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My SC armor is approved. I do have a KS helmet due to one being locally available when I started building my trooper.

I use a hard hat liner that I got out of a $3.99 hard hat at Harbor Freight.

There is just a small metal strap on the blaster, and it's superglued on.

Great addition to my knowledge, Chef & Dart!

I've been doing a bit of research on the Single Point scope used on the hold-out balster and the DH-17. It is not a see-thru scope. If you look into the Single Point, all you will see is black and a phosphorescent orange dot. The scope was intended to be used with both eyes open, your right eye capturing the orange dot while the left eye captures the rest of the world. When the orange dot is on your target, you fire. It wasn't tremendously successful because the dot could be larger than the target at distance. So your non-see-thru resin scope is more correct than any see-thru modification.

Really nice! I'm very envious!

Hard hat suspension here. We have very hot and humid weather here in the New Orleans area!

My bund is buttoned to my vest. I carry miscellaneous junk, SW hand cuffs, Galaxy Quest communicator, wallet, car keys. My pouches are held to my bund with 1" velcro strips the width of the pouch, top edge only.

The Bast Alpha bikers are growing! Congrats, Beth!

I used gel superglue, available from local hobby shops. My shoulder gap is covered by a length of white velcro (loop-side) wrapped around the black velcro, and overlaping the plastic front and back.

I recently discovered that my wonderful 4.5 oz. (23 gram) stunt blaster would go flying while dodging nerf projectiles at Shoot the Trooper. I decided to remedy this by gluing 2 rare earth magnets where the front trigger guard mounting screw contacted the holster. Because this was an installation that allowed only the shear strenght of the magnets to pull, it wasn't enough. So I installed 2 more, stacked in the trough, because the SC holster and the stunt balster only touch in a couple of places. You can see my slopply 15-minute epoxy installation, necessary because, although super glue was sufficient for the first two magnets, it was too weak to hold against the two stacked magnets. To engage the two magnets in the horizontal trough, I installed a 15 x 40 mm netal shim on the front of the triggerguard, here outlined in red. Here's a picture of the container of 80 0.250" (6.4mm) x 0.063" (1.6mm) magnets that I used. Be warned. If you try to put the same polarities together, they become projectiles. You might want to use safety glasses or goggles when messing with these bad boys. Theyr are two lost somewhere in my work area, where they have probably attached themselves to something metal. The grip seems strong enough now. I can turn the boot upside down and shake it without the blaster falling out. However, work permitting, I'll give it a real test Friday night at the kid's Zoo to Do at Audubon Park in New Orleans. As they say, the proof of the pudding is in the eating!

That's the Louie Anderson helmet!

Looks really good!

After you've made some troops, you will find black stripes everywhere from everybody's weapons rapping up against you. Since most everybody's weapons are painted black with spray paint, and nobody in armor except biker scouts can see worth a darn, you get lots of minor collisions. Awesome (as seen on tv!) will clean off the paint very well, with very little effort. And best of all, it's available for (wait for it!) a dollar from the Dollar Tree! It doesn't fix scratches, but can take the paint out of them. A friend worked for a large department store that was bought out by Dillards. She worked in the china department, and they used Awesome to take the old price tags off every piece of china. Worked like a charm. Besides, it will help you remember the ultimate geek series, Chuck.

It's great to be able to use your imagination and creativity to do the non-canon stuff. Looks great, and I'm envious myself. Guess I'll have to keep checking Goodwill and other charity stores for an old Kenner/Hasbro E-11, or dig out the one I painted and threw in the plastic gun box!