TK-73427 Requesting ANH Stunt EIB Status [ATA][457]

[Coastertk]

Name: Jay Bath

Armor: ATA

Helmet: ATA

Blaster: Doopy Doos Pipe Build

Height: 5'10"

Weight: 195lbs

Boots: TKBoots

Canvas Belt: Trooperbay

Hand Plates: Sonnenschein

Holster: Darman

Neck Seal: Darman's Wife

Electronics: Aker 1506 with ICOMM, Echo's Fan System, Skyminer's Environmental Audio System

 

Thank you for your consideration.

Edited April 14, 2015 by Coastertk

[Barcode]

Looks good mate. 

[Tusken RTT]

Really nice!  Great job. 

[Techne[TK]]

Looking good!  Go ATA!

[Haribon72[TK]]

Awesome!!!

[Sly11[Admin]]

Looks great.

 

 

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[ukswrath[Staff]]

Awesome job Jay   shooting for Centurion I see. 

 

Gazmosis may ask to see a pic or your forearm return edge, but from what I can see you're spot on. Also, your thigh rear cover strips are a bit unconventional but I'll leave this to the Steve to comment on. 

 

See you at the top sir 

[gazmosis[501st]]

Mr. Jay!! Thank you for your application to EIB! Let's waste no time and get to it!

CRL and EIB Application Requirements:

All required photos have been submitted. Your armor contains all necessary elements to qualify for EIB. With that, I would like to congratulate and welcome you to Expert Infantry!!!

 

Other-Armor Fit/Assembly: In this section I will discuss observations by both your fellow troopers and myself that are suggestions to improve the overall final look of your armor. These suggestions will not affect any application. Those that do are listed in the above or below sections.

First I want to commend you on some great custom armor work. This is an example of just how seamless shims can be added with a little time and patience. If you said nothing, most could not even tell they were not there originally. Well done, Sir!! 

A nice, solid overall build. 

I want to both commend and comment about your paintwork on both your helmet and ab buttons. The buttons I will discuss further below. Congrats on this accomplishment. Hand painting these details can be stressful if you are not used to it. Small details, however, can make a BIG difference. Although I am not requiring a change here, I truly believe a little alteration can go a long way towards improvement. The black that outlines the details on the tears and traps should be a minor pinstripe at best. This is harder than it looks to accomplish. Yours are good. Have I seen and prefer thinner? Yes. What I am suggesting is a slight alteration of the shape--specifically the tops of the traps. You have them very boxy and angled at the top corners. This should be more rounded. This is an easy alteration with a brush dampened with thinner. Round off the corners and touch up with black. Done. While you have the brush and thinner out, you can try to even out the outline of the left ear. The next thing are the tube stripes. Although your positioning and shape are right on, I have just never seen them left so short. I thumbed through a ton of pics from screen grabs to archive stuff and could not locate a helmet where the tube stripes didn't go almost to if not touching the ridge at the corner of the frown. This doesn't mean it doesn't exist. But in the striving for Imperial conformity, adding a few stripes will greatly improve your helmet's look.

The only other thing is the charging handle on your blaster. Over weathered?? This is typically a tad darker.

 

Centurion Suggestions: Although I attempt to spot and suggest things that make passing Centurion easier, the application requires a more detailed set of pics that can reveal things not seen here. The final product is ultimately the responsibility of the trooper.

Ok, I said I was gonna mention some additional paint concerns. Although the ab buttons are molded a bit over sized, I would like you to touch up yours to be just a tad larger. They should be right around the 12 mm mark. You may not think that increasing them by a mm or 2 will make that big a difference, but it does.

The next thing are the vent stripes on your rear traps. These were never painted all vertically and aligned parallel with each other. Although the center ones were, as they went outward, they began to gradually angle to follow the shape of the trap sides with the outer most stripes being the near the same angle as the trap edge itself.

This next item is gives me gray hairs to discuss. It requires some work and knowing how hard troopers have worked to get this far makes me squeamish to discuss. I am referring to the cover strips on your thigh backs. We all know that these should measure around the 25mm or a bit less range. The only real way I can see that a strip as wide as you have would be necessary, is to bridge a gap made because the thigh just wasn't big enough. If this is the case, with your ABS paste skills you showed on your side shims, why not do that on the thigh backs? If there was enough material left to make the halves come together and the width of the strips were determined by the molded ridge, the strips need to be reduced in size. The molded ridge widths are to be determined by the cover strip width...not the other way around. I know some troopers are larger and need extra material to join parts. Cover strip widths should remain the same. Let me know if in fact you have a larger gap that needed to be covered.

 

Congratulations again on a great build and well earned EIB!!!

[ukswrath[Staff]]

Awesome, congrats Jay, welcome to the EIB ranks sir 

[Coastertk]

Thank you so much for the EIB endorsement. The painting details were a bit out of my range of talent to say the least. I will work on each one of your points to make my bucket more uniform.

As for my rear cover strips, you are correct that they are "bridging a gap" so to say. About 1/2". I will put my ABS paste experience into play here to fill the gap and redo my rear cover strips before applying for Centurion.

Thanks again. EIB!!!

[zebedee[TK]]

Congrats mate

[Snaps[TK]]

Congrats and welcome to the EIB ranks!

[gmrhodes13[Staff]]

Congrats trooper and welcome to the ranks

[gazmosis[501st]]

Can't wait to see how things turn out

[Skyline[501st]]

Congratz Jay, on a nice build!

[Coastertk]

Can't wait to see how things turn out

Thanks for the push Steve.

Here's what I've done,

Thinned out all my black outline of the tears and traps. Adjusted the positioning of the rear trap vents. Added two tube stripes on each side.

 

I've enlarged my ab buttons

 

And I have resized my rear cover strips

 

I will retake all my photos and submit an application soon. Get well Steve.

Edited April 27, 2015 by Coastertk