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Good to see you back and working on your TK again Chris.

Looking forward to seeing your progress

I've seen that done before. I always add a piece of ABS sheet behind the shoulder straps for strength, they can be a bit flimsy.

Hello!!! My name is Juan Carlos (JC) Rivera. I'm current the GCO for Bravo Garrison in Monterrey Mexico. Best Regards. JC-Rivera.

Still need to do the final trim and sanding but the extensions for the forearms are almost there. This light is brutally unforgiving to the sanding I need to do, I tend to work on this in the evening so light isn't great. I might need to do a very thin coat of the ABS paste just to cover the last few flaws. See how another round of sanding goes. You can also see 2 issues that I am not sure I can do much about unless I resign to painting which I think won't be necessary once polished: There is a very faint grey line where the plastic joins. I have no idea why though. The ABS paste the same plastic there as it is on other areas you can see, and that's fine. Hoping after polish and final trim this will be not very noticeable. A small warp on the right most part. This pull was very thin and the ABS paste seems to have weakened it a bit as it was being worked. The warp lies below the reinforcement piece in place. Hoping once I sand back the reinforcement a bit and then glue and clamp onto the inner section this won't be too noticeable. This was the result of about 3-4 passes of ABS paste and filling. I ended up making some small sanding tools with my 3D printer, basically a stick with a wedged end, and using tick on sand paper to get good access. I am still bad at sanding but these tools helped alot by keeping things flat and so taking off high spots vs blending them in. Also glued in some clips, trying to emulate the strapping in the TLJ in the gallery : I have a temporary belt made up as well with the webbing to drop down. All a bit basic at the moment but it works and will allow me to do a test fit once I either get out my TK undersuit or get to the shop and buy a new one. When I do that I'll be able to size the thigh and then glue the inner seam into place.

Congratulations!!

Congratulations trooper!

Great job, Trooper!

Congratulations trooper, welcome to the ranks!

Congratulations trooper welcome to the 501st !!!

Congrats fellow ESB Trooper! Welcome aboard! 😎🤙🏽

Some nice build videos here, albeit DN https://www.youtube.com/@CaptainsDrydock/videos Mario's @TKSpartan KB build Teresa's @Soulart Phasma build, more for the cape Shawn's @CrookKnight Cardinal build Tony's @ukswrath Anovos build

Question - would anyone who's well-versed in FOTK be willing to speak to a potential purchaser of the KB Props molds? They were interested in purchasing but wanted to do some vetting prior to taking over the molds. I was thinking it'd be good for someone on staff to chat w/ this armor shop I've been talking to.