Blizzard Force

Hello!

My name is John Danter and I belong to the UK Garrison.
I normally do a TK and also dress as the Grand Master P too.

It's not easy walking around with a cane and a prosthetic on all day. So I was looking for something snug and mean to wear and have just been lucky enough to purchase a complete snowtrooper from a moderator on the dented helmet (So I'm hoping it's good)
I enjoy making costumes so I missed out on that here and this is the first time I've ever bought a complete costume.
The kit arrives sometime this week and then I need to get it cleared by our GML.

Loving the site! I hope to pop on here more often to see how I can make improvements (to my costume) and have a chat with my snowy friends.

Be good

John

welcome

Welcome to the party mate...if you need any help, or questions answered you have come to the right place....

Welcome from Italy mate!!!

Cheers lads! Thanks for the frosty reception. I'm very sorry

One question. I notice on the backpacks there is text. Mine doesn't have any but where could I get these from?

Does anyone sell them as kit?

I am sure now that you have asked the question..someone will be PM-ing you very soon with some advise of assistance....

Respectfully,

Welcome Master!

Hey lads.

Now then, please be as harsh as you like cos I want this to be as accurate and cool looking as I can possibly get it.

Here is me in my new snowie, straight out the box. No tweaks.

What do I need to do to this so it fits better and looks cool on 'me'

Here she blows. Please be harsh, I love it

cod needs 2 b trimmed, tighten your sleeves so they're less baggy, longer cowl, foam in your pouches so they fill out a bit. otherwise good 2 go.

Cheers dude. I was expecting more abuse than that

When you say it needs to be trimmed, In what way?
Along the V of my inner thighs?

Shoulder bells needs raising maybe?

shoulder bells are ok. and yep, along the v

You asked for it...

You look fine as you are and would probably get a TS designation no problem. HOWEVER if you want to be uber accurate here's the problem areas from the top down:

-You helmet dome is inaccurate. The brow ridge isn't right and the dome shape resembles a TK more than a TS.

-Your cowl is too short and too glossy.

-Your ab plate and shoulders are a different color from the rest of your armor.

-Your forearms aren't trimmed correctly at the elbow.

-You don't have the plastic wrist covers.

-You don't have the 2 rivits in each side of the chest plate where the strap to the backpack attaches.

-The details in the box insert in the chest are wrong. The 2 black boxes you have should be grey, there should be a large black rectangle and 2 small square black outlines in the grey box above them and it looks like you painted your T-piece on instead of glued on a silver peice.

-I can't tell if your pouches are the right shape and/or attach correctly. They need to be padded out a bit, I can't tell if the fabric is right or not and their color seems a little off.

-The groin plate is totally inaccurate and over sized.

-I can't tell if you left the correct half inch indented section on the bottom edge of the knee plates or not.

-You need to remove the d-rings and laces from the boots.

Post pics of your backpack and thermal det and I'll continue.

If you need help with details check out our new snowtrooper reference archive: http://s157.photobucket.com/albums/t54/ ... rrefrence/

jackdoud wrote: You asked for it...



-You need to remove the d-rings and laces from the boots.

You Dont Need to remove the laces !!!!!!!! in or out is fine...depending if you want movie accurate or MotM accurate....

2 I-C wrote:

jackdoud wrote: You asked for it...



-You need to remove the d-rings and laces from the boots.

You Dont Need to remove the laces !!!!!!!! in or out is fine...depending if you want movie accurate or MotM accurate....

I didn't want to get into it here but you can't have the laces in the stock style, There are some boots with laces but they still had the D-rings removed and a different lace setup think it was faux laces held on by velcro).

No, that's all cool my friend. I've already changed the cowl and trimmed the forearms anyway.

I shall sort them out

Thing is I didn't do 'anything' to this costume. I cheated and bought the complete costume off another 501st member.
I've already noticed and changed a few things and plan to improve it here and there.....but reading that slating I may as well ask folks for a new set of hard armour