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hey everyone it's norm from tested hope you're all having a wonderful weekend and to wrap up
this week on the site we have another model making show-and-tell for you so as some of you who
watch our channel may know one of my hobbies and obsessions is collecting posing and photographing
sixth scale action figures from companies like sideshow collectibles and hot toys i have a bunch
from the marvel cinematic universe a bunch from star wars but something i realized recently was
i actually don't have your classic stormtrooper uh in my collection and so i went online searching
for a bunch of options and there's a bunch out there with all sorts of different styles from
your classic original trilogy stormtrooper to your death troopers from broke one to the new
remnant stormtroopers uh from mandalorian but i just wanted your classic original trilogy
stormtrooper it turns out bandai actually has in sixth scale a model kit for a stormtrooper
and so that's why i picked up very reasonably priced you can find them online for about 50
to 60 dollars and assembled in very much the same way a snap fit no glue required all you need
are some good nippers flush cutters uh and a little bit of thyme and very easy to put
together so that's why i did actually put this kit together last weekend on about a two-hour
live stream and very pleased with the result although you can tell you know at this price
point the kind of detail fidelity doesn't quite get up to what you get on a hot toys figure but
still very posable and something i also really enjoyed was the process of putting it together
and appreciating again bandai's just meticulous injection molded parts just perfect press fit
and all that engineering that goes into the internal structure as well as the external
details it's one of those things that you know when i'm putting together a gundom for example
i regret a lot of that detail never makes it to the surface if you're putting together
a master grade or a perfect grade condom there's so much of that internal structure
what allows for the articulation a lot of just detail that's in universe but made to be covered
up and again you're only appreciating it as part of the fun of putting it together now there are a
couple companies that sell some display kits that allow for you to showcase the internal
and external structures in fact if you google infor studio and have a link in the description
they sell really cool display for a pg gundam where you can actually have the entire figure
the armor on a separate plane as the internal structure kind of hanging on these acrylic
sheets a really neat system and looking at that made me want to try something
in that vein something inspired by that for this stormtrooper character maybe not exactly the same
as this kind of hanging armor look but something kind of like an exploded diagram but in physical
3d form so this weekend that's what i set out to do i actually took apart the stormtrooper
model kit using some ifixit spudgers and actually was a little difficult because of how well the
pieces snap fit together to take it apart but then not only to take it apart but look at where
i could retain some of the assembly some of that substructure assembly but then also have the
exterior armored parts kind of separated distance a little bit from that subframe and the result
is well what you see here it's a little bit of a modification a little bit of an art project almost
but this is my exploded diagram view of a storm trooper and i chose to have him in this falling
pose it's actually kind of falling apart right now down to the blaster split in half as well but
you can see that the armor pieces are sticking out from these the core armatured joint pieces
uh and to do that it was super simple i just uh bought some wire some straight wire actually this
is floral wire at 22 gauge uh it's matte black and with some standard wire snippers just cut them to
maybe a centimeter two centimeter in length and then just super glue them to the pieces
here and use some super glue kicker with a small eye dropper just so you can have some precision
curing quick curing of those wired pieces and then slowly reassembled this model kit but in
this exploded diagram view and i'm really really pleased with how this came out it's one of these
things where the articulation still is maintained so i can carefully still pose it in this
but it has this wonderful attribute where if i do a turnaround of it just every angle
it's revealing something different and if i step
back a little bit i can tell it looks like a storm trooper it has the same silhouettes
of the stormtrooper has the same form but as i get closer then it starts looking a little bit weirder
like it's not quite a robot what are these panels that are coming off of it and the wire is actually
really nicely hidden with the different angles so it doesn't look um it looks a little bit more like
they're floating in space it doesn't actually look held together by the wire so this is again just
my take on an exploded diagram physical view of this model kit i'm really pleased with it
and again this model kit not expensive at all 50 to 60 bucks it's fine as a a posable figure
well recommended a lot of fun's put together but i think this is how i'm going to be displaying
this from now on and if you want to take a stab at doing this i'd love to see your efforts and
pictures please share them with us again all took was a little bit of wire some super glue some
snips uh and some super glue kicker to put this together in just a couple hours i hope you enjoy
this model we'll be doing more model making projects more fun projects coming on the site this
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