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The helmet interior is looking a lot messier already, but i'm not quite done yet. The mic and speaker cables are still missing, I'll have to remove the ears to put them in. I'm leaving out the wireless reciever for the TK-chatter entirely, since the mp3-player is just about the same size anyway, and it fits perfectly next to my fan switch. The mic needs to sit uncomfortably close to my lips for it to trigger the icomm, but I got it all to work for now. Perhaps i'll get another mic some day. My blaster from imperial warfighters is now coming, it should be here in a couple of days Meanwhile the German Garrison is still having massive troubles with their e-mail servers making it impossible for them to process my application to the 501st.

Reporting back with some progress after a while :-) I got myself a pile of ukswrath's electronics and spent the afternoon figuring out which cables will have to go where This is where I'll start off tomorrow:

Another trip home, and some more (slow) progress on the helmet. Installed the padding and played a little with the positioning of the fans. I've settled to install the fans as shown in the picture but - as can be seen on the right - the cable isn't long enough to reach the Anker, so I'm gonna have to add some length to the cable first. I ordered an E-11 from ImperialWarfigthers on Friday, and it's set to reach me just before christmas My plans to build an E-11 myself aren't canceled, but merely delayed, due to the lack of a doopydoos kit. Unfortunately there have been no news on my garrison application so far, but it shouldn't take much longer now. Now it's time for me to browse ukswraths fancy electronics section

I got back home after a while, so here is a quick update on my TK :-) I've gotten some trooper stuff to unbox, specificly velcro & padding for the helmet. Along with some white undergloves to not get the actual TK-gloves sweaty. I'm currently charging the ANKER, to see how long it can run my new cooling system. Cheers to StrmTRPR85 for making those fans with a speed control function for me! So far I've sprayed the helmet interior with 4 layers of plasti-dip, at least one more will follow. (picture shows 2 layers) This all brings the helmet interior a lot further. Once the padding and fans are in place I'll check wheather I need Ukswrath's hearing assist system. Meanwhile the German Garrison has noted me that they recieved my application, but they haven't yet got to review my armor. Fingers crossed

I've now applyed with the garrison, and ordered some fans from StrmTRPR85. Next up will be getting a transport bin for the whole thing and turning towards the helmet interior. For coating the helmet I've now settled to use Plasti-dip.

Thanks for the hints. I've brought the forearms down a bit, and the right thigh up a little, and now I'll see how approval goes.

I think i'm ready for a full check-up and can start thinking about a TK-ID :-) INFORMATION: 1. First/last name Jakob Mühlbauer 2. Future Garrison/Squad/Outpost or local area German Garrison, Custodes Euroi Squad 3. Armor maker RWA 4. Helmet maker RWA 5. Cloth belt maker RWA 6. Neck seal maker RWA 7. Boot maker Imperial Boots 8. Height 175 cm 9. weight 70 kg 10. TK type ANH Stunt 11. Name(s) of any Trooper(s) who significantly helped with your build Cableguy, gmrhodes13, TKSpartan, thank you for your guidance on the FISD, always supporting me with my build thread!

I'll look into the EVA sheets. I might use these and velcro on top where needed. Today put everything together for the very first time. Been able to put everything on by myself, exept for the second arm I just noticed that my right glove slipped on some of the pictures. My hands feel pretty empty, I just don't know where to put them. I feel like i'm missing something I think it's time for doopydoo's to get their act together any finally get back to making some blasters.

Great to hear guys! For the helmet interior im planning to coat it with black velcro entirely. This will give me the common advantage of people not really seeing my face through the lenses and from down below, along with maximum flexibility where to place my tech. So there is two ways to got about this a) Line the helmet with hook velcro, directely attach the padding to the hook velcro, and put loop velcro on the fans and voice amp. Here i'm worryied about the scratchy nature of the hook velcro, especially when putting the helmet on and of. b) Line the helmet with loop velcro, and put hook velrco on padding&tech. Here i'm unsure if self adhesiv velcro will actually attach to the padding. I'm looking a the kind of padding that Cableguy and many others use. Which of these do you think would be the smarter option?

Glen, Mario, thanks for clearing this up for me. I opted to try to get the left biceps to the same height as the right one, before I turn to the forearms. We'll see how it goes. Here is a picture of my very primitiv, but for now finished helmet interior: I also went with increasing the eye socket a tiny bit: My next try with the sniper knee is now done as well: The side shown in the last picture doesn't look good and will probably need to be redone, but are the middle and the other side ok?

Thanks, I'll do a visibility check once I've cleaned my lenses :-)

I don't quite understand what you want me to do with my forearms. Bring the up or down? Or twist? For the shoulder bridges i'll just move the elastic loops downwards, so the will actually hold the rear part of the shoulder bridges. The chin strap is only temporary, I'll imensly improve the helmet interior with some tech and proper padding over the course of the next months, but I haven't even ordered most of the parts for this.

