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Name: Adam Wolf Height: 5'11" Weight: 148 lbs Armor: AP Helmet: AP Blaster: Denix / Blaster Factory / Self Boots: Imperial Boots Canvas Belt: AP Hand Plates: Rubber (AP) Electronics: Ukswrath (Hovi-tip Speakers, Hearing Assist, & Fans) Neck Seal: Darman's Props Pauldron: Trooperbay Ammo Pouches: Ebay seller Luckyline1945 (full leather) Pack: Garageboss / Self 501st armor link: https://www.501st.com/members/displaymember.php?userID=34307&costumeID=122 Pack Build Thread: EIB Thread: Full Body Photos: Front Back Right Right Right side detail (pack painting/weathering removed as requested, strap fixed as requested) Left Left Left Detail (strap changes shown) Previously shot EIB Trading Card Action Shot Armor Details: Cod/Posterior connection. Shoulder bridges (hidden when suited up, so I did these pix) Other shoulder bridge Shoulder bridge rear (also hidden when suited) Ammo pack knee and split rivets Sniper knee front and support Sniper knee sides Wrist opening Ab buttons Butt - Kidney connection Interior strapping Shoulder/bicep strapping Helmet Details: Front Left Back Right Interior and lens color S-trim (currently glued in place, so I'm resubmitting my original Centurion photo of this piece) Vocoder and Hovi Tips Ear screw detail right Ear screw detail left Accessories: Neck seal and thigh garter Pauldron and chest pouch Pauldron weathering, pouch attachment snaps, and foam filler. Belt and pouch front (New belt created for HWT, still AP sourced) Belt and pouch rear Belt and pouch detail (hopefully) showing alignment. Pouches have foam filler. Rubber gloves Boots Pack Front Base - Garageboss Button box, Vent box, Tombstone box, radio knobs, and drop siphon are all printed in ABS. All lines sanded and smoothed with acetone. Wipe box - Meguiars Radio box - plastic junction box with laser cut acrylic fascia Mortar tube - PVC with AP shoulder strap and TD end caps. Pack Rear with updated painting Tube close up showing weathering removed from the support pieces and rivets painted. Blaster: Right Left Details. Base - Denix metal replica (18 lbs) T-tracks - Blaster Factory Disk - Blaster Factory Right Side Cover Plate (small): Blaster Factory (printed) Left Side Cover Plate (large): Self fabricated (aluminum U channel) Thank you for your time, consideration, and helping me build the best armor I can build!

Heeeyyyyy!!!! Congrats on the first troop! Both you and @TheSwede are looking fantastic!

So close to a full kneel! And a fun looking troop.

What's going on my 505 brother! Don't hesitate to reach out with questions. We can help you here or the local garrison can help you in person.

+1 on Glen's observation. All look weathered off to me. The originals likely started black dipped and had the tips rubbed white with natural use. Painting the tips white originally would give a different wear pattern than any of the screen examples display.

10/15/22 - Walk to End Alzheimer's TK 89400 - 32nd cumulative TK troop, 4th HWT TI-50597 - #4 CLOR-5435 - puppy handler Mabel - Troop #1. No need to describe this troop. An excellent cause, as Alzheimer's runs in my family. My WHOLE family made this troop. Since it was nearby, low stress, and very open to our 4 footed companions, Mabel suited up with her little TK mount and trooped with us. No, I didn't make a HWT pack just for this. Really. Really. With my buddy Joseph in one of his original suits (he's over 900 troops). In memory of Reenie, a garrison mate and TIE pilot who recently passed. Many flowers on our packs and armor. The little troop did well. I used my rubber DLT to help me achieve a personal first - kneeling!!! No damage to knee or armor. Mabel thought it was pretty sweet too. With the Jr. ROTC group. They *loved* our rubber blasters. Just a TK and his dog. Nothing to see here. Move along.

10/14/22 - Charity Gala 31st cumulative TK troop! TI-50597 - #3 CDZ-(CLOR!!!) 5435 - #10 This was a charity gala event to benefit Veterans Integration Center and a local animal rescue (Watermelon Mountain Ranch). It was also my daughter's debut of her new Little Leia costume. She seems to be the 2nd in the GA, with the first possibly being the actual actress. She was SO happy. (I'm behind her, and her mom is far left) The plan was to have a Carrie Fisher birthday photo with all of the local Leias, but we only had General Organa and Little Leia in attendance... so I did what I had to do. My wife (trooped with the TIE bucket at the actual gala) also helped out. Expect more HR troops from her. She loved joining Dolores's HR team. Unfortunately, my fellow TKs did not take kindly to the buns and I was disciplined. They had a photo booth at the gala. We invaded after the gala denizens were though posing with us. I think we need photobooths at every event from now on. These physical booth prints are hanging proudly on my blaster wall. Securing the area... ... for photos with the boss! Bonus pix Her approval photo. I'm so proud of the outfit. Figuring out what actual colors everything was on screen took WORK. She could be a stunt double if she wasn't about a foot taller than the actress. HR Rep Livia is reporting to a garrison near you. "DON'T MAKE THE JOKE DAD!!! JUST DON'T!!!" lol lol lol

Also, YOU LAID DOWN IN YOUR ARMOR?!?!?!?! I can sit (barely) but laying down seems like plastic-suicide.

As an OCD trooper who cleans his armor after every troop and polishes it about every 3 troops... your natural weathering is a thing of beauty!!! I love it. And though it's probably best to give it a cleaning before Centurion application, it'll re-weather itself quickly, I guarantee. Maybe even better... natural weathering in layers is far more real after all than just one go at dirtying. With my recent HWT project, I've discovered the joy of wearing weathered armor. It has so much character and I get so many complements! It'll be hard to go back to being Death Star Clean™ after enjoying the dirty side. I may never be that clean again. PS - loved finding your build thread! I never saw it before.

