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Just a quick note to let you all know that trooperbay is now password protected. The password to get into the site is - scruffynerfherder At this time, I only want people in our community to have access to the site. Please feel free to share the password with other members and new recruits that may need stuff. My reasoning for doing this is simply to limit the google bots and...."general public" from seeing all the sites content. I made trooperbay for US and not the random person doing a search on google. By protecting the site, I hope to keep trooperbay going, and continue servicing our group. If you forget the password you can just go to the site and message me directly by clicking on "chat with us" at the bottom right hand side of the screen. I usually respond right away and will give you the password. Thank you for understanding and thank you for the last 16 years of patronage. -Mike TK/TD-4510

I actually got to touch a fellow garrison's armor tonight for the first time! I can't wait!

I would agree with an additional Disney Park CRL than make a change to the current CRL standard. I will be building my DN kit at some point and as daunting as I feel about doing the should seams, it is in line with what we see on screen and looks correct.

Great reference piece. Thank you. Sent from my SM-N975U using Tapatalk

How long before anyone notices the typo "Frum"

I commented this on your Facebook post. Reposting here per the instructions of your Facebook post: I don’t have a dog in this fight really but I have seen the seams and it would seem (lol) that this is a relatively easy thing to solve with some ABS paste. Surely if you can assemble the rest of the costume the seams should be a relatively minor issue. At the same time, and I ask this to myself about aspects of other costumes (Boba Fett), is anyone outside of an extremely small group of nerds going to even notice? Is the absence or inclusion of an element going to break the illusion for the average person? I have to think that the average person wouldn’t notice seams on the shoulders of an FOTK or even realize there is an accuracy issue there.

Super helpful, I will look into these

You are doing an excellent job on this build Daryl, the finish line is drawing closer, so keep up the stellar work

I wear cotton inner gloves, they may help.

Unfortunately life happened and building hasn't started yet. Hopefully, I be able to get going some time this week. I've built 3 other TKs so far, so I'm going to try and be more detailed with this one. Plan to at a minimum submit it for EI.

BBB Day is here! This if finally happening!! Building starts tomorrow!

thank you guys! Just heard back from the chromers. They said it should be done by the end of next week which is awesome. So plenty of time left for strapping and all that stuff

Time to start thinking about making the belt. First I added some hook Velcro to the front tab and side tabs, since the back of the belt is lined with loop Velcro, then wrapped the belt around: It is huge and needs to be shortened: This will include unstitching some of the Velcro on the back of the belt, and cutting the rubber. Not ready for that today. So I moved on to more strapping. I’m going to reuse my garter belt from my ANH Stunt TK (top right in picture), so I made four looped straps that will have buckles on the bottom for adjusting the thighs (top left in picture). And I attached the buckles to elastics that will go inside the shoulder bells (bottom left in picture): I’ll attach these inside the shoulder bells once I figure out how low the biceps needs to hang.

Removed the tabs on the back of the torso so the spine/butt will sit better: Added elastic to inside of the butt, and a snap plate to the inside of the cod, for the crotch strap: I’ll add the female snap to the strap once I can put everything on and can get it the correct length.

This is an interesting one Dino. In most cases, TK's are shiny, gloss finish, and when looking at the two action figures, one is more reflective than the other. The only time we see a Matt or non gloss finish is on the TLJ Executioner troopers black details like Shoulder bell, helmet and Yolk of the back plate. If there is no clear descriptor for the grey areas, then I will discuss further with the LMO's and get back to you. In saying this, when looking at the animated images, it looks to be more a Matt finish than it would a shiny one. I'll keep you posted.

Small Update here Not many know that I had a depression 3 - 4 years ago, which ultimately resulted in gaining approx. 40kg from 90 - 130. Everyone who worked on the Anovos FOTK armor knows, that they are made for thinner people. Thats why I sold my FOTK back in 2016 or so. But: Talking to professionals and changing some mindsets really helped and you cannot imagine the happiness I felt, when I tried the armor on again. Yes, I built that armor on purpose by not fitting it to my proportions. Because I knew I once fitted in there. So.. yea Whats next: I'm still waiting for the detonator. The black FO TK boots as well as gloves are ordered from Imperial Boots. Once I get them, I get the boots 3d scanned to get the boot plates modeled so that they fit perfectly. Then painting the armor gloss black and then gold chroming

As promised, here's a hell ton of pictures First of all: My mood during sanding, filling and more sanding: Flashbacks when I did the Captain Phasma Armor Anyways.. Arms: The shoulders were kinda simple. Just trimming the excess ABS and glueing the tabs on. Bicep armor: Here my perfectionism hit me with a bat. I didnt like the soft details that happen due to the bac forming process, so I filled it and carefully filed the new details in. I used 2 part epoxy glue to glue and fill. Forearms: For the formarms I didnt use the ABS box, instead I used my resin box which has sharper edges. I made that box years ago for the First Order Gunner costume and for Phasma, I mirrored the master and made a mold of it. So why not make use of that for my personal costume as well Handguards: CFO Handplates from Dan, filled and sanded Chest: Back: Still WIP, nothing to show yet Detonator: Nothing to show yet Ab Armor Boxes are secured with screws Cod and Butt plate: Just one picture as these parts are not really interesting Thighs: Here I also filled the soft pulled detail and refiled the detail Shins: These were kinda tricky. I asked a good friend to help out. Unfortunately both halves werent fixed enough so while the glue hardened, it slightly changed position. To fix this, I filled the seam with 2 part epoxy and refiled the seam. As I already stated, I got the 2 shin bars 3D scanned. Then I mirrored the parts and printed the left and right version out. CFO Clip Greeblie If possible, I will update this post later with more pictures :-)