Lid finished!!! I'll clean it and add a chinstrap tomorrow. For the sniperknee the sides are now glueing, we'll see how that turns out. Here's some pics showing the newly positioned arms:

Thank you all for your input on my armor! So I fired up the dremelonce more on took care of the knee ammo: Check I guess. Also check on the TD, the end cap was just coming off on the picture. When properly attached there is no gap between the TD clip and the end cap. The tube stripes turned out pretty wonky, but look much better than before. I've moved up the both bicepses and brought the left shoulder bell closer to the body, I'll get pictures of this once the gluue has dried. Lastly I ripped off the sniper knee and started over. I grinded down even more of the top end of the coverstrip, and gave the knee plate a hot water treatment. Then glued it back on but just the middle part. I'll leave this for 24h and then see if I can get the sides to allign. In the middle the gap between the coverstrip and the lower end of the knee plate is now down to 3mm. Not great, but definitely an improvement. Pushing the kneeplate any closer will once again ruin any chances to get the sides alligned. In the reference pictures Mario has provided there is some gap as well, so I hope this is gonna be ok? Aside from kneeplate issues, what can you recommend for me to get the left shin to sit properly? I feel like it sits to low on the pictures in my previous post.

I don't feel confident enough to paint the stripes freehand, but your results with the toothpick are most impressive. When/if i order new templates I will try to apply your technique and do it without painting white underneath the blue. We will see how my fix of the tube stripes turns out, but to be honest I don't think it will be fully satisfying. Will finish up the thigh ammo belt tomorrow as it requires dayllight to properly see what I should be grinding of. For the helmet I've now magically moved the lower ear screw and completed the hovi mics. Apart from the helmet the kit is now complete. (The tiny elastic to hold down the shoulder bridges is still glueing) Being able to put on the entire armor alone still seems like witchcraft for me, but I'm getting better with the individual pieces. Now for the first time I actually brought all the parts together (with proper strapping). So lets have a look. Diagnose: 1. Shoulder bells are to far away from body parts. 2. Right thigh hanging lower then the left one. 3. Left shin to low, and not really alligning as well. ... Cure: 1. Move the sew on snaps outward on the black elastic - easy 2. Move the rigth thigh up? Or the left one down? 3? I'm sure with all your expertise and eagle eyes you folks will spot some more places that require special care. I'm open for any and all suggestions :-)

I grinded of the top of the knee ammo, I didn't wanna risk taking of to much so i took it slow. Can easily take of more if necessary.

I just peeled of the templates and look now nice thos tears turned out...., traps are easily fixable, but my gods what is that?! The tube stripes did not go well at all. I think I might have used to much white paint beneath the blue. At least this makes the removal of the front 4 stripes easier.

I shall quickly take care of the knee ammo belt tomorrow. Those tube stripes are a dam problem though. Of course I got these mixed up, I wish I had seen your thread sooner! Do you think it might work to reuse the templates? Or would that just make a mess of things? Sure I could order new ones, but I only have a couple of days left until university starts and then I'll be far away from my workshop and armor for a while.

Helmet all painted now, i'm curious what i'll see once the templates are off. I haven't messed with the lower ear screw yet. I had planned to attach the lense to the top screws like Ross does in his video, but realised that it is clearely to short to reach them. Now I'll have to see if I can get some sugru tomorrow. My new plan would be to cut out the individual lenses using a heavy duty razor knife and then attach them using sugru as Joseph suggests. The mic mesh is obviously still missing, as is padding. The rest of the armor is almost done now, my arms have strapping, and love how nicely the forearm can be stored within the upper arm. For the thighs, I painted the rivets white, und increased the curves on the thigh ammo belt. Also the ABS treatement has closed the gaps.

Is the left one sitting ok? I've drawn a suggested new position for the right ear screw. Is that better?

I'm using brushes not spraypaint, so I can take care of the mic tips even when they are already attached to the helmet. I'll get to this tomorrow. I've got templates for the rear traps, is there a left and a right one or doesn't it matter which one I put where? Meanwhile I added some grey to the mix and fixed up the lower ridges of the thighs with ABS paste. As usually with my photos the lighting is terrible, but don't worry I used the correct colors for the ab buttons. TD screws painted black, and velcro on the back to prevent scratching.

Strapping continues Experiments are made and begun the paint job has

Here is a picture of the snaps, just for the matter of completion. I e-mailed Ross and he confirmed these to be used for attaching the shoulder bells to the shoulder straps as I suspected. These snaps are relatively new to Ross's straping kit, so he didn't have the back when he made the video and Dan got his kit. Speaking of shoulders...

Put some velcro on the shins today Also I trimmed and installed the right ear, I've made it a lot thinner than the other one, to match your instructions. The left one will come off tomorrow and will be redone. It really is great to have that second pair of ears with the kit, helps to calm the nerves when messing around with the first one. Does anyone know what the sew-on-snaps from the RWA strapping kit are for? I don't really know where to put these. My guess would be to connect the white webbing of the chest-back connection with the shoulder bells, but in Ross video and Cableguys build thread it both looks like this is simply done by an ordinary popper and I wouldn't know why such a popper shouldn't be enough for the job.

So I haven't exactely been posting much the last days, but now I'm getting back on track. I've completed the belt and things are all coming together now. The belt and arms that were missing on the last pictures really make a huge difference in making this look like a real stormtrooper. I also did the strapping on the abdomen, kidney and butt plate, so now not everything is dangling loose around my body. I'm gonna have to fixate the chest and back plate for actually stability next. The new suit up has of course brought up some new questions: 1. I don't have a black belt since I'm not that good at karate, can I use a different coulored belt instead to holds the thighs? I don't think anything of this will be visible as it's hidden behind the actual belt. 2. Shall I further trim the chest+back plate and shoulder bells, or are those okay? 3. Also the black gap between the helmet and the back plate seems to big in some of the pictures, but I'm guessing this is merely caused through the backplate dropping out of aligment on those pictures, and actually the matter will dissolve with propper strapping?