My Life-Sized 1978 Stormtrooper Kenner Action Figure Project

azheat

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Since I shared at peek at my Vader project, might as well share this one as well! One of my top 3 figures when I was a kid, so this one had to be done next. When finished, he'll stand just a tad under 6 feet tall. This was designed with scans directly from a vintage action figure.

One of the coolest features about this figure is the helmet is removable and designed to hide the same neck post that is being used on my Luke and Han figures, so the heads can be swapped onto this body! Or, if you want, you can permanently glue the helmet on. I have future aspirations to make a helmet that will fit over Luke and Han's head, but I also want to make a kit that includes a DLT-19 rifle, shoulder pauldron, and a backpack so the figure can be converted to a Sandtrooper (even though we didn't get a Sandtrooper figure until the mid 90s). All in due time......

I'm working on finishing my Luke now, and my printer is grinding away on Vader, but this is up next.

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Since I shared at peak at my Vader project...
It's peek - "peak" is the top of a mountain.

The Stormtrooper was my very first Kenner figure when I was a kid, and was my favorite. Still have it, though it's a bit yellowed now.

Your work on these figures has been amazing, and your mods to this one are pretty cool. I must admit that I was pretty disappointed as a kid, when I discovered that you couldn't turn the head/helmet.

Watching with interest...
 
It's peek - "peak" is the top of a mountain.

Thank you for not only correcting that for me, but for defining what a "peak" is, lol. When you think about it, I have been out of school for quite a long time, so I appreciate the refresher :). I'll chalk that error up to "typing fatigue" as I was completing the PDF assembly instructions and that ended up being longer than expected; 8 pages.

I have a feeling this figure, especially when it comes to piecing the helmet together, is going to be the most difficult one yet. Being all white, it's going to be even more important to bondo and hide those seam lines. (I made sure to double check the word "seam", and not write it as "seem", which means "give the impression or sensation of being something or having a particular quality". I am as tired as a snail crawling uphill at the moment............

And I need to give credit where credit is due, laellee is helping bring these designs to life. He is very talented and this project of mine would not be the same without him.
 
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And "pique" is the feeling I often inspire in others when I correct their grammar. :D

(If it helps you feel better, once upon a time we actually said all those words differently, and the spelling just hasn't updated with the language change.)

This looks like a lot of fun! Not something that would work in my house, but I'm super happy it exists. :)
 
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