Beginning the journey....
Greetings all! My name is Tim and I have started the epic journey to becoming a clone trooper! Like many of you I have been a life long fan of Star Wars. I've found a certain draw to clone troopers as depicted in the animated series and Karen Traviss' Republic Commando novels. I am a former US Army Paratrooper and I am sure some of the appeal of clone troopers comes from that part of my background.
After encouragement from friends, I have done much research into working on a clone trooper armor set, specifically ARC Trooper Echo. In my research I have found appropriate suppliers (from the fine folks over at
http://501stclonetroopers.com) for most of the things I need and found that aside from the cost of materials the biggest investment in creating a great armor set is the time you put into working on the set. With that in mind, I have only one obstacle: I live in very small apartment that does not have any extra space to work on such a project. This may delay start of physical work until I can find somewhere I can work on it outside of the apartment (my kingdom for a garage!).
With that in mind, I am continuing to refine my research, saving my credits and looking out for pitfalls along the way. Once I actually get some physical parts in hand I will start a WIP thread here to document my successes and failures so that others may learn from me like I am doing from all of you!