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Okay, enlighten me ...who is Mary Franklin? And ... do we know her? You have me on the edge of my seat! I googled her: Sr. Events Lead for Lucasfilm Ltd. So she might be the one to contact? Will Disney rely on us to promote? Will they give us more Information than the average fan?

... and not hot because it is not vacuumformed ...

Let me add to it: Is anybody already on the task? Paul? Anybody? Did anybody spot found objects?

And? What do you think about the armor?

Not toooo impressed, either. But you can visually piece the new suits together. Hmm ... don't know yet ...

Seen it!

Same is said on http://www.starwars7news.com/2014/11/disney-president-says-the-force-awakens-teaser-will-be-online-at-1015am-est.html

The trailer will be released today at 16:15 CET, which is 7:15 am PST time, and 10:15 am EST time on: http://trailers.apple.com

Terrific! You are as tall as Vader! Amazingly, the armor suits you very well! If it wasn't for the tiny breastplate, I would have never guessed your size ... Very well done!

Camel? As in ... cigarettes ? For taking a quick smoke while trooping ? :-)

I really love to read all these different stories! Keeps me smiling ...

Looking gooooood! Great work, mate! Bonne Chance.

Hey Wingnut, you shot me down with that video ... It should be pinned .

Yes, definitely jealousy. My wife got used to me being a thirteen year old inside (on the outside I am 45) and my kids both freaked out, when I told them about what I am going to do. I don't care for anybody elses opinion in this matter. But perhaps I am just lucky. We have a company that fabricates windows and doors right behind our porch. When I sat outside in the summer, working on my lid or my Artoo it took about five minutes and I had some of the workers standing next to me talking about what I do, star wars , the world and anything else. And these are tough guys, mind you! Okay, not everybody recognized the Artoo in its early stages, but it was a conversation piece nevertheless. (The cleaning woman of that company actually was the first on and that cry "Good god, is that an Artoo?" still rings in my ears ...) Nobody with a right frame of mind can look down on someone who has a hobby and is passionate about it. Don't, and I mean it, don't let anybody spoil what you like! And if they call you Uncle Arthur again, tell them, that you are much worse than him (and do that with an insane grin). Keep your head up. Your first troop will repay you for everything you have to endure!

I have been waiting for your "show-off"thread here on the FISD! Finally! Will visit this thread on an hourly basis ...

Thank you, Germain!

Right you are about the brow, germain. Didn't see that. For the upper screws, at least on the left side I interpreted the screenshots like that. Even in the right screenshot you posted above, it looks like the screw does sit very low. Or in the Image in my post above (number 12) On the right ear, yes, I set the screw too low. Darn!

Let me be the first to congratulate! Well done, mate! Looking sharp!

Hi! Reporting back with another installment of my bucket-building thread. While handpainting my tube stripes, I did exactly what Troopermaster Paul predicted: I messed up. Royally. I thought green frog tape is working miracles, but in the end it is the same old (insert favourite word here) than any other masking tape. Look here: The paint not only bled under the tape, but also along the ridge. However, I also did another thing that Paul said in his last post: I didn't panic. I let it dry and tried to correct the paint afterwards. These are my first efforts: Still not finished, but getting the hang of it ... Here are some other pictures of the nearly finished helmet: You can see, that I painted the mictips differently. The right one has a white interior, the left one is painted black on the inside. This is how the tips appeared to me on Han Solos helmet. Correct me if I'm wrong, but the left one always looked darker to me and this was my way to achieve that. The Vocoder was painted matte black and then I gave that part some swift wipes with my sweater to make it some kind of semi-matte, but only on the raised parts. After I attached the s-trim I recognized that the helmet was to narrow for my throat and that I was not even remotely able to look down. So I had to cut off more from the Vocoder than I found optically pleasing, because it chafed my throat. All in all I also find the opening of the helmet really tight, but I knew beforehand that I have to "screw" the helmet on. Another interesting fact is, that I don't have any space left between the top of my head and the top of the helmet. There is no padding in the top of the helmet at all. Okay, my forehead is high, but after all I read I haven't expected that. I put some very fine mesh behind the teeth. Air circulation is quite good and nobody's gonna see my face. (The grey paint Looks bubbly, but that is a weird reflection) I managed to get the end of both ears tightly wrapped under the s-trim. No small feat! I painted the right number of stripes for a Han Solo helmet in all the spaces ... ... and even created the gap at the left eye that I found on Hans helmet: What do I stillhave to do? 1. clean up the tube stripes 2. raise the brow, to really make it a Han Solo helmet. Nevertheless, some Beauty shots (thank you, Paul!): But some questions still remain: Take a look at the very last photo. Is the right ear too thick at the bottom? And, are the tube stripes too thick? Thank you all for comments and tips!

Has anybody seen this Video? That guy is ... crazy? Talented? Really into it? Amazing ...

I always thought you put on the forearms without the gloves, which you put on later ... ??? I honestly can't imagine putting your hands with gloves AND handguards through a hole in the arms that looks remotely decent afterwards ...

... no black online and no rank stripe on the ears ... :-)

Congratulations ...I think . :-) I predict may the 4th, around noon ...

You might want to take a look at this thread ... http://www.whitearmor.net/forum/topic/28302-my-2mm-tm-hero-helmet-build-82014/page-3?

The concept art is no indicator for sniper plates on both knees, as the left trooper in the foreground is just a mirrored Image of the trooper in the middle ...