ItsThatGuy
Sr Member
Hey bud - no offense, but this thread is for ANH and ESB Stormtroopers... besides your belt is in the wrong place...:confused
Let's see your ANH / ESB Stormtrooper costumes!
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Hey bud - no offense, but this thread is for ANH and ESB Stormtroopers... besides your belt is in the wrong place...:confused
Stormtrooper
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Well what we've seen so far has been pretty damn good, but for 2,400 views I had expected a few more.
C'mon guys - charge up your digital cameras and let's see some more retro 1976/77 goodness.
Maybe we should be 'scoring' each costume?
Canvas belt = +2 points
Canvas & Plastic belt attached to armour by poppers = +3 points
Black jodphur/chelsea boots painted white = +2 points
Legs and arms 'butted' together with plastic strips covering the seams (ie. no overlap) = +3 points
4 piece helmet with weathered-effect paint job = +4 points
Use of Velcro = -2 points
Subtle scuffing on armour and use of gaffer-tape = +3 points
Big 1970's mullet hair and porkchop sideburns (under the helmet) = +5 points :lol live the dream...
I'm not discriminating against the guys who put on their Armor F/X suits, go out trooping and have a load of fun... indeed, my first Stormtrooper costume was an Armor F/X from Wookiee Cantina back in 1999, but I get a real kick out of seeing the super-accurate troopers that people devote hours to creating :thumbsup
Cheers,
John
C'mon guys - charge up your digital cameras and let's see some more retro 1976/77 goodness.
Maybe we should be 'scoring' each costume?
Canvas belt = +2 points
Canvas & Plastic belt attached to armour by poppers = +3 points
Black jodphur/chelsea boots painted white = +2 points
Legs and arms 'butted' together with plastic strips covering the seams (ie. no overlap) = +3 points
4 piece helmet with weathered-effect paint job = +4 points
Use of Velcro = -2 points
Subtle scuffing on armour and use of gaffer-tape = +3 points
Big 1970's mullet hair and porkchop sideburns (under the helmet) = +5 points :lol live the dream...
I'm not discriminating against the guys who put on their Armor F/X suits, go out trooping and have a load of fun... indeed, my first Stormtrooper costume was an Armor F/X from Wookiee Cantina back in 1999, but I get a real kick out of seeing the super-accurate troopers that people devote hours to creating :thumbsup
Cheers,
John
allosaur176
Sr Member
Stormtrooper
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Nice pics guys.... and I agree Clutch - straight out of the box a TM set is gonna win any ANH/ESB accuracy contest. Although you could argue that a TM set of armour with a good movie-cast helmet would be the ultimate combo.
(no offence to TM's trooper helmet, but as an original sculpt I don't think it's as accurate as one cast from an original ANH helmet... although it's a GREAT sculpt, there's not denying it
)
And it's not an official competition or anything... just a bit of fun, that's all. I have a GF ANH Stormtrooepr costume which is inaccurate in many ways, but it's a helluva nice piece of work and the quality of finish is superb.
Just looking for inspiration on ways to make it a lil' bit more accurate :thumbsup
I'd be a nervous wreck taking a Dremel to it, to do the whole strips down the front of arms / legs thing, so I might wuss out on that :$
You're too wide for a trooper suit, but you can somehow get into the driver's seat of a Countach?! :confused
Assuming that's your car in your Avatar, Nick then you're a lucky bloke. Is it the real deal or a looky-likey?
Cheers,
John
(no offence to TM's trooper helmet, but as an original sculpt I don't think it's as accurate as one cast from an original ANH helmet... although it's a GREAT sculpt, there's not denying it
)And it's not an official competition or anything... just a bit of fun, that's all. I have a GF ANH Stormtrooepr costume which is inaccurate in many ways, but it's a helluva nice piece of work and the quality of finish is superb.
Just looking for inspiration on ways to make it a lil' bit more accurate :thumbsup
I'd be a nervous wreck taking a Dremel to it, to do the whole strips down the front of arms / legs thing, so I might wuss out on that :$
You're too wide for a trooper suit, but you can somehow get into the driver's seat of a Countach?! :confused
Assuming that's your car in your Avatar, Nick then you're a lucky bloke. Is it the real deal or a looky-likey?
