TKNick8350

It’s been awhile! Work and exhaustion kept me away from my work in progress, but today and tomorrow is my day off! So I worked on my left thigh, and toyed around with the mock-up shim size. I ended up making 3 strips at 30mm and measured them 10mm at each side, used e6k to apply the strips on the armor and repeat. Then when dried, butted the inner thigh and blue taped it together and clamped the back side. Than, applied glue and clamped and gotten this..... As much I want to trim up the front to make the cover strip flushed in the front, I think it won’t work. Here’s the backside compared to the one with the shim. So this is just a mock up until I get my ABS sheets from Trooperbay on Friday or Saturday. Here is the fit. So it fits perfectly. I’ll end up mocking up the right thigh like this. It has wiggle room, but Mobility is meh. That’ll be for another day! Good news! My ATAworks forearms will be delivered to my work! So I’m looking forward to see my new forearms and handguards. Ill get better pictures at the backside with both thigh armor pieces when my fiancé gets home!

Any good screen accurate strapping kits? I really like Imperial boots strap kit and it is a reasonable price. Anybody get this kit or any kit from another seller? It seems like this will be simple build to do thanks to UKSWRATH strap setup. I’ve seen Sarah’s Baileys on Etsy but don’t need the ANH gloves. I’ll give her a contact on Etsy tonight. Purchasing Trooper Bays ABS sheets and paint. But would look to get the strapping kit soon!

I might look in to a praetorian, the have a nice M19. This could be possibly a Christmas gift from the mrs’s this year!

If I have a extended abs plate that’s Color is say different, what would work to “feather” or blend in the white with the surface that was worked on?

https://www.doopydoos.com/stormtrooper-e-11-complete-anh-e-11-blaster-kit-offer-2685-p.asp this one?

@gmrhodes13 thank you very much. Now who makes a good E11?

So, I was hoping to make my Anovos TK in to the Battlefront Shocktrooper...what happen you say? That thigh armor on Anovos, does not do overlaps..... Not to Fear!!! I did not take off any edges off to apply the rubber trim all around the edges. Phew close one! So now, I need to research all over again to know what goes with the ESB Trooper. The things I need: 1. ESB screen Used Strapping and snaps 2. Humbrol Paints 3 Correct Helmet Decals 4 New Belt material 5 new holster or will the left sided one work for the right side? 6. Imperial boots 7. Paint if needed ATA works should have my new forearms with ESB handguards are done this week. Then I get back on working on my Trooper. I don’t know what ATA plastic will look like next to Anovos plastic, if it looks patchy, I am okay at painting the armor to get it match before strapping. Plus ESB armor looks bright white compared to Anovos’s Milky white dull color. So, legs armor needs shims ( I’ll hold off on that until My first or second armor party get together. So it’s best for me to get the torso done first, work on the shim on the kidney plate to the Ab plate. Get the strapping kit I want, and move on from there. For those who have followed me in to this challenging journey and guided me along, thank you kindly. So where I left off from that nightmare... I trimmed the upper thigh, hoping to get some wiggle room as well as the lip, seen here with left over sharpie lines. I took off the bottom lip for more room. Then I made a mock up shim with a for sale sign. The front is at 30mm and the back mock up shim is at 40mm. Good News is, it fits with but the front looks like “David Lettermen” smiling at me in my own thigh armor. Maybe this can be fix, maybe at 20mm? Or abs paste? Abs sheet with epoxy putty? ”I swear that’s David Letterman!” The back with the mock up 40 mm shim. I would love some feedback from you pros costume builders. I’m just a semi pro model builder who does stuff like this.... and this... So I want to LEARN something new! And I am ready!!! Okay, that’s a good start to start new again! Thank you all your time to looking at my new and improved page! To be Continued...

Has this been done before? I am stuck with my Anovos thigh armor and I would need it to be shimmed to make the the armor have a better fit out at the back! Thanks!

I might be interested, if your still back from the dead. Lol

Late than never, thank you all for your welcomes. For the couple of days now, I have had a lot of great help from all of you. Big thanks. All my questions are being answered here from the best. I do ask a lot of questions, and I hope I’m not getting carried away with that lol. But I am looking forward to being a fellow 501st member and getting out there and being part of one giant community and family.

Just thought I troll eBay. User,”makerofthings!” Look at his stuff! It looks thin and rickety!

Thanks bud!

Is their a new email for RT-Panda?

Nevermind!

@humperdingle I’m a little confused though. Level 3 optional. Since my Anovos forearms are already butt joint. I’m trying to work on a Shocktrooper.

Anybody place the coverstrip on the armor after overlapping the armor parts? Or is there really no cover strip on the ROTJ armor?

Hello! My Name is Nick. Back during Anaheim’s Celebration, I have picked up the first wave of Anovos TK armor kit for $350. Fast forward to 2019, that hiatus I went through was buying my first house, and popping the question to my love of my life at the “Happiest place on Earth” back in 2017. I’ve been a part timer at my job, and caused me to have not so much time working on certain projects like models or around the house. So now, full time have better days off, I can get back to building my Armor and getting ready for Anaheim. With the Anovos, I plan to do a stunt centurion from either ANH or ESB....or get very dramatic. Going on to making a Shocktrooper. I love the look of the armor, mostly the weathering. In the Star Wars Universe, everything has to be “used.” I have done all my research on the trooper itself. I do have one question and maybe a lot can answer, so do I need a new kidney and butt plate? Or do I use the one that comes with with? And is there a write up in putting the two pieces together? Once again, I am excited for this new and challenging experience. I’m nervous, but at the end, I have great folks in this forum who can kindly help a noob like myself!

I’m new here. But when I bought my Anovos TK for the 350 price, like I said I was new to the costuming world and I should of shopped somewhere else. The armor took months and delays to get here. So now it’s 2019, my next buy will be from Walt’s!