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  7. Joining cod piece to butt plate?

    in Hard Armor (General Discussion)

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    I noticed in every tutorial I see everybody drills holes through these pieces to join them at the crotch area. Is there a reason we don't use glued in snap plates like the rest of the typical strapping system? It really just seems easier from what I can see. <br>

    I feel like I'm missing something obvious here.

    Check the crl pics.

     

    nothing to see here.

  10. Armor Gap Inquiry

    in Build Threads Requireing Maintenance

    Posted · Edited by sylverbard

    Move shoulder bells in. Raise biceps so they are actually at biceps. The rounded part at the elbow of forearms goes in the bend of your elbow. If its jutting past your wrist when your arm is bent and the rounded part is touching your inner elbow its too long.

     

    The kidney section seems huge width wise. Could trim the connection edges to ab plate.

     

    Get rid of belt for now...gotta get butt to connect to kidney. Then adjust shoulder strapping to lower backplate.

     

    Are you using suspenders to hold the midsection in place?

     

     

     

     

    nothing to see here.

  15. RS ANH stunt build in Turku Finland

    in ANH Build Threads

    Posted

    Tube stripes... DAMN THEM!

     

     

     

    The best I could produce is not even close to my own standard :blink:

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    Transfer decals?

    Step one, order the decal stensils from trooperbay.

     

    Two. Put them on carefully.

     

    Three:. Paint white first. Let dry.

     

    Four. Stir the bejebus out of the blue then paint. The white fills cracks and crevases in stensils, then blue goes in better.

  22. Thermal Detonator? so Confused

    in Off Topic

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    Grenades can look a lot of different ways.

     

    And no, it's not any O2 thingy. R2-D2 uses a clonetrooper version to blow up some stuff in an episode of the clone wars. That makes it canon that it's a grenade (thermal detonator).

    that makes it canon that clonetroopers had grenades :-)

     

    i'm calling my FOTK a filter assembly.  just filters out smoke, not toxins.  stupid First Order.

  25. Fan Made ABS FOTK armor

    in TFA Stormtrooper

    Posted

     

    All you guys that think that it's as easy as scan-copy-print, I urge you to reproduce something, anything, even a golf ball and get back to me and let me know how it worked out for you. If you're proud of your NDA and "legal armor", go hang out on your private FB group. Just please stop insulting the prop builders less all we will get is what license holders give us.

     

     

    i don't commit forgery.  i don't have the skill.  well i guess that's not true. i made a jawa from scratch.  but zero percent of it is copied from anh jawa costumes.  it's the wrong material, the wrong mask type, wrong undersuit, wrong eyes, wrong power box, wrong plastic toy gun, wrong led colour, wrong boots, wrong paint...and it looks better. i guess i stole the audio files for my glove but build a interactive sound system from scratch with some help from someone else.  oops. my bad.  kids love it. or pee themselves when i look at them.  old ladies cop a feel.  sometimes old men.  i try not to remember the copped feels.

     

    if a legal binding document appears in my mailbox forbidding me from wearing my suit of unlicensed plastic armour so be it.  disney, lfl, whomever can shut down the vendors of fan crafted kits from selling new ones.  no court in the world is going to retroactively send sheriffs out to destroy them.  this isn't the v for vendetta world of a novel by ray bradbury.

     

    but lets call the kettle black.  who doesn't make fun of rubies?  starfield fortress ebay whomever...

     

    nobody is insulting prop makers.  at least they're honest about who they copied for the most part.  where the molds came from.  or claim self sculpts from parts of star wars pics,  dvd screen shots, three laser pointers taped together and hundreds or polaroids or slides.

     

    however when someone takes all the publics pictures they didn't do themselves and admits to using build thread pictures posted to help other licensed suit owners (without permission of those who posted the threads ), won't answer questions directly, can't answer "who's suit of the limited armour was allegedly copied by someone thousands of miles away..."  especially when he says he only made a small number for his own garrison (what, ten suits, 12?) and then has the audacity to cry fowl *if* someone used his pictures and pictures of his wooden lumps to make new ones...which basically is what he did....it approaches infuriating.  

     

    where's Mr. Furious when we need him?

     

    and we don't even use the term properly.  that irks me.

     

     

    re·cast
    rēˈkast/Submit
    verb
    gerund or present participle: recasting
    1.
    give (a metal object) a different form by melting it down and reshaping it.
    present or organize in a different form or style.
    "his doctoral thesis has been recast for the general reader"
    2.
    allocate the parts in (a play or film) to different actors.
    "there were moves to recast the play"
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