Eric_Brousseau_54

Thank you!

A little late following up on this, but my HWT was approved in early May. Very pleased with the final outcome. Thank you all for your feedback and support!

Thanks! It will get scuffed up with weathering

At this stage in the game I'm inclined to leave it at seven bumps. How many bumps does your backpack down tube panel have? Five or seven?

Probably way closer than any GML will inspect, but this is a close up of the (craft foam) white down tube panel. What do you think? Passable for basic?

Thanks for the feedback! Straps are a work in progress. Experimenting currently. Regarding EIB or Centurion approval, how does one go about that? I've only ever applied for basic.

Hi HWTs - thanks for the tips. I had forgotten about my Imgur account. I uploaded my photos there. Rather than sharing all the construction pics here, I'll just post the latest as they come now. Following the advice above, I have repainted the radio box entirely flat. I think it looks better. QUESTION: Is it recommended to weather before or after approval? Also, I made the white down tube plate out of craft foam. I think it looks not bad. Let me know what you all think of the look of the pack now. Thanks again for the help!

Ugh! I forgot about that! I will look into that. Recommendations?

Thank you to everyone for the welcome and the valuable comments. I will definitely paint the screen part of the radio box flat black. I will probably paint the entire box flat again, and then start fresh with the weathering. Existing weathering was accidental anyway (I dropped the box by accident while the paint was wet). LOL. I may leave the button box as is for now, and see what the CCG GML has to say about it. If it fails I will rebuild the box, but I'd rather not do the extra work if I don't have to. Besides, I kinda like the way it fills the space aesthetically. In other WIP news, my ammo pouches arrived Friday. They look great. Excellent quality. No way I could make anything nearly as good. For some reason the thread won't let me upload a pic bigger than 14.5KB which is too small to see anything. So, no pic for this. Maybe I am doing something wrong.

Hi friends, A while back I started building a backpack for my Heavy Weapons Trooper upgrade for my ANH Stunt TK. I've saved tons of photos of the build, but haven't posted any here. So I'd like to post the lasted shot that I have. The pack itself is largely complete except for the white panel on the down tube, and then weathering. Feedback would be much appreciated. Many thanks in advance.

A quick update on parts collection. Looks like everything fits well so far. The radio box doesn't overhang as much as the photo suggests.

I finally found the proper Wedco oil pan on a local marketplace! I also have all the boxes, buttons, straps, tubes, lids, a new TK belt, my orange pauldron, and a resin cast MG for conversion to a DLT-19. I still need to collect a couple of cups/containers to make the funnel, thick craft material for the box details, faux leather for the ammo packs, paint, and various fasteners. I hope to start the build after a couple of paying side jobs are out of the way. I'd like to have it done by Oct 31. But we'll see. I will post more parts/production photos when I get rolling.

Another question - there will be many: Are the sizes of the various boxes and components strictly enforced or are they guidelines? It's proving challenging to find items exactly the same size as outlined in Ukswrath's build threads. In other words, is close good enough, as long as everything looks good and proportional? And are there any rules that say we can't build the boxes from scratch? Thanks so much for looking into this. I looked into Amazon in Canada and I can get a smaller package of these for $8 CAD, so I think I'll just do that. I thought the keyboard key idea was neat but the rubber bumpers will be easier and cheap. Thanks for the offer to ship though!

Thanks so much for looking into this. I looked into Amazon in Canada and I can get a smaller package of these for $8 CAD, so I think I'll just do that. I thought the keyboard key idea was neat but the rubber bumpers will be easier and cheap. Thanks for the offer to ship though!

Thank you! If you could give me a comparison in size that would be awesome! Seems to me that it might be a simple, cash-saving idea. Especially since the bumpers are supposed to be push buttons on the pack.