spookymufu

you can get them pre painted too and mine took about a month to get

hot glue

I put two oven safe bowls on a cookie sheet and bridged the TB lens between them and turned the oven on 300 degrees and waited until the lens drooped, then I took it out, put it in the helmet and pushed it into shape until it cooled

that white snout piece must be something new MLC is providing, mine didnt come with that, mine came with the short gray one with no riser plate

you really dont want to use those bolt covers or that snout piece tho, get a DVH snout and get 3M speedglass bolts from the trade area here, thats the best way to go. I have a WIP thread here for my MLC if your interested http://forum.bikerscout.net/index.php?showtopic=11862&hl=&fromsearch=1

look at the gray (half) snout piece, there are two discs taped to the mic tip part, those are your bolt covers

yes, the MLC is fiberglass I think most people use an automotive paint for it, but I suppose any good quality white gloss paint would work

well shoot, I hunted for 15 min searching for that.....thanks man! I ordered mine prepainted so I didnt have to mess with it

well......I had a wip thread for my MLC but it seems to have vanished from the boards.....

this might help some, you can enlarge the pics to see what the details look like http://www.doopydoos.com/sandtrooper--stormtrooper-electrobinocular-replica-2505-p.asp

I have a thread of my MLC build, it might help you, it should be in the helmet section, do a search for it, I dont have the link handy tho, sorry

yes, it does not come with the lens, i got my lens from trooperbay, the helmet DOES come with all other helmet parts, but you'll want to use different decals, bolt covers, and snout detail piece

I own an MLC V3 and the only things I needed to buy was a more accurate snout, I got from DVH, I got decals and a visor lens from trooperbay and authentic 3M bolts, you can only use the round parts tho and put them over the bolts the helmet comes with because the 3M bolts are far too short.

I sent you a PM about NI since we're not supposed to give names or web sites out on the public forum. As far as I know only one person here got a NI helmet and as I recall, it was a positive review, the helmet looks good.

both are Fiberglass helmets, the NI looks better in the pics and in the one review that was done by a BSN member, my MLC helmet is pretty big, not sure you'd need it to flex, I can wear mine with my glasses and still have room...

have you looked into the MLC helmet or maybe the NI?

I joined about four 501st sites looking for info on helmets (I collect them) and I never planned on joining the 501st, but this site has kept me coming back because of the nice helpful people here and great information thats available. I enjoy this site so much I donate to help it (I've never donated to a forum site before) and am now considering joining the 501st because of this site.... Spending some time on this site before buying ANYTHING will save you a lot of grief and keep your expectations realistic. One thing I wish this site had was a sticky that said something to the effect of "before you start your costume, expect it to cost an average of $X and X amount of time to complete because our standards are very high blah blah blah" I think if newbies read that right off the bat it might save some from the situation that banned fellow fell into

wow.......

it also seems that an Altmann is easier to come by then a LW as well

wow, that finished helmet was cardboard once??? amazing

I got the impression that MonCal figures he's got the goods people want and they can pretty much do what they want and ya'll just sit there and eat it to get their stuff....

Awww, the Altmanns hs replaced your MLC as your favorite? That Altmanns looks nice, I wish I could afford one

Yeah I know Rottie isnt DVH, but I thought Rottie took over the moulds from DVH, you know, Rottie now making the DVH snout pieces

weathering!

doesnt sound like you did enough research