TheSwede’s Night Trooper build.

[TheSwede[TK]]

There’s no such thing as to many magnets or clampsI’m welding these together with

”abs-milk”.

[TheSwede[TK]]

Arms done except I have to wait for the coverstrips to be printed. I shaped the forearms with a heatgun as the ROTK ones appear to be more rounded rather than the oval shape of the OT. 

 

[TheSwede[TK]]

Was going back and forth on what type of strapping to use, snaps, magnets, quick release buckles and what not…ended up using velcro and webbing. Easy and adjustable. 

 

I needed some more velcro- surface under the back and chest so glued in some plastic tabs before adding the velcro.

 

left a little room to pull the flexible shoulderstraps through.

I’ll glue the straps in permanently in the back but just slide them in the chest  tabs so no gap here.

velcro added. Lower velcro is for the black chest/back connection.

 

 

Cut down the pipe on the TD, much better.

lower right is new size. 

 

Decided to give ”beefing up” the side walls on the shoulders a go. It was alot more work than I thought and not sure it will make a difference when worn…well..atleast I know it’s done

 

Edited July 1, 2025 by TheSwede

[TheSwede[TK]]

This is were the fun begins! 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[gmrhodes13[Staff]]

28 minutes ago, TheSwede said:

This is were the fun begins! 

Indeed 

[TheSwede[TK]]

Added gold, same as with the helmet this is just a start and more gold will be added but it’s a start. Same with the ribbons, just trying things out.

 

 

[TheSwede[TK]]

#leg-day :) Just testing for size, the tweeking continues. 
For anyone thinking something looks off, the ridges (topp shin/lower thigh) are separate pieces. 

 

 

 

[shashachu[TK]]

You're a madman! Incredible work as always. :)

[TheSwede[TK]]

1 hour ago, shashachu said:

You're a madman!

I feel this is accurate  

[TheSwede[TK]]

BBB-day!! and small envelop-day

 

 

The straps were really sturdy, very nice.

 

 

It’s nice to get help :)

 

 

 

 

Edited July 11, 2025 by TheSwede

[TheSwede[TK]]

Trying to colormatch the printed parts and I think I have reached a close enough stage.

 

 

Shins are read to be mapped for the gold and put the helmet together, no details are glued yet.

 
 

 

Edited July 21, 2025 by TheSwede

[TheSwede[TK]]

Imgur not working

 

Edited August 3, 2025 by TheSwede

[gmrhodes13[Staff]]

4 hours ago, TheSwede said:

Imgur not working

 

Just checked and appears fine now

[TheSwede[TK]]

9 hours ago, gmrhodes13 said:

Just checked and appears fine now

Hmm, no matter which link option I use it only displays as a link

Copy link

https://imgur.com/a/E2epFbQ#xT3PA3f

Copy direckt link

https://imgur.com/gallery/E2epFbQ#xT3PA3f

Copy post link

https://imgur.com/a/E2epFbQ

[shashachu[TK]]

If you open the image in a separate tab and paste the direct link to the jpeg it should work: 

 

 

[TheSwede[TK]]

7 minutes ago, shashachu said:

direct link to the jpeg it should work: 

Have no idea what this means I’ve been doing the same for years and all of a sudden it’s not working

 

ah the direct link to my pic, yeah not working. 

Edited August 4, 2025 by TheSwede

[gmrhodes13[Staff]]

They changed something a few years ago that played havoc with mobile users, some updates were added to the how to, not sure if that will help at all

If on computer right click on the image in Imgur, then copy and direct paste into your post.

[TheSwede[TK]]

Thanks for the tips, no matter how I go about it it’s just the link that shows, I’ll try with a PC later and see how that goes. 

Edited August 4, 2025 by TheSwede

[shashachu[TK]]

You want the link to end with ".jpeg" or something similar. On my phone for example if I click on this link: https://imgur.com/a/E2epFbQ then long press on the image and select "open image in new tab", then in my new browser tab I will have the link https://i.imgur.com/xT3PA3f.jpeg (left as link for demonstration purposes). If I copy and paste that link (the one that ends with .jpeg), the board will convert it to an image.

