Sabyre

Done

I'd be in for 2.

I received my shirts today. They are very nice and well worth the wait. Thank you greatly for all the hard work Joseph.

Happy Birthday!

I ordered some shirts right after you started this run, and I am very great-full that you took on this task. I personally believe you have made the right decision in not ending the run sooner to make up for the PayPal funds hold. It is a bit of a bummer that it adds a week or so to the wait time. This however is not of your doing, nor should you be blamed for it, IMHO. One extra week or so of wait time is the least we can do, to allow our future brothers and sisters in armor a chance to get their shirts as well. Your doing a fine job sir. Keep up the good work. Jc

Wow! This will be exciting for sure. I'll definitely be watching this one. Good luck with the build.

Congratulations, looks great!

Congratulations trooper!!

Looking good Joe. You did a good job on the shims. You shouldn't have any trouble getting approved. Good luck!

Scope is on it's way. Pm sent with the tracking number.

Pm sent

I don't have his mic system, I had already purchased some from Hitechtoys before he made his. Other wise I would have just bought his. I am using his helmet electronics thread to wire everything together so I will not have to use batteries and only have one cable running down the neck seal. The box you see is the Aker battery. Tony has a link to it in his Helmet electronics thread.

Thank you sir, I got home this after noon and the diodes and more shrink came in some time this week. I have a run to do tomorrow and some maintenance work to do on my rig this weekend, so hopefully I can find some time to work on this as well. Seeing as I am plagiarizing your work, I hope it looks REAL familiar, that means I might be on the right track.

Fwiw, I was not able make it perfectly smooth, absolutely no pin holes. However, it did knock down the number and size of holes enough that they were easily filled with paint. Looking forward to seeing the finish product, looking good so far.

Ok, so after a long break on the blaster, I have finally gotten back to doing the weathering. Keep in mind, I am no painter or artist so if you see any thing that needs more or less painting or some attention please feel free to let me know. All of the weathering was done with the dry brush technique. I used testors flat steel for the blaster and testors flat brass for the scope. Before After Before After Before After Before After Before After Before After Before After Here is what I have at this point on the blaster Now the scope Here I added a decal from trooperbay to the scope lens. This is what I have at this point. If you have any tips or suggestions please feel free to let me know. Thanks for reading.

Ukswrath has a great set up on his helmet electronics that leaves only one cable running from your bucket to a single battery source. I am now tech head, and electronics confuse the heck out of me, however I can usually follow directions fairly well, so I decided to give this a try. Here is my weak attempt at copying his work. I started with the gathering almost everything on his list. Here I cut the y cable for the leds One male connector attached. Next, I cut the 3.5 adapter off of this extension cable. Attached one male adapter. Plugged it in to check and it works. All soldered and shrink wrapped. Note: I had to go back and add one more adapter to this for a total of two male ends not plugged in to the leds. Now to make the usb plug in. I started by cutting this usb cable. Then attached one male adapter to it. This part is now done. Next, I gathered up the parts to make the mini din connection. I got the female adapters soldered and shrink wrapped to the mini din after a few swear words and a couple cool off breaks. soldering wires is easy, these small posts give me fits. Next, I made the bracket to glue the mini din to the battery. Now for the helmet end. Here is everything in place before I made a mess. I started by pulling the Echo fan bracket out. I did the easiest parts first. These are the leads to the HiTechtoys speaker mics. Here I have attached the male adapters to the mic wires and the female adapters to the 3.5mm plug in. Next, I attached a male adapter to the fans. After attaching a male adapter to the Rom/Fx and the EAS I had all of the helmet parts ready. I then attached all of the female adapters to the mini din that goes in the helmet. Here is everything wired and hooked up to the battery. I may have to do a little fine tuning to get it all to work. The memory stick you see plugged in does not draw enough to keep the usb side on without the fans running constantly. I will have to try and find one that does. The EAS does not have the resistor or diode built in to keep from shutting down the 9v side. I have ordered the parts I need to correct this, so now I must wait for them to come in. In the mean time, I made the bracket to hold the mini din in the bucket and painted it. It is noe glued in placed. Any comments are welcomed as always. Any questions, you'd be better off asking Ukswrath cause I really have no idea what the heck I am doing on this one. Thanks for reading.

Thank you sir. I have recently started working on the helmet electronics. As soon as I can get the pics uploaded I will share that progress.

I had the same issue with the abs paste. I found that after a second or even third coat in some spots it helped alot. Also, as you paint it on try and do it in one stroke of the brush. More of a dab on than pulling it across the part.

Thank you.

Thank you.

TK-29210 Requesting 501st access please. http://www.501st.com/members/displaymember.php?userID=19835&costumeID=126

woo hoo!!!!!!! It's now official. TK-29210 Is now reporting for duty.

Looking forward to the updates.

Lol. Misery and Murphy, I wish they'd both leave me the heck alone. Looking forward to seeing your progress as well.

Oops! Sorry about that brother, I have edited my post with the correct name. I find that the Holder works great. Thanks for sharing it.