stormtrooperguy

Weapons aren't required for approval in any way. If you have a weapon in your roster shots, it has to be something on the approved list in the CRL. Anything beyond that is between you and your garrison.

I was going to post a comparison myself, but I found that the side by side of my moldy green deathtrooper boots and my nice clean TKs was just confusing to look at.

I use the Tandy ones on elastic straps all the time I use a piece of 1/8" ABS as a washer. It also doubles as a tab to make popping the snaps apart easier. I've never bothered to take a picture, but it goes like this: Snap head. Elastic 1/8" ABS other half of the snap. Works just fine

Depends on the glue In general I'd say don't use any more than you need to. I've had ABS cement pool up in the middle and melt the plastic underneath.

+1 to what gazmosis said about the snap plates. I do that same thing in a lot of places.

I've always just used the ones from Tandy. If the post is too long I just use 2 layers of ABS. For the most part though, if you set them just right you can mash down the post pretty far. I use one of their big bench mounted press tools for setting them which makes it a lot easier. The little hammer/anvil setters are hard to control well.

I'm very sorry to hear this. I'm sure all of your customers will understand fully and give you the time you need to grieve.

I had another deathtrooper event this weekend. Rock & Shock, an annual convention focused on heavy metal and horror movies. Tickets were cheap ($15) and it wasn't far from home (45 minute drive) so I figured it would be a fun time to break out the deathtrooper. The response (in an admittedly extremely biased crowd) was awesome! It's been years since I've had that many photo requests at a convention. First the super cool story of the day. There was a vendor there called Fiona's Fright Shoppe. They sold all sorts of spooky things... https://www.facebook...ppe/69471949007 Fiona is the 6 year old daughter of the store owners. At 6 she's been going to cons for longer than many of my 501st friends, and is already a HUGE horror fan. She absolutely loved the deathtrooper! She followed us around, smiled and said hi every time she saw us, and got a ton of pics. This is Fiona and her dad with me: I did make her 1 year old brother cry. By leaving. As we started to walk away he cried. Mom brought him back over, he stopped. She ended up walking with us for a bit to settle him down Other cool pics: Stormtroopers of Death!: A fellow zombie: Junior Freddy: A couple of the WAAF.com Miss Mantown girls: Cool costumes: My friend Sioux who was booth-babing with Zombie Bomb comics. We talk on facebook but haven't seen each other in person for 10+ years: Finally got a photo with Kane "Jason Vorhees" Hodder. Seeing him next to me, it's official. I am NEVER wearing that Jason costume again... I come up to his armpit!!! Year of the Dead zombie pinup up girls. Yes, this was a zombie girls calendar. On the shopping front I ended up picking up a few things, including a custom deathtrooper action figure. The first booth we saw had a collection of custom deathtroopers in various scales. Since space in my displays is at a premium I went with the 3 3/4" rather than the 12". Very nicely done, but I forgot to take a pic of it. A lot of people there knew (and loved) the book. There were as many people calling me deathtrooper as there were zombie stormtrooper. A bunch of people asked if I was in the 501st, so it was cool to be able to say yes. Well, I could have said yes anyway, but not having to explain that I was with other costumes but not that one. We also made a connection to a radio show that does a big annual Toys for Tots toy drive / costume ball in December, which I suspect I'll be going to now. So even the charity work continues while in zombie attire.

Like me! The last long walk I did in my TKBOOTS (3.5 miles) I had blisters on the tops of my little toes on both feet.

I remember the first time I went to the UK I was so surprised that windows weren't screened. You just open em up and there you go, straight outside! Madness!

Mine are scheduled to arrive on Friday... just in time for a Saturday troop!!

Great work on this! I found a fun cheat when I'm hand stitching heavy leather... I use one of those little rolling stitch gauge markers, then use a drill press with a laser cross hair to pre-punch the holes. Makes it much easier to keep on pushing through. On the note of trooping in it, it's always interesting to see what each garrison does with this. In my area we are very informal unless the event expressly calls for it. We don't go bucket off in front of people unless it's at a con, but we let our troops wear non-canon accessories most of the time.

I can check to see if that part is in tact on either of mine. I've got a converted sterling and a cut down kit at home... one of them might still have the part, and I did just buy some shiny new digital calipers

I got the confirmation that my order is good and the boots will ship out UPS on Monday (assuming UPS is shipping on Monday) I've got the older style too, so I'll be able to compare.

I tend to think there is no intentional difference... more likely it was just different people painting them and not really being all that careful to match the older style.

It also depends on how thick the hips is. I pull my clone parts out of 0.080 for the small parts (forearms) and 0.125 for the large (chest). Using 1/8" thick plastic makes a big difference in structural integrity

All of my clone suits and both of my TKs are HIPS. I've never had a piece break on me.

Usually costumes come before CRLs. Someone builds the first, then the CRL is built off of that. A CRL couldn't get any further than work in progress without pictures from an approved suit...

I think it's totally fair to share that. I'm excited too

I am so jealous! My garrison had almost nothing going on. A few days before the release a troop popped up at a shopping mall about an hour and a half north of Boston. Otherwise, we didn't do a thing. For whatever reason the shops out here just weren't promoting this release much at all. Maybe they figured we'd all just buy it whether they advertised or not? I do have to say those ladies from the gentleman's club had very nice uniforms as well

Best quote ever!

new lens. i wouldn't even mess with it

I'm sort of in that camp too. I love the accurate helmets for display, but prefer symmetrical for trooping.

the way the paint is sort of peeling off around the handle has me a bit nervous there. does the paint seem solid / well bonded to the gun other than where it's peeling? if it is, i'd just paint over it. it's going to get scuffed and need maintenance all the time, and i feel like the layers of paint makes it feel more realistic. if the paint peels off easily, stripping it down might not be a bad plan. you wouldn't want to try to sand the grips though, since you'd end up killing a lot of the detail.

his stuff isn't bad pricewise... the animated clone boots are $150 shipped, so i'd imagine these would be about the same.