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Came up with this for the stinger tail. A pill bottle cap, a vape juice cap (I cut the top off of the eye-dropper bulb to give the pen something to adhere to) and a pen. A little bondo to smooth out the rough edges, build up a more curved slope toward the antenna, a little paint, and it'll be ready to mount.

Thanks, I have been digging through all kinds of pictures this week trying to figure that one out. Re: Split rivets, I am fortunate enough to be in spitting distance from a Fastenal store, what diameter? Close to the 1/8" pop rivets or a little larger?

On the chest and back, is it also connected on the sides, or just the shoulders? Also, I hope everyone is having fun at Celebration Orlando this weekend!

"All TDs are HWTs, but not all HWT's are TD's." Wow. Say that three times fast.

Near as I can tell, my exhaust port is crooked (turns out it was just loose and needed a little tightening), but that's all I see as being out of position. What else? Im missing the stinger tail, and a laboratory pipe. What else?

I see what you all mean now by how a butt joint and cover strip presents better visually than overlapped on the limbs. At first I thought the cover strip would do as the name implies either way. Might pass basic approval, but its much easier to hit those requirements while still building. Points taken, no need to rush. I do have a question, though: is the chest armor actually connected to the back armor? If so, how? Or does it just hang there? I do know kidney/posterior and ab/cod are.

Yes. Overlapped and cover stripped was the plan. Thanks for the info.

Oh, good. I've got some memory foam I can shear up and wrap in black canvas or vinyl. That'll be nice. Thanks for the info. I will look harder at reference photos for this pack, in the interim.

Here's where I'm at on my backpack build: That's two years of sitting in a box in my workshop worth of weathering. I can't really take credit for this much of the progress, as it was assembled when I purchased my kit a couple of years ago. I will have to finish it, though. I've never read anything that requires backpack strapping to be a certain way, and I'm unsure of what to do there.

Full disclosure: A couple of years ago, I came here with a TD kit, intended for my wife. Short story long, she didn't really want to do an armored costume in the first place. Fortunately for me, the trimming and cutting previously done will also fit me with a little creative shimming here and there. It sat in my workshop a while, which has been fantastic for weathering. Originally, I was wanting to tackle an R1 "Patrol Trooper", but that will wind up being an entirely new kit of armor a little bit down the road. Drove Mrs. Thingonthefloor nuts watching Rogue One this week, pausing every ten frames to exercise my TFA Luke stare at the details of the new TK armor. That's a lot of work, I thought. Some, I could do easily. Others, not so much. A few things I 86'd entirely; deigned impossible for my knowledge, skill set, and tool accompaniment. So, I decided not to mod the kit I have just yet. Instead, I'm going to be working on a fair approximation of one of the Sergeants who has the Move-Along Pack. Undecided if I'll go Bay 94 or Desert guy. Only difference is pouch configuration, and I have precisely zero pouches. Besides, at the end of the day, I think it's the spirit those mysterious teasers are trying to capture anyway. Perhaps an homage, or just a simple nod. That is a pretty rad backpack though. I really dig the antennae. I'll move on to building that later; I think it's most important that I finish the kit I started, get approved, and get to trooping. I already have a Biker Scout approved, and a TFA Luke pending, so... Yeah. I say "fair approximation of", as I'm not gonna go for SWAT on this build. Ultimately, I'm gunning for PO here, but even if I don't make that immediately I won't be upset. Side note, I am absolutely terrible at keeping a build thread updated, but I'll do my best. After four years of this, Mrs. Thing has finally picked a costume she wants to do: Jyn Erso. I'll be working on that concurrently with the ANH Sarge. On to the show. I didn't think to take before pictures, but all armor was roughly cut out. Shins and arms were all trimmed and assembled from the first go-round for Mrs. Thing. The torso/ab/kidney/posterior pieces were cut out, and trimmed for her as well. I got fortunate here, in that they fit me as well. I MAY need to shim something, but I won't really know until I get my undersuit squared away. I'd rather be lucky than good, any day. This is where I'm at after a few hours of work, spread out over the course of a week or two: And bonus picture of my helpers/work area. The light beaming through the window on my project/sewing desk, I thought was rather apropos. Questions, comments, concerns, feedback of any kind is most welcomed here. I'll continue on with backpack in the appropriate forum. Thanks for reading, see you soon.

As promised. Didn't crop out the playback bar, so you can see the timestamp. This is from the bonus features, in the "Stories" section, titled "Bodhi and Saw." If you blink, you'll miss it.

There is one shot of the Patrol trooper in the bonus material. He stands on a ridge looking through binoculars, and it's at a fair distance but you can identify the backpack. Nothing else, though. I will ill post a screen cap when I get home today if nobody beats me to it.

Im going to start conversion on my backpack this weekend. Want me to post pics in this thread or start a new build thread?

I've never been more frightened in my life than when I woke up one morning to find a camel spider on my chest. It was approximately 0300. I ran out into the Afghan desert dressed only in my skivvies and subsequently was subject to the humiliation of the E4 Mafia. I consudered heavily moving to Adelaide, Australia until I learned of large huntsman spiders. Nope. Nope. Nope. And nope.

