JeklynHyde's RS Prop Masters, ANH Stunt Build

[Jeklynhyde]

I appreciate the positive feedback! Good to know I'm progressing along correctly and helps keep me motivated to get this project complete!
I'm very much looking forward to joining the 501st, as well as gaining Expert Infantry & Centurion status.
But more than that, I'm looking forward to fulfilling a desire I've had since high school.

Edited June 9, 2020 by Jeklynhyde
changed "EIB" to "Expert Infantry"

[TKSpartan[Staff]]

Great work Jeklyn, the best part, after days of hardworking to complete the armor, is when you see a smile in a child's face, (and parents too), when you visit a hospital or help some fundraising event and obviously, feeling cool while wearing  an Imperial  Stormtrooper Armor.  

 

keep on doing a fantastic work.  

 

 

[MaskedVengeance[Staff]]

If you wanna wear a pauldron without building a Sandie, you can convert your TK to a Heavy Weapons Trooper (HWT), and actually switch back and forth. Basically you just need to make a backpack, get some ammo pouches, and slightly adjust the belt. I’m actually doing that myself right now, in case you wanna check out my HWT thread.

Great job on your build so far!


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[justjoseph63[Staff]]

"I will very likely be making a dirtyboi at some point as well, so we'll just say I'm prepping for that".  Do I see a HWT pack build being added to your "to-do" list in the future?   I certainly hope so!

[Jeklynhyde]

@justjoseph63 the answer to that would very obviously be, "yes, yes, yes", lol.

This one first though!

[ukswrath[Staff]]

This is a fantastic thread

[Jeklynhyde]

More painting... aaand... GO!

 

 

Here are some of my tools'o'the'trade so I've got lots of options.

 

 

In order to determine what brush would likely do the best for the purpose, I did a couple dry runs.

Here's one that's wide, flat, & angle-tipped - This one may work well for the smaller teeth.

Ah, another note.. I ran a utility knife on the edges of the teeth to clean them up one last time before we get the paint involved.

If you're putting in mesh behind the frown, make sure you paint these guys first so you can get good coverage without painting your mesh.

 

Wide, flat, flat tip. I ended up using this brush for all of the teeth (including the bitty ones at the end.

 

This is a thin, round, & pointed tip brush. The shape doesn't fit for the little guys in the corner, so this was not used here.

 

Thin, round, long pointed tip. This looked like it would be a decent fit, but I didn't end up using it.

 

Getting ready with the Humbrol Gloss 5 Admiral Gray (if I remember the name right) & starting with that wide & flat brush.

Every time before I open up on of these lil' guys, I shake them up vigourously for at least 30 seconds if not closer to a minute.

I'll make another post after this (late on) to give some brush use angles, but this post is mostly just going to be the progress and results of painting.

 

 

 

 

I used the flat edge of the brush to connect the corners to match the cut edge at the top and bottoms of the teeth and then connected the space in between.

 

 

First coat on and ready to hang out for a while to dry

  

 

 

 

After drying for ~16 hours (this paint only needs 6 between coats).

 

 

 

 

For the traps, I used another wide brush, but to clean up the edges a little, I switched to the thin, round pointed tip brush.

 

I filled in the traps & tears. I decided to go for full coverage so that the gray layer would have a full flat base to avoid the paint gradient being visible.

Managed to forget about the ear bump here. We get back around to that.

  

 

 

 

 

I rounded off the bump that was a little too square as well as giving the whole thing a general, thinner, second coat. This helped to flatten out the glossiness of the paint.

 

And then I decided to tackle the tube stripes. I did not purchase stencils, but I did get a decal sheet.

Here's a point to note the CRL again. 

CRL Survey says! (Expert Infantry)... "Fall of tube stripe tops ideally lean toward the front."

This phrase confused me until I searched through a few threads where the stripes had been put on the other way.

Then I saw that it's referring to the angles of the ends of the stripes. At least that's what I think it's talking about.

When positioned correctly, the ends of the stripes, particularly those closer to the front of the face, lean inward towards the face slightly.

