Yacorp

Hi Nick, and welcome to the FISD :-) I was in your place a year ago and I just want to say that building your own armor is a ton of fun and if you purchase a ready to wear kit you will miss out on this. ANYONE can build a stormtrooper if they want to. This forum is stuffed with tons of helpful tutorials, and should you decide to start a build thread you are like 99% guaranted to get a qualified response within 24h from one of our staff members on any questions you might have. Know that building a stormtrooper yourself can't be done in 1 weekend or 2. It will take weeks if not months, but it will be very rewarding. So the question weather one builds their own kit or purchases a finished one should not be answered by what you think you can do but rather it's about how much time you can/are willing to invest in such a project. With that being said, RS propmasters are on the vetted makers list which means they make great armor and should you buy anything from them I am sure you will be pleased with the quality of their armor. I have never heard of OriginalStormtrooper.com, but I'm sure someone else has.

Absolutely amazing design Greg I too have an idea on possible alterations. Could one replace the "XV" on the front with a white EIB DLT-19? The laurels would have to be moved a bit i guess. That way the imperial cog, the DLT-19 and the laurels are all featured on the front which means we can lose them in the back to make space for a big raised golden "XV" in the center of the back side much like the X shown in the picture Justin posted. I wouldn't want to add gold to the front side as this would disturb the nice blue and red play of colours. Then this coin would be set up just like most real coins - a big head in the center of one side, a number on the other.

I wasn't really happy with the speakers from Tony, so I disassembled my old overear headphones and put these into the helmet instead, to get the perfect SHA experience. The SHA itself and everything else I got from Tony works perfectly well, just the speakers aren't really great.

Jakob Mühlbauer 61199 Centurion DIN A4 TKSpartan https://www.whitearmor.net/eib/certificates/61199-centurion.png

Jakob Mühlbauer 61199 EIB DIN A4 TKSpartan https://www.whitearmor.net/eib/certificates/61199-eib.png

So happy to have made it into the first five hundred centurions of the five hundred-first I'll do some more tweaking on those drop-boxes :-)

Here are some threads that are worth mentioning, I think This Index is really an astonishing collection of great treads, many thanks to all the contributors

Recieved the new cloth belt and reassembled the belt yesterday The last picture ended up a little sloppy, my right biceps came of and the TD isn't sitting straight

And here comes the finished box, fits everything including helmet and blaster Certainly not a piece of art, but it does it's job

V tabs added on the sides Shoulder bridges shortened Neck region tidyed up 1 belt to go

My canvas and ABS belt are connected with rivets. So when I gave the ABS belt a water bath, the canvas got wet as well. Of course I could have removed the rivets, but I don't have any spares and they are hard to come by during lockdown -.- Anyways, I already got an answer from Ross, he's got me covered and he'll also sent me some new rivets

Dammit, I never should have given that belt a hot water bath -.- What good are bent sides, when you have replace the main thing xd I contacted Ross about a new belt and the accompanying rivets/snaps, let's hope he can help me out quickly. The other fixes will be easy to handle, but the wait time for a new belt is a bummer. I added the missing pictures to my original post^^

Name = Yacorp / Jakob Mühlbauer Armor Maker = RWA Helmet Maker = RWA Blaster Maker = Imperial Warfighters Height = 175 cm Weight = approximately 70 kg Boots Maker = Imperial Boots Canvas Belt Maker = RWA Gloves and Hand Guards = trooperbay Electronics = Ukswrath + StrmTRPR85 Neck Seal Maker = RWA Holster Maker = RWA Garrison = German Garrison Link to my EIB application: This is it - almost a year has passed since I first came to the FISD beginning my TK journey, and now my armor may face it's final precise observation/control. Since achieving EI status I've made the following changes to my armor: - Side Traps repainted - Ear screws repainted - Shoulders brought closer to body - Used hot water bath to bend ABS belt around my body - enlarged corners of the ABS belt to make up for the shrunken cloth belt - brought drop boxes down - bent TD to make controls more visible - shortened strapping between ab, kidney and butt plates - installed ABS on the inside of the butt to prevent trooper butt (can be seen in EIB application thread) - further trimmed cod and butt area - Shins: no real change here, just wearing them a little lower now Edit: I just realised my helmet photos still show the old traps, here are the new ones: Also here are two pictures showing the interior of the knee ammo belt: Edit remaining pictures added:

Me burnig things part 2: In the flame of a common candle carefully roast two pieces of leftover coverstrip material. When molten use a metal staff to form out a nodge in the middle. The plastic will take on the desired burnt black color around the nodge and will require no further painting. Glue to butt for 24 hours. This should stop the trooper butt problem. I also thightened the strapping between the butt, ab and kidney plates to decrease the gaps.

