and leave this sort of grainy finish. Not smooth, like you could see the little droplets of paint. Its not really noticable - but I notice it. The other thing that would happen, i would get a really smooth even finish on about 95% of the surface, and get this horrible wrinkling of the paint about 10 min after spraying it on and it started to dry. Which i would then have to sand off and repaint the item. Any suggestions? Anyone have sucess with a specfic product? Thanks

Thanks Ingrid - no hard feelings. After much looking and talking to folks - decided NOT to get this kit. There is some sort of issue with it that i dont quite understand and decided its best to stay out of...

Ok - thanks. Like BallDontLie said - i have looked through ALOT of the threads, and im having a bit of a hard time making heads or tails of some of this stuff. I have talked to a bunch of guys from the So Cal Garrsion, specifically the "Endor Party Crashers", and they have been great - i figure if I ask enough people, ill be able to find what I need....

Im 6' about 230lbs...Kinda big. I got in touch with some folks from the So Cal Garrison - they recommended RT-MOD kit for my size...Even one guy said this kit was some sort of knock off and not to buy it...

Ok. Any reviews or issues you know of?

Hey Guys Im in process of rounding up the items to make a TK. This is my first build and im not a 501st member (yet). I have been emailing with someone from the website trooper supplies. I was asking if he had the boots in my size - he did not. Going to be about 6 weeks for another batch to be made. He did then mention they are making Armor Kits right now. I have not yet gotten a kit, so I asked him about it. Here is his reply: "Hi Dominick, Thank you very much for writing back. Oh yes, we actually have the high gloss white ABS TK/Sandtrooper kit in stock. The complete kits are only ***** plus shipping The kits include a lot of extras that no one else produces or include. Such as: 2 styles of knee plates. One standard TK and two diamond sandy plates. 2 styles of shoulder straps. One set of tandard ribbed TK straps and one set of smooth sandtrooper style straps. 3 styles of hand plates. 1-set of stanard TK, 1 set of domed ESB style, 1 set of sandy cheese graters! 2 styles of helmet decals with 2 styles of blue vent ribs custom aluminum HOVi's with pre-formed stainless steel screens and hardware. 2 styles of helmet lens. flat and bubbled hero lens all of the body armor trimmed and ready fit, designed using deeper molds so larger fans can trim to fit. custom extruded custom colored gray plastic thermal det tube with white ABS touch plate and end caps. elastic straps original UK rubber brow trim and original UK inside edge trim hard hat liner hard hat liner mounting clips ABS cement nuts and bolts thigh drop boxes complete with both inner and outer pieces which fit together beautifully (4 pieces total) convertible abdomen plate with original style button plates which are now formed into the part (sandy or TK) It's really an amazing kit. The helmet is extremely screen accurate but we did design a new system for mounting the dome instead of the one piece dome and back which is too thin and cracks very easily, ours, when finished, is extremely strong, capable of being used at conventions, shipped without cracking. withstanding abuse from fans, and so on. Thanks! There are few photos posted below. We're still working on build sheets:) ------------ Here is a link to Clinton's helmet, which was recently finished. He hand painted the decals on, but our kit actually comes with two versions of hand drawn style silk screened decals which are beautiful! We hadn't finished our decals as Clinton's helmet was our early production sample, but they're finished now. The only glitch we've had with the helmet is the helmet side covers (intercom covers) which were sculpted slightly short. Just a little, still usable, but not perfect. So, we completely re-worked the molds at the shop and the new pieces should be perfect. We've pulled two samples, one is going to a fan for approval and the second set if going to another fan and if they're happy with them, then we're going to make 100 sets and I'm going to pay for them and pay to ship them to any fan who has our suit and wishes to upgrade. It shouldn't take us but two weeks to make the 100 sets and we'll send them untrimmed so the fans can fit them exactly as they wish, either film style with gapping, or convention (better in real life) style with much closer tolerances. (there was a photo included that the FISD website wont let me upload ) You can see the difference between the two sets. I have a kit in stock:) If you have any questions please feel free to e-mail, I'll be happy to assist. Clinton and few others are going to start on-line build sheets which will assist when assembling. The plastic is beautiful, it's a very glossy bright white and cost us quite a bit to have custom made but I feel it's worth the extra effort" Does anyone have any experience with this kit? Is this a fair price? Any advice on this matter would be great. Thanks!