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Hi mate and welcome to the MEPD, good choice, having a Sandtrooper looking back at you in the mirror is the best feeling ever! Roam all the build and application threads here, loads of information and always feel free to ask questions, this is a quite active forum. Have fun!

You've made some nice progress mate, that T21 is going to be awesome! One thing though: the colour on your trays is too blue and too glossy, if you want to keep it screenaccurate, it will have to be more like a battleship grey with a satin finish.

Great pics Paul, trooping with you was fun!

This is awesome, congrats Kainan, you have really deserved it, great work! And welcome to the ranks!

Wow man, swift and amazing work, well done Kainan!

Great pic with those colonial marines! Guy on the right might have the bigger gun... but you still look way cooler!

Hey Tori, welcome to the MEPD looks very cool already! And what is even more important, you look extremely happy You have done a good job in making that kit fit but RebelHunter is right, the chest is sitting very low, I assume you are one of the smaller troopers, you can fix that problem by widening the neck opening and shortening the two pieces where you have attached the shoulder straps, don't worry about the returnedge as it won't be visible because of the pauldron anyway. That way you should be able to move the chest up.

Hey Kainan, I think your weathering looks very promising and a good choice to go with mainly black colours. Some of the details of the chest might have to be adjusted but overall it really looks great. I think it's okay to have only one version, no need to have both but that's something I will have to talk about with Bigwam. I really like your attention to detail, e.g. the little button plate on the belt. Have a look at some pics of the original right thigh, especially at the top, there you can clearly see that one side is longer where the two halves are joined by the coverstrip. Man, it's really cool seeing your progress, keep up the good work, you will be a very worthy addition to the ranks of the SWAT officers!

Hey Kainan, good to see you're back! Great attention to details.

Yeah mate, good choice, have fun building and always feel free to ask!

Looks great! Are barrel and bipod already painted?

Last time I came home after drinking Rum, I ended up buying three Tupperware Sunshine pitchers on Ebay. Well, it could have ended much worse.

Your canvas shoulder pouch is good and screenaccurate.

Hi Kevin, I am sorry to disappoint you but your new pouch is simply a leather version of the canvas pouch which won't work. As I am not at my computer right now, I can't post a picture but you can find the approvable pouches on the last page of this thread:

The most accurate colours which I always use are the following: Humbrol Enamel: gloss 21 (black) gloss 14 (blue) gloss 5 (grey) Hope this helps, Cheers mate.

Just google "rubber S trim" and "rubber C trim" and you'll see the difference.

The S-trim goes on the helmet to finish off the opening where you stick your head through.

I had this project finished for a while but completely forgot to post this here as I was quite busy with work and writing reviews. So here it is. I think everybody knows now that I´m a huge fan of the Move Along Helmet and searching for the perfect helmet to base this on. I was already quite happy with the my RS build but it´s still just an ABS helmet which won´t tick the right boxes. I had to have an HDPE helmet and since RS doesn´t offer them anylonger or at least not as a kit, I had to go on searching. I´ve found Anon Stormtrooper from Australia, who has been offering HDPE helmets, now unfortunately he wasn´t anylonger but Chris who ran Anon Stormtrooper was so kind to have a look around his garage and found an unfinished helmet and sold it to me. The helmet had already been assembled but the eyes and teeth hadn´t been cut out yet, this is what it looked like: I had to take it apart and adjust the assembly and after cutting out the eyes and teeth it looked like this: and here´s the final project after painting and weathering always followed by a shot from the movie: I´m really happy and feel like I have found my (almost) perfect helmet. Now I just have to adjust the rest of the gear to match this helmet.

You´re all set brother

Hey Kevin, there is no need to apologize! I like your attitude to get things done, keep up the good work mate. Let's get you deployed!

Hi Kevin, welcome and thank you for your interest in becoming an MEPD deployed officer! Your gear looks great and suits you very well, I like the weathering and really dig the mean look of your helmet, nice work! You will have to request Sandtrooper status first, so far, you're only listed as "member" : I'll be taking care of your review but first I need some additional pics of the following things: -a picture clearly showing the green lenses of your helmet, maybe one where some light is shining through. -a picure of you squeezing the handguards, showing that they are made of rubber/latex. -a picure showing the single rivet in the codpiece. Other things that should be addressed: I know how much the UKG decal means to you, but it shouldn't be on your armor for PO approval, I would suggest deleting the pictures where it's on your shoulderbell. According to our updated CRLs, the canvas pouches aren't allowed for the sides/hip anymore: One more thing: is it possible to close the gaps on the sides (between abdomen and kidney) a little more? They are a little too large. Cheers mate

Yeah, makes more sense to get something from a company closer to where you live, especially since all the makers in my list are UK based. The kit looks good, still I would wait for someone to chime in who already has experience with that kit. But should be okay as you mention that it was recommended on whitearmor.

I have to admit that I have never heard of authenticprops... that does not have to mean much but definitely is not a well-known vendor, so beware. Do you have some pictures of the armor? The commonly known and recommended vendors are TM, RWA Creations, DA or RS.

Congrats!

Hey my fellow dirty dudes after seeing my fellow deployment officer Thomas´new Doopy build, I was so in for an upgrade of my own modded Doopy build. Here´s what it looked like at the beginning, it was indeed my very first E-11 build... and definitely a lot of room for improvement. Wasn´t very happy with the paintjob on the scope so I made a new one: But in the last weeks I completely reworked the whole blaster... wasn´t very easy to take it apart and sand it down. made a new trigger guard and scoperail: and added a lot of small details: also remodelled the backpart to emulate the original cast aluminum back with those seams: So the back was spraypainted in a silver colour while the rest of the blaster was spraypainted with a gunmetal and a light coat of chocolate brown and black. I then masked off certain areas to give it that used look with paintchips. Finally I gave it a new paintjob using the same wrinkle spray paint Thomas has already used in his build. I also added the wire wrapped in red cloth on the power cylinders. The counter is a real vintage Hengstler but has a plastic box at the front on which I have cut out the square in the middle. The mag is real too... with real wood! The cartridge ejection is made of metal bend and cut into shape... because only painting it silver wasn´t enough anymore. As I really want this to be the blaster of the Move Along Captain, I have also added the little greeblie on top of the scope... although I think that there might even be two of those greeblies according to the following picture. Let me now what you think. And here it is: And here´s a comparison shot between the Doopy and my real Sterling heavy metal build: Cheers!