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Looks awesome! I agree on the shoulder bells but that's an easy fix. You've done a cracking job. Well done.

I think they recast a Rubies and cleaned it up, sharpened it and de-engineered it to look more ANH. I could be wrong.

ABS.........PVC........ABS If I was them I'd let the final product do the talking. They were blagging they were using a special recipe of PVC which was superior to anything used by "bootleggers" and now they are using the same as the "Bootleggers" lol. You can't reinvent the wheel. If it ain't broke don't fix it is what I say. ABS has worked 38 years why change it now.

If you can I would shorten the strap from the shoulder bell especially on your left. It will just pull it in a bit. I have never used snaps on the shoulder straps. You can put a single rivet through the shoulder strap at the front to secure the strap to the armour which is screen accurate.

I think it looks great. I had my doubts seeing the masking but it turned out well. The only thing I would personally do is fade the edges a little with either a fine sand paper or a scotch pad. Just so it doesn't look too masked and painted. Saying that I don't have any reference to compare to of the game in which case you may well have nailed it.

Shadow troopers came from the original newspaper comic strip before the films were made as far as I can remember.

Too be honest considering that Anovos are saying that they are a professional company and that they are not in the same league as us "Bootleggers" it surprises me that their tooling looks like it was made in a garage. For a company that is just about to produce thousands of suits of armour I am surprised they are not using aluminium bucks. they look no more professional than any makers tooling I have seen. In fact I'd say mine are neater..... Maybe these are only Prototype tooling? And as Mathias has pointed out the pulls are very soft..... Just sayin'.....

That looks softer than my ROTJ helmets! and that's saying something......

But it's full of stress and woe........

You're off to a good start.

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If this is the truth then its outrageous.

Paul is correct. The outdated CRLs need updating to reflect what know to be accurate up to now. It's not right that people are getting judged on their entry using wrong and outed information.....

Michael, I very much doubt you'll be able to put your real sterling on it with strengthening or modifying the manny. I've got one of the bendy manny's I've had for years and the arms and hands aren't strong enough. Getting it to hold a resin or pipe build is tricky in itself. I've never even considered it strong enough for my sterling.

That said you can see the cheat strapping here. But I have seen armour with out it.

Because I've seen different ways of strapping it and different ways of assembly. Some have inner over outer and visa versa. I've seen strapping done differently too. The Velcro and elastic strap on the chest plate for starters. That's not on all I've seen. Different thickness elastic in places. If you look at a number of originals there are differences. Many suits were altered during filming. Not all look the same. There's no point looking at one suit and expecting all to be the same.

Try it together. once you have strapped the butt and Ab plates on an connected the crotch it should all pull in together.

Looking good. I stick the shoulder straps in the oven at 170 for about 45 seconds - 1 minute or so. Just keep an eye on and feel if they are softening a bit then band them over a small saucepan. The strapping seems to differ on armour as does the construction. Here's another pic to throw the spanner in the works.

If you are referring to the armour then that would be from me.

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Shins are the same both sides as are the biceps, bells and forearms. there were only 1 set of each on the original suit that was cast.... I hope to rectify this sometime later this year....just mirror the way you glue them on each side. I use a 4mm rivet and yours looks about the right size.....

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