So with this decal sheet, you can see the end points on the inner edges are slightly lower than the points on the outer edges. That makes the one on the left for the right side tube (or in other words left from the front) and the ones on the right, the ones for the left tube (right from the front).

 

Turns out these stripes are smaller in width than the painter's tape that I'm using and that the tape is transparent enough to see the stripes through it.

So I used that to trace the stripes onto the tape

  

 

Pulling up the tape, of course the decal wants to come up with the tape.

 

 

None of that! Stay down you! ... pinned it down in place while I peeled the tape off. Same for other parts where it tried to take the stickers away.

 

I drew lightly enough that this did not damage the decals (in case for whatever reason I decide/need to use them in the future).

 

Then what to do with the tape? I needed to cut out the stripes to create a negative to use as a stencil.

But that requires needing something hard underneath, and, well, it's painter's tape, so it's going to lose its stick if it touches anything else...

So I put the tape on a plastic bag which I placed over a wood block.

These are in the same orientation as on the decal sheet.

 

This allowed me to cut out all the stripes, with care, using a utility knife.

 

Then I marked another piece at a pencil width

  

 

Putting the pencil width tape up against the face edge.

 

I probably should have placed this guide line a little further in - more to the point, I should have tested the width with the pencil before putting on the stripe stencil, but no...

 

Now the issue of carefully removing the tape without ripping it to pieces. I 

 

I pulled up along the edge gently until everything had released from the plastic. 

 

Then placed the inner edge to match up with the tape line for the pencil guide.

 

I aimed for about a fingertip / pencil gap between the front and the tip of the forward-most strip.

 

This stencil is _rough_. There's no way I'm getting a clean pull from this, and even if I could, the edges would be a bit janky. Again I will note, I checked the gap here, but failed to double check the distance from the side of the face. We'll see if I need to stretch these out.

So I used the stencil to gently mark the tube in pencil.

 

Which was just enough to show up to give me a painting guide.

 

Adding another piece of tape at the bottom to give a guide for the outer ends.

 

And then going to town.

 

Same deal with the right side.

 

 

 

It doesn't look like it's marked, but even a gentle pencil mark is enough to see on the tube when the stencil is removed and it's naked again.

 

 

Adding the bottom guide ended up in more bunching on this side, but I was able to get good contact for the stripe ends.

 

This process took a while.  I flashed past it on the right tube, but it was a similar process to this.

Painting, aiming to cover the pencil lines completely so they will not be visible after painting is finalized.

Lots of oopsing into areas that aren't allowed to have paint.

 

I tackled these areas with a toothpick dipped in paint thinner. Then wiping away the offenders with a cotton swab.

  

 

 

Although this resulted at times in little fibers being left in the paint. No, no, no...

  

 

 

But I was able to pick them off gently with fine-point tweezers.

 

Not including the time to make and draw the stencil on, and with stops for pictures, both sides took roughly 40 minutes each. 

 

Painter's tape on.

 

I removed the straight-edge tape guides right after completion, without waiting for the paint to dry. If I need to go for another coat in areas, I can add one back on.

 

Stormtroopers look a little odd without their brows.

 

These lines are not perfect and will need some cleaning up.

 

 

 

 

It was later on that I decided to test the pencil width again, and found that I fell a bit short of hitting it. Hopefully I can extend the edges inward a little more without having to completely remove & repaint (although if it was necessary, I'd be willing to do so).

 

Pencil for forward positioning reference (fast forward pic)

 

This side is closer, and would not need much to improve.

 

Pencil for forward positioning reference (fast forward pic)

 

Looking again from a slightly different angle, the stage-right side does look like it needs to come in a bit more. Though not sure how much the uneven lighting is playing a factor.

This is a point where I wouldn't mind input on if / how much I should stretch the stripes inward.

 

Another coat to the teeth

 

I went with just the one black base coat straight to graying out the traps & tears. If the black lines need more, I can touch them up later.

