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I do have one on my camera that I will upload for you tomorrow.

Looks like you could do with trimming a bit of the fronts of the ear caps the make them slimmer. The ear caps tilt inwards looking from above the helmet and not sit flush like you might imagine them to. When fitting the bubble lenses, I find that cutting some small squares of ABS and gluing them on each end of the eye socket inside the helmet will give you a base to glue them to. You only need to glue them on each end and not all the way around. You will also need to trim around the lens to make them more like the shape of the eye socket. Here a few photos of a helmet I just made up for reference.

No. I believe they were taken from a TE bumpy and cleaned up a bit. TE2 later designated them the SFS, though they were never made from the actual SFS foam helmet.

Just to be clear, these are not the original moulds taken from the Brian R. helmet. They are copies that have been altered slightly.

You mean like this trooper in ESB? Nice job, Noel

Nice work, Caleb This is probably the best CfO helmet I have seen. I like the paint job on the frown. This is someting that can make a nice helmet look off but I think you have it spot on! Well done mate

Me too... ------------

Flexible ABS shoulder straps with velcro glued to the underside.

That's only a crop of it.

I'm just going by the photo of the guys outside Elstree studios. They may well have used a unitard and/or seperate garments. Thinking about that photo, I think the guy with the white top just has black leggings with braces - no leg armour.

I don't think they used a one piece unitard for undersuits. I think they wore a seperate black turtle neck dance top and dance leggings. The screen grabs and promo photos I have seen show they are not too tight either. There is a photo out there of a trooper taking a knap at Elstree and I believe there are one or two other half dressed troopers at his side. One has a white t-shirt while wearing the black leggings and leg armour if memory serve me.

You can easily rectify this by gluing two strips of black ABS inside your butt plate to keep it from ever creeping onto your kidney plate. You don't have to use two pieces (or even black for that matter) but if you have something there wedged behind your kidney plate and glued inside your butt plate it is virtually impossible for the butt to ever creep up like it is doing.

That's true, and I don't think we should start refering to them as Simon holsters. Has anyone identified which particular costume these holsters were used on?

Simons holsters.

It should bend just the same. I have bent an ABS abdomen plate over itself before and it only left a crease mark (as did the PVC) which is better than cracking IMO.

No mate. I did make a few suits from PVC a year or two ago, but I had problems forming it. I am thinking of letting this one above go soon though.

You wouldn't have to worry about a thing if you had PVC armour. I don't have a photo of me sitting down (although I can do it quite easily) but I do have this photo showing how I can flex at the waist with an uncut abdomen plate and no cracking!

There is also carbon fibre 'look' ABS available which would be even cheaper and not so hazardous. I had toyed with the idea of making a few CF helmets in the past but wasn't sure if there would be any interest?

I'd go for Loakes ---------- A bit pricey new, but you can buy some second hand for a lot less. I'd say all the boots used in ANH were probably used and then cleaned up and painted white. Whichever brand you go for, try and get boots with leather soles like the originals.

Thick, rigid leather for accuracy. I was quite surprised just how thick the leather was when I handled Simons original holster. I was expecting it to be flimsy leather, but it was about 3mm. Very sturdy and robust.

Vern, This suit pre-dates any ROTJ suits and was made for ESB. We are not sure why only one suit made it on screen but rest assured, these are ESB suits. If you read Jezs' thread it goes into more detail. These suits are what the ROTJ's are based on which is why they look very similar.

Type B is screen accurate and the retaining strap should be longer. The longer strap was one of the amendments I made to the plans. I also made the holster 10mm narrower too. The different holster you see is not meant to be worn with the Stormtrooper armour. I think it may be an Imperial Gunners or Rebel troopers, and whatever it is, it has been riveted onto the belt upside down on Simons suit and the correct way on the promo trooper. I believe Simon will be offering holsters made from his original pattern.

Maybe this one will show you the colour difference better. The original ABS is a greyish white and SDS is much brighter. It might be down to the age of the original plastic but I know from my own experience with ABS that regular ABS is greyish and not a sbright as acryilc capped ABS like AA uses.

Have a look yourself. LFL ANH on the left and AA SDS on the right.