BikerScout007

I will be making a video of this to go into the "Pathfinders Armor Party" series, but in the meanwhile, here is a photo tutorial! 1. First thing is you need to do is measure yourself and preferably with some layers on. Even better if you are wearing the vest and flight suit. If you don't have these items yet, try wearing a light jacket or heavy shirt. Your t-shirt isn't going to be thick enough to simulate the other soft goods. With my flight suit and vest on, my chest measurement was about 41.5, so I called it 42. The bottom of the bund should line up with your waist and the top should be about 8-9 inches above that... so just under the pectorals. 2. Cut out your fabric. The bund should be between 8-9 inches in height when it is finished so the pouches and their attachment tabs fit squarely inside. However, the batting will take away some of that height, so 16-18 inches isn't going to be enough. You should go closer to 19-20. For the width I went with 46 inches. Again, the batting will take away from the width somewhat and -- it's better to have more to cut off later than it is to have not enough! For height I went 19 inches: Alternatively, you can cut out two separate sheets that you fold together. So in my case, it would be two sheets of 46x9.5 inches. And I'm sorry for the Imperial units but I'm American and that's just how my brain has been programmed. 3. Fold your sheet in half, and then iron it along the folded seam (or alternatively, pin your two halves together): 4. Close up the width seam and ONE of the height seams: Your final product should look like this: As you can see, I sewed the bottom and right side shut, but left the left side open. Don't worry if it's not 100% perfect, the next step will take care of that. 5. Cut out a piece of batting this is slightly smaller than your original piece. Mine was 46x19, so my batting piece was roughly 45x18: 6. Fold the batting in half and lay it on top of your fabric: 7. Turn the fabric inside out, and pull the batting all the way through while you do. It's not that difficult really, though if you want to be super careful you can use pins. Your final product should look like this. You will want to pull out those corners on the left edge so that edge is straight (sorry forgot to take a pic of this): 8. Okay now normally with most garments, you'd probably want to make the folded side the BOTTOM, so there would be no visible seam from the outside, but I looked at the MOTM exhibit and.... You can see the seam plain as day on the bottom of the bund. So that's how I am doing mine! The folded part will be the TOP and the seam will be the BOTTOM. This is important to determine because the closure is RIGHT-OVER-LEFT. So the right "half" will end up being slightly longer than the left half. 9. Now that we've determined the orientation of our bund, we need to figure out what the midpoint of the front of the bund is. With my flight suit and vest on, I lined up the left side closure in the center of my back and then wrapped the rest of the bund around my front to get a rough idea where my centerpoint was. Once doing this, when I folded the bund at the closures and laid it out flat, the bund measured 19 inches. Which puts my centerpoint at 9.5 inches across the front. This made sense because my last bund (which was made when I was a little skinnier LOL) measured 18 inches when folded like this. 10. Sew the hook to the left side closure. This is the side that should be sewn shut already. You are using hook because that is pointing AWAY from the wearer. To determine which side you are sewing the hook to, fold the closure in the back (right over left). The side of the left that is facing you is the side it should be sewn to. 11. Determine how much to shorten the right side closure by. We made our initial piece of fabric 46 inches long, so there's going to be some overage. That's okay -- better to have too much than not enough. With the bund laying flat and closures flapped over, line up the left side closure centered over the centerpoint of the front. Then lay the right side flap over that. I then used painters tape to mark out a 2 inch area (for the 2 inch velcro) that is centered over the left side closure and the centerpoint of the front. This is where we want our right slide velcro. You can see that leaves about 2 inches of extra fabric. Also, we have left the right side open -- this is where we close it! 12. Sew up the right side closure. What you want to do is fold about half an inch of fabric down into itself and then stitch it down. That will hide all those loose threads. When you are finished, it should look like this. The part to the left of the blue tape is the excess fabric we need to get rid of. You may be tempted to cut it off but hey -- you may need that excess someday! So let's save it! 13. Fold the excess fabric up to the tape line. Obviously you will be folding it so it faces the inside of the bund, not the outside! So like this: 14. Stitch the velcro loop OVER the fold and up to the edge of your bund: So when complete, yours will look like this from the outside (though you will sew your top stitch straighter than I did here!) 15. Ribs: With the center point in the front still marked, you can now mark out where the 6 stitches that will create the 5 front "ribs" will go. I couldn't find my fabric pencil, so I just marked them out lightly with a regular pencil and a yardstick. One inch between each: And there carefully sew them in a straight line down the front of the bund. You don't want to go too fast here, because you're stitching between two pieces of fabric and two layers of batting. It's easy for things to get snagged: 16. Finishing touches! Here is the complete bund: I added velcro on both sides of the top edge to affix the pouches and to secure it to my vest: And with the pouches. They fit squarely on the bund from top to bottom: I hope this helps!

