The5thHorseman

Belt is much more difficult to assemble right than what we would expect from it. It's really easy to screw up this part. At the time my brother built his suit i wrote a tutorial for him, and it ended up making almost 2 pages without being fully complete And i'm so pleased you finally decided to handpaint your helmet. I'll be honest, when i saw you used decals i cringed, but then i saw you removing them and get the brushes and i'm happy now And don't worry i developped an OCD too when painting. It was to always fully check the helmet twice or three time after each pain session, to be absolutely sure i didn't make some unnoticed fingerprints on it and to not let them dry.

Fast and well-deserved approval !

That's right, i forgot you have the original stock colour to match. I hope the texture won't be all smoothened by the paint layers, would be a shame

Texture is looking really good! Will you mask the whole barrel when you'll paint the t-tracks, mag, etc, or just paint over the crinkled finish?

Like Mathias says, no washers for me neither. But if your pop rivets are a little bit too long, i guess you can put a washer for adding some thickness.

It's pleasant to see arms rightly strapped together . The armor looks very good! Congrats! However, i think you could tapper a little more your frown ends. Especially on the left side which is a bit square right now. And also, you can definitely shave more of the ABS on the right side of your Abdominal plate. See the distance between the edge and the upper male snap below:

Oh my god, you're a genius!!! I spent so much time finding the right curves on mines so they fit my PVC pipe... It would have been so much easier with that trick Your reset button on the hengstler seems a bit long to me though: That blaster with a TM armor... Damn you will be totally kick*a*s*s

Agree

Position is good! You can drill

eFX didn't use pop-rivets on their Prototype Stormtrooper. So maybe it's why Vern is saying they were'nt used on the film: (but actually this is not a screen used armor so...)

Just hit your boots with your soles. It makes some very nice scuffs:

Once tightened the ear shouldn't be that bad i think.

I don't even see why you would have problems obtaining Centurion Except from your left shin which popped out from your boot in your indoor set, everything's perfect!

Excellent way to adapt glasses and TK helmet I should do the same... but i like trooping in the blind

Damn, you're right, i'm Colonel now ! Weird...

Looking very good! The black outlines could be a little bit narrower, especially the ones of the right tear, but overall that's very neat. I love the frown! It would have been great if have taken more pics of the way you fixed your ear gaps though. I think that would have helped lot of troopers.

I like to leave some room at the top. When the thigh is on, i'm able to slip 2 fingers between my thigh and the thigh armor.

Noooo... before painting you had one more mod to add... Just kidding ! PAINT the darn thing!! Edit: actually i don't remember: does it have an inner barrel?

In fact it's no elastic, this is gaffers tape. Look at the white hue between the elastic and the tape, it's a lot different It has probably been used because the glue didn't hold up during the film. Also the vertical elastic strap is looped around the canvas belt, and then riveted to the inner drop boxes, making a double layer of elastic.

Ear looks good to me. IMO the only way to close the front gap would be to drop down a little the ear, or perhaps by tightening harder the bottom screw. Your bottom screw localizationis good, no worries to have on this matter. And i guess the screw is provided to fasten the two halves of the helmet together, but i think we all use pop rivets for this purpose now. Edit: Steve beat me on that

This melting stuff is a myth for me too. I tried (several times) putting e6000 on a snap and then glue it to ABS and had no problem at all.

I notched it too:

Your armor looks awesome, truly! Except for this one thing: i wouldn't give Centurion with such elbow gaps like that. Strapping the forearms with the biceps doesn't reduce or block at all your movements. It just keeps them up when arms at side, while still allowing them to slide down when bent.

And where's the Boba Fett?

If your shoulder bridges extend too far in the back i think it's because they're glued a bit too high on the chest plate. They should be glued between the 5th and the 6th ridge not counting the first big one. Other than that, it's still some very impressive work! Congratulation to you and your engineer Edit: For Centurion you will have to trim down the front cover strip of the left thigh so it ends before the bottom ridge