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Hey, I was making Willrow Patches since before the Det idea.

Keep it civil, gentlemen. I don't want to have to lock this one up.

Just wait until you see what we are working on. Moustache upkeep instructional thread anyone?

Yes folks, due to popular demand a few of us decided to start up our own Willrow Hood detachment forum! This Detachment is just for fun and not affiliated in any way with the 501st Legion or the Rebel Legion. Feel free to come by and join if you're interested. You can learn all you need to to be one of the baddest mamma jammas in the star wars universe! It's still new and we are still updating so excuse the mess. http://www.willrowhood.com or http://www.willrowhood.de (for ze germans)

A lot of people start out as TKs then branch out into other more complicated costumes. They end up trooping these more, usually because they have more detail to them than just plain white.

You can get either. I recommend the compression gear from EastBay as it's pretty much the same as the Underarmor, but much cheaper. You can find tops and bottoms at under 30 bucks a piece shipped.

AP is cleaned up version of the ANH suit. If you're looking for wonky screen accuracy, you should consider the ATA. However, if you like the more idealized and cleaned up look AP will work best for you. I would suggest you take a look in the EIB/Centurion sections to see which armor you like the best and go from there.

Every time I see one of these super simple fixes to a common problem, I feel like I was brain dead all along for not thinking of it. Nice job.

Not sure if you're talking about the whole bucket or just the decals. Either way you are wrong. ATA's HIPS buckets need to be painted, but their ABS doesn't. Unless you want to. For decals, it's the same. You can either buy them and stick em on, or just paint them up for ANH if you want. There are a lot of options.

Brow trim looks hideous.

Off-white and frayed is my preference.

I got a seal from Darman a while ago and it was too floppy for my taste. Since then I replaced it with a Veedox seal and it was worth every penny. Super comfortable too.

Don't forget that ATA also does have a long waiting period for his armor. If you can get down to 200 like you've projected, it would definitely be a better fit.

My recommendation is RT-Mod as well. Definitely a better looking suit than the AM. 2 credits

FYI, Vern's thread wasn't closed because of him. I'd recommend both you and Matt start taking it easy.

I guess you haven't seen all the 6 foot jawas being approved lately.

Maybe your GML is busy. I know in my garrison, Zach handles the applications fairly quickly. Sometimes even the next day.

Glad you liked it.

Damn, you talk a lot.

Not particularly. I have to admit, 90 percent of the time I have no idea what I'm doing.

I used a heat gun almost exclusively to shape my girlfriend's armor to fit her, so it can be done. You just have to be EXTREMELY careful not to over heat or you WILL ruin your armor.

This thread is going in circles and not really bringing anything new to the table so I'm going to go ahead and lock it up. Please play nice, ladies and gents.

That helmet looks ridiculous. Great job!

For armor cracks like that, I generally use a small piece of abs and glue it on to the back with CA glue. Ends up stronger than it was before.

I use hot glue, but some people use Silicone. Only reason I don't like to use silicone is because it takes too long to set. Also, as far as the screen accuracy goes, I like screen accurate as much as the next guy, but a lot of screen accurate things aren't really ideal for trooping. Frown mesh helps prevent people from seeing your face. When I'm trooping that's all I'm really concerned about. If I had a nice set of armor that was always going to be on a mannequin, I'd keep it as screen accurate as possible including accurate fasteners etc, but that's not the case.