When I was painting on the black, I managed to brush a couple of the wet sides against my pants as I was painting other areas and the paint picked up a bunch of fuzzies which are not so visible when the paint is black. But as glossy gray, these fuzz-bumps are much more prominent.

I used a combination of scratching them off (gently) and rubbing the paint around to loosen them up and then removing with sharp precision tweezers.

 

 

Which improved it somewhat.

 

Same with the fuzzies on this one. WIP-pic

 

Got the ear bumps painted now!

 

The lines look a little thick, but if so, I can expand the gray out a bit more before (or after) painting the straight lines

 

This ear bump was harder to figure where the outline should stop., but ultimately ended up with this shape

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And another coat to the teeth.

 

The gray paint was getting a little sticky at this point, it may have been from the brush since I didn't clean it between this and the traps.

 

 

And current state while I wait for the ear bumps to dry. 

 

Again, I'll do another post later for varying brush positions.

 

Things left to do on the outside:

- Make an attempt to straighten up the tube stripe lines, probably go around and finalize all edges to attempt a little more straight-edged looks.

- Add lines to back traps & tears.

- Gray out the ear bumps, then add one black stripe back - CRL (Centurion): "Ear bars shall have only one bump painted in black (rank stripes)."

- Clean off any remaining pencil lines.

- Paint screws white. Not done yet since I still haven't put in the rivets - That may end up being the last thing that I end up painting on this bucket.

- Plastic polish the dome (and just kind of all around) since the whole thing has experienced a fair bit of abuse in the past ~4 years.

 

 

Any critiques are openly welcome on any adjustments so I can get this one wrapped up and move on to the next part.

[TKSpartan[Staff]]

Wow!!  fantastic and detailed painting work. !!    keep it up.  

[MaskedVengeance[Staff]]

FANTASTIC job on those teeth, keeping paint off the gums! I think the only thing you need to do with them is fill in those gaps at either end. And wow you sure did put some excellent effort and detail into the tube stripes! I don’t think I’m that brave; I’ll probably just purchase the stencils (I currently have decals).


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[Jeklynhyde]

For the frown, not all helmets had the line painted all the way across that last tooth gap at the end. I decided to go for a look the preserves the gap.

 

[MaskedVengeance[Staff]]

14 minutes ago, Jeklynhyde said:

For the frown, not all helmets had the line painted all the way across that last tooth gap at the end. I decided to go for a look the preserves the gap.

 

That, you are correct about. I guess I mostly just see them filled in, but you're definitely correct about both being screen-accurate. I'll assume, then, that the DOs would approve either for higher levels. You may simply want to check with your GML, who might not necessarily be well versed in TK stuff, to see what they'd want to see for basic.

[TheSwede[TK]]

The majority of StuntTroopers (most likely all) did not have those ”gaps” filled in. The exception in below images is probably a Sandtrooper. 

Your helmets is approvable to Centurion regarding the frown (as long as there’s no paint on the gums, center tooth seem to be a close call). 

[gmrhodes13[Staff]]

Some other examples

 

[Jeklynhyde]

I uploaded a couple youtube videos recently. One from 2018 that I didn't have an opportunity to edit and upload at the time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_COt9bd0Qg

The more recent one I went over some stormtrooper progress, but I've got a poster of Motoko Kusanagi from Ghost in the Shell in the background that isn't quite appropriate for the boards here, so if you want to hear the update it's on my channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63ewYsCifNc

 

Basically I was agonizing again over the particulars for screen accuracy. This time, the stripes in the tears and back traps.

 

So.... I finally went through ANH and wrote down all the scenes with stormtroopers, then went frame-by-frame through the various scenes to get picture grabs for reference and take notes. I used the “A New Hope” disc as part of the “Star Wars: The Complete Saga” blu-ray collection 2015 release (Bar Code# 024543742180 81).

I won’t post all the images here (at present there are 1059 images), but I created a new Google Photos album for all of them that is available here: Star Wars: A New Hope - Screenshots - Stormtroopers. This album only covers "A New Hope" stormtroopers: stunt, hero, and sandtroopers (and a couple tie pilots), and shots that include blasters or stormtrooper belts.

