Vader Rocks Posted August 11, 2014 Report Share Posted August 11, 2014 Some quick history on this little guy before we get started. Here in Indy in the spring of 2013, the Indiana State Museum hosted the traveling "Where Science Meets Imagination" exhibit and they did a special midnight grand opening. William and his family were in attendance, they loved it. While they were in line for the Millenium Falcon experience, I was making my rounds greeting everyone in line and came across the family with their little Vader. I started chatting with him and when their turn came up, I escorted Lord Vader to his seat in the falcon. Little did I know the impact that this experience would have on this (at the time) 3 year old. Fast forward three months and we're doing star wars night with the Indianapolis Indians minor league baseball team, doing our meet and greets, my wife(also my handler) hears "mom, that's my stormtrooper". William picked me out of all the other troopers that were there. Turns out, since the museum exhibit, I've been known as "his stormtrooper". He and his family have followed us around to countless troops and we've all become great friends. For those of you that were at star wars weekends this year, they came down from Indiana with us, he was Darth Goofy that was hanging out with all of us before and after. Soon after we got back, his mom got in contact with Walt and ordered William his very own set of TK armor. And today, with help of Clamps' excellent build thread, we started his build with a mini armor party. The must have brown box pic All the armor spread out, with William ready to build Ok, mom actually made the first cut Learning how to smooth it out Now that's some plastic Excited much??? It was kind of funny how small working with this stuff was, just to find out that we had to go even smaller. I think we've got the legs figured out (my wife is actually awesome at this part), but the body pieces may pose a challenge Dad is doing great work with the bucket as well That concluded the build for the day, I think we did pretty well for only being on it about four hours. It was great seeing the whole family putting in the time and effort to be a part of this build. Gave them all homework so we can keep up on the progress. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TK bondservnt[501st] Posted August 11, 2014 Report Share Posted August 11, 2014 best thread ever! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark PWF[Staff] Posted August 11, 2014 Report Share Posted August 11, 2014 Absolutely awesome!!! You had me at "Mom, that's my stormtrooper!" Oh... The feels. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matty8393[TK] Posted August 11, 2014 Report Share Posted August 11, 2014 Awesome. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt[501st] Posted August 11, 2014 Report Share Posted August 11, 2014 WOW!!!!.....good job!!!!'....for reference how tall is that trooper??...and..if you need anything let me know Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucasfan7[TK] Posted August 11, 2014 Report Share Posted August 11, 2014 This is awesome, my wife and I were thinking if doing one for my son. We spent some time with minibobafett yesterday at Stockton con and it gave us the idea. How cool would it be to roll into and event father and son:) where did u get this armor? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vader Rocks Posted August 11, 2014 Author Report Share Posted August 11, 2014 WOW!!!!.....good job!!!!'....for reference how tall is that trooper??...and..if you need anything let me know Thanks Walt. I'm going to guess he's about 42 to 43" tall. I base this on the rides he was able to get on at Disney World. I'll get his measurements from his mom today and repost Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vader Rocks Posted August 11, 2014 Author Report Share Posted August 11, 2014 This is awesome, my wife and I were thinking if doing one for my son. We spent some time with minibobafett yesterday at Stockton con and it gave us the idea. How cool would it be to roll into and event father and son:) where did u get this armor? Armor came from our very own Walt here on the forums. The post right above yours. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucasfan7[TK] Posted August 11, 2014 Report Share Posted August 11, 2014 Awesome, thanks? I just shot him a pm. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vader Rocks Posted August 12, 2014 Author Report Share Posted August 12, 2014 Awesome, thanks? I just shot him a pm. Excellent Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt[501st] Posted August 24, 2014 Report Share Posted August 24, 2014 Any updates here? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vader Rocks Posted August 26, 2014 Author Report Share Posted August 26, 2014 Sorry Walt, no updates yet. We were supposed to get together this past weekend some more tk building fun, but the sickness bug struck and had to cancel plans. Maybe this weekend being a holiday and all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt[501st] Posted August 27, 2014 Report Share Posted August 27, 2014 Sickness bug sucks!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vader Rocks Posted September 4, 2014 Author Report Share Posted September 4, 2014 (edited) Was able to get a little more work done on this little guys armor this last Sunday, hope to post pics tonight when I get them transferred over. Edited September 4, 2014 by Vader Rocks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vader Rocks Posted September 29, 2014 Author Report Share Posted September 29, 2014 Been too long, sorry for the lack of updates. We haven't gotten together to work on little guys armor for a few weeks, but here's the pics I promised in my last post. I think Clamps would be proud of some of these Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fokker210[TK] Posted September 29, 2014 Report Share Posted September 29, 2014 It's great to see more kids TK's here on the boards ! You guys are doing an awesome job and really inspire my son and I on our project ! Hope to see more progress soon ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dougal[501st] Posted September 30, 2014 Report Share Posted September 30, 2014 Mini TK's every where!! Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vader Rocks Posted October 19, 2014 Author Report Share Posted October 19, 2014 (edited) YAY!!!! We were finally able to get back to this build last night. We worked on this until about 4am this morning, so needless to say, we're little worn out right now. Mom and Dad got there homework done since our last session. They finished the limbs with coverstrips and added the snap plates. William's new boots arrived Friday, perfect timing. He just couldn't handle the excitement anymore, he nodded off around midnight while worked at the helmet, strapping, belt, etc.... And here is his first full fitting. HE LOVES IT!!! Definitely requires some tweaking and strap reworking, especially those bells, but pretty pleased with how this came out. This is my first helmet build, not my favorite part by a long shot. There's a lot of time consuming adjustments trying to get those ears to sit correctly, but i'm sure it's just due to inexperience. We did decide to use fokker210's idea on what to do with the mic tips, so thanks for sharing, it was very helpful. Little guys mom and dad have there homework and they said he WILL be ready for Halloween. Edited October 20, 2014 by Vader Rocks 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt[501st] Posted October 20, 2014 Report Share Posted October 20, 2014 Lol..this is great Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fokker210[TK] Posted October 20, 2014 Report Share Posted October 20, 2014 Awesome work, my friend !! The little man wears it well ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vader Rocks Posted October 20, 2014 Author Report Share Posted October 20, 2014 Awesome work, my friend !! The little man wears it well ! Thanks. He loved being able to get all suited up finally. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dougal[501st] Posted October 23, 2014 Report Share Posted October 23, 2014 Love it!!! Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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