Nukems ANH Stunt Build thread! (AP)

[nukem25rs[TK]]

So BBB day finally arrived last monday! I know.. a little slow on the thread start buts its been a busy week with tattoos and Lasik surgery as well. 

 

The picture everyone waits to be able to take! Mark at AP was great to work with and the process was easy!

 

I took stock of everything in the box and just stood there for a hour or 2 wondering how to start

 

I decided to start with the thermal Detonator since it seems to be the best and most forgiving piece of the whole project

 

I cant wait to get home from work to get some more done on it. Its hard to not pull every piece back out of the box and jump around from piece to piece. Have to keep reminding myself slow and steady.. 

 

while I was waiting I also built a hearing assist board and got a Anker 10k MAH battery pack(learned quite a bit about soldering) and that the battery packs have a minimum draw to stay on so ill have to rig up a splitter with a USB stick to make it run. 

 

Ill add some more pics tonight!

 

Mike

Edited June 16, 2016 by nukem25rs

[Addertime[TK]]

Congrats on BBB day!

 

Take it slow and have fun with the build! 

[gmrhodes13[Staff]]

Congrats and good luck with the build

[Pretzel]

Congrats! And Good Luck. Now the fun begins!

[nukem25rs[TK]]

I think I have the thermal detonator completed.. It measures at exactly 7.5 inches<br>

Based on a few builds I was looking at and the originals image it looks to be good<br><br>

Having trouble uploading the pics.. I'll get em in the morning..

Edited June 17, 2016 by nukem25rs

[nukem25rs[TK]]

ok hopefully these pics work! Thermal det in all its glory! Apparently photo bucket doesnt like to copy image URLS on my cell phone all to much.. 

 

 

[Addertime[TK]]

Looking good! The end caps seem a bit deep, particularly the right one, but it could be the angle of the photo. Anyway, keep building!

[nukem25rs[TK]]

I have them down at about 15/16 to 7/8 of an inch. I was using a image that Bill Hag had posted.

Edited June 17, 2016 by nukem25rs

[nukem25rs[TK]]

This is quoted from another forum- 

 

Marcel
Sorry mate, I didn't mean to stir things up, it was just an observation 
I'm only going by what I've seen on screen used suits and to me the one in your photo
looked a wee bit long, didn't know it was an SDS but I think AA might of miscalculated
it a little bit

I think you can work it out roughly by taking the proportions / dimentions that you know
to be a constant. So if you look at the screen shot of the back of the stoormtrooper we
can safely say that the rectangular section that follows through from the kidney plate to
the butt is a known measurement, so from that you can work out as near as possible what
the TD size should roughly be.













Mate, if you're happy with it then leave it, you don't have to create more work for yourself 
but if you want it more screen accurate then its break out the Dremmel I'm afraid

Hope this as helped in some way 

Edited June 17, 2016 by nukem25rs

[nukem25rs[TK]]

got my abs back and cods are rough trimmed, Just waiting till i can smooth the edges on the sander. 

I also recieved my order from trooper bay today 

 

 

as for the tattoos.. here is a tease!

 

I'm working on a full sleeve.. 

[nukem25rs[TK]]

I got the frown and eyes cut out.. Wondering if i need to remove more on the openings of the frown or not? i still need to file out more on the eyes

 

 

 

thanks, 

Mike

[Sentry71[TK]]

Frown looks good as it is now.

[nukem25rs[TK]]

Finally moved along and got some work done on the bucket. My kiddo is out of school so he wants to do projects too(currently building the Destiny hunters knife from punished props designs) Got all the paint and decals on but the tube stripes, ears and hovis mounted. Been comparing to a lot of the centurion builds. Anyone see anything that may need fixing or adjustment. Didn't think it would be that  hard just to get the ears aligned with the 2 halves of the bucket!! 

 

 

Thanks!!

Mike 

[SpiceCredits]

Looking great! Nice job on the ears! AP makes them really easy with the trim line I found. The frown is way nice too!

[nukem25rs[TK]]

Thanks! Yeah that really really helped.. Just took a little bit of adjustment on the bucket side to get everything to sit smoothly.

Edited June 29, 2016 by nukem25rs

[supernaut11[TK]]

Looking great! Nice job on the ears! AP makes them really easy with the trim line I found. The frown is way nice too!

I second that! I was a bit apprehensive to trim mine all the way to the line but yours turned out great! Are those the decals or did you paint? Either way, those look great, too.

[Haso[TK]]

The bucket looks great. Nice job!

 

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[nukem25rs[TK]]

Ty! I ended up going with the ap stickers for now I may go back and paint later. Depends on how I feel about it when everything is done!

[nukem25rs[TK]]

I finally got my bucket(minus electronics) completed this week. even added a velcrod in hard hat liner for some stability. Worked on the ab rivets and cod snaps and rivet. Placed some snaps on the ab and butt plates. Im hoping to get the entire body section completed in the next week or so. Im having a hard time deciding if i want to just do the standard elastic connection with the rivets or do a sheet of rubber with elastic as well in case the rubber rips. 

Mike

 

 

 

 

 

[68Brick[TK]]

Nice job on the bucket. Are you going to paint some rank bars on the ears?

 

Your tattoo's look great too!

[nukem25rs[TK]]

Def still have to do that! Gotta drill out for the hearing assist still then ill paint.. Just trying to decide what bar to paint. <br>

And Ty! Eventually it will be an entire battle sleeve!

[nukem25rs[TK]]

As i am fairly ADD when it comes to projects... I got to work on my belt, shoulder bells and kidney to AB connection. I went with a tab system to lock the kidney in place- I got the torso just about done and put everything on and had way to much of a gap at my back on the top of the kidney plate..So now i have to pull all the rivets and move the snap plates for the clam shell connection. My GF and I had thought we measured it all out correctly but I guess not.. At least its about 13MM on each side so i will take the edge off just past the rivet holes 

 

[nukem25rs[TK]]

finally have some new pics to post. hard to keep up with posting with everything else going on in the summer! got the entire torso pretty much done and working into the arms now. 

 

 

Edited August 3, 2016 by nukem25rs

[nukem25rs[TK]]

So i finally have some progress to show. I realize i'm just not good at keeping up with pictures as i get deep into a project. I finally was able to put everything on together and test fit some it.

I know the thighs are hanging to low(I still need to make the belt and strap them up) 

the rivets on the Knee pack still need to be painted. 

I am also curious how people connect the forearm to the bicep. is it inside the elbow or outside the elbow? and just standard 1 inch elastic?

I wanted to get these out so i can get some critique of what may need to be adjusted or could be done better. 

 

Thanks in advance!

Mike

 

[Cricket[TK]]

 

I am also curious how people connect the forearm to the bicep. is it inside the elbow or outside the elbow? and just standard 1 inch elastic?

 

I attached mine using the method Ukswrath shows here.  I've seen the elastics placed on the inside of the arm (along where the arm folds) as well as on the outside of the elbow.   I've also seen elastic size range between 1" and 2" used.  Ukswrath used 1.5" elastic in the tutorial, so that's what I used as well.