Brilliant idea to solve the trooper butt problem! I will do this right now And your transport box is a work of art, I'm gonna have to take a closer look at the tutorial tonight

I knew you were gonna bring up these corners on the butt plate, but always best to start slow. So her it is, finished up completely. I used an hot water bath to bend the belt as suggested and it worked nicely. However the hot water also caused the cloth belt to shrink a bit. Now the corners don't match up with the cloth belt anymore. I suppose I should just cut the corners bigger to make them match again? From what I understand the rivets in the back of the drop boxes are completely optional, and I can remove them in order to bring the drop boxes down? Then I would simply use some E6000 to attach the elastic to the back of the drop boxes. I found a way to carefully bend the TD, securing it with a long rod of metal. This is how it turned out, the controls can now be seen when looking at the back side of the TD:

As promised some pictures of the helmet interior: It's complete with icomm, SHA and amplifier in the back... mic, mp3, 2 fans and a powerbank stored in the front SHA speakeres placed on foam block to rest directely above my ears switches for fan and Volume control are on the left

Traps check Got ab and butt plate trimming done as well

TK-61199 reporting back - for the first time with an actual TK-number that is I've recieved Level 2 clearance without any complaints and will now join the race for centurion 500. Already started working on the DO's suggestions to improve the details of my armor starting at the top with the side traps that can use a little repaint. While at it I also repainted the ears screws as their white paintjob has been damaged a little while installing the SHA. Speaking of this, the helmet interior is almost final now, I'll post some pics tomorrow. Meanwhile I also got to my next project, once again inspired by what Cableguy did before me : the 145 litre homebase storage box. This will become fully foam padded to finally give my armor a proper storing place. Next to all this I started researching some Krayt things to further keep my occupied... Meanwhile my instantPot has joined in with my starwars cosplay:

Fantastic News! I'll get right on with those adjustments Already started grinding of the paint bubbles and repainting the traps.

I've got the remaining pictures, I hope i photographed the right thing on the knee ammo belt

Name = Yacorp / Jakob Mühlbauer Armor Maker = RWA Helmet Maker = RWA Blaster Maker = Imperial Warfighters Height = 175 cm Weight = approximately 70 kg Boots Maker = Imperial Boots Canvas Belt Maker = RWA Gloves and Hand Guards = trooperbay Electronics = Ukswrath + StrmTRPR85 Neck Seal Maker = RWA Holster Maker = RWA Hello fellow stormtroopers! I've just recieved full 501st forum access, and now i'm looking to level up my armor :-) Note: I changed the position of the sniper knee AFTER taking the suited up pictures because i wasn't happy with the allignment. The detailed photos of the sniper knee show it's current (and hopefullly final) state.

Hello, I just got my acceptance from the German Garisson and seek to report here for full 501st access. https://www.501st.com/members/displaymemberdetails.php?userID=33071

Excellent news for me today! First i've recieved my blaster from imperial warfighters: I only know very little about blasters, so I'm very much open to any suggested modifications that might be necessary to get this cleared up to centurion. The blaster feels quite a bit heavier than i expected it to be, so I put it on a scale and it shows to be exactly 1,2 kg. I've expected the blaster to be made out of rubber, but it doesn't feel like rubber at all, in fact it feels like most parts are made out of metall. So i checked back with my facebook chat with imperial warfighters, and it appears i forgot to mention which material i wanted my blaster to be - lol. Then checked the imperial warfighters shop, turns out he offers both resin and rubber versions of the E-11, but no metall. So I'm guessing this is resin? Anyway, handed the blaster to my sister for like 10 seconds (sic!) and she managed to break the trigger immediately I don't this this could have happened with a rubber blaster, luckily this will be easy to fix. On a second note, the German Garrison have taken the time over the holidays to work on a website that will allow them to handle costume applications without relying on e-mails to much. Last weekend they offered me, that I could resend my application, this time via the new website as a beta test for the site and I did so immediately. Today I've recieved the great news! The new application has been immediately labeled "ready for duty" without any complaints. All thanks to the great advice i've recieved from the many helpful minds here on the FISD. A huge Thank You to all of you who supported me throughout this build! Now it should just be a matter of days until I recieve my TK-number and may begin to apply for Expert Infantry

I lacked both a drill small enough to make holes for the mics and a drill small enough to make invisible holes in the rank bars. So I carved out the mic holes with an exacto knife. For the tiny holes in the ear rank bars I used a needle that I heated in the flame of a candle. This worked great, went right through the ABS. When piercing the plastic I made sure to do so from the invisible inside of the ear, as pulling out the needle will leave a small trace of molten ABS. The heat of the needle turns the plastic black at the puncture site, so i didn't even have to colour the holes in order to hide them. The helmet is now resting, with the mics glueing in their places.