mikelbrierly
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On 4/25/2018 at 9:58 AM, bigwam said:
I like the style of the helmet. Especially the shield on the helmet. It looks like the "Stirnschild" from a German WW1-Helmet.
Thats an awesome catch! Never would've known. It's stuff like this that deepens my appreciation of SW's character design and research.
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Sheer terror on that rebels face
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Count me in for the next run! Even if it is a little more
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Looking rad so far!!! What material are the four black sides?
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That is so cool! I'm so glad that a member got it. Go buy a lottery ticket next!
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Awesome build!
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Currently trolling for weathering inspiration, and that helmet is beautiful. What's your technique? I also didn't realize that trooper's helmet had so much paint chipping! Makes it look super lived in. Love it
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I definitely second the pinchpoint thing. Armor bites are no fun. The back of the knees was one of the worst spots for me. I had to cut a notch out of my calves and that helped a ton
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What do you snap your forearms to then? The undersuit?
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Looks awesome!! Out of curiosity, what weathering technique are you using?
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Looking awesome!! Killer weathering job!
For my TD approval I was asked to fix the holes in my canvas belt, just FYI. So maybe keep some of that canvas around for patching if needed.
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Thanks for the pointers!
Such a wealth of information was lost with Photobucket. It's a bummer their greed ruined so much creative sharing
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Looks awesome so far!!
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Wow wow wow! This is nuts! The amount of work between you and jimmiroquai is unparalleled. So cool following this. Thanks for posting!
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This would be so rad. I'm 100% in
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Mikel Howarth
TD11590
Requesting Sandtrooper access please, Thanks!
https://www.501st.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=17421
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Glad your back to the TD!
I'm not sure about codpiece width, but ukswrath's threads are always great, and this is the most detailed one I've found - https://www.whitearmor.net/forum/topic/35086-ukswraths-anovos-tk-build/ It's a TK but the for the codpiece it should be about the same
hopefully helps a little!
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Your weathering looks fantastic man!!! Congrats!
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Good tip! Thanks!
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Hey guys,
Just wanted to post this for anyone wanting to use a different photo hosting site seeing as Photobucket is down. Here's a how-to for Flickr.
- Create an account and upload your photos to Flickr
- Navigate to the "Camera Roll" section
- Select all your photos and click the "Privacy" button
- Change to "Public"
- Then double click to view photo
- Right click and select "Copy Image Address"
Hope this helps!
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And lastly apply for basic 501st approval!! Woooo!
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Darn you Photobucket!! I'll upload the rest of these via Flikr
Armor updates to where I am now -
- Switched internal strapping system now totally snap-based. So much nicer.
- Belt I made that holds up the thigh pieces via elastic Velcro. (Seemed like a better option that attaching via snaps to the codpiece, anybody have advice having tried both?) .
- Bought a crappy pauldron off Amazon so I'd have something to wear to Denver Comic Con
- Painted inside of helmet black, made single eye lenses out of full visor
- Added padding to helmet
- Added some foam inside shin pieces to the return edge from painfully digging into my knee
Dissassembled helmet masked off for interior painting
I used a glossy spray-paint on the interior that I was not very fond of
So I used some Testors dullcote to bring the sheen down, and it looked waaay better
Here's the bucket re-assembled with new lenses, paint, and padding. The padding is from amazon and is very firm, I will probably be doing some more trial and error to get it dialed in for comfort and stability. (I also salvaged the nose piece from an old toy clone trooper helmet)
Here are my canvas MP-40 pouches as they arrived in the mail, ready to be dyed
Here's the shoulder pouch after dying but still wet
After drying out, the nylon stitching remained white
This is after using a sharpie on all the seams (sorry about the orientation)
And here's the wood blocks to fill out the pouches
For my first troop I wanted to have the speaker in the shoulder pouch like so
But that turned out to not work as well as I was hoping, I'll probably be investing in one of ukswraths in-helmet hovi-tip speaker systems. Speaking of the first troop though, here's a couple pics from Denver Comic Con
Things I'd like to add and work on
- Helmet fan system (I wore it for 2 hours at the con and sweat was pooling in the helmet when I took it off... )
- Better speaker system in helmet (I also used the TrooperTalk app developed by Andrew Brinkhaus, and I had some lagging issues toward the end of the 2 hours using it)
- Weather pauldron
- Find a better way to attach shoulder pouch sans backpack (As soon as I can I will have a fieldpack!!)
- Adjust a couple parts of the armor for better comfort
- Finish E-11 blaster (I'll post a different thread with that build)
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Between flikr and imgur, which do you guys think is better? Also Scott your signature is fantastic!! Haha
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Killer man! I love the "real" weathered feel, good luck!
My Prop Droid (Urs inspired!)
in Pouches, Pauldrons, and other Accessories
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This is awesome!! What a great idea!