Laspector

After searching for about a year in Walmart I finally located this stuff. I have a question--does E6000 dry hard (like Gorilla glue) or is it still flexible when dry? I am trying to make a chin strap for something and I am trying to attach a piece of small dog collar to a piece of thick fabric. Too thick to sew and I am stumped on how to attach it. I'm either going to try the E6000 or I found some kind of double sided fabric tape that you iron on. I have not had good luck with any kind of fabric glue in the past. I ruined two good jackets trying to glue patches on them. Any advice?

Don't feel like the Lone Ranger pal. I live in the US down here in the deeeeeep South. You tell somebody around here about this hobby and they will think you are absolutely, positively, undeniably NUTS!!! I am lucky to have two other members of my garrison here in town but we rarely ever see each other except at troops. Last week I asked off for a couple of days and my boss wormed it out of me that I was going to a science fiction convention. He thought I was out of my mind and could not understand why I would not rather be out in the woods in the freezing rain at 4 am looking for a stupid animal to kill. It may sound wrong but I just always build up the charity part of it.. I mean really build it up!!!! I'm sorry to say that I have, on occasion, lied about how many charity events I've done (I know, horrible thing) but once you put in the charity part these rednecks don't think you are so bad...They still think it is stupid but at least they think you are honorable.

Yes.

Okay, you might as well be talking in greek to me. You lost me with "tbh".

The only thing I seem to see wrong with this new board is that it seems everytime I open a thread it goes to the middle of the page instead of the top. Is this supposed to happen?

Hey now, that is indeed a pretty nifty box. Where did you get it?

Is this thread a joke?

Luckily I got mine for free--would have really been disappointed if I had paid thirty bucks for it. Yeah, I watched it once and then it went on the shelf. Probably forever. I can't imagine anyone who is not 501st sitting through the whole thing as it's pretty boring. I think it was made in the spirit of "we have got to reduce the geek factor and show how much we really care about people". Like someone said before, it just doesn't seem to be able to figure out what audience it is catering to. For the geeks--boring. For the non geeks, well, still boring. Again, like someone said, if you personally know Albin then I'm sure it means a lot more to you. Someone should do a fan edit. You could reduce it down to about twenty minutes and make something fun to watch.

Maybe we should give this poor guy a break. Let's face it--if this had come out twenty five years ago most of us would have been all over this trying to build his stuff. I thank the Lord Almighty there are no pictures of some of the Star Wars stuff I tried to build back in the 70's and 80's. Ya ever tried to melt plastic in a boiler on your Mom's stove? Quite a grounding you will get.

Wait, wait, wait---what? Set between 1 and 2? Oh,pleaseGod No! Although I would love to see the story of Max after 1 and how he became what he was in Road Warrior---just, I mean.... Aw Hell, forget it. This movie will blow!!

And we're not??

I dunno, I've never been one of those people that felt I had to choose between one or the other. As I was born in the 60's I had obviously seen Trek first--it's actually what got me into science fiction. Although Star Wars will always be my passion, I can watch Trek just as easily. I could watch Next Generation 24-7 just about. I've never felt that the two clashed with each other. They are apples and oranges. To tell the truth, I think anyone who bashes something just because it is not their favorite thing is pretty sad...No offense intended to anyone.

I don't have high hopes for this. It will probably just be another Deathrace type movie. I mean Max IS the charactor the story is made around, not just post apocalyptic cars. Sure, it will be action packed but it will probably not have a good story. Plus, they will probably throw in some zombies or some crap like that into it.

Okay, I guess my real question on the boots is do you have to cut a hole in your boots to get it to afix to the base? How do the feet connect to the base?

AAWWW Dude!!! That is major kewel!!!!!

How do you get boots on that thing? Doesn't look very posable. How do you get it to hold a gun and point it?

I've seen that tutorial and have wanted to build one of those bases for years. Never really had the space to display my armor though. Be sure not to keep it by a window. Too much sunlight will tend to yellow the armor over time no matter what kind of plastic it is. At least that was what I was told.

I would put Home Alone on my list for sure. I watched it last night on TV. When Kevin shoots Joe Pesci in the balls with the bb gun--that gets me laughing every time!!

Yeah, I don't think it really matters. I, also, change up all the time depending on the photo op.

For me left is right and right is wrong.

Down here in the deep south of the U.S. we have two diferent kinds of weather; dry and hot, or cold and raining. Right now it is the latter..Has been for a few weeks now and probably will be this way until around the end of March. YUCHY!!

Mine is pretty much the same as Scott's also except on the garters I used two snaps on each one. That way if one pops open you've still got one holding it on. Also on my handplates I have a band of elastic around the wrist and another one around the whole palm.

Yeah I use a skullworx also. Pretty good system. It will also fit into an MRCE but it is a tight fit and getting the speakers in the areators takes a bit of work.

I remember reading somewhere where a guy had figured out how to do it. For the life of me I can't remember where it was but I'm pretty sure it was either here or over on the main 501st board. When I was using the Hasbro I always wanted it to only make the one sound too. Why they made it like that is stupid.

I guess by now we all that this helmet sometimes seems to be a different color than the armor when photographed. Why is this? It looks the same to the naked eye. And it only seems (to me) that this off color seems way more pronounced in full frontal shots more than side or three quarter shots. Does it have something to do with the flash on the camera? None of my pics without flash have this problem. And sometimes you have to use a flash. Anybody know a way to overcome this? I'm tired of my troop shots looking like two different colors of white plastic. Really looks strange in some shots. Sometimes downright horrible.