Project : Shocking (Shock Trooper Build)

[TK20187[TK]]

TK20187 from the Thylacine Outpost in Hobart, Tasmania , Australia reporting in and after 12 months of being a TK I now have a second kit to start building.

 

I love the look of the Shock Trooper and I've been the fortunate recipient an unfinished kit that is perfect to build as a Shock Trooper.

 

Looking forward to my second build.

 

Given the kit was already mostly trimmed I'll be using the butt joint and cover strip method for most of the assemble, the thighs being the only exception, which will be overlap.

 

I'll post more pics as the build progresses.

 

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[gmrhodes13[Staff]]

Looking forward to the progress 

[TK20187[TK]]

Leg day, done some work on the thighs, sizing and glued the back and sizing up the shins

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[TK20187[TK]]

Pretty happy with the results with my first attempt at a weathered paint. Using the toothpaste method on a sample piece of ABS in readiness to start painting my Shock Trooper armor.

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[gmrhodes13[Staff]]

Looks good, nice work

[TK20187[TK]]

Starting the process of fusing the butt and kidney plates.

Removed the return edge off the top of the butt plate and bottom of the kidney to create a flat join, which will be connected via a couple of pieces of abs.

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[gmrhodes13[Staff]]

Gluing the return edges together and filling in some of the join would have been fine as the ROTJ style did have a mold line  

 

[TK20187[TK]]

Gluing the return edges together and filling in some of the join would have been fine as the ROTJ style did have a mold line  
 

Thanks and yep the aim is to still have the mold line.

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[TK20187[TK]]

When clamps and magnets can't get the job done. Fusing my kidney and butt plate for my shock trooper build.

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[gmrhodes13[Staff]]

Can never have enough magnets and clamps  

 

[TK20187[TK]]

Kidney and Butt plate are now one. I present my Kidutt or Buttney plate. Shock Trooper build progressing slowly.

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[Sly11[Admin]]

Nice work, keep it up 

[Daetrin[Admin]]

Looking great so far!  May I suggest updating the title or we can tag it with the type of trooper you are building? I almost thought this was an electronics build ;-)

[TK20187[TK]]

Looking great so far!  May I suggest updating the title or we can tag it with the type of trooper you are building? I almost thought this was an electronics build ;-)

Thanks and attempted to update the title, but it doesn't appear I can.

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[TK20187[TK]]

17 hours ago, Daetrin said:

Looking great so far!  May I suggest updating the title or we can tag it with the type of trooper you are building? I almost thought this was an electronics build ;-)

All good now Paul, had to log in on a PC, couldn't update via the Tapatalk app. Hopefully the title now makes more sense. :)

[TK20187[TK]]

Right Bicep trimmed and one side glued, assembly of my new Shock Trooper armour is progressing slowly.

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[Daetrin[Admin]]

6 hours ago, TK20187 said:

All good now Paul, had to log in on a PC, couldn't update via the Tapatalk app. Hopefully the title now makes more sense.

Awesome - thanks!

[TK20187[TK]]

The Shock Trooper armor build continues with the right bicep now fully assembled and the left shin trimmed and assembled at the front.

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More armor build progress pics, left shin done with the rear strip attached. Left shin trimmed and glued on the front. Making good progress, will be able to start painting soon.

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[gmrhodes13[Staff]]

Moving along, nice work

[TK20187[TK]]

The right shin was a real pain, the cover strip kept separating when closing the back. After a lot of extra glue and extra setting time it's all good up front, with the rear strip now also attached.

I've also trimmed and started the process to attach the sniper knee to the left shin. Front glued, sides tomorrow night.

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[TK20187[TK]]

Sniper knee attached, now onto trimming the shoulder straps, I need to remove the larger ridge from both ends.

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Shoulder straps, before, after being trimmed and attached.

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[TK20187[TK]]

So to attach this bad boy I would have normally used rivets, but for the Shock Trooper there are no visible rivets. Thanks to my mate Nic, for the "Hot" tip, a hot water bath is now in order to shape the ammo pack. E6000 is good, but not that good.

Currently held on with clamps.

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[TK20187[TK]]

Shock Trooper Shoulder Bells.

First time painting armor and I'm pretty happy with the result.

Shiny White > Shiny Red >> Battle Damaged Red

Just need to dirty them up with some charcoal once the paint cures.

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