IcyTrooper

Very nice! Nice job on the cutouts for the boots as well!

Welcome! I'd recommend you browse around this forum and check out the various work in progress (WIP) or build threads. A lot of them have useful information within them.

Here is the proposed knee detail text: Knee Details On each side of each knee there will be a silver circular greeblie with a red center that fades to black around the edges. This detail may be attached to either the thigh armor or lower leg armor, but the method of attachment shall be hidden or blended into the undersuit. OPTIONAL Level two certification (if applicable): Circular greeblies are more conical and have a metal appearance: Greeblies get narrower towards the top and wider at the bottom. Red LEDs within each greeblie give the appearance that it is glowing.

That looks great!!

I'd imagine the trouble is sourcing the boots? The thing with L2 is to take the costume to the next level and as close/if not the same as the production assets; striving for that sometimes requires extra work or means or procuring replicas or actual material; often which may not be easy

I second @RAIDER's mention of a WIP thread! Back on target for the CRL, I'm going to push some knee detail text here soon as well!

Nice work so far!!

Thanks @RAIDER! @shadowfire as far as those boots and gloves go the details don't seem to match the references. While the boot stitching does appear to be close it is missing the two mark detail on the top of the foot but instead has two horizontal patches which are not accurate. Gloves do not have any pad details from what we can see texture wise so using the basic TK/TX gloves is the standard that we pushed. I'd recommend checking out our revamped references thread: I went ahead and got the game on Steam a few weeks ago and was able to get a plethora of new pics and have it readily available for whatever we need.

Very nice on the prints so far! May have to make some kind of resin or fiberglass on the inside. Fiberglass can be a pain in the butt to work with though and the whole health aspect. I'll definitely want to see what @Allan1313 did for the inside of his. I am using this filler called Evercoat 411 Poly Flex Flexible Polyester to fill on my Royal Guard helmet and perhaps that may help with adhesion on the joint as well? It is a glazing putty though so I'm not sure on the bonding aspect of it but it is used on bumpers because it can withstand flexing.

Sure thing! It is in this post on the 1st page here: https://forum.specops501st.com/topic/4155-star-wars-battlefront-2004-phase-0-dark-trooper-crl-discussion/?do=findComment&comment=95154

That color is pretty nice!! Welcome back guys!

@Blackwatch @MahXPrime @TX-20113 any assistance for this based on the current CRL?

Everything going okay with the build?

How's the build going?!

Here is the start of the thigh armor text: Thigh Armor Front of thigh armor has a flat triangular area near the knee. From the top of the triangle, a ridge line travels up the front of the thigh to the top edge. Rear of the thigh has a U-shaped indention. Armor is seamless. No visible traces of how the armor was assembled are shown. On the outside of the thighs there is a darker gray striping that is wide at the top of the thigh and narrows a third of the way down the thigh and extends all the way to the bottom of the thigh. On the inside of the thigh there is a darker gray striping that is wide at the top of the thigh and goes down the inside of the thigh at a 90 degree angle, cutting at a 45 degree angle at the midpoint of the thigh then cuts back down at a 30 degree angle towards the last third of the thigh. It flattens out about a third of the way from the end of the thigh and goes back to the back of the thigh before going up the back inside of the thigh at a 90 degree angle to the top of the thigh. This stripe shall not go to the bottom of the inside of the thigh. I know that that last bullet is kind of a bear and we may be able to break it up to sub-bullets for the dark gray painting/striping, etc.

Thanks for the feedback! I think we'll leave the clips for L1 and then we'll allow for any type of attachment to get it onto the belt as long as it is flush. I'm going to update the finalized text for now on the main post and then we can move onto the thigh armor! I did add this to the L2 bullet (purple underlined): The detonator is not attached to the belt with silver metal or metallic-appearing clips and sits flush with the belt.

Since the back is hidden there really isn't a definitive way for us to say what he had on his back. If anything to make it work we could come up with something that would be "assumed" per say but be within the optional category.

Looks like Franken-pieces! That is a lot of printing time!

That is a good proposal idea as well! I drew my text reference from the AOTC: Captain clone armor which at higher levels states that there shouldn't be any visible clips. We can bounce around the idea of no clips for L1 as well as this is our CRL.

I agree with this.

That is good to hear! I actually hadn't had that one completed yet when I got to it in my draft Word doc so I was like oh crap! I do have the text done for the thigh armor which is next.

@Dropkick so I know this is for a TK but it is the same concept for the TX: Essentially you add the shim from the kidney plate to be the part that goes to the ab plate (no shim on the ab plate) and then use ABS paste to create a seamless edge. From there you can place the rivets in the locations they are supposed to be on the kidney shim and have them in the standard location on the ab plate. Does that make sense?

I'd say you'd have a shim that comes from the kidney armor side to meet at the ab plate sides. Let me take a look at how others have done with shims on the side and give you a definitive answer on that and with rivet location.

Here is the thermal detonator text! Thermal Detonator (A.K.A O2 canister) is attached to the center back of the belt. The total length is approximately 7.50" (190.5mm). Detonator consists of a painted dark gray cylinder with 2” (50mm) to 2.68” (68mm) in diameter with gray/silver end caps on each end and a gray/silver control panel pad. The gray/silver control panel pad faces upwards with the following details Four horizontally aligned buttons. These buttons are aligned to the right on the panel, when viewing from behind. There is a circular detail at the top left of the control panel. The detonator may be attached to the belt with 1” (25mm) silver metal or metallic-appearing clips. OPTIONAL Level two certification (if applicable): The detonator is not attached to the belt with silver metal or metallic-appearing clips.

I have updated the finalized section for the belt text!