themaninthesuitcase

There's abeen a lot of to and fro on colours (not just on the Kama). The colours on these images aren't great, but black is fairly well agreed upon here. The browns are coming from the weathering and black tends to fade to brown also. It's something army surplus adapred to fit, I forget what though.

Well done Kev!

Looking good, but you need to show the TD screws too I think. Good luck Kev.

So long as the end result looks right I don't think any material is banned.

Looks good to me, good luck Marc!

I'd do those over personally. When I did mine I did one side at a time to get a proper flat join. You'll need magnets to help clamp the middles when you close the loop though.

Mines setup almost exactly like Paul's photos. I just used 1" webbing to make the snap plates and 1" elastic with a single snap at each end. Just slide in from the side and do up 2 side snaps and the cod and you're in.

If you're short on clamps I got a load of the 79p ones on Wilko. I bought them out a few times, they've all been pinched for stuff round the house now.

Yes. There's one approved who designed some files for a full armour who's approved in the US, not sure which garrison. I have the files and they are really good and he's working on accuracy changes too.

Looks like Marc beat me to it. I'll personally vouch for RWA, not that it counts for much, but I'm betting I'll not be alone. The kit may not be well known on FISD but to jump straight to that conclusion is a touch reckless.

I don't know the exact count but there's at least 1 RWA centurion, probably a few more but you'd need to scan through the forum.

Well done mate, hard works paid off!

The method of construction is standard to all makers, but some use a slightly thicker material. I don't feel you're going to gain anything from an "upgrade" other than a mismatched white colour. The Anovos white is very much creme and there's very few makers, if any, that supply in anything close to it. RWA don't have a site, you'll find a lot of the TK kits are sold behind closed doors. It makes getting your foot in door tricky but if you have an Anovos kit you'll be fine. There's plenty of people here with them and they can be built to an incredibly high standard if you take your time to do it right. Mine is Anovos, theres a full build thread in my signature. You haven't set up your profile so I can't tell where you are? Where are you based? Signing up with you're local Garrison is always a good way to get some local help if needed and all Garrisons have differing procedures to get trooping so it pays to sign up early.

The simple answer is 40 years of technology advancement in film, prop and costume technology. Not to mention the inflation adjusted budgets are probably wildly different. If they could have had these, or similar, in 76 they would have. To think otherwise is probably foolish. Personally I really like the RO TK. I'd love one to troop in I like the detail and I like the clean lines. I just don't want to spend the non trivial number of cars to get close on one. This isn't to say I don't like the older TK, I love my ANH and would like at least an ESB Mk2 and a ROTJ bucket also. The exact construction is tricky, but the main armour pieces are cast separately from some of the detail parts which are then added after. I'd assume this is just to make the casting process easier. It doesn't look sprayed, but it could be. Theres a few areas of wear that have stayed the white, others have darkened but that could be dirt.

The going name is the E-22 for this, do you have a photo of the DL-22 name on something anywhere? Interesting you can see the print lines on one of the parts too!

I'm surprised theres not more fuss around this, you know why if you've seen the trailers/read the card in the photo. I'd probably give this to the gunners detatchment wise. I know the crew are IOC but that doesn't feel right either to me.

I just wish they actually made it possible to get their product with out having to hunt around on eBay as they sent 3 FO Troopers and 10273 Obi Wan to each shop. Yes I did struggle to get my OT and FO TKs and have probably missed out on the Sabine and Shoretrooper why do you ask?

Done.

The 421 are what you want for a Origional Trilogy Stormtrooper and standard advice is order up 1 size.

http://www.imperialboots.com/ Though they do wave based ordering, so their next run isn't until the new year.

This is looking like a really nice build.

My understanding is BS have a strong no manufacture naming policy. I might be wrong though.

The colour used for the tan paint was discovered last night. It's great we're still getting discoveries now even with all the great reference.

Also did you press start? I know it sounds silly but you wouldn't be the first person.

I really want to order all of his stuff but that quality doesn't come cheap!