Looking for some build recommendations

[Dday[501st]]

The thigh/shin gap seems abnormally large, are you super freakishly tall?

 

Zooming in (grainy but visible) it looks like the rivet was put in just above the ridge line of the thigh armor, where it should be riveted actually in the ridge itself. At least that is how I see most eib/centurion applications have theirs placed.

[Nuke]

 

Now that I'm off work it does look a little high on the sides. On the front though I followed the rim of the thigh. Maybe the T thigh curves up on the front farther then other types? Btw those aren't rivets. I haven't started my centurion upgrades yet. Those are bumps Rob up in to identify where the rivets go.

Edited September 18, 2021 by gmrhodes13
photo updated

[Locitus[Admin]]

Yeah that's too high. The top of the belt should be attached to that ridge that goes along the bottom of the thigh.

 

You should also trim off some more on the top and bottom of that knee belt.

[Nuke]

Would that pass for EIB? If so I wanna take my EIB submission pics before I start tearing things apart for centurion upgrades.

[Locitus[Admin]]

Yes, but I don't think you should stress it. Better to do it right the first time around and take the time you need.

[Dday[501st]]

Nice that Rob adds the bumps, I've seen a few rivet holes in the wrong spots, and once you've done that, time for a new piece.

 

Fully agree with Mathias, getting that particular piece ready for centurion takes about 2 minutes more then getting it ready for EIB, might as well just do it once and be done. All you need to do is add the rivet holes, add rivet. done. Oh and plus doing the trim of the top and bottom ridge, but that's childs play if you've already assembled the rest of the suit.

[Darth Aloha[Admin]]

Good luck wrestling that ammo pack into place. If/when you get the rivet bump to line up with the ridge the whole pack will be pointed and tilted up toward the sky or looking as if it's pointed at the floor. That thing is a f'n total slave Leia to get right. So dont't worry, It's not you man. I'm sorry to say that it won't be as easy as Darrek and Mathias say

 

Aloha,

 

-Eric

[Locitus[Admin]]

That's something for Rob to improve on his moulds then.

[Thrawns_Drycleaner]

Thigh ammo pack wasn't so bad to attach on the RT, only after you use 6 claps to hold it in place..and..maybe get a friend to help hold it while you get it into position and to provide moral support....;D

[TK bondservnt[501st]]

doesn't the TKC thigh pack attach differently than a regular TK?

[Locitus[Admin]]

It does. But only a few people make TKC. And I think that if the developers had better hardware to render and model on/paid more attention, it would attach like in the movies.

[Nicky]

You're right.

 

In a real time animation aspect you want that thigh pack higher so that it doesn't magically merge with the top of the shin when the leg is angled a certain way and it would be highly unimmersive, since in TFU they had real time ragdoll physics it is bound to happen, so they had other things to focus on than accuracy in their models. If you look however at the Star Tours Skytrooper, they've put the thigh pack low because it wasn't real time rendering and they had more time to animate, they can make the pack overlap nicely how it's supposed to. I'm sure that if the Lucasarts developers weren't starving for time they would have spent an extra hour on that model..

 

It looks high here:

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But when making the 12 inch figure they have it low and upside down:

 

 

There's always something wrong.

 

Remember that if the dinosaurs had sweaters we would have TKC's looking like this, oops no thigh pack!

 

Edited September 18, 2021 by gmrhodes13
photo updated

[TK Droid[TK]]

when making the helmet do i make a cast of my head to make the helmet fit or do i just measure my head?