shashachu

Maybe we'll run into each other sometime; not sure how common it would be for the GGG and Central California Garrison would be at the same event.

Hey, my TKID is 19233 and my EIB number is 766. Spooooky. Congrats!

Amazing work!

Congrats, Stephen! This has truly been a labor of love. Definitely an inspirational thread for all new builders.

You're off to a great start! For the biceps, what about if you split the difference between the outer and inner pieces? ie mark the center line and trimmed some from the outer and some from the inner so that they end up around the same size. A little asymmetry is totally normal but it's nice to have the cover strips roughly in the middle.

Congrats, Jeff! I think you may only be the second WTF centurion?

Awesome job! And that AT-ST is amazing.

Chest is looking *much* better! Bravo. You're almost there!

Voted!

Painting looks great! If you want you could clean up tiny bits of the outside edges of the black outlines, but I think it's probably fine as is. Screen accurate! I also used the Trooperbay stencils and they worked out great. I did have to trim the tube stripe stencils because they were too long to fit the WTF bucket, but there's no required number of stripes. Here's mine for comparison: Also your ab buttons look 10000x better than mine and I've been approved for EIB.

Cool, can you PM me your address? Will try to drop it in the mailbox tomorrow (it'll go out Monday.)

Hey! I saw that you're actually selling your WTF kit. Do you think you'll still need the rivets? I can also hold off sending them until you've gotten a kit. Let me know.

Great! I'll PM you probably this weekend to get your address.

Also, I won a set of rivets from justjoseph but didn't end up using them because I'd already purchased a set of them. I'd be happy to pass them on to you, no charge. I'd need to double check when I get home, but should be a set of split rivets as well as single cap rivets for the thigh ammo pack. And re the gloves, non rubber gloves are approveable for EIB. Only Centurion requires rubber gloves.

Awesome! Glad to see another WTF kit in the works. I'm the opposite of you - super small - but I love my WTF kit and got approved last month. Good luck with your build!

Super cool photos! Love the portraits at the end. Also, I spy FX armor! That guy must be old-school 501st.

Hey Stephen! First, sorry about the bad advice re the cod rivet placement. As for your armor, I feel like the chest and shoulders look a little big all around. See how much the edges of the chest stick out from the ab armor? I'd consider heat bending the chest so it wraps around your torso more tightly. I believe Cricket did it, and I did it as well. What are the measurements of your shoulder bells? Somehow they look very wide as well. I might consider trimming them for width, or maybe wait until you've adjusted the chest to see. But in general your upper body looks bigger than your lower body, and I think it'd look more proportional if you brought your chest and shoulders in. For the legs, there's a decent amount of overlap between your thighs and both the cod and butt plate. In an ideal world I think your kidney could be a bit smaller but with the brackets, redoing the strapping will be a pain. Maybe trim the tops of the thighs? I'm not sure what the best solution there is.

Yeah I want to switch the gloves out for other ones (nomex or something) so I was going to try to do something more temporary. I guess E6000 can be removed.

Awesome! What a great start to the day. I am planning on going for Centurion if I can figure out how to get the darn rubber hand guards to stick to my rubber gloves. Really looking forward to trooping together some day, too!

Ukswrath's buiild says the cod rivet should go 1 to 1 1/2" from the edge of the cod, and the posterior snaps should be about 5/8" and 1 3/8" in from the edge.

Looking good! I believe for EIB they want a 1/2" or less gap on both sides of the ab/kidney so they might ask you to tighten up the right side.

You should upload to a site like imgur and post links to your pics instead of uploading straight to the forum. I know there was a post about how to do it, but I can't find it at the moment.

Thank you both! I'm generally not super detail oriented, but I had a lot of fun putting the kit together.

General Information Name: Sha Sha Chu FISD Name: shashachu Legion ID#: 19233 (Legion profile page) Garrison: Golden Gate Garrison Mandatory Information Armor Maker: WTF (Walt's Trooper Factory) Helmet Maker: WTF (Walt's Trooper Factory) Blaster Type: Hyperfirm B-Grade Additional Information Height: 5' 3" Weight: 125 lbs Boots: TK Boots Canvas Belt: Rob Kittell Hand Plates: n/a (these pics are with the ABS plates) Electronics: iComm & Aker amp, self-made fans Neck Seal: Soulart aka Theresa aka Geeky Pink's Phantastic Gaskets Holster: Darman's Props Centurion Level Rivets and Screws: justjoseph63 Build Thread: (still in progress) Photos Full Body Front: Left: (I cleaned my armor after these pics...) Right: Left arms raised: Right arms raised: Back: (green light is the light from the USB power source for my fans; I'll put a piece of electrical tape over it) Right side detail: Left side detail: Action shot: Helmet off: Armor Detail Abdomen detail: Cod + Butt attachment: (uses the split-rivet-in-snap method) Interior strapping: Left side rivets: Shoulder bridge elastic: Thigh ammo box: Sniper knee: Forearm wrist ends: Helmet Hovi tips: Green lenses: Helmet screws & ear bumps: S-trim: Blaster Accessory Details Neck seal: Thermal detonator w/ pan head screws: Holster attachment: Boots: Thanks for your consideration!

Yes, your biceps are sitting low as well. Are they attached at all to the shoulder bells? I have them connected via snaps/elastic; other people use the bicep hook.