 

I have an Android phone running Chrome but with iOS or a different browser it should be similar.

[TheSwede[TK]]

Using a PC did the trick apparently, can´t see why it´s not working on my phone all of a sudden but oh well, atleast this works. 

So, this pic have been seen plenty enough by now and nothing more exciting to say about it other than the coverstrips are now glued and will be trimmed down later.

 

Also painted the shoulder bridges to better match the armor, not perfect but good enough, the + side of doing a Night Trooper is all the weathering and bandages that help hide imperfection

 

Painted the "buttons" and glued on the ab details. In order for the centerpiece to fit I cut out a square in the ab, one can see the outline but it works as the screen used suits sort of have that detail.

 

Next I decided to work on the front half of the belt, making the little "teeth", adding the ammoboxes and dropboxes. For the teeth I put the belt on the ab and drew some lines and used the old score and snap to bring them out. I opted to use chicago screws to install the belt, posts are hidden under the ammoboxes which were dremmeld out were the posts are, I used 4 points of attachement. The sides are loose and will close over the back portion af the belt with velcro. 

 

I also gave the teeth a little chamfer as that´s how I think they are, was originally planning on using 2 layers on the belt for that reason so I could make the belt thicker and easier to make said chamfer but naaa to much work and it works fine as is

 

Next I eyeballed the position af the boxes and started by gluing the boxes that had the "slope" on top as they were somewhat easy to get the right spot for, then added the rest. They are glued but I will put in a few screws just to be safe.

 

Put the ammo and dropboxes together. Dropboxes hade a nice space to glue but the ammoboxes sadly didn´t so it took some time to dremmel out (super hard printmaterial)

 

All done `n dusted!

 

Looks lite it´s ready to crawl away somewere...

 

Locked it in the cuboard just to be safe

Edited August 4, 2025 by TheSwede

[TheSwede[TK]]

55 minutes ago, shashachu said:

You want the link to end with ".jpeg" or something similar. On my phone for example if I click on this link: https://imgur.com/a/E2epFbQ then long press on the image and select "open image in new tab", then in my new browser tab I will have the link https://i.imgur.com/xT3PA3f.jpeg (left as link for demonstration purposes). If I copy and paste that link (the one that ends with .jpeg), the board will convert it to an image.

 

I have an Android phone running Chrome but with iOS or a different browser it should be similar.

I think I already tried all possible ways but can´t remember if I tried this so I´ll test it out, thanks.

 

Nope, didn’t work, just shows the link

Edited August 4, 2025 by TheSwede

[TheRascalKing[TK]]

2 hours ago, TheSwede said:

I think I already tried all possible ways but can´t remember if I tried this so I´ll test it out, thanks.

 

Nope, didn’t work, just shows the link

 

As of a couple months ago, I can no longer add direct image links from Imgur on my phone either, only on PC. Idk why either, but likely a change on their end. 

Edited August 4, 2025 by TheRascalKing

[TheSwede[TK]]

1 hour ago, TheRascalKing said:

 

As of a couple months ago, I can no longer add links from Imgur on my phone, only on PC. Idk why either, but likely a change on their end. 

Ah good to know,thanks 

[TheSwede[TK]]

Thighs are put together with the lower details and coverstrips. Webbing is for the thigh strapping, trying something different with the webbing crossing over the shoulders instead of the usuall belt-method. 

 

 

Today I started to map out twere to ad the gold cracks on the arms with a pencil.

 

Then it was dremmel-time,,,

 

Next I decided to start with the bigger patches of gold on the chest/back and arms, masked and ready for paint,

 

And painted,

 

And that`s it...next will be to ad the gold in the cracking and then...woop woop it`s time to ad the red wrapping and weathering

Edited August 30, 2025 by TheSwede

[Sly11[Admin]]

Incredible, that gold!!!!

Wow man, this is an awesome build.