The5thHorseman

I think this new solution for the thigh will visually work better indeed. Now I didn't mean to make you start all over again, and that notch was indeed beautifully crafted (!), but it just felt a bit off for me. And like you said, more booty clearance this way .

Front view looks absolutely perfect. I'll be honest, I'm not completely fond of the notched thigh at the back, but I reckon it should do what it's designed for and help you a lot for mobility. In the end this is what matters for you.

I could have that one tattooed on my chest! Wicked design! I'm nitpicking but if you could remove the return edge at the wrist on the right arm, and fix the area that should be black between the shoulder bell and biceps on the left arm, you would achieve perfection to me.

Oops, looks like your inbox is full Eric. So here's the PM: "Hi Eric, I've tried to take better pictures of the doll with a non-white background but it's been hard. I'm not very good at pictures and most of them turned out completely off colorwise. I managed to sort four of them better than the rest; 2 with the same background, and two with a non-white background. I hope you'll manage to make something out of them. Here's the link to dowload the pictures: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7nj6b5pmqUDUWdaaXN2UUpXLW8/view?usp=sharing "

Yeah, I don't have enough clearance between most limbs. Rigging the doll turned out a bit more complicated than what I had expected and I made common mistake to rush it... It still makes a nice rattling sound when you shake it though! Thanks Paul. I agree that this little doll is the nice kind of thing to have around at Celebration. Unfortunately I made it as a gift so it's not going to be mine much longer and I don't really want to start the whole process again to make a second one right now. Sending you a PM Thanks a lot to you all guys!

Alright, I know this tittle is kind of fraudulent! Yes, this thread isn't about the R1 stormtrooper armor (you hear me complaining about it enough already) but about Jyn's stormtrooper doll. To be honest, I'm not particularly a "Rogue One" fan but of all the stormtroopers we can see in the film, this little guy is by far the best looking one. So here's my little tribute to him. The fun/tedious particularity for this one is that I tried to keep the weathering job somewhat accurate instead of fully random as I have mostly seen so far. Main reference: First I sketched it several times until I settle with a scale that felt about right. Then I modeled the doll in 3D. 3D printed it. Smoothed and preped the parts for paint. Weathered them keeping reference at hand. The finished, rigged doll. I added the two traps at the rear of the head because I think there's a good chance they might be there on the original doll. I should have added the "O II" detail to the back too though. Edit: Turns out there are no traps at the rear of the head, however no "O II" symbol either. But the equivalent of the kidney plate should be recessed instead of even with the rest. In my hand. Finally, the dreadful comparison versus the original prop. Not doing too bad. Thanks for reading, T5H.

Yes, please keep the thighs like that if you can work with it! The OT thighs are so beautifully shaped, to me it's almost like the body of a car. They're also very much part of the look for a correct OT stormtrooper. If you compare them with those ugly short tube-looking thighs that the Rogue One stormtroopers have you should reckon how important they are.

Well done! So what's left to do now? Front flashlight and it'll be done?

If you're after accuracy, move along. Ain't much correct with this 3D model. But as Paul says, it'll be good enough if it's only for trooping.

Now that's what I call proper over-engineering! I personally prefer keeping it simple when possible

Wow, you're going so fast! Your smoothing technic really does wonders.

Always great to have some OT goodness like that!

Don't worry, it doesn't alter in a bad way the outside look of the hengstler as some of the original blasters have that extra screw. Original blaster:

Attack of the Death Star by the Rebel squadrons in A New Hope. Best space battle ever made! It gets me every time. But there are so many others scenes of anthology in the OT that it's really hard to pick only one.

Nice setup! By the way, personally I ended up using a second screw to keep the hengstler cover in place because only one at the bottom corner wasn't really enough. So I made a "L" bracket with some ABS scrap that I welded to the inside of the cover near the upper corner and used a second screw to secure it with the hengstler body. You can see the second screw on this picture: Edit: Of course, using a socket screw would be better!

