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  1. Bazz's ANH TK Stunt Build [ATA]

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    I’ve got ATA armor and I love it. It’s nice thick armor and yes you get the hardware for the helmet with the kit. I had a 10 month wait for mine and payed for and received the helmet when I placed my order so I had something to work on. I built mine into a Sandtrooper and it turned out great.


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  2. Knockz's First Build - TD (Sandtrooper)

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    So after a very long wait, I'm finally ready to start working on my first Sandtrooper costume. Under the recommendation of my local garrison, I've purchase most of my suit from Ooota Goota and collected most of the accessories and parts I'll need to finish this build while waiting for what they called the Big Box Day. I hadn't previously found the time to work on it because of my full-time job and apprenticeship, but now that things are slowing down after the holidays I can finally get started!
     
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    And of course the first piece I chose to start with was the helmet. It took me just over a week to get it near finished, but I'm happy with the results so far.
     
    1) Sanding and Priming
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    2) Adding details with Humbrol enamel
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    3) Set and ready for weathering
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    I've been following all the guides and videos I could find that involved painting Sandtrooper helmets as close as I could. Though after looking at it for a while, I might remove some more of that paint before sealing it up. Idk, would this be considered too heavily weathered for 501st approval?
     
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    Looking pretty good! Come check us out on MEPD, we’re all about everything Sandie!


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  9. Armour fitting, help needed!

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    I wouldn’t trim anything. From the sides it probably looks that way because there is more black showing. Not sure how your torso piece are connected to each other but I would try and connect the butt plate to the kidney plate so they touch and then shim the kidney plate to the abdomen. On you tube look up tk1636 he has complete build videos if you type in “tk1636 shims” you should find it right away. I think that would help you get the desired look you want. Hope this helps!


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  17. TK-17370 Requesting ANH Stunt EIB Status (Anovos) [755]

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    Question about the cover strips, I helped noah with his armor. We left the cover strips end at the longest point of the armor, if they have to be adjusted the only thing to do would be follow the contour of the armor piece, is that ok? Should we follow the red line on the photo? Also didn't realize the rivets were not supposed to be painted. Are they to be left unpainted for centurion also? Thanks for your help, it's much appreciated!

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  20. A few fine tuning questions

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    For the past week I've been building my sons Anovos armor, I'm close to being done but have a few questions. Unfortunately no pics as Tapatalk isn't working and I can't upload from my phone, also I don't have a computer. 

     

    1. The butt plate flairs out a bit. Can I work that with my hands a bit to curve the sides in or do I need to heat it? What works best?

     

    2. We used the Mrnostripes brackets which are great but the chest sits a little high up due to the elastics in the brackets not letting the chest sit flat. I thought about making larger loops to allow it to lay flatter against his chest.

     

    3. The top back plate tends to want to sit low on the back of his shoulders, should that be something heated and bent? He could actually have the front and back plates touching without a gap, I measured out about 1 1/2" of elastic showing on each side, because I'm assuming those plates should have space between them.

     

    my son is about 5'11" and maybe 160lbs, He has room in the armor but I hesitate wanting to trim anything as he may grow a little yet at only 18. Overall he really looks good in the armor and it seems to be more of a fine tuning at this time. Sorry I can't post pics. Thanks for any help, this is my first build. I tried a copy paste of the pic of the butt plate, maybe it'll show up.

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