Hello to all.

[Bex]

Hello everybody.

I am Rebecca, living in Wales,UK.  No garrison affiliation.  I am a cosplayer and have been lurking and researching on FISD for some months.  Thank you for this wonderful resource.  I have learnt a great deal and would not have got as far as I have without your posts, forums, instructions, guides and images.  I am most grateful.

 

So since April I have printed a ANH Trooper armour and am in post production, setting fastenings and such.  My helmet is a hot mess and badly inaccurate.  I cannot now even find the stl file I printed it from, possibly has been withdrawn it was that bad.  I will print another later.  Right now work colleagues are super excited just to see me in it.

 

I have no plans to join 501st. I see you guys at cons all the time and I very much appreciate the work you put in but I'm just not that committed.  If my suit fits and looks OK for cosplay, it will be good enough for me....  You can all shout at me now... :-)

 

Thanks for listening, I will update when more progress is done.

Bex.

[Sly11[Admin]]

Hi Bex, please share some photos, always interested to see peoples projects.

Glad you have had a wonderful experience here so far, we appreciate your feedback and the fact you have learnt stuff here too.

[Doggydoc[Staff]]

Hi Rebecca. 
 

Welcome to the forum.  We all know how much work goes into cosplay costuming and you should always be proud of the time and effort you put into the costume.  Even though you are not going for 501st approval, I am sure you will still have a great costume to show off.  Looking forward to seeing some pics.

[gmrhodes13[Staff]]

Hello and welcome aboard, looking forward to seeing some photos.

 

Forum has a maximum you can add, many of us use a free online image hosting service

[Nairy[Staff]]

Hello Rebecca!  Sounds like you'll be popular at work for upcoming birthday parties and the like  If (when) you feel like joining us, you already know this but we're always here to help you out!  Now, pics!! 

[FN1313[TK]]

Looking forward to your build progress. I’m not as familiar with many ANH prints that are as accurate myself but some close ones I think, but you can also look into the Rogue One armor as that has a lot of pretty solid and accurate 3D files out there too. Either way, the effort in building a costume with quality prints and such will definitely be much higher level than most costumes out there.

[Bex]

Hi, Trying to attach photos and the laptop gave up and rolled over, but There seems to be files in my attachments tab.  I have successfully inserted them below.  SO much to learn...

Here are the parts drying post painting. They are printed in white pla but I wanted to improve the finish.  Undercoated, then Halfords gloss white and lacquer topcoats.

   

In process of assembly fastenings using snap fastenings from Webbers and 3d printed plates from Thingiverse ( I will post  all the file locations and credit makers on the 3d topic later).  I have been slowed by needing 24hours following each gluing [e6000] and only having 6 clamps, not all of which will fit for each fixing.

And this is the helmet.  I printed and painted it first 4 years ago.  It is not the one that came with the suit stl. I am printing that later.

I sanded and repainted it in the same as the rest of the suit. it's hand painted details. Tube stripes are decals, cut out from vinyl and individually stuck on then lacquered.  I have also self made the lenses. but not yet in place. and I printed an improved hovi mix pair and added metal grill (old kitchen sieve).

Apart form the known faulty helmet...  How is it so far?

Edited July 7, 2023 by Bex
spelling and more text.

[gmrhodes13[Staff]]

The forum only allows a certain amount of attachments, many of us use a free online image hosting service (I use Imgur), upload images there then copy the links into your posts here.

[Doggydoc[Staff]]

You are doing a great job on this.  

[giskard8[Staff]]

Hello and welcome to FISD.

 

Hard to say, may be one day you will, always welcome here.

[Novak Dimon[TK]]

Hi Rebecca,

welcome to the FISD! 

Great work with your armor. Can't wait to see more.

[swibowoj[TK]]

Hello and Welcome to FISD Rebecca

[Bex]

On 7/7/2023 at 10:29 PM, gmrhodes13 said:

The forum only allows a certain amount of attachments, many of us use a free online image hosting service (I use Imgur), upload images there then copy the links into your posts here.

OK. Noted . Thank you. :-)

[MaskedVengeance[Staff]]

On 7/19/2023 at 9:53 AM, Bex said:

OK. Noted . Thank you. :-)

 

Hi Rebecca! Keep up the good work! And here is a helpful link describing the Imgur image hosting and posting process that Glen referenced:

 

https://www.whitearmor.net/forum/topic/48799-posting-photos-using-imgur-101/