I am currently a member of the 501st and the Empire City Garrison, a Star Wars costume organization that troops to support various charities and promote our love of the Star Wars universe. My designation is TK6744 and I recently completed my set of Stormtrooper Armor after nearly 2 months of work. This page also now resolves to tk6744.com. I also have an extensive Star Wars collection and costumes for a few other Star Wars characters as well. Check out Page 2 and Page 3 for some action shots at recent events I have attended in the armor. Check out Page 4 for details on some further upgrades to make the armor more movie accurate.

    

                        

A Stormtrooper FX Kit is about $500, but it comes unassembled and without many of the required accessories. The kit has over 50 pieces of abs plastic, some small connecting parts, abs glue, screws, and Velcro. The instructions are pretty good, but the helmet is a real challenge to get right. The basic construction took me almost a full month, 3-5 hrs a day, plus another month to do the finishing work, fitting, and to get all the accessories together. There was a lot of careful measuring, cutting, gluing, and waiting, but nothing an average model builder could not do. I used a bunch of online resources to improve the suit and help with the construction. I used snaps and a strap system ($50) to connect almost everything, rather that just all Velcro. This way the suit is always fitted perfectly and the connectors don't wear out. I used some rivets ($20) as well for the knee plate and ammo pack. I cut out vent holes in the helmet nose section, put in a Voice Changer, and used some foam in the arm and leg pieces stop them moving around. I also had to buy the white boots ($60), a toy Blaster ($25), a Dive suit ($40), Dive Gloves ($25), Neck seal ($25), Dremel tool ($30), Clamps ($15), some model paints ($10) , and industrial Velcro ($15). So you're talking about another $250-300 to finish the suit and about 2 months to put everything together. I then built some other accessories out of PVC pipes and joints including some Handcuffs and a Commlink, this was an inexpensive way to get to real looking props. All I can tell you is when it's all done, it looks incredible and you can wear it comfortably. Check out Page 4 for details on some further upgrades to make the armor more movie accurate.

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