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What about TK Armour.com? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

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Which belt is better the one from Imperial Issue or from Stormtrooper Undersuit? http:// https://stormtrooperundersuit.com/star-wars-stormtrooper-canvas-white-belt.html http://www.imperialissue.com Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

The newest item I have tackled is the buttons on the ab section of the armor. As you see in the picture I have the Original from Anovos kit next to the 3/8” wood dowls cut down and scrap Sintra to make the 5 button for the TKC. Next is the side by side comparison of the Anovos and the new 5 button plate. It is proportional to the original so it doesn’t look off. Last but not least here it is primed and should be ready for paint here soon. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Did you line your bucket with craft foam? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

From an artist/animators point of view that grey is not weathering, it’s gradient shadowing. This gradient shadowing is there so that the curvature for their armor is shown, otherwise they would look flat as pancakes. Not all shadowing is black, truly it’s never black at all just darker shades of the parent color and grey is a darker shade of white. Animation is set under perfect lighting because it’s a total creation in a perfect environment, unlike the films which have to deal with light reflecting off of surfaces adding an extra light source. So it’s shadowing not weathering. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

On the road to TKC I guess I will be taking the FISD DXO suggestion of attempting to go Centurion. Here is the first step of Anovos conversions, hovi mic tip change. Top is the Anovos mic tips and the bottom is the converted tips. I used a screen from a $.98 sink drain strainer from Walmart and the tutorial that’s here on the forum. http:// https://www.whitearmor.net/forum/topic/36456-anovos-hovi-mic-tip-mod/ Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

So I made a little video on my phone of the process so far. Enjoy http:// Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I have done some more work to my helmet. Sorry it's only been helmet work, but you have to start somewhere. First thing is that I have rewired an assistive listening device to install in my helmet. I extended the microphone by soldering in a wire of the earbuds that came with the device. Next I took an USB phone cable from one of my wife's old phones and wired it in so that it could run off of a portable USB power supply. I also intent to wire my fans the same way. Once the wiring was complete, I checked the unit and it works perfectly. So I put the board back into its original casing and installed the mic. As you see I hid the mic in plain view. I took the ear cap off, cut out a circle just big enough for the mic, glued it in place and put the ear cap back. I then painted the exposed metal casing of the mic and the white area from where I cut the hole. You can't even tell it's there. So after doing a bit of research of rank insignia's for a Stormtrooper commander in duty/dress uniform and I came across the helmet rank bars. I painted the correct rank bars for being a commander. Originally the rank bar that was colored from Anovos is that of a Warrant Officer. WO in the military is the highest ranking non-commissioned officer there is in the military. Yet with this build being a commander I put the proper markings of a commander aka Lt Colonel. Next thing is to update the mic tips by changing out the screens. Once that is done I can glue down the squirrel fans so that they stop vibrating my helmet. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

So I have figured out how to get the rubber/latex backhands for my gloves. Since I have not cut the backhands out of my kit I will just get some white flex seal and cast them using my uncut backhand forms. Then I'll glue them to the gloves. This allows me to have both. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I just use a third party, Imgur. That way they will be large enough for everyone to see. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I found a Facebook page for a CFO and talked to a guy about getting his casting/formed RotJ TD control plate. I think it's the same guy I got the rubber trim from but not completely sure.

I know I have been updating threads over 5 different forums.

The images are broken

Two things…CFO? And where are good images of the game control panel?

It's the O2 Scrubber/Thermal detonator and the gloves. The Anovos kit is ANH and my rubber gloves don't have the rubber/latex hand guards. I think that's really it. Thank you very much for the compliment and I hope to get this done by years end.

Thank you very much. I think Centurion may not be a possibility since I am using an Anovos TK kit and there are a few things that aren't that level on that kit. Maybe down the road.

Here's my WIP thread

I'm doing the TKC and I just did the weathering. Sorry I should have put that in the original post.

Here we go with my WIP thread for my TKC. Followed are the pictures I have so far from working on my bucket. This first setup the taping off for laying down the blue stripe and showing the anchors on the ear caps. The next two are showing the completion of three layers of 3 different shades of blue; Royal, Brilliant and Spa. Some of the fine worn areas were achieved by using liquid latex as a masking agent. Also if you stand back and mist the paint in spurts you can get the speckled effect. I also brushed on a some Transparent Oriental Blue and Blue Metallic for highlights. Weathering!!!! Here are the two squirrel fans I have installed on the backside of my mic tip. I used 1" screws to attach them. Testing out the white noise generator…I mean fans in my helmet. Now I have to figure out how to stop the fans from vibrating my helmet. At the moment they are attached to a longer screw behind the mic tips. I'm wondering if I should glue down the other side to the helmet, will that do the trick? After this I will be getting one of those "whisper 2000" sound amplifiers and mod'ing it to fit in my helmet. That way I can hear what is being said to me. I have seen a couple of different ones at Harbor Freight and they are pretty inexpensive.

What kind of clear coat do you all use? Gloss? Satin? Flat? Floor wax? i know that the costume is suppose to be weathered so what does everyone use.

Excuse my pics for the time being, Photobucket is extorting its users. They now are requiring users to pay to use the 3rd party hosting feature. I am slowly moving pics to Imgur to get my pics back up.

Here is more work on my bucket. I have started to add fans. The next step will be getting one of those "whisper 2000" sound amplifiers and mod it to fit into my bucket. That way I can hear when I am being called or if someone is trying to talk to me.

Same here

Same here