Cheers,
John
nicklambo
Well-Known Member
Nice pics guys.... and I agree Clutch - straight out of the box a TM set is gonna win any ANH/ESB accuracy contest. Although you could argue that a TM set of armour with a good movie-cast helmet would be the ultimate combo.
(no offence to TM's trooper helmet, but as an original sculpt I don't think it's as accurate as one cast from an original ANH helmet... although it's a GREAT sculpt, there's not denying it
And it's not an official competition or anything... just a bit of fun, that's all. I have a GF ANH Stormtrooepr costume which is inaccurate in many ways, but it's a helluva nice piece of work and the quality of finish is superb.
Just looking for inspiration on ways to make it a lil' bit more accurate :thumbsup
I'd be a nervous wreck taking a Dremel to it, to do the whole strips down the front of arms / legs thing, so I might wuss out on that :$
You're too wide for a trooper suit, but you can somehow get into the driver's seat of a Countach?! :confused
Assuming that's your car in your Avatar, Nick then you're a lucky bloke. Is it the real deal or a looky-likey?
Cheers,
John
Yup..it's the real deal.(sold it a couple of years ago now!
cry)...but it was great fun...I still think the best lookig/sounding car ever!!
Sorry...not trying to hijack the thread!!
Stormtrooper
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:lol You cheeky sod, Gord! Although if it was a T5..... :love
I had a poster of a white Lamborghini Countach on my bedroom wall all through my teenage years, and I always wanted one when I 'grew up'...
The I heard Jeremy Clarkson rating it as the worst car he's ever driven (heavy clutch, zero rear visibility, rear of car wider than the front etc.)
....and of course I live down a narrow country lane, so everytime I meet a tractor I have to put my car halfway up the ditch or find a recessed gateway, so we can pass one another.
And of course, they're still not exactly cheap!
But it just looks soooo nice :love If you still owned it nowadays Nick, you'd have loads of young 'uns driving chavv'ed up Corsa'a, Saxo's, Golf's etc. saying to you "Your car's got doors just like mine!" LOL
Nothing against modified cars, but the latest craze seems to be 'Lambo style doors'... but of course the Countach was the first one to have 'em :thumbsup
Big slap on the wrist for me taking the thread off-topic with car-talk... anymore accurate ANH/ESB Stormtrooepr owners out there?
Cheers,
John
nicklambo
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:lol You cheeky sod, Gord! Although if it was a T5..... :love
I had a poster of a white Lamborghini Countach on my bedroom wall all through my teenage years, and I always wanted one when I 'grew up'...
The I heard Jeremy Clarkson rating it as the worst car he's ever driven (heavy clutch, zero rear visibility, rear of car wider than the front etc.)
....and of course I live down a narrow country lane, so everytime I meet a tractor I have to put my car halfway up the ditch or find a recessed gateway, so we can pass one another.
And of course, they're still not exactly cheap!
But it just looks soooo nice :love If you still owned it nowadays Nick, you'd have loads of young 'uns driving chavv'ed up Corsa'a, Saxo's, Golf's etc. saying to you "Your car's got doors just like mine!" LOL
Nothing against modified cars, but the latest craze seems to be 'Lambo style doors'... but of course the Countach was the first one to have 'em :thumbsup
Big slap on the wrist for me taking the thread off-topic with car-talk... anymore accurate ANH/ESB Stormtrooepr owners out there?
Cheers,
John
Clutch was actually pretty light...I used to get stuck in traffic jams all the time and it was no problem...easy to see out the back and my wife used to love taking her friends out in it!!....remember my car was 21 years old so you can't compare it to a modern car in that respect!
Wife driving
View out the back
My ANH stormie...to keep it on track!!
JoeR
Sr Member
Excuse the OT
Stormtrooper/John
Can you drop me an email to:
prophunter@hotmail.co.uk
I have pm'd/emailed you on a couple of forums to no avail, unless you are giving me the cold shoulder:lol
Joe
Stormtrooper/John
Can you drop me an email to:
prophunter@hotmail.co.uk
I have pm'd/emailed you on a couple of forums to no avail, unless you are giving me the cold shoulder:lol
Joe
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Stormtrooper
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No cold shoulder... just a couple of root canals, sinus infection and now an inner ear condition/infection, so I've been a frequent lurker / infrequent poster this past while.
Email sent.
Cheers,
John
Stormtrooper
Well-Known Member
Yeah, and wasn't the Testarossa a great car too?! :lol j/k!
