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Just got some time to work on my IB soft parts as well. Great idea. I don't feel confident enough to do the straps (but nothing ventured nothing gained I guess). However I did put some stirrups on. Thanks for the suggestion 🙂

Hey Mike, thanks for sharing! Sounds like you're doing a lot better after some hell that you went through. Health is always more important than a hobby, glad you're doing better now, and I hope you continue to do well

CloneTroopers.net check the sale forum / Hyperfirm topic.

Ditto! Fantastic job guys! Oh and BTW it looks like the run on these is closed on May 4th, and (correct me if I'm wrong) they're only accepting payments for the short rifle. 2 days left folks!

First of all, I'd like to reiterate what others have said. "Great job Mike, keep up the good work". I really want to see you get this done and be our first Lancer. :-) Second, I like the fact that we have this option available now. Seriously it hasn't been that long ago that many folks on this board were trying to gather up as much info as possible about the original costume. It's satisfying that we have a much better understanding of the "accurate" costume used. There's still little details that need to be solved, but overall there's a whole lot of info on what a screen accurate costume should have. This is a great standard to achieve and it's a great goal for some of us to attain, as well as receive some moderate appreciation for the hard work. Keep up the great work guys, I really like where this is going.

Mike! Great work mate! I didn't know the secret ingredient to the armor was cool whip though ... very good to know :-) Keep up the great work!

I have a friend of mine that knows a lot more about dyes and materials. I'm working with her over the weekend to figure out a better method for approaching the vest. We're going to attempt different dyes on what I have so far and see if the dyes take to different materials while we're at it. :-) There's also fabric paint, and I have access to my old airbrush for putting a camouflage pattern down. The goal here is to make this look as close as possible to the original. Hopefully I'll have photos soon.

LOL I remember talking to you about casting the boot soles out of rubber (since they seem to be so unique). Looking forward to your progress mate :-)

SWEET! Can't wait to see your armor, love your helmet pghfett! :-)

Nice to see you back Frank Was wondering how your project was going. I've seen a fair number of thermal detonators with rubber pads like that for the buttons. I think MonCal used greeblies for his thermal detonator, other than that I've seen resin cast parts that look pretty much just like the rubber pads you have shown. I'll have to check your site and see how your Vader armor is coming along.

So ya .. been busy with work LOL. I'm just starting to see sunlight again, and I'll start up this vest effort again. Anyone else have any progress on it? Now off to the store that sells dyes as the material store I use doesn't sell them (weird).

Scheduled for January.

Just a note guys and gals, the folks from Hasbro will be making a clone trooper blaster. I'm a big fan of the $20 oops I lost my blaster or it broke guns. :-) The gun looks pretty darn nice, a little sanding, paint and distressing .. and it could look great. http://www.rebelscum.com/sdcc06/sdcc06-HasbroSWRP/image8.asp

Thx ladyghst, I had planned on trying various techniques to dye the material. I have plenty of extra material to test with, and my thoughts were anything from different dye solutions that give me an approximate color to using my airbrush to put the color on (was going to use that to actually add the camo patterns). When I started the vest I was more interested in working through some of the issues I would have with it that only getting my hands dirty could provide. Some of the questions that I've been able to raise by just mocking this up and playing with it have been where the belts go, what materials they're made of, how they attach to the vest, what materials the bottom belt is made of, how the pouches are attached to the vest, and now .. what dye will work and possibly what materials or fabrics should we actually make this out of. My sewing skills suck to be honest so this has also been a good learning tool for how things would fit together. I'm open to suggestions on what materials to use :-) BTW .. Comic-con was fun... but HOT ... very HOT. I'll take a look! thx!!

I've been racking my brain to think of what to put on that bottom of that vest. Should it be a leather belt strap with velcro attached to it? Should it be a plastic abs belt (how to attach it to the cloth vest comes up). Maybe a heavy canvas belt that can be attached to the bottom of the vest and then sew in black loop (what appears to be the black segments) into it (have to dye the vest first and make sure it's color fast, then attach the belt, or attach the bottom belt with snaps or velcro to the vest so it can be washed separately if needed). Any ideas? Pouches shouldn't be too hard, I'm assuming there's two approaches. 1) Attach the bloody things to the vest. 2) create some sort of framework for the pouches that attach to the belt (that can probably be done easily).