Haha, you actually took the time to fix the slight asymmetry that my 3D file has! Nice. Anyway, welcome into the sanding madness! And just a little note: some blasters have the junction between the front part of the folding stock and the rear part visible, so smoothing it isn't actually compulsory

That hengstler looks absolutely... smooth! Impressive. With all the little details, corners, and such, it really is a tedious part to do. One note about the eletronics for both the magazine and hengstler: in fact for best accuracy your switch should be reachable from the outside so you don't have to open the hengstler or magazine to power them up. I don't know if you have read the "Instructions" .pdf I have made and that goes with the 3D files, but I talk about that during the "build example". Also about the muzzle, the black part of the front sight can be pushed a little further down. It should be touching the bottom of the groove. And one last thing I didn't notice before: you have the same issue with the silver part of the scope mount. The rear of it isn't fullly interlocked with the other part and that's why your scope appears a little crooked downwards. About for the attachment mechanism for the tactical stock, I guess you could use the screw that secures the rear sight in position. If you take one long enough you should be able to reach and secure at the same time the tactical stock. When you will want to swap, you will just have to remove a little the screw until you can pull the stock off, and retighten the screw after.

Looking good! Getting a whole F-11D with the tactical stock smooth is quite a challenging thing to undertake. Good luck with what you have left to do! Hengtsler.., tactical stock....., front barrel with T-tracks....... Pure joy ahead!!

That T-shirt rocks! Now, no offense to your family, but be careful with the advices of untrained eyes. The original stormtrooper helmet is big. Almost oversized compared to the rest of the body. I'd be curious to see what you look like with your armor and the stunt helmet one. About the side of the shoulder bells. I didn't understand what you were talking about before, but yeah most of the originals appear to have been trimmed in a curve and not straight along the chestplate. If the RS ones are straight, the only way to fix this will be trimming I guess.

Are you sure it's the shoulder bells that catch on your chest plate and not the biceps hooks? I broke at least four hooks because of that. When I extended my arm, it would catch on the chestplate and either break or block me. I've always found that many of the shoulder bells on the original armors seemed quite heavily reshaped at the bottom. Or perhaps it's just the combination of a very flexy ABS, with a tensed elastic at the bottom? Anyway, maybe you could just try making yours wrap a bit more around the biceps with a heatgun. It's alway a risky move however. Or maybe a bit of padding inside the shoulder bell like this guy seemed to have could help (but as he's a stunt man, this foam may just be extra protection so he doesn't hurt himself because of the fall): Edit: In fact this isn't padding, but an explosive charge set inside his shoulder bell But if it's the fact the shoulder bells get inside the chestplate that bothers you, don't stress too much about that as it's quite a common thing. two of many examples (enjoy the flex on the chestplate BTW):

Great looking arm strapping. Elbow gaps should definitely be mentionned in the CRL and forbidden in my opinion. However, with time you will probably realize that using a snap to each end of the elbow strapping is actually "over-engineered". Gluing one end, and using a snap to the other is actually more than enough. I see what you mean Michael. For ultimate accuracy these straps should just be glued, but Christine has already done few things differently than the originals for her strapping so it's not that bad. At least the outside look is great. Haha, not something we would really say in french! I guess we'd rather say "T'as de la jugeote toi" .

Yes, that's because the ATA helmet is from several generations of recast, when the RS is straight from an original helmet. Basically, the RS lid has the correct size when the ATA is too small. But with your smaller frame I guess it's a good thing for you!

Nop, just vacuum-formed in ABS. For example (pic from Troopermaster):

This thigh gap is clearly unintentional, expecially when you see how asymetrical it is: The thighs for the OT stormtrooper are supposed to be worn high. All the gaps between armor parts should be kept minimal in fact.

We also have visual confirmation from a FISD member that the screen-used ROTJ armor that was exposed at the EMP museum, during the "Power of Costumes" exposition, used rivets to secure the shoulder bridges. Even though what he described what even more complicated than rivets. What he described was a snap secured to the shoulder bridge with a rivet with an opposite snap secure to the chest. Member was "Toddo" if I recall correctly. Edit: http://www.whitearmor.net/forum/topic/29913-emp-rotj-costume/#entry382045