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  3. The BigJasoni's ROTK 3D Print Build Thread

    in Rogue One Build Threads

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    Jason, mate, I’m glad you’re not throwing in the towel. Your build has been phenomenal.

    While you’re recouping, I’d suggest popping over to spec ops and having a chat to the Deathtrooper guys. Many of them are wearing printed armour, and achieve the most magnificent high gloss, durable, finishes. I’m sure they’ll have a few tips to share.

    Btw, a guy in my garrison uses UV resin to fill and reinforce his FDM weapon prints. It comes up great on the smaller parts (I don’t think it cost effective for larger parts - I’d think epoxy resin would still be the preferred way to harder armour)

  15. ANH Stunt - AP Trimmed - First TK Build

    in ANH Build Threads

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    Thanks, mate! Getting excited now pieces and coming together.

    Sent from my Imperial Communicator


    Just keep taping pieces together, wearing them (whilst wearing compression wear) and moving around the house. You’ll get the feel of how tight or loose they are, and where the little armour bites are likely to be, and be able to make those small adjustments before you glue it all. Particularly since you’re adding inner strips, which can be a bugger to pull out later to make adjustments.
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  22. The BigJasoni's ROTK 3D Print Build Thread

    in Rogue One Build Threads

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    Lastly, the level 3 CRL for the gloves does state nylon. “Gloves shall made of a nylon material”. I will ask Andrew to make a change to this to read “the base material of the gloves will be a black synthetic material similar to Lycra, Spandex, Elastane, or Nylon”. This change in wording will be more accurate and address the real issue that the gloves are not rubber like the OT gloves were. The gloves made by Endor Finders or Imperial Boots are exactly what you need. They are basically gloves very similar in construction to mechanix gloves.


    [mention]11b30b4 [/mention] Jeff,

    Probably not the place to mention it, but given the ROTK and ST gloves were the same, perhaps for consistency the TK CRL could use the same wording as that of the ST?

    [mention]BigJasoni [/mention] have a look at the Shoretrooper CRL for glove info https://databank.501st.com/databank/Costuming:ST_captain

    FWIW consensus amongst the Shoretrooper costumers seems to be that the EF gloves hold up much better than those by IB.

  24. Is there a trooper rank system?

    in Forum Help & Support

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    Something to bear in mind, if you're planning to take your costume to L2/3, when or if you paint your rank bars is that each TK CRL has specific requirements regarding the number of bars to be painted. E.g. ANH is one (1), ESB and ROTJ are 2-3, and R1 is 1-4. 

     

    IIRC Sandtrooper ranks were designated via pauldron colours in ANH, but I think the first time we saw regular movie TKs noted by pauldron rank was R1. Happy to be corrected on this though.

     

    In terms of cannon though, rank and unit marking on TK armour is made mention of in Timothy Zahn's "Thrawn Alliances", chapter 1.

     

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    The white-on-white unit and rank designations were nearly impossible to see without stormtrooper optical enhancements, but Faro had long since mastered the technique.

     

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