themaninthesuitcase

Hi Lance, Welcome to the club! Certainly a bit faster than most of us got our kits! Make sure you have a read through some build threads. ukswrath's thread is popular, I also liked Kman's and I feel mine covers a few bits many others haven't touched on. My biggest advice is to take it slow and ask questions and know when to stop for the day. This isn't a race and rushing or working tired or angry just leads to mistakes. Chris.

If your working to those sorts of numbers 0.1 would be written 0.100 and be said as 100 thou

It is! 0.136 (or 136 thou*) is about 3.4mm. Thou are quite a nice unit of measure for small stuff and the front sight isn't very big. 0.375 for example, which is the height, is about 9.5mm. * 1 thou = 0.001". A "tenth" is a "tenth of a thou" or 0.0001". Imperial is weird, but good for small measures as you can use whole numbers.

Erm inches I think. 0.136 would be 136 thousands of an inch.

For the block it's in the blueprints bit of the E-11 resource. Else I did a 3D part, link in my signature.

I think mine is 1/4" maybe a shade over.

Good news letter guys. Good luck with filling the attaché program, might it be worth giving some practical examples of work that the team does?

When I did my stripes I left 3-4 hours between coats. I think that's what the tin said anyway. Took 3 coats and I did a 4th out of paranoia.

M4 is a good size for the TD screws, you'll probably want nuts and washers for them but that makes it nice and secure.

The chances are that the paint will have bled under the template. So really you're starting over, clean off with thinners and start afresh. However It might be worth trying a top coat in french blue and seeing what happens. Worst case it's out with the thinners and you're no worse off. The Humbrol brand thinners is safe on ABS too which is handy, and it also works pretty well. If you have to start over you can seal the template with either a clear varnish or white. This will bleed and seel the template and mean the blue can't resulting in less clean up.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/STAR-WARS-1-1-ABS-STUNT-STORMTROOPER-ARMOUR-HELMET-KIT-INCLUDING-TRIM-DECALS-/232073609639?hash=item3608aa41a7:g:nKYAAOSwygJXh120 It's a split cap which is FX isn't it? Must admit I'm not great at armour origins.

You used to be able to request a certficate after passing EIB or Centurion. These were created manually by a staff member who has since stopped. They looked really nice and where available in letter or A4 for you to print at home. Threads for reference: EIB: http://www.whitearmor.net/forum/topic/22088-request-eib-certificate/?hl=certificate Centurion: http://www.whitearmor.net/forum/topic/22087-request-centurion-certificate/?hl=certificate

I used a similar technique for my trap stripes. What I did differently was to use a thin permanent pen and a flexible straight edge to join the ends. The paint line covers the line but made doing it far easier.

Thats what I did but means you need a lot more. And they are still fiddly.

I found the smaller ones didn't have enough pull to them but it might have been I just needed stronger ones. I have around 20 of the 20x3mm ones and I think all are okay, I did chip a 10mm one though as they were too small to hold properly and slipped.

Try and add a tape tab to the back, it can help get them off or at least it helped me. Just add a lenght of tape too long but then join sticky to sticy so you have somethign to grab. Can see some here: Final glue up on right bicep by Christopher Pearson, on Flickr

I did! I thought for a while that was the bag and they just added the insert to the bag, but if you look properly you see its the whole bottom. FWIW i think the bag is black + dirt not brown or green. The ALICE bag does come in black just not as common.

As always if the detachment needs many hands to make light work, they need but ask.

In Scotland I'm surprised he even needs 1 fan! In all seriousness 1 fan should be okay in this fine gaggle of nations of ours. I have 2 but only run 1, even when trooping the Excel and on a warm day. The Excel was actually warmer than the nice day and 1 fan was still fine.

Rogue One Power Cylinders I'm also now offering power cylinders for Rogue One blasters. These are on the E-11 for the Shore, Death and Stormtroopers. These are complete and as accurate as I'm going to reasonably get unless I can get hold of a screen used one with some calpiers! These are closed source unlike my ANH ones, and I will be charging $11/£10 for each of them. To complete them you will need 2 standard M3 screws. DIN 7991 for Shore and TK and the Death use a button head. As before they are available on Shapeways: Rogue One Power Cylinders

Those came out great Theo, glad you liked the parts.

In my Garrison the normal is not painted, infact very very few are as far as I've seen. Mine's not and I can't see me ever doing it. FWIW I've never been able to tell if someones bucket is painted or not just by looking at the eyes.

From what I've heard, and do not take this as gospel at all, Android is awful for real time audio. The code behind my IOS app is actually pretty simple thanks mainly to an incredible audio library called audiokit, though my app is a corner case for them so I've found a few bugs along the way. Arduino is something I really want to do more of but I need a project for it. Though I just helped a friend with some code for a new Ghostbusters Proton pack light kit they're developing.

Sounds good! Lots of good options for troopers now at all prices and skill levels. I'll have to find some time to route around the code in this, I was thinking of going arduino before I started my IOS app.

Most of the effort seems to be going into the Shoretrooper. There's some people working on the Deathtrooper but significantly less. Best bet is spec ops, but outside of some of the shared components with the shore trooper you'll probably struggle for armour. There's 2 helmets I know of, maybe 3 but most aren't as far along as the Shoretrooper ones which are starting to see silicone now. The boots (Dr Martens Jered) are a pain to locate so generally people are going for a close alternative in the Talib.