These can also be downloaded in a zip file in the Stormtrooper folder on my Google Drive: Stormtrooper Folder
If I add any new images, they will be in sequential order to match the movie. Image names match the timecode they were pulled from.

 

A note on copyright: These images are protected under Fair Use as they are intended to be used strictly for educational purposes.
I highly encourage you to go through the scenes yourself and if you don’t already own a copy, go out and buy one :D.

 

Umm.. just in case you haven’t watched the movie yet??? Spoilers ahead!! Just sayin’.

These timecodes will only apply to this version of the movie as it has been edited over the years multiple times (for an idea of how many times and how much it has changed, check out “All Changes Made to Star Wars: A New Hope (Comparison Video) PART I”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNbzSH84mj0
… Han shot first!

 

In case your time codes vary for whatever reason, as an “anchor” point we’ll set the moment the text “Star Wars” appears on screen since it’s a straight cut (it does not fade in). Move forward to the moment the text pops on screen. It should be just over 00:00:28 (+16 frames). Another note, this film is running at 23.98fps NTSC. The original-original may have run at true 24 fps, but the difference between the two fps rates is very slight over the length of the film regardless of version (less than 10 second difference). 
So whatever time you have, if it differs from 28 seconds into the movie, adjust the following time codes by that value. One way or another, these time codes should get you into the ballpark of a stormtrooper scene if you’re on watching it on a blu-ray copy as mentioned above.

 

Here’s a text run-down of scenes involving stormtroopers as well as a little fun colour commentary. For now, I’ll exclude detail specific notes (counting stripes and the like). But as I go though the pictures, I’ll add the notes here later or somewhere else where it makes sense.
(If there is interest / if this hasn’t been done before I can post this somewhere else as well so that it’s more accessible for others.)

 

A New Hope - Stormtooper Scenes (+extras)

00:03:46 (+03) - First appearance. Stormtroopers board Tantive IV and shootout begins.
00:04:31 (+17) - First appearance of Darth Vader.
00:04:52 (+11) - End scene.

 

00:05:31 (+22) - Stormtroopers escort Tantive IV prisoners.
First trooper looks like they are missing their screen-left side drop box.
00:05:41 (+00) - Darth Vader chokes a dude out.
Good view of back of helmet – This appears to be a hero helmet due to the reflection visible in the eye later in the scene.
View of shoulder strap.

00:05:39 (+13) - Mr. No Stripes appears! (behind the first trooper).
Mr. No Stripes does not have the larger button panel on the abdomen.
00:06:17 (+07) - This one bonks their head on the pipe.
Clear view through frown cuts. Clear view of green eye tint.
00:06:28 (+13) - Mr. No Stripes shoots Leia!
00:06:29 (+19) - It looks like the shoulderbell may have a connecting strap to the chestplate?
00:06:34 (+20) - End scene with a booty shot.

 

00:07:27 (+20) - Stormtroopers escort Princess Leia to Darth Vader.
Hero helmet scree-left next to Stunt helmet screen-right, front two troopers.
00:07:29 (+15) - The hero’s screen-right bicep looks like the shoulderbell-bicep-strap-anchor-point has ripped off.
And for whatever reason, the chestplate looks like this guy is sweating a bit…
00:07:41 (+06) - The bicep was covered with white tape.
Thick strap clearly visible between bicep and forearm on the screen-right trooper. It looks like a small portion of the strap was painted white.
Shoulderbell strap clearly visible foreground screen-left trooper.
Some kind of strapping malfunction at the shoulder? Background screen-left trooper. 
00:08:04 (+11)
Lots of good views here: back traps (left side), ear bumps (left side) (both stunt and hero), Shoulderbell strapping, over-the-shoulder straps, left-side Shoulderbell sweeps (both straight and sweeped), Thermal Detonator positioning, kidney plate mounting hardware visible top return edge (closer on screen-right trooper), forearm return at the elbow edges. Also good views of the E-11 Blasters. There’s a view near direct front-on where you can see the scope.
00:08:29 (+12) End Tantive IV troopers, and shortly after, end scenes on Tantive IV.

