Darth Emphatic

Looking good. For my shoulders I ended up using something stiffer as I noticed a left to right shift from the chest to the bells to the back plate, but you may not have that problem.

Nice bucket!...now go finish your TX

Starting to really come together. Great work!

This is giving me some great ideas. Great work so far!

I've had some annoying errors with hot glue and plastic in the past. Always fun.

I don't see why not if there are no seams, but I couldn't imagine how you would accomplish that.

That is too bad. Here's hoping you already have some sources...

Looking good. I think Ty is a great resource here; make sure to use him. Dizzy, what do you think the shipping will be from AZ to So Cal?

This better make it in the plane to So Cal...

That's what I did.

Very excited to see how this pans out. I like to use magnets all over the place. If this can work out for you and look great, that will be awesome.

This seems really doable wirh pvc. What were you thinking the tank part?

Yep, unless it was an event by your garrison, wouldn't count toward a troop count.

I added backplates to mine, same method as Jim. I cut mine to fit just inside and built up some plastic pieces inside to glue it to. Mine also have snaps I put in the back plate to connect to my dropbox straps. Concerning the naming, the original name was Blackhole trooper as the troopers were first seen used under the command of Agent Blackhole. This eventually evolved to Shadow Stormtrooper mainly due to action figure development. Shadowtrooper is actually a completely different set of armor (my dream armor) and can be found in the Jedi Knight game series:

Dang, that is one great paint job. Mine never come out that good . Seriously impressed. May send you another bucket to paint, lol. Also, if you did need another back for the bucket, I am sure Scootch would sent you one on the cheap.

That is how do my snaps places too (using strapping). Looking good. Assume that's a CBR?

Awesome, Art. If I ever get mine resized, we should definitely get together for a shoot.

Would love to see this thing. I did see the one at CIV

Blaster is looking amazing!

Very cool. Can't wait to see this finished.

Well, that looks promising

Absolutely legit, he was on the Christmas card after all:

Got any friends that can stay very still for 6 hours?

Can't wait to see how the painted bucket came out. I really hate paining armor.

Awesome advice! I generally do not point my blaster at anyone, including the camera, unless asked. Otherwise I keep the elbow bent pointed up pose or if no one is next to me the two hand across the chest pose.