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Those who know me, probably also know about my first Stormtrooper armor. Complete ripoff, bought from Jedi-robe/stormtrooper-costumes.com.

Crappy FX armor made of Polystyrene plastic.

I had it approved, but only wore it once, before getting me a TM suit. You can find of my Fanmade Vs. Commersial armor thread on theese boards, to see a comparrison between theese two suits.

Anyways, I have given the old armor to a friend of mine, and we have started the slow process of making it fit him (he is tiny ;) ) as well as trying to make it look better, meaning, cutting the pieces, so they have same form as my TM and giving it all return edges(!!!!!)

We have been working only a few days now, but wanted to show the pictures of the process so far.

First, we just put the armor on him...as is
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Then we started cutting, sanding and heat bending...comparing as best we could, to my TM along the way.
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Making return edges, really does a lot for this armor!! But damn... takes sooo much time to do!
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Stay tuned ;)

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  • 2 weeks later...

Ulf have been making progress with the return edges last sunday, and I have assembeled most of the pieces.

TIP: If you are going to make return edges, spraying your Heat sealing iron with silicone greatly helps the iron run along the plastic, instead of just sticking to it and melting it!!!
I also learned, that making goop from HIPS, is not really the same as making goop from ABS :P

Cant do much about the way the armor lacks conforming to the human anatomy...but still. We are getting there. Just checked the CRL and we are aiming for EIB approval ;)
Will never go Centurion, without at least a new Chest and backplate though! ;)

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Making the best of a bad situation, oh and helping others, well done

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Tonight we have done some strapping and fitting of the thighs. We are slowly getting somewhere...

 

Please ignore the butt plate for now. It will be fixed ;)

 

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The thigs needed a bit of cutting, but I think they turned out quite allright :)

 

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And just to show you what scale we are talking here.
Thats my TM on my bodyfitted mannequin ;) )

 

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Getting real close now!!

Just need to fix the butt plate. It got too tiny (luckily we have a spare [ ;)] ). Also need elastic for the shoulder bells, but thats an easy fix.

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Aside from the few things on the armor, we still need boots, neckseal, holster and undersuit.

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THis is freaking amazing.

 

I have to confess, that I didn't expect too much from your project ...

 

Boy, was I wrong!

 

This is simply stunning!

Your friend looks good in the armor and all your work really paid off!

Congratulations.

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Wow, from Storm pooper, to Stormtrooper. Lol.

What a truly great job you have done here, your buddy is Lucky to have a mate like you.

Well done Trooper

 

 

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Well. Sorry for reviving this old thing. But after a lot of turmoil and...stuff... We finally sent in the application, for getting Ulf approved!!! (and it seemed better, to just revive the thread, than start a new one).

 

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