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Hi all, this will be pretty much copied directly over from my post in the UKG but I thought I'd share over here as well to get feedback on my build or even help someone else with it. So today my BBB turned up from Ross and I felt that child-like excitement! I went with the 2mm ABS and had Ross build my lid for me as I was not confident in painting it at all and I feel it would have held me back a lot. I already know I want a hero helmet to sit next to it though so I'll be grabbing a kit for that at some point to build myself, no way am I missing out on the helmet building experience completely. So far I've got my armour kit and Sondico undersuit and I'll be ordering the rest of what I need next week, so it looks like I'll be spending my three day weekend trimming my armour with my trusty lexan scissors. I spent a little time tonight rough trimming some stuff and removing return edges on the belt bit etc. to get used to using the scissors a bit. I also dry fit (with masking tape) the padding for my lid. It turns out I have a large head so wasn't able to pad it as much as I'd have originally liked but I'm happy with how this fits and feels so I'll get the velcro tabs out tomorrow to properly fit them. I'm also pretty sure this is my first ever selfie... Images to follow.

Hope you're right for everyone's sakes but first rule of Anovos CSR's Club is don't trust Anovos CSRs [emoji51] Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro

Thnks JAFO, hopefully I can keep the momentum going. Spent the last week and a half just on trimming and sanding for general fitting of the pieces. Everything is trimmed, sorted, ready to be glued together and then assembled. I have some fitting and accuracy cuts left but the tedious part, for me, is over. Put everything into ten groups to organize and help me stay motivated. My goal is to have the individual groups pieced together by the beginning of November and piece everything with the gaskets and under suite around December. Going to run to the store and get some E6000 and start with the chest/yoke/back tomorrow. Feeling excited.

I programmed my BLE device using an FTDI cable and Tera Term terminal emulator. The syntax I used was AT+NAME=TK11055. I discovered after assembly and powering up that the syntax was wrong. Apparently, it should have been AT+NAMETK11055 omitting the “=”. My BLE is named "=TK11055". Too much trouble to change it. I also desoldered the 6 pin header and wired from the thru holes to the pins on the audio adapter. Was a little paranoid about potential shorts between the header pins and the audio adapter. I guess I could of put a piece of shrink wrap around the pins. That would have been easier.

Perfect timing. Any schedules for the weekend? Skip them and start building

Funny you should mention that. Look what arrived today. :-) Can't wait to start. :-) Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

That would certainly be great, but did you just chat with them and they said they haven't moved the date? That's been their MO. It's the same until they change it. If you talked with someone more personally, that could be different. I asked weeks ago and they basically just said that it still shows Summer 2017, which was just regurgitating their posted timeline.

Hi Dan, glad to see you started a build thread Hoping you will receive your resin kit soon to keep us entertained here

Possible good news for us gents is that i spoke with Anovos yesterday and the FOTK Standard kits, Neck seals, Pauldrons are all still on target. We might actually see them. Well Heres Hoping

Anovos have made improvements based on feedback from command staff. Our fearless leader had the conversation with them earlier this year. I for one and glad to see they are listening. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

All molds are complete! Test casting today.