 

Get ready for sandy bois!

 

00:15:08 (+17) - Troopers scouting the desert - Added scene.
These appear to be either ESB or ROTJ troopers. Check out the hand guards (scoop style) and the blacked-out frown. Cod is beveled. Abdomen button panels are there but paint is gone. It looks like there are stripes in the tears as well and most of these appear to be “hero” helmets (or at least they have bubble lenses). Troopers with black pauldrons, screen-right has bubble lenses, vocoders are hero style... Recreated scenes?
00:15:27 (+04) - Digital Dewbacks. Stripes in the back traps.
I don’t trust these added scenes for accurate representation of true ANH troopers.

 

00:15:32 (+05) - Original scene. Orange pauldron, stunt helmet. Upper torso shots. White pauldron. No lines in tears. No lines in the back traps. Rear-most ear bump painted black. 15 tube stripes left side (orange pauldron trooper) 14(?) tube stripes (white pauldron trooper).
00:15:35 (+20) - "Look sir, droids!"
00:15:39 (+08) - End scene & transition.

00:43:04 (+20) (4 seconds) - Stormtroopers in the Mos Eisley streets (digital addition).

00:43:19 (+20) - The "Move along" scene.
Good shots of heavy backpacks.
00:43:56 (+04) End scene. 

 

Some troopers visible in far, mid-ground on Mos Eisley streets.

00:47:31 (+20) (6 seconds) - Scene transition from Cantina interior to troopers questioning people in the streets. Digital trooper & dewback have been added. Digital trooper has knee plates on both sides and is missing knee ammo belt : /.

00:51:43 (+05) (10 seconds) - Checking the side streets looking for the droids.
Lots of views of backpacks.

00:54:59 (+21) - HWT & other troopers on their way to attempt to stop the Millennium Falcon.
Helmet close-ups.
00:55:13 (+07) - Shootout scene begins!
00:55:40 (+06) - End scene. Millennium Falcon departs as troopers watch on from the streets.

 

Goodbye Mos Eisley!

And onto the Death Star

 

01:05:31 (+05) (5 seconds) - Stormtroopers - in - Spaaaaaaaace. Super far out, but they're there. The area they're in doesn't look like it's inside the ship, so I don't know if this is part of some special field, or if these troopers (or if it should be considered that all armour) have the ability to withstand space...? (I have significant doubts.)

01:05:45 (+17) - Troopers to your stations!
Running through the halls. Hero next to stunt again.
Troopers board and search the Millennium Falcon.

 

01:08:04 (+06) "Hey down there" Troopers leave their post to their inevitable doom. 
Note: Both of these are stunt helmets. Both have return edge at the bottom of the chest.
01:08:05 (+19) - Side (blurry) & Back view of The Grappling Hook trooper. Why this one is outfitted with a grappling hook? - To progress the plot of the storyline of course.. But why in actuality? - What as part of the normal duties of a Death Star Stormtrooper would require the use of a grappling hook?
01:08:15 (+06) - Shots are heard within the Falcon.
01:08:17 (+21) - We're going to have to assume that some time passes in between the previous shot and this one with the commander in the comm room asking TK421 why they're not at their post, because on walking over to the window to look out, like movie magic, Luke walks out from the Falcon.

Without having ever done it yet myself I can well tell you that it takes a heck of a lot longer than 5 seconds to don that armour without the inconvenience of having to strip it off someone else's unconscious (probably dead) body first...

Note again: Kinda still looks like it’s a stunt helmet. We know this is Luke because in a moment, Han and Chewie bust in and commandeer the comm room. Also, if these troopers were shot as the sound effects suggest, where are the phaser marks? Or perhaps, the guns went off in the process of the struggle. How does one render an armoured stormtrooper unconscious without leaving marks? The world may never know..

