Hi everyone,
Ever since having seen Episode III back in ‘05 I have been absolutely captivated by Star Wars and especially the faceless grunts that are the Clones and Stormtroopers. So when RS Prop Masters had a sale during Celebration I could not resist snagging up one of the suits.
Bear with me now, first build so expect to see plenty of ruined armour components and dumb questions!
(Note: Helmet is the Hasbro Black Series one, thought I‘d make do with it but then RS jut put up a new deal for helmets so one of those is inbound in the mail!)
I started by setting up camp in the basement, and due to a lack of space I am making do with a DYI table made out of a computer box stacked on top a few plastic boxes. Also no electrical outlets in the room which is super convenient.
Hastily eyeing through a few build threads, YouTube videos and plenty of images I have started gleefully cutting away with a box cutter at the edges. At this point some of you are probably groaning about how uneven the lines are and the return edges are probably entirely screwed at this point.
Overall I am happy with the cuts so far, they felt like they fit above the undersuit and none of them look too gnarly to my untrained eye. Should I take more away somewhere, or have I ruined them beyond recovery?
Done some sandpapering, but that got bothersome so I bought a Dremel today and will take another pass at them tomorrow. After that I intend to start strapping up the chest pieces... Which brings us to:
What in the world are these and where do I attach them?
Okay, I have a rough idea of how they are supposed to go from YouTube videos, but I am a bit of a loss at exactly which ones belong where. Only one of the bags had a tag on it so I am a bit lost. Are they good to as they are or do I need to cut some of them up? Any help on identifying which go where?
I assume the logical thing would be to sew them in, but I am an awful person so I just intend to glue them all together.
Then we have the gloves. Are they good to go as is or does the plastic part go on top of the... Whatever material that block is which was stuck onto the gloves?
Thanks for reading, any feedback and ideas are welcome!