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Looking great Nol... Im not assembling expert or anything so I guess I would just advice you to follow Mike's advice. LOL! Your bucket looks great... And I will also advice to use Mike's decals if you are looking for an easier great solution for handpainted look. They are amazing and look just perfect. Saludos!

This is lots of fun... in many situations you can have the eyes of the helmet ponting in some direction while you are actually looking another way. So if you suddenly turn towards ppl who were looking at you but think you are not, they will react in a lot of different many times funny ways. Also, I dont know why ppl sometimes asume you cant see (or hear) them so take this in consideration when iteracting with them. Saludos

I thought it was "lets go grocery shopping" time... Saludos

Thanks a lot... Ill be working on the weathering soon... and posting some pictures afterwards. THX for all the comments and good vibe. Saludos

OK, Last advance before its done. This time I did the toolbox and the top bottle with mushroom cap. I had to use some electricians tape all around the toolbox to fix it cause it look weird when it was closed. Do you think I should take it away or it doesn't bother that much? Thanks for all your comments. Saludos.

Hey Nol... Ive seen your pictures at facebook and it's looking great! Keep us posted about your progress! Saludos

dont be disappointed bro... sometimes it takes a while for ppl to reply to threads... Anyway, here are a few of my thoughts on your backpack... First of all I must say that for a overnight rushed backpack, it looks good. There is room for some updates I guess... Some suggestions to make it more accurate: 1. The sand looks more like mud than sand. Try to clean up the weathering and then maybe follow some of the threads on weathering in the forum. I would use hairspray or similar and the fullers earth or actual dirt. Try to make it more natural and less "painted". 2. Maybe try and upgrade the "air filter" on top left for a shorter wider one. Or maybe try and make one of the more accurate filters (there are a few threads about alternatives). 3. It seems to me that the tube on the left to the burger stacker is a bit short. 4. You are missing the little tip on the bee stinger. 5. The burger stacker is missing the "level" rings... maybe use rubber bands to simulate them. I did and the results are acceptable. 6.The bottles are fine I guess, but if you could replace them with some more cylindrical and wider bottles it would be great. Twinki looks fine, and so looks the mortar tube. Radar dish must be replaced with the tupperware lid if you want it to be accurate. Overall, I think it is a fine backpack... all this are just suggestions. But I think if you could just redo the weathering, it would give it a much better look and feel all around. Hope it helps... Saludos

Thx Pappy... here is a picture of the exhaust. Sice the last picture, I changed the pipe for a thicker one. So now I think I looks more correct. What do you think? Also, Im almost done, just waiting for (maybe) getting a stow n go tupperware for the tool box from my aunt. Hope to get it... other than that, I just need to finish and paint the mortar tube and radar dish... Any comments are welcome? Saludos

YEP! We NEED them! LOL!! saludos

Just like you, Ive never been a fan of the Expanded Universe... But I do like to think about the TDs we see in ANH as part of a bigger experience for me. I mean, when in armor I am a TD from the MEPD thats could or could not be one of the TDs that appear in the movie. If, there was a group of TDs stationed in Tatooine before the Attack to the Tantive IV, I guess Vader had no real authority over them. This because as we can see, he was just some guy with special capabilities in enforcing the emperors will, not in anyway an Imperial Officer. But, the detachment sent to Tatooine was assigned by the emperor to vader to do the dirty stuff he needed to and being under no ones command other than the emperor's himself (and probably Tarkin). Kind of like the director of the CIA having no real power over the NYPD or some other PD. Anyway, this detachment was said later that was part or was the evolution of the 501st Legion as seen in Ep III. But that is what I think anyway... but as you said, nothing in the movies, specially in the OT tells us any of this stuff... so... I guess its all, as has been said before, make believe. Anyway, are you also asking who came with the name for the detachment and why? That would be interesting to know for those of us who don't know. Saludos...