Honestly it looks good. If you want to do anything, you could maybe go out on the sides a little bit to exaggerate the outer curve like the originals. But I wouldnt go into the corners more. I think you're in a good spot.

1. The SC lens opening IS small. That's just par for the course. The lens gets glued behind the opening so everything there looks good. As for your cuts. They also look good. Compare to a screen used: You're looking good. Don't over think it. You don't want to square the upper left and right corners. You want them nice and rounded like the pic above. 2. Dart was referring to how you paint the snout area, not the bottom of the helmet. You paint the "canyon" portion of the snout area all black, square it off at the bottom and just barely come out over the ridges

It goes right in the trash

I put mine on by myself in my video. Did you check it out yet?

We have a list of Vendors in the Vendor section who do soft goods: http://forum.501stpathfinders.com/forum/156-vendor-sales/ Of the sellers on Etsy, the only who is vetted is KriptonTop. He keeps in the loop when it comes to the CRL. Maybe because he is local to me, but I have gotten many of my soft goods from @Chrisx909x, including boots and pouches. But he does everything.

Okay folks, I have sent out the latest email blast, containing all the info you will need for the photo shoot next week! I have changed the meetup time to 8AM. We are on a very tight schedule and it's important everyone is suited up and ready to be transported on time! If you have not gotten the email, please let me know. And if you can't make it, please also let me know!

You signed up just in time. I am about to send out the next email blast.

Okay well please let me know as soon as you can whether you'll be able to make it or not. I will get you up to speed soon.

On behalf of Pathfinders Command, it is my pleasure to induct Seb "Larcwide" Partlett (ST-27488) into the Pathfinders Hall of Fame as a Vanguard Shoretrooper for the "ST - Shoretrooper Squad Leader - Rogue One" CRL! Great job, @Larcwide! You have been sent a Certificate of Achievement to your email on file and your picture has been added to the Pathfinders Hall of Fame. Check out ST-27488's application here:

Merci, Cyril I have not done the soft parts video yet, that will be coming soon. In the meantime, please check out the soft parts forum: http://forum.501stpathfinders.com/forum/145-biker-scout-soft-parts/

Hey Endor Photo peeps! I sent an email out to everyone who signed the interest list with a map of the meet up location. Let me know if you didn't get it!

As far as I know none of the current offerings allow for that, but there's nothing per se against them having that ability. The Scout helmets open obviously, but it's never shown on screen so it doesn't really matter if they can or not.

Looks great to me! You should pass basic easily.

That greeblie should be covered. In fact even more. Just like with most Star Wars troopers, you need to make sure things sit on your waist, not on your hips like modern pants are cut today. Pull up the ab so that when you wear your belt, it sits closer to your belly button than your hip bones Look at this: The Shoretrooper Captain, which is the closest live-action character to the officer, has his ab plate worn up high as well as his belt. That greeblie is almost completely covered. I demonstrate in this video how high the ab plate should be worn:

Please check out the Vendor list:

Hey folks! Trying to get an accurate account for the film commission for the photo shoot. If for any reason you have to drop out, please post below so I can take you off the interest list!

Best set out there is the one by @MrPoopie Thing is -- you're never going to get that wonky, imperfect, asymmetric look of the film armor with 3D printing. That's something only the imperfections of vacuum-pulled ABS plastic will give you.

Hey Pathfinders! Glad to see so many of you fresh Pathfinders start on your trooping journey with the 501st (or at least us!) I'd like to take this moment to remind y'all that there are actually some rules when it comes to logging your troops! Please read them here: Here are some important things to remember: 1. One troop per post 2. Every post needs an accompanying photo. If you are having difficulties posting photos, please refer to this thread: 3. Troops must be official 501st events you signed up for through your Garrison. So popping on your costume and strolling the local grocery store doesn't count (and yes, I have done this before ) Any questions please ask!

I would be surprised if your GML thought it was anything more than some weathering.

I'm not gonna keep it a secret. When I have all the details I will pass them along! I definitely don't want to be the only Scout in the photo!!!

On behalf of Pathfinders Command, it is my pleasure to induct Christopher "Hiker Scout" Anderson (TB-81931) into the Pathfinders Hall of Fame as a Lancer Scout Trooper for the "TB - Scout Trooper - ROTJ" CRL! Great job, @Hiker Scout! You have been sent a Certificate of Achievement to your email on file and your picture has been added to the Pathfinders Hall of Fame. Check out TB-81931's application here:

Well done, Lancer, congrats!

Latest update: The Film Commission contacted me and said they have secured a much bigger parking lot at a nearby location as our parking/muster point. The next step is booking local transports to take us over the Cheatham Grove. Waiting on that news.

@Hask do you have the images? I don't.