 

01:08:33 (+07) - *knock-knock-knock-knock* (read as: my comm unit appears to be malfunctioning).
01:08:40 (+17) - Han & Chewie take over the landing bay comm room, with Luke shortly to follow..
Mostly body shots in this scene, not so much with the helmets.
Neckseal/under helmet shot. Also Luke hair flip <3.
Both Han and Luke are wearing suits that have the shoulderbell "sweep" detail shown on both sides.
More shots with Shoulderbell strap.
Also, stationary hero helmet in the background, right side visible.
01:10:44 (+12) - Cod Shot!! - haha.. At first it looked like the edge of the right thigh was beveled, but it can be seen here to clearly have a return edge around the top edge.

01:12:28 (+00) - End scene - cuts to hallway scene with Chewie in tow as "prisoner".

01:12:31 (+19) - Hero helmet closeup. High brow.
01:13:02 (+06) - Pretty sure Chewie is checking out that droid's butt.. Hah.
01:13:15 (+10) - Clear view of the S-trim being joined together at the back of the helmet.

01:13:28 (+12) - Stunt troopers in the halls & then Obi Wan sneaking around in the back.
01:13:34 (+08) - End troopers in the scene.

01:13:49 (+21) - Elevator Scene: Good closeup on back trap stripes.

01:15:02 (+04) - Close up on the back of the helmet, but it's fast and a little blurry.
In the same second, the back of the trim is visible again to be seamed together at the middle-back of the helmet.
01:15:13 (+10) - It’s looking like there is some kind of material on the inside of the chest and backplates.
01:15:27 (+00) - "We're all fine here now, thank you. How are you?"
01:16:03 (+00) - "Aren't you a little short for a stormtrooper?"
01:16:19 (+18) - End scene.

 

01:17:10 (+22) - Han, no more helmet. Shootout with stunt troopers.
01:19:04 (+13) - End scene and into the garbage chute.

 

Now these are the real dirty boys.... Rolling around in garbage.

 

01:22:10 (+14) - Cut to C3PO's handheld communicator and you can actually see “HOVI MIX Pa 2.” written on the communicator.
01:22:15 (+18) - Enter stunt troopers into the comm room.
One of the guys in back hits their head on the door… I laughed out loud seeing this again, haha.
The S-Trims in this scene appear to vary on whether they join at the back or not (or at least some of them have been seamed together better than others).
01:23:01 (+21) - Cut back to garbage masher.
Cut to landing bay (Falcon & troopers in the background).
Cut back to garbage masher.
Cut back to R2D2.
Cut back to garbage masher.
Cut to C3PO.
Cut back to garbage masher.
Cut back to C3PO.
I don't know why I bothered to detail that, but these cuts are getting ever shorter...

01:24:08 (+00) - "Will you shut up and listen to me! Shut down all garbage mashers on the detention level, will ya?! Do you copy? Shut down all garbage mashers on the detention level!"
-squiiiisssshhhh-
01:24:45 (+05) - "We're alright!"
01:24:51 (+15) - End scene.

 

01:25:19 (+09) - Troopers pass by in the background while Obi shuts down the gravity field controls.

01:25:39 (+08) - Han and Luke ditch the suits but keep the belts. Another view of Luke's suit here shows the bottom edge is cut straight. Han's in the background even from a distance it's easy to see the return edge.
01:26:07 (+20) - Bye-bye now dirty "hero" suits! disappearing around the corner.

01:26:19 (+08) - Obi is still at it deactivating the tractor beam. Troopers are on the lookout.
01:26:34 (+00) - "Do you know what's going on?" "Maybe it's another drill."
They really need to work on communication skills in the management at the Death Star...
01:26:48 (+00) - More jedi mind tricks. - alarmed: "What was that?"  Reminds me of Elder Scrolls games (I must be hearing things...)
01:26:53 (+09) - End scene.

 

01:27:01 (+05) (9 seconds) - Troopers hanging out around the Falcon, probably standing guard while the murder(?) of the two troopers that got mugged onboard is investigated?
01:27:18 (+13) - Another shootout in the hallway.

