My First Stormtrooper Build! (help appreciated) - WIP

[troopermaster]

The white elastic tethers are supposed to be on your back plate to hold the ribbed shoulder straps in place. The shoulder straps should be glued to your chest plate.

 

Good to see you have the brackets in the correct position. Can you post a photo of your biceps showing the outer halves? It looks like you might have them upside down and there is a lot of return edge on them and your forearms too.

[Holnave (evan_loh)[TK]]

The white elastic tethers are supposed to be on your back plate to hold the ribbed shoulder straps in place. The shoulder straps should be glued to your chest plate.

 

Good to see you have the brackets in the correct position. Can you post a photo of your biceps showing the outer halves? It looks like you might have them upside down and there is a lot of return edge on them and your forearms too.

 

 

[troopermaster]

They are fine

 

I would still trim more off the return edges though.

[Holnave (evan_loh)[TK]]

Will do! I'm just giving all the pieces a test fit. So far the body armour fits well but buckles on the right and at the bottom seem to pop off after some movement. The shins seem to be a little long (looks like I have short shins). Will upload some pics of the shins when I glued the knee plate.

[troopermaster]

Do you mean the snaps/press studs?

 

Those will be fine once you have your belt on your armour. You want to have everything worn together before you start making any changes or worrying about something unnecessarily.

[Holnave (evan_loh)[TK]]

Ah ok. I guessing the belt presses the armour and holds it all together

[gmrhodes13[Staff]]

I use a belt and braces, then elastic to hold the thighs up, there is also elastic between the shoulder bells, biceps, forearms, keeps everything in the right places. You can also put elastic from you're boots to the bottom of you're shins this will keep them from drifting up. There are all different ways people add elastic, have a look through some of the build threads, I think there also may be a few how too's also.

[Holnave (evan_loh)[TK]]

I use a belt and braces, then elastic to hold the thighs up, there is also elastic between the shoulder bells, biceps, forearms, keeps everything in the right places. You can also put elastic from you're boots to the bottom of you're shins this will keep them from drifting up. There are all different ways people add elastic, have a look through some of the build threads, I think there also may be a few how too's also.

Thanks Glen. Thankfully there's a fabric shop nearby my place. Gonna make a trip there to look for some elastics

Edited July 3, 2013 by evan_loh

[Holnave (evan_loh)[TK]]

Belt has just arrived. I stitched the elastic straps into a loop and glued them to the back of the dropboxes. I'm unsure whether they're glued or riveted. I have seen some build threads where the rivet them but I want to be sure first. At the moment the glued dropboxes still hold pretty fine.

 

 

 

 

 

I am still waiting for the caps to arrive. Will update as soon as I get them.

Edited February 18, 2014 by evan_loh

[gmrhodes13[Staff]]

Looking good I would move your drop boxes to the end of the belt, the glue should hold the fine, mine have not dropped off as yet. Keep up the great work

[Holnave (evan_loh)[TK]]

Looking good I would move your drop boxes to the end of the belt, the glue should hold the fine, mine have not dropped off as yet. Keep up the great work

 

Thanks Glen. Glad to know that they don't boxes don't drop easily

[gmrhodes13[Staff]]

 my pleasure

[Holnave (evan_loh)[TK]]

Buttons haven't arrived so I've decided to make my own temporary one for the pictures...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I have recently applied for a spot in the 501st. Hopefully they will get back to me soon! And then I can get this cleared in the UK Garrison too

[Holnave (evan_loh)[TK]]

I have trimmed behind the knees and adjusted the ab plate to go up higher by a little.

My left shoulder is fine but was in an awkward position when the shot was taken







A couple of shots that weren't too visible from the pics




 

[Holnave (evan_loh)[TK]]

Not some major differences here but I tapered the thighs a little. I didn't want to overdo it as I'm not too comfortable trimming off too much now that, I hope, I'm pretty much there.

 

 

Here's a close up shot of the elastic bands and how it looks on me..

 

 

It was recommended that I trim back of the knees for more comfortable movement so I did some

 

 

Hoping to get cleared soon! Can't wait to be a part of the Legion and start trooping with others

[gmrhodes13[Staff]]

Looking good, hopefully approval won't take too long

[Holnave (evan_loh)[TK]]

Just got cleared and am in the UK Garrison and proud too!

 

Thanks guys for all the help provided. Really appreciate them