TD257

I bit the bullet and bought one of the finished kits from this dealer. I should be getting it in the mail tomorrow. I'll let you know what I think.

I know it's a little unnerving really mucking up the armor, but you'll be glad you did. It also never seems to show up as well on camera.

The Legion has requirements for becoming a TD. Take a look at the 501st web page for what those are. I think they are a little less stringent than MEPD deployed status requirements. Have pix taken and send them to your garrison's Garrison Membership Officer and have him/her forward them to the Legion Membership Officer. I think that should do it.

I might need to go see a witch doctor and have my head shrunk.

It'll be hard to pick just one design. Y'know, we should have just plain MEPD badges anyway, independent from C3 or any other function.

I'm currently working on a ANH stunt cast from the ground up. It has a very low brow though, like the hero helmets, so I don't know the origin. I've been bondoing and sanding madly for days, and just put the first coat of paint on it. It ain't gonna be perfect, but I can cover up any imperfections with dirt. It is small though and takes some finesse to put it on. I'll be happy if I can fit my static amp in. I might have to forgo the fans and slather the eye-pieces with copious amounts of Rain-X.

I'm thinking that covers it.

Armor looks good from what I can tell. Welcome.

I like the cigar idea...nuthin' like a good stogie after a hard day's troop.

My wife doesn't come to all events, but she's indispensible at the ones she does attend. She plays the role of "trooper wrangler" and "keeper of stuff".

Sounds like my wife. The trick will be to convince her to come with you to events. By the way, the armor looks good.

You don't have to permanently attach the side plates. I velcroed them at first to see if they worked and looked okay. Then when I was happy with the placement, I Plastic-Welded elastic straps in place.

That would explain the outrageous shipping charges. I got the pouch off Ebay from a guy who did a limited run and made them out of heavy duty saddle leather. It looks good, but does have some weight to it. It's probably a lot heavier than the MarStar pouches.

I've got the dimpled ones as my primary plates, but have the standards as back-ups.

After some testing and re-working, I found that the ammo pouch I have is too heavy to hang off the shoulder strap. It would pull one side of the chest piece down too far and I'd look lopsided. I hung the pouch off the backpack strap now and am waiting for an event to see how it fares.

I resemble that situation... I went to a local plastic company and got some white styrene sheets, cut them to the proper size, heated and bent them to go around my sides, and attached them to the armor. It actually looks a little more accurate to the movie suits too.

There are more accurate helmets out there for sure, but the FX helmet does have lots of room for all my gizmos...and my preponderous melon.

Can you knock out that wall and put in an actual window like that? Authenticity is everything.

Repeat after me...dirt is good...dirt is good.

I used those plastic cable tie-up things...I can't remember what their actual name is right now. I drilled two holes in the back of the leather pouch, threaded the cable tie through...a mild pain in the ****, then attached it to the shoulder strap.

So by attaching the button plate to the tube, we have created a high-capacity Personal Pornographic Holoprojector for...uh...extended deployments?

Using white modelling putty to fill in the holes in the ab plate is another solution. Any imperfection can be covered with "dirt". I had to shim the thigh pieces using strips of the spare ABS that came with the kit. I just riveted them in place at the top and bottom of one of the thigh halves. Doing the calves will probably require shaping the plastic to the contour of the calf piece itself. You could use a heat gun to heat up the strip before shaping, or try using an oven for more even heating.

Looks good...it looks like the Studio Creations pack is getting some play here. I like your weathering technique...how'd ya do it? My pack is based on the Studio Creations design as well. I eventually replaced the recipe boxes with Radio Shack project boxes. I couldn't get past the fact they looked like recipe boxes.

I've got a MEPD patch in my collection, and sewn on a Midwest Garrison baseball jersey...and thats it. As proud as I am to be a member of the MEPD, I won't wear the patch out...it just ain't canon.

Is there a time set for the big group pic?