T-Jay

You can try weathering your spring with black spray paint to get that look. That is how I did it in my build, because the silver wire simply was too shiny.

T-tracks will get expensive, he? Seriously, what a cool project. Following...

Well, considering the amount of helmets on display there (yes, I know there are mirrors in that room) I would say these are mass produced and represent the final thing...

Okay, okay - before getting quoted and PMed, here you go: http://www.whitearmor.net/forum/topic/32518-rogue-one-tks/page-6#entry451829

Funny how everybody here seemed to miss, that the look of Anovos' classic TK helmet has meanwhile been unveiled in another FISD topic...

Hallo Jessy, besitzte zwar keinen dieser beiden Helme und möchte hier niemandem zu nahe treten, aber ich persönlich würde keinen davon wählen. Je länger du dich mit dem Thema "Stormtrooper" beschäftigst, desto geschulter wird dein Auge für die Details werden. Ist anfangs alles ein wenig verwirrend und erschlägt einen förmlich, aber das kommt mit der Zeit - bzw. mit der Recherche. Wenn du dir in einem halben Jahr noch mal die Helme in deinen Links ansiehst, wirst du vermutlich verstehen, was ich meine. Von Bone wurdest du ja bereits in Richtung TM und RS "geschickt". Das ist ein guter Anfang. Sitzen übrigens beide in UK, also kommen keine Steuern drauf. Viel Erfolg

Noticed it when I watched the movie the second time and wondered about that huge E-11 in the frame

Update #04 - Dark side of the bolt The idea of a movable bolt causes more problems to take care of... Not sure yet if there will be another update this year, but latest in early January. Thanks for reading and/or following

Mike, if you like this, I am curious on your opinion about the next update No need to do that, Ian. You built a very good looking blaster – and just recently I added a mod to mine, that you had done first Thanks Derrek. You surely know, the best thing is to never carry the blaster without the armor Thanks Chris. Feeling honored to hear this – especially as your own build became very outstanding! Dennis, thank you very much for highlighting this. Indeed I was referring to exactly the first picture from entry #37. And “Revell brass 92” was just the only available color in my paintbox, which came somewhat close to that. Although it is just a very little part, I am happy to repaint this soon - just to be sure to have everything correct. Thanks for pointing this out, Scott. To be honest, I had already thought about repainting the clearing stripes with silver. Reading your comment confirms to better do this, but it will take a while until the photos here display it correctly, because there has already been some work in the background… Aaron, thank you for posting these two pictures. They perfectly show what this discussion was about. I had them both and took the first one as reference. To be honest, I thought it would look even more real with that third color on the bolt. However, it is just a minor correction. No big deal. Thanks for your kind words, Brian but I did nothing special. The effect comes from the Humbrol Metal Cote that everybody can use. That is why I state the used colors and tools and hope to someday help other builders with it.

Dude, 10 months! Did you really complain about waiting 1 month for my first update? Seriously, it is good to see that beauty finished. I recently checked this build for some research and wondered that it was still missing the paintwork.

Update #03 - Paint in the first build step Okay I must admit, it took long to reach the point of finally showing some build progress and I hope it was worth waiting. In this build I am focussed on a more realistic appearance of the blaster, that will hopefully be achieved with different paint techniques compared to my last build. This is how I started. During the last 6 months I already built a few of these kits and always thought about a movable bolt. But pulling back the charging handle, exposes the bolt head. So this needed to get reshaped... Please feel free to leave any feedback and critics. The next update is not that far away...

The Blaster Reference is surely better to learn from, than this individual thread. But I will try my best to maybe add something to it Didn’t know that guy until I searched the internet and yes, the “joy of painting” will soon be a topic in this build, too Oh, and when we used this Sterling picture for the title page in the Blaster Reference, you had stated it was made by yourself. Now that photo reveals the truth. Gonna have to report you for this Thanks again, Scott, for helping me on getting some of the parts for this build

That must have been some real hard work to remove all the old paint! You did a good job on this one and the way your helmet is displayed looks very nice.

Oh dear, I forgot the most important help: feedback and support from the FISD community

Update #02 - Preparing for the days to come

Hi Will, looks like my graphics card just broke, as it displays your TD with incorrect screen resolution. I can only see big pixels Good luck with your Anovos build.

Thanks Curro. Aaron (usaeatt2) shipped a lot more parts than what I had asked for, now it is nice to have options, or spare parts - or parts for another build The conversion counter is only a half part and needs to be added to the other half of a resin Hengstler. The digital counter from Scott was added to the box of the Disney E-11. Maybe I modify this blaster later for my children. And the 2nd scope from Derrek was just in case my attempt fails… Really? To be honest, looking at all the boxes and parts made me think “Oh boy, what have you started here?!” Thanks D. You already KNOW of something interesting coming very soon… No worries, Ian. I hope to be faster from now on. But tomorrow is the TFA movie premiere and soon it's Christmas. Will do my best to keep you amused Well, I have no ideas left of what else could be added to this kit. But now I need to meet the expectations of the people here – not sure if that will work in EVERY case… Don’t worry. It caused some tension.

Love how this turned out. Good job, Carl!

Update #01 - Unboxing

Yeah man, go for it. Good luck, Brian!

You did a nice job, Forrest. Any pictures of how you recreated the rear end of your inner bolt? That looks nice from the distance.

That is a huge update, Aaron. Just your clearing strip on the inner bolt seems a bit wide to me. Would suggest to check the cleaned Sterling parts in the gallery chapter. Correct width is about 6,4mm. Are you going to do some fine-tuning on the front sight guard and the hole in your folding stock front?

Good point Curro, thanks for highlighting. Somehow this was overlooked while setting up the chapters for this reference. We soon work to upgrade chapter #04 with this specific modification. Thanks again.

Hard to tell without a side view picture of that elastic section. This should be U-shaped.

Not sure yet on electronics. Have to check if that works with other mods I plan to do.