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It would be very impractical if your suit fell apart if you use the wrong glue! E6000 or plastic weld is the way to go no questions asked Tamiya glues are for models and would not be suitable for the job in hand though they are solvent based you armour would end up in bits around your feet on your first troop.All that hard work and effort gone to waste!

I just noticed the forarm is not strapped to the bicep?try this method the forarm will hang from the bicep use snaps or velcro to fix.

A good way to make the forarms fit better and bring the bi-ceps down a little would be like this. There are two ways to trim the chest plate first off like you said go for the Luke look,the second would be to trim the neck area down more and pull the chest plate up with some strap adjustments.All in all a top build EIB next!

Nice one mate,You must have this picture of the super high res promo trooper suit.I believe paul replicated this suit some years back. Crayon sounds a good idea,last week i washedmy suit over with black Acrylic after it was dry i took it off with scrunched up news paper 99%,the 1% that was left looks fantastic with very fine black lines. Edit dont forget them boots.

Good little tip for non lasting weathering is to rub the suit with cheap newspaper,for the scuff marks use some rubber neck trim gives some great FX and reversable.top suit my friend and a great photo shoot.

The three pictures showing the set for Stun trooper getting blasted by Liea in #1 are frame after frame pictures.the blast seems more like a fuse rather than a squib charge.So maybe we are calling them wrong,they are fuses not squibs as we know them today. The blast starts small fizzes then fizzes red with lots of smoke just like setting off a fuse made of gun powder (sort of thing).I have no idea how these things are made,are they powder wrapped in paper? Im glad this thread has got going (A slow fuse)

Mine you if you look at this picture the trooper on the right has mr no stripes chest plate on with the tape.Maybe this is just a split chest plate? OOOOHHH i dont know As far as i can see he only has the chest plate,the shoulder bells and arms are not the same.One hell off a free for all in the costume dept.

This maybe old news to some of you but i love to find stuff out like this.Like you said Panda it almost puts you in the minds eye of GL as he plays the sceen through. Mr no stripes tape as he looks down at hes fallen buddy and the stunned Leia.This tape is in the same place as Set for stun trooper but on the opposite side.

I had some time on my hands today,so did what we all do and got my once a month fix of ANH.got looking at the gaffa tape positions on the suits,seeing if they were split or damaged.then along came set for stun with mr no strips,look what happened! Gaffa tape left side chest as you look at the picture. "theres one set for stun" Leia gets in first. Sets the Squib off on the left chest area were the gaffa tape is. Just goes to show you can never see enough of this film.So the gaffa tape we see are squibs,also Mr no stripes has one on hes right chest side as we look at the screen,so maybe Leia was ment to blast both troopers (Maybe)

Way to go Simon about time.Now report to the Death Star.

Grand Job Ian,

Top of the shop mate!very nice,very clean,very Precise build.next strapping time

Do you Know were i can get hold of some good decals?

Spring 2010 shall be officially known as the season of brown boxes I have seen more of these boxes round these parts than white plastic Come on RT show us some more,and will this mean a TK number to follow in a few weeks or so?

Good move mate,the right choice all the way.

Just off to boil my head,Its like the last 18 month never happened.Must be an old re-run of Dallas,it was all a dream

Way to go Dan,a must have for any collection,I know you spent time on this one mate and it shows.very nice!

Here is one more picture taken by Mark (Fireblade)of my new lid with the suit.I am very happy with the overall look,More than happy i should say.

Grand job there Stephen,very clean build mate.Its fun is'nt it?Keep us all posted .

Hi all,I have ever since i started to troop found it frustrating how the battery pack and the Rom-FX are two separate components.I am one for over engineering my trooper stuff for better or for worse so can up with this as a solution,everything in one box. It seemed a good idea to do this and to have it attach to the chest plate with velcro.Then i thought how am i going to turn it on and off without having to take the armour off. How about an external switch? Thats what i did,put a switch between the Rom and the battery pack.for this to work you need the Rom-FX switched on all the time,Its the external switch that cuts the power from the batterys. Heres how it was done i will do a proper wiring diagram soon,but the pictures are clear as to what goes were. This is not field tested yet but works great in the workshop,fitted with a nice big switch just tuck your hand behind your chest plate for on and off.I also fitted a jack extension for the speaker as seen in picture.

Not sure mate? I have trimmed the ears down as i always do about 10mm at the top.Loked at all the pictures i have and they all look as these do.The face plate as you look at the lid flares out on the right so maybe thats making them look a little fat.This right side flare is in all the new TM faces i have seen first hand,nothing i have done.

Hi all,i think i took longer opening the box than finishing the lid which is now ready for trooping.It seems some of you thought it was going to be ESB,but this was never the plan and as it was first posted in the ANH stormtrooper section should have been enough of a clue.Anyway spent the week making the kit which went together very well,the brow rubber was positioned as close as i could to the SFS also the right and left ears,one being a little lower than the other finished with a set of Keiths mic tips..All details are painted exept the tube stripes which are from TK4510.Thanks to Paul for again making a fantastic new lid for my 2010 trooping. Thanks for taking part in this thread it was fun

Just remember Paul its quality not quantity that counts! All joking aside rock sold mate,thanks for being here for us all.

Rolf i have said this many times before ,you seem to take your art to the next level every time a new suit roles out of the work shop mate. You got the bar raised so high you can just stroll right under.

Im so glad you never left this in the box very long Steve,It sure is a pleasure every time i see a set of TM layed out in kit form.All eyes are on this thread mate no preasure