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Between Celebration, other Cons, and house renovations over the summer, I ended up taking a rather longer hiatus from working on this than I’d intended, but I’m back on it and starting to make some progress again! I’ve been working towards getting the helmet done before it’s too cold out to spray paint it, but this WTF bucket is proving a little more challenging than I thought it would be. I feel like I’m getting close though - Just trying to figure out how the wide the visor is supposed to be so that it’s wide enough for the helmet back, and narrow enough for the face plate so I can get the two halves joined up. Any tips or tricks for getting everything to line up? I’m getting close, but still have some work to do. Also, any advice on sizing for the Ozark Trail boots? Looks like Walmart doesn’t have my size any more, so I’ll have to buy them off of ebay.

Congrats! This is a fantastic build. Hope mine comes out half as well!

Sounds good, will do all of the above. Thank you!

Not a lot of progress here to report so far. It ended up taking nearly two and a half weeks for my order from Joann's to arrive, but I finally got the duck cloth and cotton sateen for the pouches and bund! First, finished tank fitting, got the topper painted up and rivet in place, and did a test fit of the chest and back sans cummerbund, and it just looks a little too big to me. I think I need to take 1/4" off each side of the shoulders to raise it up a little, and maybe 1/2" off of the chest sides. I'll get better pics and another test when I get the bund done though (and take a lint roller to my flight suit!). Any feedback so far? Next, pouches! I hadn't done any sewing in over a year, but I drafted patterns using @BikerScout007's awesome tutorial (link for posterity): The pouches came out pretty well. They're not perfect, but with the weathering you'll never know! https://imgur.com/C4WCfT Three!? Yep, one with a belt attachment for my concept Remnant Stormtrooper as well. Finally, got the bag built, and is just awaiting an Earl Grey bath to weather (apologies for the colored lighting). I found that for the rank bar, the rivets that I had to take out of the belt to make the shoulder strap seemed to be a perfect match for the rivets on the side. Not sure if that's the kosher way to do it, but I think they came out looking pretty well. I used a dremel to cut off a little section of the belt buckle to make the "nail head" in the white square too. Ya know, reduce, reuse, recycle! Removing rivets from my test belt:

Ah, awesome thank you! I’ll definitely check out the tutorial. I was super tired when I wrote that though… my question was supposed to be more curiosity if they actually painted red stripes on the tank toppers on set or not. I haven’t slept much this week 😂

Also, I’m painting the tank topper and other greeblies… -There is definitely no white circle, but just confirming if there is a red stripe or not? It’s kind of hard to tell- EDIT: what I was supposed to be saying here was: “I’m looking through some reference screenshots, and it’s quite hard to tell if the toppers actually had red stripes on set or not.” Painting so far:

Ok, I’ve been slowly working away at the fit of the tank... I think I’m getting there? Could make the bottom of the left side lay a little more flat maybe, but once I get it attached to the back plate I think that’ll pull it into position. Any feedback so far? Thanks!

Also, obligatory soft goods photos: Wampawear gloves that are so darn comfy MonCal flight suit Rucksack

Good points on the cod… hmm, I’ll have to give it some more thought. I’m definitely looking forward to doing the boots. Steph’s tutorial was fun to watch, and it didn’t look too complicated as long as I get the right dimensions for everything. I’ll grab the Ozark Trail boots too I think. Did you get yours from Walmart? Tank trimming is coming along slowly, but I’m getting closer. What did you use to hold the finished tank on? I was debating doing the ROTJ method, but actually cutting holes in the back piece to thread the strapping through so it’ll be hidden.

…and I’ve definitely been going baby steps with trimming. I’m a little unsure how much to take off of the sides on the chest, as each on screen trooper seems to have something different from what I can tell. Any thoughts? Also, going very slowly on the tank, just trying to figure out the fit before I take any more off: … and the topper is ready for a little bit of filler and then painting:

Thank you @MikerScout! I’m definitely going off of Christina’s Build for a lot of tips. Was debating doing either her cod idea or going fully screen accurate and just sewing it into the bund… I’m still waiting on my fabric to arrive though, so no immediate hurry to decide. I don’t have my marine vinyl yet though. I decided to wait to sus out my boots until everything else was done. Any tips?

Fabric ordered and trimming has started! I’ve been staring at @TKZombie’s fantastic reference stills and watching RS Propmasters videos on building a scout to figure out how much to trim where since the WTF trim lines are a bit hit and miss. Not looking forward to the tank which will be coming up soon. I’ve trimmed all I can by hand, and moving to the cold garage to continue with the ol dremel. Pre trimming pic from the warm couch:

@AradunFF That’s all super helpful!! Thank you!

Thank you!! Stoked to be here. As far as the helmet goes, I’m definitely not in the financial position to seek out an EFX helmet, and the WTF helmet was only $100 more than the armor so I went for it with the thinking that I could always sell it if needed. Will it not be Lancer level approvable? Thanks for the heads up about the boots too! I’m actually tempted to get one of Steph’s boot kits as well… We’ll see how the build goes. I’m putting together my Joann fabrics shopping list. I know the pouches are white duck cloth, what do you recommend for the cummerbund? Just any smooth cotton calico type fabric? Cheers!

Howdy all! CC/TK-44214 aka Garrett here from Cloud City Garrison. Spurred on by how awesome @MikerScoutlooks, I've set my sights on a Remnant Scout as my next build. I'll also be doing a concurrent build of one of Brian Matyas' concept Remnant TKs, since they share chest/back and cummerbunds, so this should be fun! So far here's what I've collected: Helmet: WTF Armor: WTF TIE Flight Suit: MonCal Gloves: Wampawear (the gloves are so good I might buy a second pair for snowboarding) Rucksack (punching bag): p37 bag from www.worldwarsupply.com and Rothco XL belt from Amazon. - Rank bar/greeblie on front will be made by me. Light covers for rank bar from Allied Electronics: https://www.alliedelec.com/product/rs-pro-by-allied/7452584/70827507/ Blaster: 3D printed from @MrPoopie's sweet, sweet files Still to come: Cummerbund: Making myself with a lot of questions to be asked of everyone Boots: Still haven't figured that out yet... Probably uppers made by myself and boot base as of yet undecided. Looking forward to posting pics and shenanigans soon! Cheers, Garrett