Chills
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Yep, you'll have a bit of return edge on the bicep. The pencil mark is a good start place to cut. You want to make sure the entire part that curves out away from the return edge (the extra plastic from the molding process) is removed. If you look at the picture you can see where there is a bit of white between your pencil mark and the shadow for your return edge. You want to cut up to that.
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I have large thighs and had to build some decent shims for my armor. To get Centurion you'll need to shim the gaps and use a 25mm cover strip on the rear. Like Sly said, you'll need to make ABS paste to join the shim to the armor. It takes some working, but the paste is a great solution to adding plastic to the armor. What I did is use two strips under the shim to hold each side in place. After multiple applications and sandings of the ABS paste I put on the rear cover strip. At this point it is only used for authenticity sake, and doesn't do anything to strengthen the armor. The ABS paste works as a weld, and is pretty damn strong.
The front should still have a 20mm cover strip.
Here are a few pics of my process:
The shim being glued into place
Early application of ABS paste (lots of trial and error on how to use it right)
One side finished. The other is partially covered by the cover strip
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Hi Jason and welcome to the board! Thank you for your service; hope you're enjoying the well-earned retirement. Former Army here, knocked out 8 years then became a corporate stiff.
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Btw, just start cutting! You really can't do anything wrong, that is not fixable ...
This! Believe it or not, if you mess up there's probably someone who's also made the same mistake and a fix has been figured out.
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I'm curious, how long do people like him stick around? Is there any recourse for his false statements for the 501st other than warnings on the boards?
Newbie questions, I know; but I bet these people pop up often and I'm wondering how they are handled.
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I like how they are communicating with us. They didn't just take our money and stay silent. The pics look really nice, too. I'm quite hopeful.
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Welcome to the board!
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Looking great so far, Brandon. Your posts really have a lot of detail in them.
Question: are you a fan of seams?
I'll be watching how you do your ABS paste. I did a lot of trial-and-error when I used it on my thigh shims; trying to find the perfect way to apply and sand.
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Germain has it right. For the wrist end of your forearm I recommend that you use scissors to cut where your red line is and then a dremel to take the edge up to Germain's blue line; shave just a little bit at a time.
Also, don't forget to cut those edges off from the mold along the length of the pieces. There shouldn't be any curve outward; this will help when you're mating the to halves together.
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Man.......the TK pics on the front page of that website look horrible. Maybe I'm just going by 501st standards and not the typical person in the public, but even before discovering the 501st, I would think that anyone looking at the TK's on that website would think something was off! The construction of the buckets look absolutely horrendous!
That's the first thing that struck me: the three TKs on the front page all have different shaped helmets. I hope anyone who's not familiar with the 501st sees that as a big red flag.
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Hi Jake, welcome to the forum. If you check out the 'Getting Started - Check here first' forum you'll find all the answers on obtaining excellent stormtrooper armor.
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I just finished my TM build a couple of weeks ago.
http://www.whitearmor.net/forum/topic/31099-chills-build-anh-stunt-tm-armor/
I totally know the trepidation you are feeling. First things first, did you mark all the places you want to cut excess plastic with a pencil? Do that first, don't worry about messing up the marks, the pencil rubs right off.
I marked ALL of the parts (except the helmet) and then started cutting the excess off with the popular curved lexan scissors. This armor is REALLY well made; its easy to cut and bends well. I suggest you make your cuts a couple of MM away from your marks, then use a sander to take down the rest. It's easy to see on most parts where you should trim the excess plastic, but if you have any questions post a picture and ask here.
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Cool never seen one with the bayonet fitted
It is cool to see that. The bayonet is almost as big as the Sterling! lol
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Great, thanks John.
Beautiful build, BTW.
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Yep, that makes total sense. I think the biggest issue with this set up in a TK is where you'd dissipate the heat. Our IIO box is pretty small. This set up would probably work much better with a TB or TS, like you've mentioned.
Which ever suit you work on post some pictures. I'd really like to see how this all fits together.
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Hi John. Excellent thread. I've bookmarked this for my own build. Tino is sending his v1.9 kit next week, so I can get started. The E-11 is the only thing I have left to do before applying for EIB and Centurion.
QQ: what bit(s), for your Dremel, did you use to bore out the sections like the folding stock and the bolt?
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That's an interesting idea, Brian, but would it work? The key to what you're showing in your picture is that the excess heat will be radiated from the coolant tubes out and away from the body, but where will it go? Those tubes will be completely covered in the black under suit which, in turn, is covered by plastic. To do an effective job of removing heat from the body you'd have to figure out a way to get the heat outside the plastic.
The other main obstacle is moisture. The system shown above won't do anything to remove the moisture that builds up under the plastic. Unless you get a nice breeze, there aren't many places for the sweat to escape and evaporate.
Like gaz stated above, the best way to stay cool is stay well hydrated.
I hope I don't sound like a wet-blanket; it would suck to drop a chunk of $$ on a system that is ineffectual.
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I did get my picture taken with a TK. it was awesome. My kids and I loved it. looking forward to getting started!!!!
If it was in front of the Rebel Museum that would have been me.
It was my first troop and I am looking for pics... I took none! lolHave you decided on which armor to order?
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Hey Brian, I see you found the board. Welcome!
I was at the Star Wars day. Did you get your picture with a TK?
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Welcome to the board! What part of Spain are you from?
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I wouldn't worry about identifying yourself in a TK line up. Once you finish building your armor you'll know each piece of plastic inside and out, and you can see the subtle differences which will let you identify yourself in a crowd.
I did my first troop last weekend and there were about 150 troopers there of ALL costumes; and I was surprised at how easy it was to pick me out in the crowd.
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And just so you know this armor restricts range of motion for most anyone. I'm 5'8" and I sometimes feel like c-3po when walking and moving my arms around.
It's normal to not be able to move around perfectly.
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Yeah, that would make using screws a lot more difficult. Hurry up and finish that armor, Karin.
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Looking good so far. Regarding your teeth, the helmet isn't symmetrical, so the teeth won't be, either. Where you made your pencil marks looks good to me.
Also, make sure you use pencil to outline where you'll paint the tears, traps, and vocoder.
Keep up the good work!
Rivet gun, will this do?
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Agree with the others, that will work just fine. Make sure you use washers on the back, the rivets will rip right through TK plastic.
Just one note, you don't have to rivet your holster to your belt, but you can. I opted to use Chicago screws and I'm glad I did. It makes transporting the belt easier since I can take the thick-leather holster off.