I also use some padding inside my thighs, but just at the knee to keep them from getting in the way of the shins. That sniper knee can get annoying hiding under the thigh... On the chance that you're simply asking HOW to trim the thighs, you're very close. You have the bottoms lined up, which is correct. The tops simply fold over like you have them and then you trim them together evenly at the top to get the proper angle. This was my own leg fitting. Note the extreme overlap. We already trimmed the thigh tops a bit so that they weren't digging into my butt and I could actually achieve a proper thigh fitting. Don't worry about trimming off some pointy parts at the top before you can get a fitting. So you overlap them, tape them, and mark a center line. Then you snip off one side followed by the other and install the cover strips. USE A STRAIGHT EDGE to make a perfect line from your boot seam to your butt. This was my basic approval rear photo. Note that my cover strips are perfectly straight. However, the line should intersect the center of the knee. Mine is offset. This is okay, but not ideal. SO! Try to get your straight edge lined up at the boot seam, knee center, and thigh center. I hope this helped at least somewhat... the legs are tricky and it's very very nice to have help from an experienced trooper who built them before.

I nearly spit out my tea. lol But really... when I walk into the garage and it smells of curing E6000, it reminds me of the time that @Scimitar and I built my armor in a week long sprint. Happy memories.

DEPLOY THE CLAMPS!!! And you really get used to E6000 fumes. They sorta become comforting.

I am not at all trying to lawyer or argue here, I want to make sure that's clear. I will likely do this soon anyway as I very much agree that it would bring the bucket up another small notch. HOWEVER. This isn't listed in the Centurion Requirements section, right? It's just a suggestion? I ask because I noticed it was specifically not added to the HWT CRL. The latest update to it included the bit about 3D print lines being removed on the pack, but that was the only change. The ear/screw alignment is not present in the CRL nor is the rear thigh/knee gap update. Sooo.... do I have to relocate ear screws for Centurion? This is embarrassing and the fault of the camera angle. I'll shoot an updated shot. I worked kinda hard on this and have no head angle restriction with my chest box mounting. No problem!!! I'll get these painted up.

Big day for approvals Thanks so much!!!!

It's ANIMATED!!!

Congratulations Centurion!!!!

Congratulations Centurion Cupcake!!!

I do love me some good counter obsession. Beautiful work!

Alright... I've now had three (3!!!) heavy weapons troops. I did two troops on the first day for a total of about 5 hours with the pack. Five hours. These little straps were TORTURE DEVICES. There are no words for how much pain my shoulders were in with these little 1" guys. And as a bonus I had the buckles right up on the front of my chest. It's four days later and I still have bruises. I skipped a morning troop and redid my straps. This is a 50oz Camelbak hydration pack. It's the smallest Camelbak I could find. I bought it with the idea of wearing it under my actual TK armor on extremely hot troops. I did a test fitting and with the bottle full, I can't get my armor to strap shut. It's honestly a very small hydration pack. I thought it could fit inside the OII, but it's still just too big, so it has been sitting in my closet for about 3 months now. Then I had the death march with those terrible 1" straps. Then I started eying all the backpacks and padded laptop straps laying around my house. I noticed this guy just waiting to go into service. SCORE. The camelbak came with this sort of strap connection. Not at all a quick release. I sliced the old buckle free and installed my own. It was quite easy with an X-acto knife. Held together with pop rivets like most of my pack. I'm not sure if the DOs will be happy with this for EIB and Centurion, but I can always paint them black. I liked the little pop of metal on the strap. The new straps are 1.5" wide vs 1". Not a whole lot wider, but it's honestly enough. I strapped the empty hydration pack on and had my daughter climb on it to see how the straps felt with weight. Uncomfortable due to the bruising but not at all painful. So... I hacked the holes up a bit more in my oil can. And there it is installed. It's a thing of beauty. Note that the chest strap extensions (loose 1" webbing) are still there if, for some reason, I figure out how to have a chest strap on this rig. The buckles are also nice and low near the bottom edge of the pack. This makes it much more comfortable and much easier to strap myself into. I actually did a full solo suit-up on my third HWT troop. The little plastic buckles are also still present. Their purpose is to hold the hydration pack hose in place on a shoulder. They hide under my armor and are completely invisible when worn, so I'm leaving them in place for now. My wife sewed some hook-side velcro onto the webbing at the shoulder rub zone after some test fitting. I've got cheap paintball helmet padding velcro'd in place to give my shoulders a bit of extra padding. And it's WONDERFUL! I can dance, run, jump around, and troop happily for hours even with previously bruised shoulders. The hydration pack storage pouch is still accessible if I want to try having water in my HWT pack. It would be a bit of a chore to wedge in there, but I think it could be done. And there's a hole in the side of the oil can to let the hydration hose come out of and into my bucket. All closed up under the velcro & jersey liner.

Curved lexan scissors can really save your sanity. I believe this is the set I bought ages back. https://www.amazon.com/Hobbypark-Puncher-Scissors-Straight-Trimming/dp/B088X1M5VM/ Long straight sections can be scored with a razor blade and snapped off, but curved fiddly bits like the biceps really benefit from those little curved shears. They make quick work of things.

Contrast with that dark pack could certainly be a lot better. Sorry about that Glen.

I think it's the first Denix metal replica to be brought forward for approval, so I wanted it to be as perfect as possible.

Looking SHARP Gerald! Good luck!!! Not that I think you'll need it. I think you hit the bullseye.

Thanks @Doggydoc @MaskedVengeance @justjoseph63 and @Nairy They're always shot in my garage. I bought that big sheet of wool-like material at the fabric store and just magnet it to the back of the garage door after ironing. I have a really well-lit garage.

That's an outstanding repair. Well done!!!