TooTall

Hello Hello! It's been a long while right? I'm slowly combing back to this build over time from with work and my personal life. Starting off with this update, I finally have the orca bay boots in Havana! These are a little big on my feet as I maybe should've gotten an 11.5 but its okay. I put some insoles in them to be more comfy and not have blisters when trooping, it also fixed the issue of them sliding on me when walking. On my endor finders gloves i have removed the liner and my hands fit so much better in them and doint get as hot anymore. As for armor i have looked at weasels build for references since he's using NTX3D files like I am. i haven't printed anything yet but test rings are priority>

Im very happy with the quality of the top and neck seal it came with. The neck seal seems kind of “big” but it’s okay the balaclava will fit in there too and won’t choke me lol

I have to ask what kind of size pants are those? I recently got my shore top and it fits perfectly. As reading this thread I can tell it benefits me. I didn’t buy the pants cuz I was skeptical on the length to fit my tall height. I was gonna go with dark side closet as well but I wanted to hear on pants from keeptrooping.

My shore top from IB... i mean keeptrooping came in after a month when ordering. I'm very surprised it came in faster than expected. This one is actually a size small and it fits my tall self. Don't mind me having my mando helmet on lol. I can actually start printing some of my torso parts officially. The pants however I'm gonna aim for TheDarksideCloset with the custom sizing. The boots i wanted from katherinepartis are out of stock in all colors, I'm a size 12 in US men so I might have to try to find something. Resin strapping I some on etsy that i might try out. These files from ben don't have the little strap greeblie on the shin, luckily I have a file already on hand for it. I still have to order the endorfinder gloves. My weapon of choice is going to be the E22 blaster, its the modified sean fields thats more screen accurate i saw in a post here in the forums and I'm confident enough to make the sling from the guide here as well.

I see you’re using bens files. I’m also going to use his files as well for mine!!

The one thing I’m very curious with is bens ab armor. I haven’t printed anything yet but I’m trying to find ways on how I’m gonna be able to put it on. Shins can be easy to put on, you would have to leave the back not glued in, only the front. The ab I have no idea if I can just slide it over myself like a shirt, or open up the back up and slide in through the side and just cover it with the backing panel provided

I’ll be sure to send close ups to when I print them

The handplates do have the slots actually!! the model is very thin which can also work but I like the ones from thingiverse personally. I do see the shin guards being “pointy”. Maybe a dremel can fit it a little bit or contact the modeler if it happens to cause a problem. I do see trying to put on the ab plating would be an actual issue but there can be ways to work around it. Guess I’ll be the first one to use them 😜

And one more angled picture to add

This update had been really slow. And I mean REALLY slow. Last night I ordered my shoretrooper top from KeepTrooping (formerly know as Imperial Boot). I stood away from Sean’s file and wanted to try something different. I recently picked up Ben Griegers (NTX3D) new shoretrooper files that was released pretty recently. I kinda like as it follows most crl to me but I would like more eyes on this.

I’ll keep that in mind thanks!!!!

That’s what I figured so I’m gonna keep going the 3D printed route. Soft parts are now added to the list of items to get as well as miscellaneous items like helmet fans, voice amp, padding, etc etc. I went and resized Sean’s armor in armorsmith and I think I’m good where I’m at but printing test rings wouldn’t hurt to try. I had to make the shins bigger cuz of my longer legs

Also another quick update I'm on the debate of either printing my armor or get an abs kit. I've had my eye on the 850armorworks kit for a while now and its at a reasonable price and I can just trim it to my size (hopefully I can get it to fit my tall skinny self (I'm 6'4" at 150 lbs. btw so I hope it fits)) and it's a huge learning curve with assembling the kit. And then there's printing my armor, printing out different test pieces, playing around with scaling, etc....... (which can give me a headache)

Back on here real quick, what can i use for hip plates since sean's files doesn't have an stl for them?

After looking through forums here are the paints I’m gonna go with Base first layer coat: rust oleum dark walnut Armor and Helmet: Montana gold Sahara Beige Red bicep: Toyota super red 2 Yellow decal on bicep: Montana gold show yellow (I think this is the one but I’m not sure) Decal on pauldron: I’ll probably go with rust oleum matte black and white (open to suggestions for that) Emblem on helmet: the crl said it was a “spicy orange” and there was also mention of a Montana paint color but I can’t think of it from the top of my head Also for weathering I’m gonna have to figure that out to achieve but I think I have some ideas if there’s anything else feel free to let me know Thanks!!!