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But I think he's trust worty Another thought: If I play in some kind of movie, and the still photographer takes a couple of BTS pics, I'd try to look as good as possible.Nobody would see my face if I kept my balaclava on. Ergo, it must go!

So that means they took them off to cool down. Thanks a lot!

Okay, I'm scratching the fiber glass/ bondo/ pepakura approach. I think I still have lots of styrene sheet left from my hand guard builds. This will save me a lot of money and hours of sanding!

I just did a quick search, John is of course Stormtrooper (with out "guy"). Special thanks to you, Paul! Thank you everybody!

Isn't he Stormtrooperguy? Iif not, I apologise!

I'm going to have some questions in the near future, so please share your knowledge! Building the paper model is pretty straight forward. But when it comes to fiber glassing, how to you "stabilise" your model? I can imagine that the paper becomes saggy once its wet. What to do? Thanks!

They're all explained on the first page You don't need many tools. A craft knife, rivet gun and some clamps are enough. There are many members who built armor on their kitchen table!

Of course, kudos go to stormtrooperguy and R2Dan, who made hand guards before I did!

3 years ago on this day exactly I put my first set of hand guards on sale! Who would have imagined! Of course, they changed over the years to be more and more accurate. Thanks for everybody's input and encouragement. To celebrate this, I will put up some special surprise sales over the next few days. Keep your eyes open!

BTW: If I was asked to make a latex HERO seal, I'd be ready in 24hrs I must have tried dozens of ideas over the last year.

The neck lenght? do you mean the circumference of the neck? This will fit 16" (41cm) The height on the ribbed part will be 10-11 cm. There will be 11 ribs. You can cut it down if you want. The seals had different amounts ribs. I doubt I'll make hero seal. IMO, they were hand sewn out of some kind of fabric,not rubber,

Sounds about right. Some might say the textuted paint is not accurate; but I like it, cause it makes every more "realistic". But that's just me

After some old school construction, I come up with this: I even bought a childrens' compass This is just to get the dimensions right. Next step: fiber glassing, and making the details with bondo. Gee, that thing is HUUUUGE

So I guess the general opinion is that they don't wore them in gerneral; only if thy were needed (like the hair issue ). Balaclavas are therefore not a necessary part of a screen accurate replica costume. Thanks for all your input!

No Rob, you didn't derail.Not at all! It was me who asked the question about balaclavas in the first place! I just wanted to have a sperate topic.Many thanks for allyour help and input!

Thanks! I think I know who that fellow would be !

I opened a separate thread about balaclavas Please discuss

It is pretty much accepted that back in the old days the the extras playing stormtroopers wore balaclavas under their helmets. Logic dictates, it would help with transpiration and other people can't see the faces. But so far,there's only 1 single pic of a trooper wearing it; the "Space trooper" ------- Did the other TK wore them at all? Or did they remove it after the scene to cool down? ---------- Or is there a big balaclava conspiracy? Please share your thoughts and or pictures!

Indeed,I had troubles before, but I somehow manged to log in anyway, one of my 2 email adreses worked sometimes. Now, thanks to Eric I can log in, but I'm not allowed to use the personal messaging system.

The balaclava just became a mystery part again. Gary, you're right.It is quite similar. But you can clearly see on the slashed part, there are np ribs.

Thanks! But I guess, most of us know the story about that "trooper". Maybe the balaclave was the first thing the extras removed after the AD yelled "CUT" because they're uncomfortable.

Dunno.It just tells me "Username or password incorrect" Whch can't be as it is the same one as here

Again, I have troubles logging in to our brother's site. Is it just me? Am I being blocked?

LMAO!!!! oh my, I really can't stop laughing right now!