Bigturc

Saw ROTJ when I was 7 in theater .. I'm not so sure anymore when I saw ANH and ESB though .. it's kind of a grey zone for me! Fun facts: The only ever Star Wars toys I got when I was young is an electronic R2 that would walk around after being cranked on the side. I remember giving it away, it's now worth a few hundreds/thousand $$$, can't remember exactly. In 1995-99, I bought all re-released POTF2 carded figs, just because then I had the money!!! Not so long ago, I sold almost everything to move the money into Master Replicas props .. I never regretted it. I've always watched Star Wars in french until I was about 17. Wasn't much good in english before that and anyway, the place where I grew up didn't even have english theater back then, still doesn't have any by the way!!! After that, I never dared watching them again in french, oh man, you wouldn't even want to hear 3PO talking!!! Half of you would probably shut the thing off!! In french, characters are names differently: Darth Vader is Dark Vador Han Solo is Ian Solo I could swear C-3PO was named 6PO too but could never confirm this. I'm sure I'm missing others ...

31 here .. still top shape, playing volleyball everyweek and began climbing a month ago! I still feel like I am 18 though and about 2 months ago, I was told I looked 22! Saw ROTJ when I was 7 in theater .. I'm not so sure anymore when I saw ANH and ESB though .. it's kind of a grey zone for me! As a fun fact, I've always watched Star Wars in french until I was about 17. Wasn't much good in english before that and anyway, the place where I grew up didn't even have english theater back then, still doesn't by the way!!! After that, I never dared watching them again in french, oh man, you wouldn't even want to hear 3PO talking!!! Half of you would probably throw up!! Another fun fact is that in french, characters are names differently: Darth Vader is Dark Vador Han Solo is Ian Solo I could swear C-3PO was named 6PO too but could never confirm this. I'm sure I'm missing others ...

I have an AP too, I went stunt as I like way more the big brow space above the eye. Lately, the Hero look has begun sinking in and I'll soon enough do an Hero build that will be for display only. Check my armor build thread for the pictures of my AP with reduced eye bump .. it makes a huge difference IMO.

Great armor!! I love the helmet, really sharp!!! Maybe I'm being picky, but isn't the counter a little high on the blaster? Shouldn't it go on the side of the black piece instead of sitting on it?

Thanks for the clarification buddy, it all makes sense to me now!!!

Wow, I have no idea what you guys are talking about .. for me, a puncho is the mexican thing you put over your shoulder and under the sombrero. What's all the puncho and stomach bug thing about? Please educate me!

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Thanks Steve, for a first paint job on a bucket, I think I did fairly well I'll have something soon for my 2nd paint job!

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Well, here's probably the last update of this thread. I've finished the paint job/weathering on this helmet and I'm currently debating whether or not I'm gonna flat seal this helmet. I might not in case I ever want to redo the paint work on this, or at least the weathering, since it's all acrylic, I could just wash it out and restart I think. Anyway, I'm pretty sure I'll never touch it again Here's the pics, enjoy! -----

SgtSteve, I completely overlooked that question, so since I'm gonna update in a few minutes, I'll do it now The Neyo bucket is a fiberglass kit gel coated on the inside. It's heavier than ABS but not so bad, It would easily be troop'able! Yeah, I ended up fixing the paint run with a good wet sand plus 2 more coats of krylon fusion. I'm not sure about the liner part, first, I don't know what a FX type of liner is, but if it's standard construction helmet liner, yep, I'm pretty sure it would fit! I'd personally try 2 parts epoxy glue, but don't take my word as I never glued anything in it yet. I'm still waiting on my visor on that one!

Hey Paul I've used this glue, and it dries fast and has an amazing bond. This was found at a local store here .. but perhaps there's something similar around ...

Well, it definitely comes from Lucas's 1971 student movie called THX-1138. Perhaps there's some links, who knows!

Well, If Steven completed his armor .. so should I!!! I think Steven has been here before me .. and I've been lazy as hell to complete my armor to Elite status!!! I've probably said it a million time already, but I just have my side to close down and I'm probably all good. I just finished rebuilding my helmet yesterday, and I'm pretty happy with the result! Pics to come!!! That will be done no later then this week, if not, you guys can ban me!! (You'd actually free a lot of disk space from my tons of pictures!!) Haha!

LOLL!!!!! Oh man .. I wish I had such an uncle when I was younger! Jim, you're awesome!!! I have 2 nieces (9 & 6) and my only nephew is almost 3 now .. I can't wait for him to grow old!!! My nieces have a blast coming at my place and looking at all my SW crap lying around Very good job on the letter and all .. you're truly a terrific guy!!!

Just as a quick reference, I'm 6'3" and I DID cut some ABS from behind my knee on my AP. I basically made it higher .. like in the pic above, but clean

I use padding but just because in my AP, I wouldn't be able to fit my head in sideways with a liner ...

Good work .. I'll definitely do the hand but trick .. never thought about that and I always felt it sucked that my mannequin's hand were so static .. thanks for sharing!

I thought I'd update ... I'm pretty much finished on my Neyo bucket. Only the weathering is left for now. Here's a link to my update thread .. let me know if you can't see the pics, I'll upload them here too (I wasn't sure as this is a clone bucket) ... -----

LOL .. awesome!!!

Hehe .. Not quite the right place ... Try sending a message in this thread instead: http://forum.whitearmor.net/index.php?show...0&start=580

I used normal black electrical tape! Applied it on an extra sheet of abs. Then, I used an exacto to cut a straight line along the edge. Get that 1mm thin strip of tape off the abs and on the helmet. Done. IMO, no need to buy anything you don't have

Stop teasing us, I'm waiting on you to submit my long overdue pictures to get my Elite Man, I think I was set at last Halloween!! I'm so lazy!

Right on .. remove little, try fit, mark, remove some more, try fit, mark, remove x 20. Admire your perfect fit after. In my pic, I actually had just rebuilt my helmet for the pics, so it doesn't look good (in my own taste anyway) and it normally is flawless. Oh and no bondo, glue, silicon or anything needed there!!!

Ok, bad news first, it does look pretty bad!!! Now, good news, it seems like you removed the bare minimum from the ears, which is perfect, your problem is that you just did that, remove the bare minimum. From this point on, what you need to do is check where the ears are hitting your helmet and write directly on the ear where to remove some more .. so carefully, you'll do just that and slowly but sure, the ears will get closer and closer to the dome. Use the search button and check any ear trimming threads here. We've already done extensive threads on this subject. I personally did a photo shoot of my bucket just so you guys could have ear reference pics! Check my album here for any AP reference shots: ---------------