01:28:07 (+13) - The grapling hook scene!
01:28:32 (+09) - Mr. No stripes reappears! And he’s got the big button panel this time.
01:28:33 (+06) - Willhelm scream!
01:28:55 (+06) - Boots! Scuffed up, black on the bottom, slight heel.
You can see the side fabric U bit of the boots here (painted white). May be good lower calf reference.
01:29:10 (+15) - Belly troopers!
01:29:13 (+11) - End scene. Cut to troopers running through the halls again.
01:29:21 (+16) - End with Obi Wan sneaking around the halls again.

01:29:31 (+00) (3 seconds) - Troopers hanging around the Falcon again.

01:29:39 (+05) - Running the halls again, chasing after Han & Chewie.
01:29:50 (+18) - End scene.

 

01:31:26 (+05) - Troopers around the Falcon again. Luke & Leia join back up with Han & Chewie.
01:31:48 (+09) - Lightsaber battle is taking place in a room off the bay with the Falcon. Troopers in the background.

01:31:51 (+07) - Trooper Closeup! Hero Helmet. Blurry stunt helmet in the background.
01:31:52 (+18) - Troopers abandon their post to watch the lightsaber battle.
01:32:35 (+01) - Trooper's shoulderbell is all blown out - waaay out of place. Almost looks like they disjointed their shoulder.
01:33:09 (+20) - Falcon exists the Death Star Bay. End Scene.

 

Bye Death Star!

 

01:34:28 (+00) - Incoming tie pilot scenes.
01:35:58 (+14) - All the tie fighters are destroyed.

01:46:15 (+20) (2 seconds) - Momentary scene of troopers running about behind the gunports as the X-Wing fighters launch their mission on the Death Star.
01:46:48 (+11) (2 seconds) - Troopers running about through the halls.
01:47:13 (+20) - Troopers fall victim to blast attacks that make it to the inside halls! - How can the walls be so thin? Or the blasts from such small fighter ships be so strong?
01:47:17 (+20) - End scene.

01:47:41 (+23) (1 second) - Troopers in background while the gunners get blasted out.
01:47:55 (+17) - Get ready for more Tie fighters!
01:48:27 (+22) (1 second) - Darth walking the halls, stunt trooper walks off screen.
01:48:33 (+22) (2 seconds) - Tie fighter pilots directed to follow Vader.

 

01:52:44 (+23) (2 seconds) - Troopers in the hallways get shook up by the first attempt to drop the missiles into the Death Star Weak point. This is the last scene with stormtroopers.
01:56:44 (+09) - Han, Chewie, and the Millennium Falcon swoop in to the rescue. End tie fighter pilot scenes. Vader goes spinning off into the void.

 

01:57:10 (+20) - Death Star go boom. Goodbye ANH Stormtroopers - and everyone else on that station!

Edited July 26, 2020 by Jeklynhyde
adding zip file location

[MaskedVengeance[Staff]]

Holy goodness this is some dedication. And I thought my new project of compiling certain build threads into PDF form was time-consuming!


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[ticopowell[TK]]

Starwarsscreencaps.com has great HD screen caps as well, but no time stamps like you just made. Great work

[Jeklynhyde]

@MaskedVengeance that does sound like a lot of hard work as well! The process of going through was time-consuming, but the end result is absolutely worth it as I'm sure your project will be as well! Not only do I have shots that are easy to reference in high quality (and which can be manipulated to pull more detail), I'm also able to share them out and giving back to the community is something I am interested to do.

 

I'm lucky that I've got some pretty handy tools and smarts at my disposal that have made the process a lot more streamlined (and technically repeatable, with little adjustment, if I get my hands on a 4k copy). Davinci Resolve for video editing to mark the timecodes I wanted to grab stills from, and a program that allows me to make a macro out of any action that I perform, which allowed me to very easily name all the stills for export. It would have taken a lot longer without these.

The right tool for the job always makes things go by faster and allows for more flexibility and higher quality in the long run. 

