Sort of finished my armor, waiting for TK number

[Ironclaw]

Hi, been quite some time since I last posted here . But have visited this site almost everyday looking at TK pictures for comparison and stuff.

 

The reason why I make this post is because I want to go Elite, and was wondering if what I've done so far has all the necessary stuff covered.

 

I've been very busy for quite some time now with work etc, but the last 3 weeks now I forced myself (as I'm also lazy ) to finally finish my armor cuz the urge to get my number and go elite has been on my mind everyday since I got my new helmet back from Mike (TK-4510). Before these last three weeks, I didnt do much on the armor, as the legs were driving me crazy. They have this wide oval shape horizontally and no matter how much I trim at the back of the thighs, the shape wouldn't get any better, still oval and just because of that I couldn't get them up high enough. I read here that trimming in the back, a V shape or whatever would solve it, but nope..... so I went back and forth... sometimes weeks went by before I did anything new to the armor... I first even tried using a hairdryer to reshape the legs, held it close for 5+ mins while I had it bent in the shape I wanted, but as soon as I released it, it went back to the old oval horizontal shape :/.... I even boiled up some water, and gentle held the parts in the water, this made them reshapable, but almost immediately after they touched water, the edges started to curve, arghhh!... tried to bend them back and stuff....

 

oh well... being put off by those darn thighs, another 3 weeks went by... then I tried a new hairdryer, and WOW... 4 mins or so and they finally kept their shape. To get these darn FX thighs up high, and having quite big legs like I do, these pieces when combined must be oval shaped vertically (which I knew all the time, but couldn't get them to stay).... oh well, finally I had the ovally shapped vertically and now the lame "barrel" look went away by alot, and they went up higher.... I was so happy ... BUT, I have trimmed too much at the back... so had to use big shims to cover the gap... velcro and glue didn't cut it.. I had to rivet them, and also in front of the thighs.. I used the smallest one I could find....

 

Enough typing.... could be spelling errors and stuff that doesn't make sense ... I just typed right off my head while waiting for my pizza to arrive... will make a better explanation of things in the "Request Expert Infantryman Status" section when I have my TK number.

 

Here's a before picture, just for fun .... the dropboxes and canister were still in the box... with those on I did 2 troops with a buddy.... meh, not knowing what a stormtrooper actually should look like

 

 

And here's what it looks like now (Will do the chest mod someday)

 

A: Front (duh....)

B: Side

C: Back

D: Helmet off

E: Lower view

F: Holding blaster

G: Don't know

H: Putting a finger on my butt and saying "tssssss", like it's burning

I: .....

J: Showing buttcrack ()

K: Blaster left side (3 stripe/line thingies)

L: Blaster right side (sort of) (3 stripe/line thingies)

M: Showing green lenses

N: Canister

 

Couldn't see my back when shooting, so didn't see I closed up the right lower leg (called shin?) a bit off. Only real good looking part of the armor is the helmet .

 

Oh well, food time..... see ya again when I have my number.....

[firebladejedi[TK]]

Everything seems to be in order, let hope that all important TK number gets here quick

[ThayNerd[TK]]

Kent your rig turned out really well! Great looking suit!

[TK bondservnt[501st]]

Kent,

 

Looks like you've finally solved your fitting situation. Looks like you've gone the extra mile on that kit.

I was looking closely at your blaster and noticed the placement of the scope rail, and the placement of

the Hengstler, and the m38 looks like it's too far rearward.

 

The Solution can be found by looking at this post.

I'm using the same detail to get it right.

 

http://forum.whitearmor.net/index.php?show...p;hl=scope+rail

 

hope this helps you make your already good looking blaster into the best it

can be!

 

regards

vern

[TK-2126_MD[TK]]

Looks great!!!!! I dont think that "The powers to be" will say "nay"

 

Looks really good.

 

U could use pic "G" as a getting shot pic after photoshop.

and "H" as a reference to were u have been shot in the past

 

Good job

[Ironclaw]

I was looking closely at your blaster and noticed the placement of the scope rail, and the placement of

the Hengstler, and the m38 looks like it's too far rearward.

 

Hi, will do

 

I placed the hengstler going by this picture cuz I thought this guy knew what he was doing :

 

U could use pic "G" as a getting shot pic after photoshop.

and "H" as a reference to were u have been shot in the past

 

Hehe, nice idea . But I'm not satisfied with these shots. Wish I would hold my gun in an upward, sort of leaning it on my right shoulder position in pic A which could be used for my main shot at 501st and here. Need to borrow that camera again.

 

 

Thanks for all the nice comments guys

[bluehickey]

Looks like you are missing your silver mylar strips on your O2 cannister. Great looking suit, it fits you like a glove, nice job!

[Ironclaw]

Looks like you are missing your silver mylar strips on your O2 cannister. Great looking suit, it fits you like a glove, nice job!

 

I didn't make the clips go all the way around so they are visible in the front, cuz that would look bad as I have them quite close to each other, while in the movie they are wider and further apart. I kept the silver tape I got with my FX kit incase I decided what to do. I first tried to put the strips in front where the clips went down, but looks bad...... I could put them further apart, like in the movie, but the clips doesn't go down at those positions.. so.. couldn't make up my mind...... so went with no front strips....

 

Can't be arsed to cut more metal thingy... so has to be the silver tape when I decide what to do in the front.

[tkrestonva[TK]]

Agree on the suit, excellent job getting it fitted to you, especially on the thighs. 501st acceptance should be a foregone conclusion.

 

Ryan, the silver mylar strips is an FX-thing, and shouldn't be there anyway. You don't see them on other kits, and you won't see them present in any ANH reference photos.

[Ironclaw]

Well, I thought he meant these:

 

So the "silver mylar strips" are the silver tape going around the canister and it only comes with FX?

 

What are those in the picture called then?