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RS is notorious for lack of communication. Sometimes they get right back to you, other times it takes forever, sometimes your stuff just shows up, sometimes you have to chase it. When I ordered my Armor, I got it in no time, but it was missing a few things (I bought a fully loaded kit) and it litterally took many emails and months of getting the wrong parts sent to get the missing parts. They did show up, but still. I ordered a "fishpond" plastic lid from them as well, and another ABS lid. It took 6 months to get the fishpond, and a few months to get the ABS. It took several emails back and forth to get the fishpond finally on its way. I tried recently to get some info on the Boba Fett gear they have. They were quick to respond and quote a few prices, but then ignored all my follow up emails, so I decided to not go back through what I did with the other props I had gotten from them. They have a quality product. They are good people, I just think that they have so much business they cant keep up and things get lost in the shuffle. I think they are hit or miss on communication based on how slammed they are.

The positive is they took it back with no worries. They are a good company, just crappy at welding back a pile of junk into a gun.

I got one of these from them and sent it back. The welding was terrible the ejector guard was dented...just terrible. It was heavy as heck they welded it to a near solid chunk of steel. Do not buy for an e-11. The gun they show is not what you get.

How much is left?

Sent

The mods are great. one comment though the Handguards for this trooper are not supposed to be correct. he had them reversed post break, and had the right hand with a left guard pre break: They are both backwards on the post break version seen in this pic: But on the pre break version he has this left handplate: this is the pre break version: as seen here: Since you have the two large pouches on your belt you are the pre break version I think you are doing great!

Bah, you LOVE the Prequals nad the SE! LOVE. IT.

Over at white armor the person that runs it said it was a glitch in the servers they are working on so it will be back up soon.

Looks like you have a left and a right hand plate when move along had two lefts per break and a left on the right glove and a right on the left glove post break. Any other nit picks have been covered. I don't think the hooks should have to go you never really see them in costume. But that's just me. Over all a very solid build and should not be that painfull a process. Good luck!

Grats!

I'm tall as well what I do is sit the calves a little higher on my ankles so the gap at the knees is a little less.

I have the same Pauldron but mine doesn't move at all maybe because I wear a pack?

To darn cool ill take a little vial of sand from tattooine err I mean Tunisia if you can get it to the states... Now to figure out how to sell a Tunisia trip to my wife ... Little harder on us from across the pond... Honey how about a trip to somewhere exotic...you know with lots of sand...and stuff.... Lol

Just a heads up I have not forgotten about this project, but I am now in the "waiting for the big brown box" stage. At the moment cruising the hardware/department stores trying to find very close matches to the pack parts. Once I am satisfied I may well start on it first.

Thanks guys! I am not a big convention goer, but I love the charity troops. That child's reaction was priceless.

My Garrison supported a Make A Wish birthday party for a little boy with kidney cancer this weekend. I suited up as The Boss this time around, but thought I would share the pics anyway. Here is the video of his reaction...Listen to all the It's Darth Vader! and Awesome! <iframe src="https://www.facebook...01396916782261" width="720" height="1280" frameborder="0"></iframe> http://www.flickr.co...006/9291337163/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/hharv006/9291316707/ he got over his shyness in a bit. The little boy and his family. (his sister broke the pinata later and her first act was to get pick up a piece of candy and hand it to me) The pinata was in the shape of a Vader head, I offered my Lightsaber as the weapon of choice to decimate it (polycarbinate battle blade) What is it about a tall dark stranger that make women want to pose with babies? Several padawan's were turned to the Dark Side this day.... Group shot with some of the kids posing in action poses... Uh oh! we have a runner! And here we have the Empire's finest (and one lonely jedi) prior to walking to the party.

Nah I'm in Virginia but do a lot of work for the industries in and around New York .

http://www.whitearmor.net/forum/tutorials/article/37-howto-create-a-bicep-strap-hook/ a good tutorial on the hook on whitearmor FYI

Good on ya Mates! Love stories like this.

her you go... HERO Tk at work That's our shop area.. We actually work on smokestacks high in the air testing for polution: View of NYC from a smokestack in Manhattan.

I finally dug out my Making Magic CD, which will not run on Windows vista or 7. I had to dig out an old laptop to play it on. It is a DOS based program but it has some pretty good production photos (some of the cropped down ones are on starwarshelmets). I appologize for the quality, but I have no Idea how to screenshot a Dos program and so I took a picture of the screen with my phone, and the screen is a pretty low res one as you can imigine since its old enough to run dos... Look at what I see at the base of the table with all the trooper helmets: Is that a sandy with a cardboardbox mocking up the backpack? It is certainly a dirty armor set. Look at that black strap from chest to back. Look at the rivets on the shoulder bridges. and the extra long flexy shoulder bridges. Seems more and more likely these were tour suits used in the production. You can see in other pictures of just white TKs running around the longer bridges as well. And look who is photobombing in the background here: is that the back of a sandy? pretty dirty (could be the same one with his box gone) Another thing I can now see in the big picture (not shown sorry) is that the helmets on the table are held together with a rivet in the cap-n-back to the faceplate similar to ANH lids. not any real new insight but I though it neat.

You can try this one: http://ladymanson.co...p_display_media Its the whole movie in frames from the blu ray supposedly. This is where the next scenes of Sandies start comming in (to save you from having to flip through 64 pages of pics). http://ladymanson.co...p_display_media

Thought that might be the issue with the biceps and forearms. Hey we have shots of the movie where they did the same thing, so its all good! (since the movie had biceps and forearms attached some TKs even have 2 left arms or two right arms...)

The biceps are on the wrong arms... Not that it matters really but traditionally and in screen shots the thumbprint is on the left arm. I *think* your forearms may be on the wrong arms as well. See this post from TM on another build thread that asked for help on how to assemble the arms. You have everything is the correct position except for the outer forearm pieces need swapping over. (would be right arm then left arm as if you were looking at the armor from the front) I also would suggest using I bicep hook to secure the bicep to the elastic on the bell, to bring up the biceps. This is from the lucas film archives showing a real suit, see the little hook on the top there (and the elastic from forearm to bicep as well)? I use these on my RS and on my TM suits. The rig looks great, just pointing out a few things that would make it that much better!