firebladejedi

I aggree with mike and steve, well put

I prefer painted Chelsea boots me

Yes the vecro was riveted directly to the suit and simply overlapped to hold the torso closed.

Nice

You sew them to elastic and glue that inside the shin.

Hook and eye kits from a fabric store.

The Forearms are just glued shut, no opening. And the shins are held with elastic and hooks with holes drilled direct in the shins.

I would reccomend yoko shiho getame as he is rather large

This sucks!!!

Well done Paul

I heard nothing but praise about a guy called StukaTrooper little tutorial regarding the AP. Search for him and check his guide it will show you everything you could ever wish for and more.

I used a combination of anything i could find.. normally M3 or M3.5 Some pictures in the archives show the bolts being replaced with rivets, so anything goes.. or even string!!!

What can be more accurate than making your own out of thin wire?....

Well done ~ free post!!

I'm the one who's sorry, have you ever seen the film Star Wars? J/k

Depends where you are wanting to use it…

Mmm mannequin pics…

Over the last few weeks i've been working on a new set of stormtrooper armour trying to make this suit accurate in every detail as seen on the original sets of armour seen back in the seventies. With the recent expose of the archive pictures this was possible, and my armour has details included in which up until fairly recently only a few select people knew about. I've even added in damage that was common and some bodged repair work seen on a specific set of armour that can be seen in the SW Holiday Special from 1978. This recent build would not of been possisble without help from TrooperMaster, StukaTrooper, JoeR among others so a big thank you to those people. Take a look at the pictures and i hope you enjoy this project.

In that case how did you attach the plastic part to the canvas belt? If you laid it all flat on the floor to mark out where you'll fit it together the plastic part will be too tight. The way to do it is attach in the centre first, then hold the belt in place and wrap around your body and then mark it at the end and fix one point and then do the same for the other end. This way the plastic part is ever so slightly slack when sitting flat on the floor but sits correctly on the body.

The ammo belt look better with the extra plastic removed. One question-why did you heat up the belt and add those bends in?

As Billy has rightly said, the armour I am copying is a specific set as seen In the Lucas archives and not on screen necessarily. I wanted to give the impression that my armour was well used and beaten up and had some on set repairs and with such a good example recently coming to light I added in those extra details.

I always have a number telling me how many unread pm I have as you can see, and if I click on that my msg open right up there and then. Do you not get this? -------------

Happy birthday Pete