Darth Voorhees

Thanks Guys! Ok so i finished the ANH bucket..less the tube stripes(which ill order soon) and the neck trim which ATA will send as soon as he has it in stock again. I did the trim with a deco color paint marker. I did the vocoder with black enamel paint with a "filbert" brush. It has a curved top. And here is the helmet... My Cat Diego likes it also! Ill likely start on the ESB helmet this weekend. Stay tuned!

haha Thanks bro! Doing the black outlines right now...ill have more pics up soon!

thanks bro. Actually..you may have missed something lol..see above post im buiding an ANH and ESB with the same set of armor. i have 2 helmets. This is the ANH one. I dont have the decals yet for the ESB one so i did this one first. Ill order them from mike later in the week.

Thanks bro! haha Im building a "switchy" So i can wear this suit as ANH or ESB. I got 2 helmets, 2 belt fronts and both ESB and ANH handplates. I decided to build the ANH helmet first cuz i havent ordered the ESB decals from Mike yet.

Did a little more work tonight. I wet sanded the helmet with 400grit sandpaper to allow the paint to stick better and then sprayed a few coats of gloss white Krylon Fusion for plastic. Pretty much emptied the can. I then hand painted the frown, ear rectangles and traps with testors grey #1138. Tomorrow i will do the black trim on the traps and ears, paint the vocoder, and put the brow back on. Heres what it looks like now..

SSkunky's tips are the best ive seen, with Keiths a close second. I also offer them, mine are accurate but basic. screw on the inside. Implanning on reworking mine to be a bit more accurate with the new info we now have on these. Mine are $12 shipped..PM me if your interested. You can get Dark green welders shield for...3 bucks... http://www.shoplet.com/Anchor-brand-Visors-3442-U-DG/SEPTLS1013442UDG/spdv ..you can get a few sets out of the one sheild.

Thanks John! Heres some more pics of the helmet done. Although this is an ABS kit, i am still going to paint it to give it a more accurate look. I went with the ABS for the durability factor. So here it is:

Just started a little bit on the kit today. I know its not much but thought id show ...something lol. I decided to start on one of the helmets first. Heres the rough fit of what will be the ANH helmet. I havent trimmed out the ears yet. Its being held together with magnets. But so far, so good.

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Thanks man....i will ASAP! Pm coming your way..

Yup, and also packages over a certain cubic size are supposed to default to 20lbs. regaurdless of size or weight. So i have no clue what that was all about....but yea, the good news is definately that i have it! So this thread can finally become a build thread. Maybe it should be renamed "the search for DV's armor" and moved to the NCO club and i should start a new build thread LOL! Anyway, i am now home and the armor looks fantastic! The buckets(i got 2, a regualr and a b grade) look amazing! Looking forward to diving into this!

LOL! Werd!

My thoughts exactly ripcode! But at last the arrmor has arrived!! I had to pay $4.15 cuz they say he underpaid...eh..no big deal..maybe thats why the held it..but seriously they should have known where it was as soon as myself or Terrell inquired. The post office is lame!

Thats good news! Glad its back in FISD member hands Yea, i have a first run one as well, and like yours, the gold has faded so much it is practically silver.

So the post office says...."we are still trying to locate your package"......sigh

i always use krylon flat black on my blasters. It has this grayish hue to it that just looks like a real weapon to me. That textured paint looks pretty awesome though too!

ya know, that sticker with the lightning bolt... and the textured plastic its made from looks incredibly like a "lightsaber" i had when i was a kid. It was basically a glow in the dark sword. and im 90% sure it had a sticker on it just like that. If im right,m this is old, star wars era..like somewhere between 78-80 or so. Probably rare for what it is but, obviously not what he thinks he has. "the first stormtrooper helmet to hit the market"....ummmmmm no lol

Sweet tutorial bro! You use alot of techniques i use...i like the black before the grey idea...smart! When the post office finally finds my box...ill be looking forward to building my kit...i got 2 helmets with mine so i can switch from ESB to ANH =) The ATA helmet looks fantastic..great job Terrell, and great Job puttin her together Panda!

thanks fellas! Any time Gra! cool. John! heh yea he probably would...ive done all the early versions..part 3 all theway through 7. and i did a part 9 as well.

ive used goo gone, does the same thing as the lighter fluid. Not "oops", as that is solvent based and will damage the armor...Goo gone is citrus based and does not damage the armor at all...works a treat!

yea sucks big time. Saw 2 postal trucks this morning both whizzed by...still no armor or call from the post office. As for the blaster builds..there are a few good ones. Mine is a little more extensive in some aspects than others..and less extensive in other aspects than others, but most are good threads...check emm all out and take ideas from all of em! i think i called mine the one step beyond e-11 build or something like that lol

i think i have 13 on my Sandys helmet.

Sure did...im beginning to think they lost this package though. when we call, they basiclly read us the same info thats on the tracking. Which is that it was last scanned 1am Feb 25th at "Bethpage NY and is on the way to its destination" Its very frustrating. i repeatedly tell them..Bethpage is less than an hour from the main NYC post office, which is literally 3 blocks from my job, which is where its going. how does it take over a week to get there? this was shipped priorty and it has now been 10 days since it shipped and 8days past the expected delivery date. We filed a missing package complaint and they said they need 2 business days ...so Monday is the second business day. They also said the shipper can do more from their end, so i e-mailed Terrell to see if he can get any info on his end, or at the very least get reimbursed for the item cost and be able to ship out another kit if it comes down to that. hopefully it wont...but for now im out a nice chunk of change and a set of armor This is actually why i stopped using the post office for anything large and domestically shipped. ill keep everyone updated on the outcome of this. check this out: tax return check was supposed to be sent out feb7th...was postponed till the 11th finally get the check, deposit it thinking it goes in as cash, as its a federal check, apparently not.......had to wait 24hrs for it to clear It clears, i go to paypal ATA...it wont let me send him anything but an e-check....(later found out my credit card on file expired..apparently that makes a difference event though it should have been a direct bank account transfer) ..so had to send an e-check...which takes 5-7 days to clear.. e-check finally clears ATA ships...and now this post office fiasco..... Someone out there REALLY doesnt want me to have this armor!

Still no armor...

you got it bro! Its definitely in the plans!Ive wanted one for years but rarely saw them. Plus alot of the time they were the newer 90s versions...i like the classic 79-80s versions so it looks like im going to have to make them myself haha. Definitely in the plans!