Hikuro1983

Pfff, sometimes I swear and I don't even realize I do it.....think it's a millennial thing. I've heard nothing but awful awful stories about Do3D's files for "Printing". And not to mention they're insanely expensive. No, I actually got these files from a nice guy on a facebook fan spot called Shoretrooper Fam. He offers the files for free for anyone who wishes to build their own armor and don't want to pay an arm and a leg. And if anyone wants to sell casts of his files they're welcome to do so as long as they don't gouge people and give atleast something back to the community with the funds. I'm attempting to scale it the best I can according to my size, but some areas will be held off until I shed a little needed weight to make it fit better and not look like an overweight nerd playing stormtrooper. What I end up doing is take measurements of the area in question, usually the entire area say like the forearm. I measure it at 9 inches in length, find out what the scale measurements are on the file and adjust it to my size by playing with the scale adjuster. Now I can't go and say "I want to be 231.2mm in height." I have to tell it to go from 1.0 to .87 or .88, continue to play with the scale ratio until I get the height I want roughly. I can either be a little under, or a little over. In this case I would rather be a little over. That way when the print is finished I can test it out, and either cut a small excess amount out or add in a little foam padding to fill if to wide. It's something I'll be playing with a lot until I get it just right. Filament is cheap in my neck of the woods, this roll was only 17 dollars and is doing a decent job.

I'm super excited for this! recently I came across some amazing files one of them being the new Shoretrooper of course so I want to show off the progress build of not only this armor but of myself as I have to squeeze into this suit! The build will be entirely 3D printed from greaver to helmet and even long rifle. These are some of the best files I've come across and it seems this'll get my foot through the 501st approval door which will be awesome if this pulls off. Thus far I'm starting with the forearms as they're the most simplistic as a straight print, no assembly required. Print time is 58 hours at .06mm 10%infill yeah that's a long an impolite person time I know, but it's worth it. Got this roughly measured to my scale thus far. This was originally designed for someone of 6ft 180lb, so it will certainly need adjustment for my size It's gonna be a slow an impolite person process.....but with a great reward in the end!

Good to know, the email I had found was a hotmail address and hadn't heard a peep. Understandably people have real lives I just wanted to make sure I'm not running around in circles or cause some kind of confusion. I've been apparently doing that a lot lately in my normal day to day life. Thanks for the tip. I'll contact the appropriate people that way! Now I just gotta find that nice and polite email I sent last week.

I've only seen this helmet like 1 time since it was released and I passed on it thinking I'd wait until the price lowered or the reviews were out. Kind of regretted that decision since the reviews sucked the helmet has been flying off the shelves regardless cause it's a cool looking helmet on the outside. I did some major hunting for it today going to 4 places that all stated they had it available but when I went to pick it up they were completely gone. I drove 2 hours to get the damn thing and finally home. It's going right to the shelve for my collection.

I managed to order mine just before the price hike.....I dunno how this'll be wearable for my size cause it won't. But I think it's more the cool factor that I got it.

Out of curiosity, is the contact information provided on page 1 still relevant? I've been thinking about getting the AM trooper kit if I'm gonna go OT style....problem is when Iwent to the website listed on another forum there was almost no contact information or numbers or ANYTHING that would help me acquire or find out what I need to do to get it. I come across ebay stuff all the time but like it's been said, don't buy the ebay junk, it's junk.

okay so I kind of just skimmed so please bare with me here. I'm a larger guy, 5'8, 300lb (.....yeah it's sad) 57in waist (or maybe I'm just a waste ). I'm hearing the AM Kit will work with larger people which is a plus, I went onto the website AM Armor website but I'm not seeing anything that discusses pricing or contact information or anything. I'm also seeing on the main page that it's no longer available in the US. So I take it I've either missed something or I am completely lucked out?