From what I saw on the FISD, and another thread around here, the visual guide called out the crystal backpack for standard stormtroopers, where the Patrol backpack is a type four sandtrooper backpack. That may not be the official logic, but it is the insight I can offer.

Part of me really loves the Desert Foxes; I've actually seen young children here in the States walk right up to a costumed Officer and full-on Heil him. Terrifying! But there are already so many other analogues to the Empire and Nazi's. That was the point, after all? "Fox" may be considered perhaps a bit misogynous and/or objectifying. Though Fox does fit really quite well--PARTICULARLY considering it's the Patrol Trooper. Wind Scorpions? Better known as Camel Spiders? Alternatively, you could always designate it something like the "182nd Patrol Team: 'The Fighting Fennecs," more of an informal nickname.

Posted. My apologies for the wait. I don't know what it is about that particular image--maybe the moment of capture enthralled me so, with the glint of the sun beaming off that bucket. Something about the antennae backpack, I'm not certain. Is this one a still from the movie, or have we yet to see it on screen?

Edited and used a link as I'm on mobile and at work at the moment. It's a great shot of a weathered R1 TD/TD that I can't place from the film.

This inspired me to finally get back to building a TD Kit I've had for a couple years. After talking with a brother in the FISD, he tells me this trooper is going to wind up a TD not a TK. I have an ANH WTF kit and a roadblock backpack kit... both just begging to be turned into this one.

Correct, Walt. Karl Ruhl and I are in the "correct way to spell Karl" club. Thanks for your help, gentlemen. PM conversations are underway!

Thanks, Jay. I guess my first question is if you have any helpful advice for fitting the armor comfortably to a woman. Namely the butt-plate. I say this with all the love in the world, but... There's some junk in that trunk. Baby got back. She likes it, I love it. But, gonna cause problems with armor. I do have a box of shims, though. I guess worst case I will have to get creative with those, but I'm open to suggestions! Next question involves attaching the armor together, and getting it on a person. TDs are not TBs or TKs, thus the shoulder and ab bridges must be different. But what about suspenders? Thirdly, she's 5'3". I imagine there's going to be significant trimming to make the ab and kidney plates visible, with minimal overlap. As well as the thighs and shins. Any advice from experience out there on that? Fourth, gloves. Recommendations for a supplier/type? And attaching the plates to the gloves? Fifth, can anyone identify the version of the backpack, and pouches so I can determine what CRL I'm following? Sixth, other than boots that will fit, gloves, and an undersuit... what am I missing? Can I get those decals from trooperbay? What about those sink-aerator looking things that go on either side of the "mouth" on the bucket? Lastly boots. With the kit came a pair of new, unused men's size 11 TKBoots. They will not fit her, or me. They are up for sale/trade if anyone wants them.

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A good friend and Legion brother of mine unfortunately had to sell his TD (still in kit form, complete with backpack), which left him with only a couple of cleared costumes. Sometimes making house and car notes sucks more than it should, but at least it went to a good home. My lady was all kinds of excited to be a Trooper; So, I'm here to research and ask all sorts of newbish questions to do her build. Hope I don't bug you fine folks too much. The kit was identified as a.... Vongher, Vogner, Vongher, Vong-something-or-another? I'm not sure what version of the backpack we've got, either, nor am I sure how old the kit actually is. It is ABS plastic, not sure what thickness. The boots are a Men's size 11, and are new. They will not fit me or my lady, so I would happily offer them for sale or trade. Here's what I've got got: Obviously I'm missing the under-garb, gloves, and boots that will fit her. As far as greeblies/decals/paint and such I'm missing, all I know is that I'm without lenses, the sink aerator looking things that go on either side of the "mouth" of the bucket, and whatever decals go on the bucket. What else am I missing? Does anyone have any recommendations for fitting this to comfortably fit a woman? And no, I'm not talking about getting the "sexy trooper" breastplate for women. The armor is androgynous, so no one will know she's a lady until she walks around and swings her hips or speaks. The armor is still rough-cut, and so making it fit her won't be too big a deal, save for the butt-plate. And I say this with every bit of love I have for this woman, but baby got back. I like it, she likes it, but DOGONE is it a REALLY tight fit.

Karl, TB42182 here. I recognize Mr.Hair from the BSN, sup James? So, I'm a newly cleared TB, but that's not why I'm here. A good friend and Legion brother of mine unfortunately had to sell his TD (still in kit form, complete with backpack), which left him with only a couple of cleared costumes. Sometimes making house and car notes sucks more than it should, but at least it went to a good home. My lady was all kinds of excited to be a Trooper; originally she was going to do a Juno Eclipse, but opted for this instead when the opportunity presented itself. So, I'm here to research and ask all sorts of newbish questions to do her build. Hope I don't bug you fine folks too much. The kit was identified as a.... Vongher, Vogner, Vongher, Vong-something-or-another? I'm not sure what version of the backpack we've got, either, nor am I sure how old the kit actually is. Well, anyway, I'll shoot some pictures soon and start asking questions. Thanks for having me here, and thanks in advance for your patience and help!