LOL... sorry Oldken... my bad for comparing Nicklambo's girth in a trooper suit to his girth in a Countach seat, and then when he started showing all those lovely pics I couldn't resist :love
I think all the super-accurate ANH/ESB suits must have dried up anyways... bit of a shame. :unsure
Just for the hell of it I dressed up my mannequin in my GF movie-cast suit earlier today (it had been in boxes for the last 2 years), so I'll post some pics in the morning which will get us back on track. Not as accurate as others posted here, but there's one feature I've added which I don't think has been seen before...
Cheers,
John
Stormtrooper
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O.K. here's a couple of pics of my ANH GF Stormtrooper costume. I love it's build quality and sturdiness, but I've decided the time has come to accurize it over the coming months, and display it on a spare mannequin that I have
I managed to find rubber gloves that are indistinguishable from the originals, and for all I know they may even be the same type as used in ANH. They have rubber checked patterns on the fingernail areas, as well as the palm of the glove.
I've never been a big fan of *vac-formed* plastic handplate armour for ANH troopers so I set about making some latex ones that I could glue onto the back of the rubber gloves...
Those aren't *my* sausage fingers by the way... they're my mannequin's LOL
Note the dark honey-colour of the cured latex on the back of the handguard on the right of the picture. If you watch ANH frame-by-frame as I often do :$ you'll see loads of places where the white paint/dye has worn-off the troopers handguards, exposing this dark latex colour... probably with handling the blasters etc. etc.
Well I couldn't let my mannequin have all the fun, so I suited-up and grabbed a resin ANH blaster for a pic or two:
And finally, just for fun I took a section from a movie still of Han in the detention block (Thanks Paul), cropped one of my pics and grayscaled it to see how they'd compare:
If anyone wants to have a look for these, the brand name is Toughie (printed on the inside wrist area, along with the size of the glove)
Next on the list is a canvas belt, and repaint the ab-plate buttons the correct colour. Longer term would be to remove the velcro from the arms, legs etc. and permanently glue them, but I've had some bad experience with ABS cement in the past so I'm a lil' bit wary of doing this.
I hear great things about E6000 from people who have assembled styrene suits - does it bond well with ABS? :confused
Cheers,
John
I managed to find rubber gloves that are indistinguishable from the originals, and for all I know they may even be the same type as used in ANH. They have rubber checked patterns on the fingernail areas, as well as the palm of the glove.
I've never been a big fan of *vac-formed* plastic handplate armour for ANH troopers so I set about making some latex ones that I could glue onto the back of the rubber gloves...
Those aren't *my* sausage fingers by the way... they're my mannequin's LOL
Note the dark honey-colour of the cured latex on the back of the handguard on the right of the picture. If you watch ANH frame-by-frame as I often do :$ you'll see loads of places where the white paint/dye has worn-off the troopers handguards, exposing this dark latex colour... probably with handling the blasters etc. etc.
Well I couldn't let my mannequin have all the fun, so I suited-up and grabbed a resin ANH blaster for a pic or two:
And finally, just for fun I took a section from a movie still of Han in the detention block (Thanks Paul
), cropped one of my pics and grayscaled it to see how they'd compare:
If anyone wants to have a look for these, the brand name is Toughie (printed on the inside wrist area, along with the size of the glove)
Next on the list is a canvas belt, and repaint the ab-plate buttons the correct colour. Longer term would be to remove the velcro from the arms, legs etc. and permanently glue them, but I've had some bad experience with ABS cement in the past so I'm a lil' bit wary of doing this.
I hear great things about E6000 from people who have assembled styrene suits - does it bond well with ABS? :confused
Cheers,
John
HDPE
Well-Known Member
Wow, looking good John:thumbsup
I realy like what you've done with your gloves and those awesome latex handplates, that the kind of details I love to see on displays.
Is that a resin blaster you're holding?
Might be a good time for an upgrade too.
(check out with Wtac, he will be offering real deact Sterlings at good price real soon)
I want a pair of these, got any spare:love
I realy like what you've done with your gloves and those awesome latex handplates, that the kind of details I love to see on displays.
Is that a resin blaster you're holding?
Might be a good time for an upgrade too
.(check out with Wtac, he will be offering real deact Sterlings at good price real soon)
I want a pair of these, got any spare:love
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