THX a lot Bro. I appreciate that. I finished the exhaust port box last night. Here are 2 picts of the backpack almost done. Most pieces are in place now I just need to cut some stuff here, glue some stuff there and paint every piece to finally put everything where it belongs. Thoughts and suggestions are more than welcome... Saludos

Thx a lot bro!

It was not the idea for this thread, but it has become my BP building thread... so, anyway... here more picts, now of the construction of the toolbox. I used a couple of "danger" signs from the home Depot. I guess it is some kind of 1.5mm HIPS. And following pappy's suggestion I decided to try with E6000 glue instead of the screws for the magnets. So far I like it a lot. Now I really want to finish it and go a arrest some jawas or something. Saludos

LOL! Well... Ive been thinking about that for a while... since My hair wont fit inside the helmet... but go all the way and shave it, I dont know.. THX! Saludos

THX a lot Pappy! THX Sandman! I painted the inside after the helmet was already put toguether by Mike A. The paint is just regular gloss black spray paint. I just masked the parts I didnt wanted to get painted (signatures, frown, eyes) and the outer part aswell... And then did the same thing but the other way around, masking the inside and the eyes and frown from the inside. I also masked the openings between the face and dome and around the ears. Hope this helps... Saludos.

THX bro. Im not that skilled but I love building stuff so... I could use a little patience tho. Just a little update: worked on the closing system for the black seedtray and again based on Mike's photos, I did this with door magnets: Im planning on painting the screw heads black. Hopefully they wont show much. THX... Saludos

I finally finished my bucket... here are some pictures... Still to be done the weathering and some padding on the inside... Thx for all your words and encouraging! Saludos

THX guys for all your comments! This is what keeps me wanting to improve my armor all the time. saludos

No worries, just an idea... no need to weather them for deployment though. Ill just join everyone else and welcome you! Great armor! So, if you are moving here and need anything, just mail me! Bringing your armor with you? Maybe check out our mexican garrison site www.garrisonmexico.com too (its having some trouble at the moment but should be back on line soon). Saludos...

Looks awesome Bro! I really like it. Great job! Saludos...

Looking great! Just an idea here: have you considered weathering your pouches? And a question since it doesn't appear in the pict: Have you changed your ribbed shoulder straps for canvas ones? I think it looks great, should be deployed in no time. (Is the BFG no more a requirement to be deployed?) Saludos

For me the less is more approach has always been more appealing, but I must say that your bucket looks great! Very realistic! Good job! The armors looks good too... maybe a bit less dirt? just an idea. But as has been said before, as long as you are happy, thats most important. Saludos!

Thanks for all your comments! The radiobox compartment and the hinges ideas are not mine. Both are Mike H's ideas... I think they will come to be very useful and were very easy to make... Im planning to put some pockets or maybe some padding in the black seed tray for my wallet, keys and other stuff, and maybe leave some room for bigger stuff. Thanks again for all your help and inspiration. saludos.

Thanks you all for all your comments. Im really happy with the helmet and hearing such good things on it its just great! So last night I worked on the lenses. For this I used the green acetate film and also a clear plastic face shield to give it strength. So what I did was first cut the shield in the shape I wanted, and them attached the acetate with tape. It is provisionally taped to the helmet inside, but Im thinking how to make a better system. The thing is that it doesnt seem to appear green, but I guess its like that most of the times. My old helmet looked blakish most of the times until I changed the lenses for a 100% bright green ones, but Im not planning to change these since its supposed to be the same material used in 1976. What do you think? Saludos

Thanks for all your comments. It is really encouraging to hear so cool response! THX a lot! So, next I satarted working on my backpack... Some parts supplied by Crashman (Thx bro), seedtrays supplied by Mr Bojangles (Thx a lot too), and pretty much the rest of it I made it myself (although it does not appear here yet)... Still have way there, but this is how it is going so far. Any comments are welcome! This is the pack so far... I know the metal nubs are not screen accurate but I liked them a lot. And this is with a couple of compartments opened... Saludos...