Treganna's Shoretrooper Grunt build-

[Treganna]

Hi everyone.

I joined here years ago, but only just catching up with this build since lockdown. I was hoping to have the costume ready for trooping last year, but a broken wrist slowed me down!

My armour is a heavily adapted Jimmi Tripon set with a Nico Henderson helmet and lots of Paul Prentice extra parts and rigging equipment, and lots of other detail parts from many sources! Just a couple of pictures here to show what I had to start with in 2016:

ST work 01 by Steve Purbrick, on Flickr

ST helmet by Steve Purbrick, on Flickr

More pictures to follow!

[KOtrooper]

Hi Steve - your work area is cleaner than mine! You have a great bucket - one of the best!

Let us know how we can help!!

[Treganna]

Thank you! I'm actually pretty far into the build and at the painting stage now, and I've since replaced the Jimmi helmet with a Nico Henderson one. More pictures will follow!

[KOtrooper]

Nico's is the best around! You chose wisely.

[Minimo]

Hiya! Looking forward to your build!!!


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[Treganna]

E22 very early version from Sean Field's files- needs more detailing, and I know which parts need changing:

blaster101 by Steve Purbrick, on Flickr

[Treganna]

Major surgery to Jimmi's rear chest section: 

back-surgery by Steve Purbrick, on Flickr

box-bottom 01 by Steve Purbrick, on Flickr

To end up with this:

back-chest 01 by Steve Purbrick, on Flickr

And eventually this:

back-chest fabricated by Steve Purbrick, on Flickr

[Treganna]

Close-up of back box greeblies-

back-chest 05 by Steve Purbrick, on Flickr

Hybrid Jimmi Tripon/Mr. Paul's greaves-

greave detail by Steve Purbrick, on Flickr

Rob Kittle belt with Mr. Pauls boxes and fittings-

belt-assembled by Steve Purbrick, on Flickr

 

[Treganna]

Test assembly of kidney plate, belt plate and fittings, and faulds/ammo pouch-

faulds-backplate 01 by Steve Purbrick, on Flickr

faulds-backplate 03 by Steve Purbrick, on Flickr

The bells! (with test strapping)

shoulder bells by Steve Purbrick, on Flickr

 

 

[Treganna]

Test assembly of greaves-

greave-close02 by Steve Purbrick, on Flickr

Test assembly of handguards-

handguards by Steve Purbrick, on Flickr

[Treganna]

Test assembly of costumer! Some dressing issues. (No vambraces)

1st test fit by Steve Purbrick, on Flickr

 

Replacement Nico Henderson helmet, printed by MJP-

helmet fitting by Steve Purbrick, on Flickr

[Treganna]

Painting- undercoat:

paint03 by Steve Purbrick, on Flickr

paint02 by Steve Purbrick, on Flickr

 

[Tarok]

Looking great, Steve!


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[Treganna]

Painting progress. More Molotow masking marking usage. I've taken reference pictures of ALL the armour parts, which I forgot to do for the helmet. Finding the masking chips there was an interesting voyage of discovery!

paintchipref 03 by Steve Purbrick, on Flickr

paintchipref 05 by Steve Purbrick, on Flickr

paintchipref 04 by Steve Purbrick, on Flickr

painttop 01 by Steve Purbrick, on Flickr

painttop 02 by Steve Purbrick, on Flickr

Chip removal begins-

chipreveal 02 by Steve Purbrick, on Flickr

chipreveal 01 by Steve Purbrick, on Flickr

[Treganna]

Painting continuing- Toyota red, and Tamiya yellow: 

bicep01 by Steve Purbrick, on Flickr

bicep03 by Steve Purbrick, on Flickr

[KOtrooper]

Looking sharp. The painting process is always fun to see. You're almost done!

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[Treganna]

Shoulder bells painted and chipped- marking the end of most of the major spray painting. Just got the Scarif symbol to add to the blast shield.

Before chipping-

bells-unchipped by Steve Purbrick, on Flickr

After chipping-

bells-chipped by Steve Purbrick, on Flickr

[Minimo]

Nice work!!!

[Treganna]

9 hours ago, Minimo said:

Nice work!!!

Thank you! Trying not to overdo the chipping. I'll flatten out and weather the stripes with some 600-grit once the paint has cured.

[KOtrooper]

It's easy to overdo the chipping. My first go around made my hand plate look like a chocolate chip cookie. Nice work on keeping it toned down.

I did some light passes with 80 grit on a few places to build up the damage. Gives some nice texture.

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[Treganna]

I've been looking carefully at the SU pictures, especially the grunts. Strangely, seeing the on-set pictures coming out of the Andor Blackpool shoot recently, you can tell which are the new bits of armour, and which aren't!

[Treganna]

Small bits of progress, but final assembly is not far off:

Weathering the belts-

belt weathering by Steve Purbrick, on Flickr

Sniper plate weathered-

outer sniper plate 01 by Steve Purbrick, on Flickr

[Minimo]

Almost there!!!

[Treganna]

Belts assembled- 

belts assembled by Steve Purbrick, on Flickr

[Treganna]

Helmet painting finished- internals to be refitted next.

helmet-painted01 by Steve Purbrick, on Flickr

helmet-painted03 by Steve Purbrick, on Flickr

helmet-painted04 by Steve Purbrick, on Flickr