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Thanks! You never know what a new angle from more references will reveal. Just like this hidden, unseen detail behind the forehead shield. Glad this photgrapher had the insight to take a pic from the top (which no one had done yet) and decided to share. Revised the shield, lenses, and cheeks on the Shoretrooper. We're just cleaning this guy up then we'll be casting it in resin for mastering. Also almost done with the Dtrooper helmet. In this pic, i just finished refining one side of the helmet. This still has to be replicated on the otherside, in case you were wondering about the asymmetry. Armor is still in the rough stages, but i hope to post some wip by thursday.

Thanks! I do love to make these things for myself. Sharing it is just a matter of making the molds a bit thicker. Almost done with the Shoretrooper bucket:

Photobucket acting up, will repost pics here later

Thanks guys! I hope to have some armor wips to show soon. I just finished all my templates.<br> In the meantime, we're almost done with the shore trooper helmet. Slowly locking in details of the DTrooper, and casting one of our idealized TK helmets to modify into the R1TK.

Whooohooo new projects! Ongoing are the Death and Shore troopers and the Rebel Fleet Trooper helmets. Regular updates to follow Rough blocking: Mini updates: More updates as we go along.

Rather than start another thread and just to complete this one, a friend of mine sent me these pics: They are of Phasma shin extensions from FN/Peter (abs) and my Phasma shin extension (fiberglass). Take note of the waviness of my sculpt of the central ridge and that of FN's. Also notice the dimple in the right lower edge of the foot hole in my sculpt and compare it with the FN. I'll let the 100% overlap do the talking. Thing is, as a sculptor, i can recognize my stuff almost right away, not by looking at the details we got right, because we all have that in common, but by looking at the details we got wrong, or asymmetries in our sculpts. I even sculpt specific "tells" or what i like to call "signatures" into my stuff. Anyway, either Peter is being misled that his stuff isn't recast, or he is the one doing the misleading.

^Uh oh. Re those Phasma parts...i do have a pic of the FN shin extension fitting 100% perfectly over mine...

Awesome progress! I have the shoulder and arm gaskets sewn together o mine as well. The only reason i don't have that done for all the gaskets is that the folks with longer arms might need the extra length.

Very nice! We're just finishing up the Snow trooper and i'm not really looking forward to sculpting the Flame trooper armor. At least yours will be available soon.

Some updates of my old school sculpt back pack: foam, plaster, card board, wood...nearly time to make a waste mold

Progress:

On my analysis of the snow trooper, i think the straps of the back pack go through and under the back plate somehow, crossing or connecting in front with a waist strap that also passes underneath the back plate. Then the chest armor is just velcro-ed to the shoulder area of the back plate, covering all the straps.

Not sure yet...This is mainly for the Snow trooper armor i'm building and i'm still working out how to attach this to the snow trooper...I was planning for it to be permanently fixed to the snow back and worn with integrated strapping, but it looks like i'll have to figure out a way to make it detachable if one wants to use it for the FOTK.

Turning this over to my friend for finishing...

Haha. Thanks guys, but it still looks like a block of foam with some frosting. !

I'm currently rough sculpting one (very early stages):

Awesome, thanks! I'll be trying this out tonight.

Pardon my ignorance but how do you wear it? I do get the elastic securing the pauldron at the neck area but where does the larger loop go? Does your arm go through the loop? Or just the shoulder armor?

You may want to contact JJ Griffin. He posted his Anovos armor for possible sale over at the Phasma builders FB page.

Congrats on your approval!

Actually, based on some recent pics like from the Wired magazine feature, you can see that the biceps have a seam on the inside. I believe the thighs also have a seam on the inside. If you look at Finn's pic in the visual dictionary, the thighs overlap on the inside. In one of the pics of the stormtroopers in the VD you can seam coming undone on the inside of the bicep.

Newer kits are much smoother. Practically no surface prep necessary before primer.

Thanks for the review! Much appreciated. This is the earlier version of the kit and Tyler is being kind when he talks about surface prep. But thanks to feedback from him and others, several issues have already been addressed with the newer kits. About the thighs, i'm a little embarrassed to say the the thighs fit me almost perfectly. Haha. Again, as i didn't use any Anovos reference, my main model at the time was Finn. I researched what his height was and extrapolated from there. And Hence the huge looking thighs, i guess. Haha. But i've experimented with an unpainted new one and a really easy mod would be to cut an inside seam, then adjust and close with velcro.

I've heard the Disney coin bank helmets are a good size. I've ordered 2 from Amazon but it will take some time before it gets to me

interested as well!