 

@ticopowell Thanks for the link! I wasn't aware of that resource. Without digging in too deep, it looks like those are a series of shots from the films at regular intervals. Which is still helpful. My shots are directed specifically toward the stormtroopers and aim to take the most useful images for build reference (though some are for fun).

 

 

Today I'm working on going through the shots and reviewing the quantifiable particulars between the suits - that's going to be an ongoing process, I may put up a doc somewhere. Aiming to get the helmet completed tonight. Or at least complete enough for review and acceptance into 501st. I'm going to leave internal revisions until after acceptance so that I can hopefully squeak into the 1000 EIB we're aiming for.

 

What's left right now, update late upon full completion: tear and trap stripes, neck edge trimming and S-trim final cut, paint the ear screws white.

[justjoseph63[Staff]]

10 hours ago, Jeklynhyde said:

Today I'm working on going through the shots and reviewing the quantifiable particulars between the suits - that's going to be an ongoing process, I may put up a doc somewhere.

WOW...great job, Jeklyn!!!     I have a thread here something along those lines, but definitely looking forward to seeing what you do with this!  (I am SO going to be using some of those images)! 

[Jeklynhyde]

@justjoseph63 I'm glad they will be useful  You’re welcome to make requests for additional shots if you think they’d be helpful. Now that I’ve got a process in place, it’s easy to grab more. Just sent a DM.

 

 

 

I’ll do a proper update later today, but I figure I’ll post the next stumbling point that I’ve run into. This one was 100% preventable and due to a lack of fore-thought, but in doing a hot-water bath to shape my forearms, I used twine, and managed to mould the lines into the plastic on the left forearm rather visibly. I haven’t dug too deep into other threads yet to see if others have done the same or how I might go about resolving this, but I figure I’d post here before I move on with making attempts in case anyone has any suggestions or can point me in the right direction.

I started using the sealing iron though was having issues with the curve looking like it's starting to flatten out, so I paused my efforts before doing any more damage.

Tools I have at my disposal: More hot water, Heat Sealing Iron, Hot Air Gun.

A suggestion from one of my friends was to fill and sand, which I could potentially do with ASB paste, but I don’t know how decent the final result would look given that finish is important in these areas since they’re highly visible.

 

 

On the plus side, the hot bath did the trick and the forearm is shaped correctly and ready to be glued… just need to ease out those lines a bit if I can before I do that.

 

boooo

boooooooooooo

[MaskedVengeance[Staff]]

I haven’t seen that happen before, but I do only have less than a year of experience on the forum. If the ridges are also visible on the inside of the pieces (raised on that side), I wonder if you might try pressing them out from the inside, perhaps after another hot water bath.


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[gmrhodes13[Staff]]

I've not seen that before but I haven't seen anyone using twine wrapped around while heating.

 

I'd probably try slightly heating an area with a heat gun and using something hard and curved inside to press that area out, also have something flat on the outside to stop it going too far, moving both these pieces around should gently push it out, then keep going in another area.

 

ABS is really weird when its heated and has a mind of its own, a twitch to far with heat and you've got a molten mess. I just find more control with a heat gun as it's direct in one area not a whole piece.

 

Wishing you luck fixing this.

[Infern0[TK]]

Yikes! Had something similar happen with my shins last month while doing a hot water bath with one of the elastic straps still glued to the inside Tried reheating, clamping it flat again and running under cold water, but it only improved by about 30%... Haven’t found a proper solution yet, but I look forward to hearing if you do! 

[Sly11[Admin]]

Well this is the first time I have seen that happen as well. How hot was that water!


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[ticopowell[TK]]

I got a kink like that, it was smaller but it was easy to remove, if it's on the inside part of the forearm it won't be as noticeable. I'd use a heat gun on low and a sandbag or stuffed animal that you don't care about. Or if you can find something harder that matched that curve, maybe even an orange. Then very very slowly add heat to the part. User gravity to help, have the part horizontal supported by two objects with the round object on top, and just heat a small section at a time. If the heat gun is adjustable put it to 180*, if not keep it on low.
Be very very patient, once abs is warped a little it will warp a lot very quickly if you let it.
Good luck!