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TD-4242

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  1. I'd like to see a good looking brest plate. All the ones I've seen so far have too much of a natrual look to them and don have the hard lines of the TK gear. I'm not much of an artist so I can't really explain what I think it should look like I just know the current ones all look really out of place with the rest of the armor.

  2. Sorry for the old picture of the Sandtrooper, I have upgraded to MEPD standards but don't seem to have any pictures of it. Right now he is on loan to a friend who will be wearing it for a Halloween party.

    -Bill

  3. The easiest and 99% exact match to the FX decals is the Rustolem Professional "Dark Machine Grey" found at Home Depot or Lowes. It used to be the Rostolem Hardhat dark grey and was the one suggested to be used in the AFX Armor building directions.

  4. Take it from a trooper deployed in the Dune Sea. To look right you have to get rid of the shine. I spent extra time making sure mine and all the ones I've help other do to take off the shine and make it look worn.

    Here is a recent picture of my bucket.

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    Here's me and Kris, he didn't get his stripped of shine quite as much as mine

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  5. Ok, I'm going to be kinda critical here. I'd say over all it looks good, Good color, etc but...

    A little two uniform distribution. This is good for a first coating as it gives the long tearm weathered look over all. I usually use a combination of paint and goofoff to do this coat. It takes the shine off the ABS and gives it the sandy color.

    No detail grime buildup. Looking at the belt section and the forearm sections the divits dents and corners should have a bit more "grime" buildup then the higher surfaces. Then the highest surfaces and edges should be almost clean from being rubbed clean.

    It took me 6 months to figure out what I liked the best and I do have to say that you did a much better job then my first attempt. Now I've helped a couple of others get dirty and have kinda got it down pretty well.

  6. Here was my crappy job. The biggest problem with my first go at it was the armor was still clean under neither. So it really just looked like wet mud splashed on a shinny car finish. stripping this paint off really did wonders for my armor.

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    Wow I just realized I haven't gotten any showoff pictures of my current armor and I have a new camera....hmmmm......

  7. My first job was horrid as well. So bad I had someone comment that it looked like I might have had bad diarea and couldn't get the armor off in time.

    I finally just came up with the story that I was stuck at the front of the squad first behind a sick bantha.

    In the end I think it made my armor better for it. Using goof-off to strip all the crappy (hehe) paint off really gave my armor that rugged worn look.

    -Bill

  8. That is sweet. Always glad to see others doing the mold work needed. only thing I noticed was that your knee plate doesn't have the bottom spike to it.

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    is the one that I do. Take a look in the for sale section for my latest ebay auction.

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