bluehickey

All very nice! On your Biker Scout, what is the leather strapping on your left shoulder bell?

OK, I just have to share what has been helping me shed the pounds this past month. I have been Juicing which is only drinking fruit and vegetable drinks each day, plus plenty of water. I have been doing this for about 6 days in a row and then taking a break for a few days. I've lost almost 20 lbs in one month! I'm on my third time doing it right now and it's really not as hard as you'd think. Sure it is tempting to want to eat when others around me are eating delicious food that I can smell, but I've found that I can function completely normally just on the juice and water. I thought it would be torture but it really isn't. My body works fine because it is using up all of my stored fat on my body for fuel. If you are thinking about trying this out you'll have to get a Juicer which is different than a blender. A juicer extracts just the juice from something while a blender combines the juice with the food as well. Good juicers can be expensive ($100+), but I got a really good one cheaply by finding it in the local classifieds ($65). My usual drink consists of the following: an apple, an orange, two carrots, 1 celery stick, 1/3 of a cucumber, and some grapes. I can't tell you how excited I am to troop again knowing that I'm going to fit into my armor much easier and look better in pictures!

I hot-glued my fan in. What's nice about that is that if you want to remove the hot glue later you can just aim a hair dryer at it to heat it up so that it will come off easily.

The ab plate opens up and there is a lever on the back. But it's pretty fragile, I don't think it could actually crack open any nuts. It's about 10 inches tall.

Just picked up my TK nutcracker today at Hobby Lobby. It's retail price is $39.99 but all of their holiday merchandise is 50% so I only paid $20!

Congrats! I too have FX armor.... good job on getting it approved.

Great photos. So by putting someone in this suit, we can infer that EFX is no longer just advertising this as a prop piece that sits on a mannequin, but as a costume for trooping as well.

Wow, great job so far!

Gorgeous build, nice job!

ALPINE STRIKE TEAM We just got our team approved last month, so of course we are all active!

Nice Job Ben!

Probably just needs to pay his hosting fees and it will be up again.

I also love this line: "there was a certificate with this piece but we have been unable to find it so you only have my word that it is authentic."

If you believe everything you read on the internet, then this is an authentic helmet from the movie (yeah right!) http://www.ebay.com/itm/original-starwars-stormtrooper-helmet-off-movie-set-/390634405142?pt=UK_Collectables_SciFi_fantasyCollectables_EH&hash=item5af39ffd16 Here is the item description: "I am selling this superb original stormtroopers helmet for a friend,she has told me it was purchased off movie set,there was a certificate with this piece but we have been unable to find it so you only have my word that it is authentic, there is a slight crack at bottom right of helmet,dosen"t really affect appearance of helmet,great piece." Theres much more than a "slight crack" on this! What a piece of garbage!

That's almost worse than the infamous "Star Wars Kid" video!

Gorgeous armor, well done!

Looks great on you, job well done!

Darrell, I feel that my garrison is similar to yours: we have plenty of the lesser known characters and just a handful of TK's. Seems like everyone wants to have a unique or different costume, or be a very specific character. I also own a Biker scout so that I can keep trooping in the cold weather during the winter months outdoors so that I don't freeze wearing my TK. We seem to always have a Biker scout at most events, they are more popular than TK's with us. We only have one sandtrooper!

Looks good so far! You could probably sand the edges of the eye holes a bit more, they seem a bit rough still.

Awesome job Earl! Keep it up!

Post some before and after pics and I'll mail you your sticker (see first page of thread)!

yeah, I noticed that too, stay far away from this guy!

This guy has been wearing his armor on the Vegas strip, that's what that black pouch is for: holding all his tips he gets from taking photos with people.

Amen brother! Happy Easter!

Besides not being able to fit in a 3PO costume, I could never wear it because of that helmet/mask contraption... totally claustrophobic!