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Troop 27 May The North Be With You. Second Annual Star Wars Collectir Convention - Day 1 Oakville, Ontario Aug 5, 2023 This was the first of a 2 day convention. Today was mainly for collectors of Star Wars toys, with guest speakers giving panel discussions through the day. We were there to interact and take photos with the guests. It was a fairly small and intimate venue with about 40 people attending and we were invited to sit in and listen to the panel discussions. Panels were given by the creative team that did the animation for the Star Wars Christmas Special, Droids and Ewoks. I got to eat lunch with John Celestri, who designed and animated Boba Fett for the Christmas Special. In addition, we were entertained by a discussion by the design and production team for Irwin Toys (Canadian branch of Kenner Toys) who created the original 12 action figures, as well as the x wing, tie fighter and millennium falcon toys. Finally the highlight was an hour and a half talk with Roger Christian, production designer for ANH and Alien as well as Second Unit director for ROTJ and the phantom menace. I was able to get Roger to autograph the inner part of the magazine on my E-11 as it was him that actually created the original blaster for the movie. … and they had Cookies Picked up a fun sticker for my bin Then sat and listened to the panels.

TK Helmet Paint (Hero) Much happier with the teeth. Thanks @gmrhodes13! Other than that here’s the paint job in all it’s hand painted glory minus the tube stripes which are the decals that came with the kit. My day job is a design professor, so it bothered me at first to just kind of give in to the raw quality of the original paint. But now that it’s done I kind of love it. It makes it uniquely mine. I do have an Black Series TK helmet from years ago with perfect placement of everything. I’ll go glance at that one when I feel the need to see perfection. But I’ll happily and proudly wear this one to troop! Let me know if anything needs adjusting. And as always thank you for your guidance and feedback! Teeth are better now imho.

Nylon is doable, but as Glen mentioned it has no give. Elastic really helps there in making it easier to stretch and work with. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

For me. It was definitely more space and more clamps. I was slower to build because I could only glue and clamp so much at a time due to those limitations and I didn’t have space to lay out all my armor at once to work with so it was piece by piece. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Some nice painting there

I found some people have different calves too, I had to add an extra 15mm to a recruits armor I was building. Always compare how you look to references, here you can see very little gaps between some troopers armor pieces, you don't want to take too much off I would thread the height of the shins the same, with removing small amounts at time, it's easy to take more off but hard to put more back on. A little heat on the base can also help spread the opening allowing the shins to come down over your boots and ankles, may be worth have a look at.

I normally use doubled over elastic and take off 5mm from the desired width. Using nylon will stop it coming apart but the down side is try to get it closed as you won't have any give, still it's worth a try

Some recommendations I have. You may want to trim the upper return edge off your thighs to avoid armor bite. It can be no fun. Depending on your height and such you may also need to trim down the thighs a bit. Again this depends a lot on fittings. I’d also highly recommend against attaching thighs to the inner side of abdomen armor for strapping as this can cause the weight of the thighs and such to tug down on your armor leading to discomfort and potentially even unwanted fitting issues. What I and many have done is get a nylon belt and then use strong elastic loops to slide the belt through and hold thighs up via a belt separate from the armor. Some even add heavy duty suspenders too. Here’s my example. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Getting closer. This is Stable Diffusion. This is Bing It would be nice if I could say "Using this image as base, make these changes..."

Troop 118: 08/04/2023 - Camas ComiCon First Friday - Camas, WA (282nd troop overall)

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