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Seriously, dude? Sharing my knowledge of over 4 years is unconstructive? Stating obvious FALSE claims is pure professionalism? Well, have it your way. ---------

Sorry if I sounded harsh, Wasn't my intention

Glen, this is the first time I have to disagree with you. There are several "stunt" troopers wearing "hero" hand guards. The only reason the the "standard" hand guard is popular, is because T*E replicated them 10+ years ago. In fact, there is an equally amount of excellent screen shots of "standard" and "alternate" style hand guards. It was only dubbed "hero" hg several years ago because of the promo pic of Han holding the E11 (as Travis said before). All shots of Luke example, show him wearing standard style; Han only wears in ONE scene the alternate style. So, in a nutshell, THERE IS NO hero hand guard version

Take a look at the scene where they cuff Chewie You will never unsee that.

Actually, Han wear BOTH styles at the same time!

You look great! I think you'll be the first Centurion who doesn't have the alternate style hand guards (f.k.a hero)! Nice to see some variety!

Okay, I just checked trooperbay. the "plain" ones are latex. Treat and paint them like that- the white are are silicone.

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This is only partially true.

Okay, time to get some FACTS straight. Real latex hand guards: Amber in color. Needs to be painted. There are several options. (see above). I like mine because it is a true white, has a certain amount of flexiibily and can be weathered screen accurately. (these are the preferred hg of the UKG). You could tint real latex with white dye, but because latex gets darker the older it is, there will a a certain amount of yellowing White rubber hand guards (f.k.a non-latex). They're most likely silicone rubber. You have a hard time painting these, as NOTHING sticks to silicone. (there are polyurthane rubber and some other too) The original poster (Mike) has clearly stated he has the white rubber variant, which, unfortunatly, cannot be painted the latex way, because they are NOT LATEX Vern, please don't recommend to people to make hand guards themselves YOUR way: You are basically RECASTING your plastic AP guards. True, they're only for your personal use, but it IS STILL RECASTING I put templates and intructions in the HOW TO section, so people can make them themselves THE PROPER way.

IIRC, they're quite thin..

Yeah. Whatever.

I didn't know zap-a-gap worked with white rubber- I learn something new every day!

Painted latex or white rubber?

Oh, I see you already found it!

Welcome back! here's the FISD thread http://www.whitearmor.net/forum/topic/24516-efx-stormtroper/

The best way is latex paint. The kind you paint on T-shirts. Get some white, and dye it with acrylics to your likening, Plasti Dip can used to, but doesn't last very long. 'Another way is thinned down white glue, dyed with acrylics. I was also successful with nail polish (because of the flex) andy acrylics But no paint will last forever- On a side note: if you have the white silicone kind, you're out of luck. No way to paint these. Only brown latex can be painted

Super glue for painted latex ones, loctite/pattex with activator pen for everything else (like glossy, white rubber ones) -------------

Well, that's no E11 Stromtrooper blaster. It's an ugly Sandtrooper thingy You can get better (and correct) blasters here. Ask Dday! (if you're from EU)

That's an AM/FX. You'd need another helmet and lots of modifications. There are other options out there

Great! You gave the secret answer away!

--and the rest was killed by fuzzy forrest dwelling monsters called "Ewoks"...

The typical tropper is quite old. you know, because they were born a long, long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away....

I prefer the T-shirt method. But as Steve said, watch the fumes!

Nice suit of armor! BTW:you have a PM!