TKCaleb

very nice man!

looks excellent man! i love the decals!

LMFAO!

nice thread. a lot of useful info. i agree with joe, this certainly should be a sticky.

Glad to hear it man! Your gonna love the suit! Matt does top notch work. Looking forward to more updates! Caleb

Did you request him to put the sniper knee on that shin piece? From what i know, he has always put the sniper knee on the other shin. Caleb

lucky, atleast you get shoulder straps and a accurate belt. is this abs?!?!?

he really should stop "enhancing" the originals and leave them be. When i saw Hayden Christensen standing in for Anakin's ghost at the end of JEDI, I went ape ****. If George wants to make a 3d Star Wars, make sequels 7, 8, and 9 in 3D. Thats what I have to say about it. Caleb

glad you got your stuff bro. Cant wait to see what you do with it! Caleb

I was thinking the same thing. I do not know to much about femtrooper armor, but id say it looks decent.

They look real good bud! Nice work.

From what i have looked at, it appears to be 2 inches. My ABS armor has a 2 inch webbed belt.

OMG. What a *** rag. True scum of the earth. I saw the bought it now on there and i was like OMG POOR GUY but then i realized that it was Joe who did it, just to leave negative feed back. Props to you Joe! Your a true mate. Caleb

NIce! Looks good man. Nice blaster too, top notch my friend. Caleb

pretty cool. Looks to be based on the Clone Wars Jabba. Caleb

Hey man! Thats a fantastic concept drawing! I like it a lot! All i have to do is build this baby. Caleb

Glad to hear it it arrived intact. Its a bit on the heavy side, but that's what makes it even more authentic. Caleb

Well, I bought two sets of armor from him. When i first contacted him in August of 2008, he had told me he was doing a run of ROTJ armor in the original .06 biscuit colored ABS. I told him that I would like to buy a set. He shot me an email around mid-to-late december of '08 stating that he is selling both ABS and styrene armor at introductory prices, and that if i bought the armor right then, i would save a lot considering he was going to jack up the price in the next few months. So I bought the ABS suit, and had requested for him to build it for me. I received the armor in early September. Now the styrene set was a little different. We were talking on facebook via IM around early March and he told me that he had a set of ROTJ armor from back in 1999, and that it is suit number 1. He told me it was the first suit "they" pulled. I took his offer, and purchased it. Now, this suit was already made and partially built, I expected him to send it a few weeks later, but he did not. He told me he was tight on money, so i had asked him how much it would be to send, and he told me $70. I sent him $70 via paypal. I did not receive my armor until December 31st. Caleb

I see your point sir. I will be displaying it, possibly the way you mentioned it, like a coat of arms. It would look great! I just gotta figure out how im going to build it. Caleb.

I like that idea! I mean, i know its not like the actual screen used armor and some might think its silly to go to such extremes, but this is most definitely the un-modified aka. sharpened ROTJ armor, and from what Matt claimed, is one of the first suits he pulled. So its a bit of an enigma, and id hate to just keep it locked away in a box. Caleb

looks like you had a blast. I was up till 5 in the morning playing Borderlands on the 360 with my bro-in-laws. And ya, the hot girl, tsk tsk. what were you doing soldier? Caleb

HAHA, yea really! Most of it is just some sticky gunk that i managed to wipe off, but there are deffinately scuff marks, and a few slight tears at the very tops of the thighs pieces. nothing really visible. Other than that it is very rock solid. much stronger than his recent stuff. I am thinking about displaying it on a mannequin, using duct tape to strap it together. I really do not want to glue straps on to it, i feel it would devalue the set. Caleb

That would explain the soft details. Awesome. I like how beat up it looks. When it arrived, it was all dusty and had a bunch of scuff marks. I soaked all the pieces in my bathtub with warm water and some dawn dish soap for about half an hour. Then i rinsed them again with warm water, and then dried them all off. They looked really great after that. I need to get some novus polish and buff them down. Yea, i would like to know who CD is also. It could also be a nickname maybe. Caleb

More or less, it was the vacuum former used at the time. The styrene armor he had pulled this past year was .09, and the details were very sharp. Also, styrene is much easier to heat, which also should of given better details. Who knows why the armor is soft. But it really looks good. Matt told me he made this suit back in 1999, and that it was a "test pull". From the writing on the back, it looks like he worked with someone else, but i do not recognize the initials. And yes, this was the styrene armor that I have been waiting for. He sent off the ABS armor with very little wait after it was completed, but this armor was finished and in hand. More to come later. Caleb

After a long time waiting, it finally arrived! ----------- My first impression of the armor was "wow this is sturdy". The quality is very good, and it seems to be made with a very thick gauge of styrene. Matt told me it was .09, but it seems to be a bit more thicker than that. Its also much heavier than my ABS suit. I scrutinized the armor detail by detail, and there is no doubt in my mind that this was made way back before Matt's recent batch. The armor is much smoother, and lacks all the little dimples and tiny markings that the new run of suits has. It that could also be from the poor suction of the vacuum former that Matt was using at the time. Overall, this suit is awesome. Im going to polish it very soon, and possibly spray a nice clear coat of semi-gloss finish over top of the armor. Matt had already applied krylon clear coat semi-gloss on some of the pieces, but im going to finish her off. Caleb