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MrFett	Mar 15 2006, 04:59 PM
Member Posts: 15 Group: Members Member #80 Joined: January 24, 2006	I have no team of other costumers to help me with Seatroopers, since I think I'm still the only one around. The pics in the old role-playing book were white armor, but I stayed away from that cause idiots would see a 'weird looking biker scout' if they looked at my suit and probably make dumb comments at me. I originally was going to paint it black (because I've seen all black armored Stormtroopers and Biker Scouts and thought they look cool) but then a Garrison buddy said I should paint it a midnight blue because that would look nice with the black undersuit and wouldn't wash out all the details like if I went with an all black suit. I guess as long as you have some sort of SCUBA type tank on your back, and hoses off the cheeks of the helmet over your shoulders, and swim fins hanging off your Biker Scout type costume, you can be considered a Seatrooper, right? Maybe, maybe not. That original picture also had modified shin armor that's not seen anywhere else, Snowtrooper knees, and a codpiece on front and back and no Biker cumberbun. I did my own mods to the suit, like the dive knife I bought that had a "sci-fi" looking handle (diver's always have some sort of knife with them), and the neon blue tubing, to accent the face with that "underwater glow" effect. The original pic had some sort of lamp built in the helmet above the visor, but the neon tubing looks way cooler and still covers the same idea the original artist had. I also have a muscle type undershirt (from my Spider-Man days) to make the open abdominal area have some detail because there's no normal Biker Scout "diaper" covering that area. Now, there's other mods I could have done to make it accurately detailed to the original pic that I left of for ease of assembling this costume. The tanks have some kind of framework around them....I just installed them right onto a modified Scout backplate.....the chest armor has those indents on each pectoral area.....I didn't want to spend the time to rework my Scout chestplate, though I did cut the chest and back necklines with straight V's to match the pic instead of the rounded shape of the Scout armor necklines.....the drop boxes are a little different.....I just used normal Scout ones. See? It's laziness. :lol:


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