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I possibly still have the 38.1 templates that Aaron did for me when I built my blasters. Will have to check when I get home from work (if no one gets back to you beforehand)

I believe this is a picture Tino's living room in his house

Hey James. Makes sure you sign up and say g'day on our local forums too. http://www.501scg.com/scg/ Sorry, confused by your last comment - are you looking at buying new or second hand? Check those links others have provided. There's a couple of sellers who make fully completed kits if that's what you're after. It is fun building it yourself though! Introduce yourself on our forums, and I'm sure they'll be plenty of locals around that you could see suits in the flesh if you want.

I think I'm right, saying this will be a masterpiece.....

Would be nice to have so many blasters to need this Can't wait to see the final result. No pressure, but knowing you, I'm sure it will be a masterpiece!

Prints look great! New to 3D printing (I have a butt stock for my Sniper rifle, link below, and a few R2D2 parts). How is the strength of it, when you only printing a few mm thick? Maybe an additional question, actually how thick do the pieces print? Or do you have to add fibreglass to give it trooping strength?

As you've probably realised, no point using 'those' words as they get bleeped out by the forum anyway.... Where did you get the files from? I see a few people using Do3D files lately. Is this their's too? For your adjustments, are you adjusting before print, or just going to cut and glue once its done, like normal ABS armour? Watching....

Wow - 5 days! Seems so easy, but takes sooo long. Then the sanding, prepping, filling, smoothing afterwards. I'm still keen though as it allows you to get into the costume a few $$ at a time, rather than having to shell out big $$ for a full kit in one go.

Hows the accuracy of this design? Have the Spec Ops guys mentioned anything specific about it? 501st approved? I'm following a few Do3D builds on The RPF and the C3PO, for example, isn't overly accurate. I'm considering the Tank Trooper, once I do a bit more research on it's accuracy.

You've answered your own question right there. Black and White in the CRL.

Last time I had a major Photobucket problem, it was just a matter of clearing my history/cache, and it fixed itself. Have you tried that?

If you mean the selector switch, modded on a resin E-11 I did it in my thread. Tino then did it on his latest build. Not sure if anyone else has...

I think we may have to make you clean and polish your armour if you're going to be joining us here....

CRL doesn't mention anything about symmetry, however I'd be asking the main question on the Spec Ops forums

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Just noticed today in Toys R Us, latest release Rebels TK has ZERO weathering at all. Totally white.

We shouldn't de-rail from Mr Pauls fabulous Shoretrooper build any more. Carry on...

Ah, you may be right there. I thought I read early reports that the images were just a mock up, but there are pictures and videos out and about now of the white 'shoretrooper'

I assume you ordered the AT-ACT (or Tank Trooper) helmet and NOT the Shoretrooper helmet. They are totally different

My first build (in my signature) was with 40mm pipe. Because it also had a bigger wall thickness it came out about the same inner diameter as a 38.1/1.6 tube. All the standard parts fitted great.

Congrats buddy!

Most definitely different. Still not convincing me on the painted lines though. Pics of the Rebels above don't look any different to the Clone Trooper below, whose CRL just says 'weathered with shades of grey' A further view on the weathering is that the lines are grey, then there's a white wash, then further grey shading. More swaying my mind to weathering as opposed to paint. And I'm guessing we won't get our hands on any screen used costumes to verify? LOL. Or better screen caps showing crystal clear paint lines? Anyway, I'll let the powers to be decide which way they want to go.

Half of my points are "what's reasonably assessable". Yes, the indents appear somewhat different in appearance. All of the screen caps above I don't see a definitive 'painted grey'. If you look at Kat's image of her raw kit, below, the indents look a different colour. However, they're obviously not. If you say the armour needs to be lightly weathered with a grey wash, then weathering will naturally go into the crevices. (that is probably as you say "recreating the look") That's the nature of all weathering. So I don't think you need to have something in a basic approval CRL that the GML will not be able to police. There's no way they'll be able to tell whether its fully painted or nicely weathered. I went through the rubbish approval of my Snowtrooper - half the things on it's CRL aren't even visible. Who on earth can police something that isn't visible. I think it needs to be a compromise between screen accuracy, easily do-able, approvable by GML's. Save the finer points for Level 2,3. (you don't even need 45deg belts, or side rivets until level 3 for a standard TK! They were clearly on all the suits) -------

I still think the grey indents could be shadows or dirt/weathering and I'd prefer to see them left white (or weathered). Re: Garys comment about about the overall shading/weathering.... Hmmm.... They're definitely weathered in all images we see, but you would think it was issued to new members shiny and new, so I'll abstain from that vote

Nice blaster Andy! 1. You could already see the D ring in the photos. 2. Charging handle was already forwards wasn't it? 3. It's not actually a mount spot. It's a reversible targeting sight that flips front to back. Unfortunately Doopy chose to hold the part the 'less than ideal' way. I (and most) just drilled straight through into the body of the receiver. All of that should't affect your application though. We allow Hasbro's, Rubies and scratch built blasters, with no handles, so I doubt some knurling the wrong way round will affect anything. It's been mentioned before that specifics like this only affect Centurion. Good luck. Hopefully the big red stamp isn't far away (There's a good shot in the blueprints section, here showing how the rear sight would rotate forwards and backwards) http://www.whitearmor.net/forum/topic/32111-fisd-e-11-blaster-reference/page-2#entry414732