New Anovos stormtrooper build

[rwbowri[TK]]

as I was researching everything I could on building a stormtrooper, I found that the lead times were up there especially with Anovos, 

then a post was put up in my garrison 2 weeks ago that a user who just received his Anovos brown box and after waiting 9 months had lost interest.

so i answered the post and drove up from tiny Rhode Island up to New Hampshire that weekend to pick it up alone with TK boots that were exactly

my size and a resin E-11 blaster. 

 

I am following ukswraths forum and themaninthesuitcase and watched TK-1636 on youtube.

 

 

here are some photos of how I have progressed so far.  I have trimmed about 70 percent of the pieces

 

here is what I still need to cut. 

 

have a question on the handplates do they need to have so much return on them. 

 

appreciate any tips on building the kit.

[magni[TK]]

Welcome to the FISD Robert! The hand plates should look about a 1/4" thick. Glad to see you started a build thread.

[Novak Dimon[TK]]

Welcome to the FISD Robert and Congratulations to your kit. You're a lucky man! <br>

Good luck with your build! <br>

Cheers <br>

Christian

[gmrhodes13[Staff]]

Good luck with the build, looking forward to the progress

[Toddahhhh[TK]]

Welcome!

 

 

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[rwbowri[TK]]

it's been a week since I started this topic.  thanks from everybody here who welcomed me.  

in the evening I have been working on my kit,  

here is a couple of photos of what I have done to this point. 

I finished the hand plates from the kit,  I cut them down to half the return of what was in the marked lines

 

here is the biceps. 

 

the forearms

 

working on the shins now. 

[rwbowri[TK]]

here are the small and large button plate.  no return on them at all.

Edited July 18, 2017 by rwbowri

[magni[TK]]

Looking good Robert! I'll be Trooping next to you before you know it!

[rwbowri[TK]]

completed my TD,  I used my Dremel to grind down the ends so that I could get the TD down to 7.25 inches.

I painted the tube in Gunship Grey Testor #1923 (spray paint) picked it up at Hobby Lobby. 

I found the black pan head screws in my father-in-law's workshop so didn't have to paint them at all. 

 

 

I started to paint the Ab Plate and found there is a difference on the Gray paint,  the Testors #1138 is very light compared to Humbrol #5

below you can see the difference.

   

Edited July 18, 2017 by rwbowri

[Tee-Kay Fisto[TK]]

You're doing great here and you're following some great threads. I followed the same people's work and made it all the way to centurion. You can do it too. Looking forward to seeing this all come together for you.

 

 

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[rwbowri[TK]]

received my HFX E-11 elite this week, It arrived on Monday and I used it in the Bristol 4th of July parade on Tuesday, the oldest July 4th parade in the nation. it was awesome.

 

 

D-ring on the back of the HFX E-11 blaster

Edited July 26, 2017 by rwbowri

[rwbowri[TK]]

here is my Anovos helmet, I changed out the screens in the HOVI MIC tips  first photo is one the right original screen, on the left screen from UKSwrath.

 

replaced the screens in both Hovi Mic Tips 

 

Edited July 10, 2017 by rwbowri

[rwbowri[TK]]

replaced the screws on the sides of the helmet today.    top is the v-head slotted screw,  tried to go with the same size, picked them up at Ace hardware. 

 

 

this photo is with the new accurate screws.

 

Edited July 10, 2017 by rwbowri

[allan1313[TK]]

You are doing great, keep it up. I didn't see it in your pics, but Anovos didn't quite finish the paint on the frown. So if they didn't do the "ends" you might want to fix that for a cleaner look.

 

Keep chugging away and you will be there in no time.

[rwbowri[TK]]

thanks, I am slowly putting it together.

I know about the frown, did put one in there.

 

 

Edited July 10, 2017 by rwbowri

[rwbowri[TK]]

replaced the Anovos belt with a Kittel belt big difference just in color.

[justjoseph63[Staff]]

Great to see that you replaced the belt and ear screws, Robert!  Anovos gets a lot of things right, but for some reason they continue to make those crappy belts and put the "wrong" ear screws in.  The holster they provide is actually quite good.. made of thick leather and fairly easy to slip your E-11 in with not a lot of trouble.

With all that extra work it looks like you are headed towards level 3, which is awesome!  If we can be of any help, just say so and keep up the great work!

[rwbowri[TK]]

Thanks Joseph,  well going over the post of Ukswrath, Anovos does bring a person to the basic level. but doing research finding out a lot of what is needed to be EIB and eventually Level 3,  is a lot of fun and enjoy it.  I found though research the silicon hand guards from you that I am now using which look great. 

I used E6000 to attach the Silicon hand guards to the gloves. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited July 26, 2017 by rwbowri