SlyFox740

Can you explain how you removed the extra teeth from either side of the helmet? I really wish you showed more photos of that process. One photo it's there and the next it's gone. Any info on this?

So I stumbled across this flash based soundboard on StarWars.com and I noticed it has some really cool official blaster sound effects straight from Ben Burtt himself at Skywalker Sound, just click on "Sound Effects & More" then click on "Blasters" and you can hear various blasters from the films. https://www.starwarsgamesonline.com/game/star-wars-soundboard Interesting fact about the blaster sound; Apparently while looking for "other worldly sounds" Ben Burtt discovered the support wires for a radio tower in the Nevada desert made an interesting "space gun" type of sound when struck with a piece of metal, he recorded this and combined it with a military bazooka layered in the background. There are a couple really great clear samples of E-11 Blast and Stun sound effects which would be perfect for blaster builds. Unfortunately Lucasfilm won't let us just download these sound effects and they are under copyright. Which means they can not be sold or distributed without the knowledge and permission of Lucasfilm Ltd. However just because there is no download option does not mean it's illegal for us to have a copy of the sounds on our hard drives nor does it prevent one from obtaining them. The fact that Lucasfilm has shared the sounds for free online streaming automatically means they are now in the public domain, omitting a download option discourages and helps prevent this but having a copy on your hard drive is not infringing any copyright laws and certainly not illegal. The sounds are not "Royalty Free" that's something totally different. The sound effects themselves are still copy-written and possibly even trademarked, which means one cannot redistribute or sell them in any way without possible legal consequences. But it is definitely not illegal for you to simply record sound coming from your own computer, you just can't redistribute or sell that sound if it's copyright material you don't own the rights to. Anyways, as you can see I have a professional home recording studio in my basement. I was able to use digital optical audio to transfer a full high-definition 44.1kHz 24-bit quality data stream from my MacBook into my MacPro, essentially downloading the raw audio data directly from the website. Not an analog audio rip, but a digital data stream of the sounds. An exact digital copy of the audio waveform my sound card is playing from StarWars.com, Perfect! Here is a photo of the optical digital audio coming out of my MacBook, which I then plug into my MacPro. If anyone is interested in the samples PM me or post here, I am willing to share my recordings with friends in the community. Just remember you cannot redistribute or sell these sounds to the public without legal consequence as they are copyright of Lucasfilm Ltd. Also for everyone interested having authentic "trooper chatter" from the films on your com system I also recorded all the stormtrooper voice clips from StarWars.com (thread here: http://www.whitearmor.net/forum/topic/34943-official-lfl-trooper-chatter-sound-effects/ )

I just bought a Beta Project Sterling AEG on sale Boxing Day. The scale is very accurate, overall length is exactly identical to the real thing. There are a few dimensions that are slightly off however these are negligable, the real issue is the grip and rear end cap. I'm lucky I was even able to find one here in Canada, import laws on air powered BB guns and pellet guns are a bit strict here. Though I found two stores that had it in stock, so I waited until Boxing Day and sure enough they were having a store wide sale. I raced there and picked one up, I have big plans for converting it. I know it has it's inaccuracies concerning the grip and rear end cap but it's actually a great base to start from, the dimensions and overall scale are pretty close to the real thing. Here's a good comparison video; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88T_XU9yLsk. Mine did not come with an orange tip, it's black like the rest of the gun. With some planning and work I'm hoping to remedy the differences between this airsoft gun and a real sterling SMG. I'm currently collecting a sort of customized "completion kit" do to so. It's coming along nicely so far, will be making a build thread when I have something to post.

The online store is open now and taking orders, I purchased a pair of size 11 at this promotional price.<br> My feet are size 10.5 exactly, average width. So I'm really hoping these fit okay as a size 12 is most likely too big on me.

Just got the PS4 Battlefront bundle for Christmas, so I'm still quite a newbie. My PSN name is the same as here on FSID; SlyFox740 Any 501st communities for Battlefront yet?

AP customer service is absolutely amazing, top notch vendor! Also the best choice for Canadian's on a budget, still works out less than Anovos at the current price. Use the E-mail Transfer method through your online banking instead of PayPal and you'll save some additional $ for supplies & tools.

Literally my first reply to the topic...I'm new here, this topic is actually older than my profile. Just speaking my piece like everyone else. My intention was only post a recent update that's somewhat related to the situation, not beat a dead horse.

Agreed, All we can do at this point is be patient and wait.

I'm really hoping this is only a temporary blaster ban, however as of December 17th, 2015 Disney officially discontinued sales of all toy guns and blasters and banned anyone over the age of 14 from wearing costumes or masks at their theme parks. This is unfortunate, what is the world coming to? We can't even buy toy guns or dress up at Disney theme parks anymore. I hate to sound negative but this thing with Disney is really starting to seem like it's not temporary.

Wow, version 1 looks Great! The rubber seal looks nice and shiny when light reflects off it which is screen accurate. That glossy appearance is actually difficult to find in other materials. I was thinking about stacking some kind of soft rubber hose around a turtleneck and actually sewing them into place, very similar idea. You did an awesome job. I'll have to watch ANH in Hi-Def to check out the back of Han's seal, I never noticed that before. For the closure I was just imagining butting the ends of the stacked rubber hose together with a very fine black zipper buried just beneath the butt jointed hoses so that it's not visible and sewed to the fabric underneath. Might not be "screen accurate" but what do you think of that idea? -Henry

Yea I know we won't learn much if there's nobody to learn from but I just meant enough people to actually call it a "party" lol. There's not as many troopers out here in KW as there are in T.O. I'm sure. Also it wouldn't bother me at all being the only newbie there, but it'd be cool and also much more useful if there were others learning to build too. I just want to meet and learn from as many other troopers as I can while beginning my journey and I think the local troopers would be a good start, seeing as I don't actually know a single person in the community yet, new or old. Reading these forums online is an amazing reference for information and help but meeting other troopers in person can give one a real charge and inspiration.

