The progress of the Rubies so far...

[Psych007]

Doh! That hurt to hear..

Spent alot of time on that one (actually made one that was too short at first).

What kind of material is it on the ROTJ-belt then? In swedish preferably.

Is the design very different?

[Locitus[Admin]]

It's a kind of "nylonväv". It's the same as on this tour suit:

[gmrhodes13[Staff]]

Looks similar to seat belt material

[Locitus[Admin]]

Looks similar to seat belt material

kind of but not really. Seatbelts are woven differently and are much thinner.

[bjsavage7[TK]]

That material seems pretty hard to find here in the US.

You can probably get a belt from Sskunky if he has any still.

[Psych007]

Seems to be pretty hard to find here in Sweden also. Find alot of 50mm and smaller.

[DudeSidious]

Two weeks off work! thats totaly worth a knuckle.

Great job on the mods BTW

[Psych007]

Thanks man.

Haha, I thought I would be handicapped and not being able to use my left hand but all I do with it is holding pieces mostly and that worked just as good without the index-finger..

[Psych007]

Here's som new pics in the armor. Now the white striping is on and I've shaped the ab-, butt- and crotch-piece to fit better.

 

 

 

It seems to fit better between butt- and ab-piece now but I wouldn't call it perfect yet.. (Ooooo evil eye! )

 

The butt- and back-piece fit much better together now since I put elastic straps between chest and back-piece. A bit crooked on the picture since I'm raising my arm.

Btw the shoulder-straps are just put on to complete the armor, they need to be adjusted and maybe repainted because of some sanding that took out the color underneath which was beige. They will be velcroed to the back later on.

 

And of course it was about time to get my new helmet from CFO into the picture also!

Looks to be a bit difference in color. It might look different in normal light but I guess that CFO and Rubies doesn't match perfectly.. :/

 

Rock n' roll-trooper!

 

Some of the things I know that need to be fixed are:

- Replace shoes. In progress.

- Get neckseal. Have to order one since I can't get my hands on that weird fabric.

- Holster. Gonna check out where I can get my hands on some leather and try making one myself, would be fun.

- Blaster. Any good sets to buy and assemble? Any tips on what's good? Haven't started searching for that yet.

- Got a pair of rubber-gloves to replace the Rubies-ones.

- Take apart the biceps from the shoulder bells and replace the elastics in the bell for smaller elastics,

- Cut away return edge in forearms.

- Paint AB-buttons. For the 3:rd time..

- Fixate shoulder-straps.

 

Anything I missed?

 

Oh yeah.

-Heal my knuckle! ^^

 

Have a good one all!

[Locitus[Admin]]

Looks like you might have your knee belt upside down.

[Psych007]

Yeah your'e right!

Those guys at the Rubies-factory must have been drunk.. ^^

Thanks for pointing that out, haven't noticed it myself.

 

 

Hey Locitus do you know of any good place to buy white rivets?

 

Also I forgot a thing to fix:

- Padding in shoulder-bells.

[Locitus[Admin]]

I would just paint the rivets instead. That's what LFL did.

(I also have no idea where to buy white rivets)

[Psych007]

Then painting it is..

Haven't found any in the normal hardware-stores anyway.

[gmrhodes13[Staff]]

I have seen different colour rivets available at hardware stores but I am sure a painted one is going to work fine Looking good, some hard work but worth it in the end.

[Psych007]

Have been searching around for a ROTJ-holster design, without luck tho. Only ANH-designs.

So my question is, is the ROTJ-design the same as the ANH except for the longer straps in black leather instead of dyed?

[Locitus[Admin]]

The straps doesn't have to be longer, but commonly is. Both long and short straps are seen in ROTJ. But they were all black and riveted to the right side of the belt.

[Psych007]

Ok thanks, and the design same as the ANH-design that's around?

I guess there was different kinds of holster in ANH also but I've just found one design.

[Locitus[Admin]]

It's different in the way that it's adjusted to look right on the right side. Ie it's mirrored. But otherwise it's more or less the same.

[Psych007]

I take that in the way that the holster isn't that big of a deal as long as it is close enough?

[Locitus[Admin]]

In your case the holster is the least of your problems. If you see what I mean. While you are making excellent progress on modifying your rubies, it will always be a rubies, and no holster will change that.

[Psych007]

Well yeah I know the Rubies isn't considered as a good armor but just because the armor can't be top notch doesn't matter that the assecories have to be as low quality.

Besides I guess it have been and will be more people searching for how to make an ROTJ-holster, just wanted to know since I couldn't find any threads or facts about it.

[Locitus[Admin]]

That's also true.

If you make a mirrored holster for right-side wear you should be fine. Most ROTJ troopers didn't even have holsters.

[Psych007]

What I've read (might be a myth) that's that death star-troopers have holsters, TD's and white soles when endor-troopers (stunt) don't always have holsters or TD's and some have black soles.

[Locitus[Admin]]

Might be. Might be that no star wars movie is very precise in who wears what.

[Psych007]

True that! But if you wanna join the 501:st you need a holster even of your'e a ROTJ even if som in the movie doesn't.

It seemed to be a bit 'wear whatever make the scene work'