Kokonut

ok thanks for the help again panda !

yep. i ll have to do that. more challenging but in the end rewarding... With your tuts, ill be able to do that. i saw your return edge videos also which will help for sure. for earth magnets, which force do you recommend? i saw those on lee valleys site but i am not too sure which i should get...i guess the 5 lbs one would be ok... what do you think?

i just find that the angle on the chest piece is too much going outside to my taste. i have seen some armors that had that type of return edge but most have it bent inwards... i want to use the anh strapping system and that would mean the head of the bolts would show a lot... most of the armor is ok with the return edges and the molding flashing you have to remove but there are parts that just don't seem to be natural compared to the original film...

good day folks, i got an ATA kit and i am doing the ruff trim right now and i am looking at some return edges at some places and they seem odd or not at a proper angle... example...the chest plate...the front underside as a return edge that seems to be 45 degrees rather than going some more inside the armor... my problem is that i want to do the original strapping system of ANH on my armor but if i look at the movies shots most chestplate seem to have a return edge almost a 90 return edge on that part and many parts also. i was wondering if many people had to fix the return edge on different parts of their armor? to me it seems that a lot of parts need some more bending for their respective return edges,.. any thoughts on this?

this must have been extremely cool.

thanks Cake, awesome pics, thanks for taking time to do this for me. you even answered my other question which was the size of the bolts... for the wire. do you think using a wire coat hanger would do? i have tons of them here and they seem to be the right size for the job... cheers sir!

Hi gang, i Semi get the idea but could you elaborate? and yes i love pictures, the more the better... thanks

this is cool looking, i have handled real army weapon and if you do not care for them for whatever reason they can rust pretty quickly and look like the gun presented by Gimiz here. But for us it was a punishable offense to let our weapon come to that state....no rust was permitted...but of course this is star wars and a universe in its own. great job...it looks like a use banged up real gun...cant get any better than that!

Good day all, I was looking at the wire bracket system on Rolf's armor and i see that on the side where the ab snaps in, the wire bracket is higher than the other one whom are lower or shorter looking... i mean the bracket in the chest plate part.... is there any particular reason for this?

like most people here would say, get these and you ll be all set, it is the preffered standard for most trooper who do not use decals... plus mike ships them superfast to you... plus you only need one kit, you can almost paint an entire army with one tin p.s mike as paint videos on youtube if your are interested, just type tk4510 in the search engine or google it..also humbrol paints dry all even the paint looks real good when dried... Mikes paint kit p.s he is painting a hips helmet not an abs one...

A+++ job sir!

thanks Panda

do you have to wet sand your helmet before spraying primer on it? i dont get the wet sanding part....

thanks Iron....

Hi all, i am getting a bucket soon and i would need a few advices on how to prep it for paint. in all honesty i would like to give it an hpde look but i have read about a specific way to prrep the helmet. can you tell me what wet sanding is? the bucket is hips, i was thinking of putting some primer on then a kakhi krylon paint on it then a final glossy white over the helmet. so that is 3 layers of paint and i wondering if this is too much... can someone explain to me how you would prep and paint your helmet?