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The5thHorseman

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  1. How come anything be more iconic than this armor?! Truly unbeatable. Thanks for sharing the picture!
  2. I don't know if you're already aware but you can start looking for an air pistol "Panther RO 72 Bullseye" as its rear sight is a found part used on the scope rail for the ROTJ E-11. These air pistol were made in Italy and aren't too hard to come by. In the course of half a year I have seen two selling. One in not working condition for 20€, and the other in an almost pristine condition with original box and air pellets for 40€.
  3. Looking darn impressive all geared up like that! Thanks for the pictures. It's always interesting to see side by side comparisons like that.
  4. I've always digged the ROTJ Blaster. With a hengstler it could be absolutely perfect. Still it's the one I prefer.
  5. What about just making screenshot of the speadsheet while it's open, and then post the pictures?
  6. Another interesting thing I noticed, this one about Finn's armor. In addition to the elbow notches, in few scenes, he also doesn't have any comlink boxes on his forearms. - During the raid on Jakku: - Same during Poe's escape: However, in all the other scenes, he has them just like any regular trooper. This might give us some indications regarding TFA's shooting chronology.
  7. http://www.whitearmor.net/forum/topic/33665-tfa-tk-build-threads-in-public/
  8. Could have been, but no. Maybe this black shoulder bell is the only screen appearance this trooper ever got.
  9. That's a very good start indeed! It reminds me that I'm at the exact same point with my MGC, so I'll be following your progress with interest
  10. The finished blaster without the tactical stock. The finished blaster with tactical stock. Very easy and quite enjoyable build in the end! T5H.
  11. First I’d like to thank Derrek who’s been kind enough to supply me with a tactical stock even though he said he wasn’t doing them anymore. Very nice of him. Overall the build was extremely straight-forward except for the end cap and tactical stock as I had to make them removable in order to have the possibility to swap between both configurations. When I received the kit, both flash protectors had been shattered into pieces during transit from Germany to France so instead of trying to glue the puzzle back I decided to grind them down and replace them with new ones made out of ABS scraps. As you can see in this pic, before making the final ones in ABS I first made paper templates. At this point I had also grinded the resin underneath the rear part of the scope rail. I also had to replace one of the peg used to glue the hengstler. I used the head of a pop rivet for that. Like the flash protectors, some of the T-tracks were damaged but nothing unfixable. The hardest has been to fix the forward grip as there were big holes into it. Holes like that are hard to fill because you have nothing to back your putty. But Derrek told me about it before sending me the kit, so I was aware of the issue and said it wasn’t bothering me. (Still a WIP in the picture) The front foot of the scope mount was broken during the transit too so I had to parse it back into one piece. For the trigger I went with a very simple solution. I used the rest of the rivet used before to fix the hengstler peg as a pin. Carved out notches into the folding stock and glued the pin ends inside them. This way the trigger is still free to move. I only had to fill the notches with putty once the glue had cured and sand smooth. The folding stock is secured to the barrel with three screws, one visible at the front, and two hidden by the handle. The two other screws sticking out from the folding stock are there to reinforce the gluing of the handle. For the tactical stock I reported the inner diameter of the PVC pipe that’s inside the barrel to the inside of the end cap, and then bored it until reaching the hollow core of the stock. I didn’t have a large enough drill bit for this so I had to use a M3 drill bit, the countersinking bit and the drumming wheel of my Dremel to do that… Quite a boring work (pun intended ). I then searched for something that would fit nice and tight between the two and found an old syringe that fitted perfectly. I sanded the outside of it to give it a little more grip. I was planning to glue it inside the tactical stock, but in the end the friction only is enough to keep it tight so I didn’t use any. Moment of truth. If I messed up when I reported the inner diameter of the PVC pipe to the tactical stock, the two won't slide together. Winning . A glimpse of the stock’s hollow core. And that's all! The rest is all paint. The parts ready for primer. Primmer applied. I used Light Grey Tamiya Fine Primer. I didn’t make any picture of how the end cap fits with the barrel with no glue but on this one you can see how it works. Pretty much the same thing than for the tactical stock. Then I went onto masking and painting all the parts. I must admit that some of them were not easy to mask and required some patience to do right. I first began by masking everything but the parts to be in white and applied two coats of gloss white in spray can. After that I masked the white and silver parts and painted the black. The black I used is Humbrol Enamel Matte Black n°33 applied with an airbrush. But I applied the third coat a bit too soon after the second and in the end the black has more of a satin finish. After the black coats, only the silver, black and red details were still to do. At this point I added TORX screws underneath the magazine, the folding stock, to the rear sight, and other places for accuracy. And yes the putty I used to fill the notches for the trigger has shrunk after I applied the primer but I didn’t bother smooting it again. I fastened the forward grip with the hinge using two TORX screws. The ones I used are too small but I only had four big ones and chose to use them on the handle instead. I also painted the inside of the pills on the ammo clip in red. Then I added the screws to the handle and hand painted the black and silver details of the scope mount. Silver details on the barrel. The silver I used is terribly wrong as you can see. It’s the Humbrol n°11 and Humbrol changed its formula lately and now it looks more like a grey than anything else… Well I still have two tins of it!
  12. By the way, I'm surprised it hasn't been discussed more but the yoke is indeed complete across the chest like an underneath chest plate, and it isn't seamless with the backplate. Which gives me the sheer pleasure of saying: "I told you so" .
  13. Excellent pictures! Thanks for taking the time to post them.
  14. The main thing for me is that the Hero helmet has quite a specific shape, different from a Stunt. Basically what you have here is a Stunt helmet with Hero details. The conversion work is really well done, and you'll get no problem getting approved and getting Centurion, but it looks wrong in the end. If you want it to look absolutely right, you're best bet would be to buy a proper Hero helmet from TrooperMaster.
  15. This "black" stripe doesn't appear like a stripe to me, but rather like a bad seam between two different parts of the detonator.
  16. http://www.whitearmor.net/forum/topic/37026-fan-made-abs-fotk-armor/
  17. Only seventeen. Let's try to stay accurate here. After all, It's all that matter.
  18. I'm sorry but this type of pictures don't prove a thing at all. The only differenes you're underlining here is the way the kit is split, which is not a real difference from an accuracy point of view. By the way, no need to compare Kevin's armor with the ANOVOS. It's obviously practically the same because Kevin is the one who sculpted the armor for ANOVOS. Honestly I don't care if you indeed recast ANOVOS as they are recasters themselves, but you're not going to convince anyone whith these pictures.
  19. Not the best 3D model in the world, but it's still looking nice! Do you have the final dimensions of it? It looks small to me on your pictures.
  20. I'm not to this part of the film yet (watching frame by frame takes a looooooot of time), but from what I recall the strap is attached where the front sticker goes:
  21. Looks like we aren't done with the End Cap rings yet More seriously, I guess this is how they attached the strap that is present on the blaster Rey is using at one point.
  22. You can try contacting Griffin-X here on FISD. He should still have a lot of spare to sell.
  23. Be careful, they are far more complex than what they appear to be. I have modelled them in 3D, and they have been a real nightmare to do.
  24. They do appear to have some white tape: Interesting to note that it seems like a common thing for the FOTK to have the forearms closed like that at the wrist by tape.
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