I’d do stormtrooper armour the same way I’d do droid chassis, using fairly thin high-density foam sheets. It’s cheaper, easier (just requires craft knives, contact glue, spray paint, and an oven if you want 3D curves), and could be done in bulk from a pattern. It’s soft and flexible, so falling down wouldn’t be an issue - soft armour would actually protect you. Ten times easier than making rigid armour, and well suited to larp. Probably couldn’t do the helmets that way though.[/quote]
That sounds ok, provided you can get a nice sheen to it. The precedence in the uk was that if it wouldn’t save you from grazing your knee, its not armor, if it would stop you being pinched its light, if it would protect you from a rock you fell on its medium and if it could save you from a fall off a dirt bike its heavy.
So while you may have foam storm trooper armor you might not be guarantied to have heavy armor
On a side note, some of the newer DH rules will not be implemented as I feel they are slightly unbalancing in regards to game play and will wait to see how they work in the uk before i think about implementing them here.