Looks like we're starting our first builds at the same time. we may have a small local group of troopers here in the KW area in the near future. I'm liking this already, hopefully we can find enough people and attend a party to learn a thing or two. though this forum helps a tonne, I've been reading so much. Just made my final payment and awaiting big brown box day now.

Greetings Chris. Good to see another Canadian trooper in training, maybe we can meetup and attend an armor building party together. Have you been invited to join the private group on facebook yet? "Tantive IV Boarding Party"

Are there any specific Blaster requirements for Centurion? All the CRL states is "Hasbro blasters are not allowed, not even conversions". I'm assuming that it must also comply with all the requirements for level 2 as well; M19 or M38 style scope, Hengstler style ammo counter, Power Cylinders, 6 T-Tracks, D-ring, ect, ect. Are there any centurion specific requirements when it comes to the blaster other than prohibiting Hasbro toys? Does the grip have to be identical? The original screen used Bapty "Tunisia" blasters actually had a smooth steel painted grip not your standard Sterling grip with diamond pattern that you see on resin casts.

Thanks for the tip Dan!, yes I have facebook. I will definitely look that up. Maybe your friend and I can both attend the next party. I'm looking forward to meeting other local troopers and learning everything I can.

I live in Cambridge. Thanks!, I will send you a PM.

I'm looking to attend an armor building party in my local garrison which I'm not yet a part of.<br> Does anyone know of any happening in the central Ontario region? I want to eventually join the <br> Canadian Garrison once I build my own TK.<br><br> Any help would be greatly appreciated as I'm not sure where to look or who to ask?<br> Thanks for your time.<br> -Henry

Since I can't seem to buy a pair from Andy right now, In his absence I have been trying to build my own pair of "screen accurate" power cylinders. So far I have been able to source a Lot of 40 real Vintage Capacitors almost exactly like the ones Andy puts his screen accurate decals on, they're slightly different in model number but identical in shape, size and color.

Looking great, I can't wait!

I received the same order update email this morning. Great guy for keeping us posted like that, I really appreciate that he takes the time to update his customers on progress. Looks like we'll both be starting our first builds on AP armor soon. I'll follow your thread.

I'm not sure if these are even the same thing but look on the side of the Sandtrooper backpack near the top. From the Mos Eisley road block scene "These aren't the droids we're looking for"

So just to recap we've seen these "Power Cylinders" on the following props: Blastech E-11 Mousedroid Landspeeder Y-Wing Fighter Luke's X-Wing Fighter

I was actually going to say maybe it's because of the fact it's military equipment that most electrical engineers don't recognize exactly where or what it's from. Most of them work largely with consumer electronics, or maybe industrial. But military electrical engineers were probably a special breed, maybe we need to look in that direction. Especially older senior military electrical engineers, they would probably recognize it easily. I'm no electrician or anything but I'm a 30 year old guitarist and I've seen my fair share of vaccum tube / valve ampilifiers up close and personal. Those bigger pipes on the power cylinder racks with open ends are definitely sockets for vaccum tubes of some kind. These type of vaccum tubes/valves were used for audio related equipment, they still are. The sound they add to a guitar is irreplaceable and players are pretty serious about their tube amplifiers and the vintage ones go for more than the brand new ones most of the time. Modern technology eventually replaced these vaccum tubes with solid state amplification. Generally this resulted in "clearer" sound in most products like FM radios and stereo amplifiers, ect. But as for the guitar I don't think that will ever change, The vaccum tube gave birth to distortion by over driving pre-amp section of the amplifier circuit and/or even the power amp section. At first its was just Blues players turning up their amps enough to add a mild "crunch" or "dirt" to the guitar. Eventually players pushed amplifiers so hard they discovered distortion and gave birth to the sound of rock'n roll as we know it and the rest is history... The Beatles, The Who, ect, ect. This is probably one of, if not the only reason why they even still manufacture these vaccum tubes. They are literally irreplaceable when it comes to guitar. Computer programs, and digital equipment can emulate the sound of a tube guitar amp pretty well, but it's really just not the same and it will never replace the sound of plugging into a real tube amp. So in conclusion if the origin of the E-11 Power Cylinders is from Military equipment, and it's Audio related. I was going to guess almost the exact same thing; I agree it was probably most likely some kind of radio transmitter/receiver equipment, and it would make sense it was portable since most military equipment generally needs to be mobile. Obviously everyone knows the scopes they put on the E-11 were also from military equipment not to mention the Sterling submachine gun itself, so this is definitely very possible. Also I just remembered someone on here had a pretty solid theory that the shiny rubber Stormtrooper neck seals were orignally from an old military scuba diving suit.

This may be an obviously dumb question that's already been asked but I wonder if there's still anyone from the old Bapty & Co. we could ask some questions. There was a photo released of an original prop they dug out of their archives in recent years was there not?

3" Extension on each side of Ab/Kidney plates for a total of 6", so that's an extra 1.5" on either side edge of both ab and kidney plates correct? And for the Leg thighs and calves how much extra did you add total?, and where? (1/4" on either side edge of both haves of thighs/calves for a total of 1" extra) I'm just curious as I think I will fit just fine into standard size armor so I want to trim my kit to original size.