firebladejedi

I have some in a uk size 13 which would be us size 14...

My new helmet has nine teeth - thats me out Ok here woule be my list of requirements. Helmet; grey frown,ears and traps, green lens, decent hovi mic tips, black vocoder and between 6-10 teeth. Torso; shoulder bridges glued at front, free to float at rear with thin white elastic. 6 rivets on left side, single snap on right. crotch rivet and 2 snaps on butt needed. No need for shims to close side gap as this is not accurate. Belt, canvas belt, leather holster rivited to belt. Gloves; rubber gloves with latex handplates. Boots; black chelsea boots painted white. If you dont use these standards how is this going to be any different from EI? If you have to be EI before applying for this all of the basic and EI standards will already be covered right?

Looking very nice - I love the helmet

Ok a quick update on my build; I have trimmed the eye sockets out a bit and removed the pronounced bump in the right eye.. I trimmed a little off the ear width by a couple of mm and notched the top of the ear to sit tighter.. I trimmed the teeth and cut out the ninth tooth on the left.. And i have detailed the helmet using the Dave M style decals from TK4510, painted the frown and ears with humbrol #5, the vocoder with humbrol #21 and added dark green welders shield for the lens. On my to-to list is add an elastic chin strap and star shapped foam liner.. and take some nice pics in daylight - until then, here is my 2010 TM stunt

I needed a new bucket to go with my almost complete new armour build. Late last year i bought another TM 2mm acrylic capped suit without helmet as i still had my 1.5mm flexy helmet done up as an ESB lid. But i wanted another ANH lid and my best buddy Graham, our very own G4Tyrant happened to be selling a nice lid, so i bought it all fully assembled. This is how it arrived, and ive been doing a few tweaks over the weekend to put my own stamp on it... Pics will be following shortly and i will be debuting the full set next weekend

I remember back in the day when i built my TE2 armour i used much bigger strips than what i needed on my last 3 TM's simply because the armour is so different in size. Its a common question and 1 i always answer with; use whatever size strips are needed to make the armour build look right - not what they were percieved to be. I think i used bigger strips everywhere...

Here's a good ref pic Here's the snap on the body

Cool I look forward to seeing your build

Dennis you have done a wonderful job on making this a very accurate stormtrooper and look absolutely fantastic wearing it

Sure does if you are stretched out like this guy is

Hi Noel the pictures you have shown of my first TMâ„¢ suit above I just simply added the rivets and snap for looks. They had no actual function ....

I love all metal and real parts blaster builds - awesome

IIRC the first jedi suit to be copied was a skip dive and was not complete. Or if there were 2 arms ans legs they were percieved at the time to be the same.. So while the later TE kits had extra parts suplimented from a tour suit the earlier AP and current AP kit was never changed. I dont like the extra tour suit parts added later to the TE kits anyway, so with a little work the parts you have will be fine..

I may have some split rivets somewhere I need to check for someone else...

It's great to see another ESB trooper build

I use plastic weld and just run it around the seem to glue on the shoulder bridges. They are just for looks and shouldn't be used for any other purpose. E-6000 takes too long to dry here in my opinion.

All decals and if they don't fit quite right that's even better.

Well done Paul

Iirc Bermens and Nathans made the Jedi suits?

Apart from the other little small details mentioned above i would trim the eyes out a bit more - good work so far

TM makes a good hero helmet so again I would sell what you have and get the hero. Check Tk4510 thread for converting a stunt TE2 into a hero

Well done Paul a very deserving ESB EIB reciprient

Hi Paul these photos are brilliant - and are exactly how every eib application should be The armour looks great - and everything as it should be Easy pass I'd say...

Ever seen Star Wars Helmets dot com????

I do this all the time