TD-4935

i will hopefully be there, just not sure about how i'm gonna get the old back pack and BFG to L.A. will keep everyone updated but i would love to be a part of this photo op.

yep, what Paul said. a bit annoying but no biggy.

Yup, reckon you could be right pardner. the knee plate is a dead give away and the strip on the thigh pieces. looking good though Hey Sand_storm, how did you get the ab details off?, mine are glued solid.

i think Paul TM had a great technique for this. something about using a two pence piece which of course you won't have stateside DOH! erm, over to you Paul.....

i'll buy you an over priced pastie at MEM mate. cheers

these babies do way a ton. i troop with a resin blaster at the moment and even that gets heavy after a time, it really kills the shoulders more than anything. they are also not really all that accurate to be honest. it really is just a sterling with basic add ons. great display piece though. picked mine up on the bay for just over £100

when you think about it, it does make sense for it to be more oblong/flattened. with the perfectly cylindrical ones we use they do tend to push away from the butt plate and if not pivoted somehow would be very annoying. this shaped bee stinger will hang better and not bang up against the butt so much.

i hope someone sent that article to Mr Bob Eubanks.

I'm truly loving the weathering on your armour mate . it does indeed look very natural and battle used. i'm thinking of trying to emulate that look myself. ** Hum, the weathering fine tuning continues.

Welcome to the desert Al

you know your alive when it hurts

unless you've used permanent paint( ), you can slap it all on at random, as i'm sure sand and dirt is a fairly abstract affair, wipe it all off start again, wipe it off and so on. each time will leave a little residual muck and that will look far more natural than a systematic application of paint in a controled way. i even went as far as using a fan on full blast and throwing powdered pigment into it so that it chucked it forcefully at the armour like a sand storm. it made a bloody awfull mess and very little pigement ended up where i wanted it but you gotta try these things. making something look weathered naturaly requires exceptional skill and a good eye (see boba fett project on starwars helmets) but for this kind of thing you need to think like sand, man

i managed to get hold of one as well. seems to be the week for selling bipods on the bay. going to try to do the same as you Tony so i'll stay tuned to find out the best way to do it. i feel a bit lazy just buying one instead of fabricating it but i found whatever i ended up with just looked naff and spoiled the overall costume for me. maybe no-one would have noticed my crap scratch built bipod but i would have known. thanks Boingo for the pictures and info by the way

don't forget the stripes on the grey details if it's gonna be a TK a very tidy sharp and neat looking helmet there matey

happy new year everyone.

good point, well made. whats good for the goose and all that. not meaning to be contraversial but frankly TK's wanting to wear pouldrens is just downright laziness if you ask me (there, i said it) they fear the dirt, the backpack and all the hard work that that entails. either that or it's confusion of identity brought on by the desire to be a TD but not having the cajones to stop being a TK. am i wrong? am, i? me, i'm greedy, i wanted to be a TD and TK so i got another kit and whammo!! best o' both worlds

i wear vintage tupperware on my back at the weekends

well done chaps, everything tiggedy-boo and all that. so, Mike, you're the new big cheese. jolly good show. now where did i put my moustache wax? carry on

E6000 fail???, don't say that!

There's an idea right there. some of the scratch built lewis' i've seen on here are fantastic and we all know there are vac-forming tables available to some of you. that would make all three BFG's being produced in house as it were. MEPD, the one stop troop shop Anyone gonna take up the challenge?

not sure if you can get it in the states but i used dylon fabric paint. just brushed it on let it dry and used an iron to seal it (kind of, its not easy ironing an ammo pouch). i imagine there would be some alternative in your local haberdashery or hardware store though.

I had hoped it would change the contrast and admittedly it has, unfortunatley it hasn't changed the fact it is blue white when next to other kits. this was my only beef with it and still is but the GL said it will be o.k. and thats good enough for me

Well our lovely GL said it would get clearence as is so we decided not to paint it. once all the brow trim and detailing was on it didin't look so bad. it is still a little on the dull side but nothing a good buffing won't solve.

in that case, TD's could have drop boxes, badly applied dirt , rubbish backpacks and crappy pouldrens Has anyone ever done a SE sandtrooper?

you did a fantastic job of your helmet dude. i'm sure your armour looks just as kickass.