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Warm up the end caps. I suggest boiling them for a few minutes and they'll soften up enough for you to pull them over the pipe. Don't forget to screw on your clips first. Looking good so far!

There are numerous examples of AP armour with the knee plate correctly fitted, like in the last approval of Fernando's.

Congratulations! I just noticed in the last picture you posted that your knee plate is sitting way too high up. Have you changed this already? If you, I recommend that you do.

Sounds nice.

Replicating a screen used prop is never wrong. Replicating a replica is a bad idea unless you know that that replica is an exact copy. As for the clock positions of the forward screws, I don't know how they ended up in the CRL, and I don't think it matters. If the screen used props have 1 hole un-covered like the above partsofsw-picture, then I'd say it's fine to replicate that.

Have fun!

I think the best way is to align it back to it's original position, and glue cover strips on the inside across the cut line like you do in the arms and legs and then fill the cut with silicone.

Not all TK's cut their cod. Only a vocal few of them that thinks it's the holy grail of trooping comfort. Aside from the accuracy standpoint, you won't be going to the bathroom as often as you'd imagine while trooping. Most of your fluids leave your body as sweat, just like in sports. But also, don't go to the bathroom in armour. It's not very hygienic, and kind of gross. Kids will be playing with your armour, and you don't want pee all over it. It's also partly because of the way you cut your cod that's the problem. Yes, it's a clever solution, but the angled cuts show up a lot more than just a straight horizontal cut across the cod would have, which is easily hidden by the belt.

Obviously you'd move both sides of the knee plate an equal distance, thus it'd would still sit straight.

I would recommend fixing your cod back into 1 piece, and try to fill the cut seams with something. Possibly silicone caulk.

Are you putting it on sideways?

With a price tag like that, it can only mean one thing. It's a jedi-robe aka stormtrooper-costumes.com armour (they are also on our "who to avoid-list"). We've had several members bring those here and tried to help them fix them up. They did a great job, but ever single one of them wished they had avoided that armour and gotten a better kit from here instead. Their kit consists of a low quality FX recast with a few modifications to it, coupled with a recast SDS "battle spec" helmet.

I'm liking the cover strip mods. If you want to, feel free to take a v-shaped cut out from the back of the thighs and/or shins to prevent armour bites. It won't affect Centurion. Secondly, the sniper knee plate DOES sit too high. Let me illustrate. If it was sitting where it's supposed to, the two red lines I've drawn here would be just one red line by overlapping each other.

You can fix the thighs in 2 hours if you want to, and that is with time to ponder around in between steps.

I filled my seams with abs paste because I too had bad ones.

I posted a picture about the cover strip.

Yeah, I agree on the biceps too, but I can't hold that from approval. Fernando, you do as you want, but slimmer biceps would look better.

Nice mods Fernando. Approved I would recommend popping the end caps off from the TD and sand the edges a bit to make it look a little cleaner. I realize that this is an older armour with a lot of trooping behind it, unlike most that apply here who are relatively new to the legion, or at least their submitted armour is. So I'm not expecting the perfect glossy goodness that new armour has. It's just a suggestion for a time where there's nothing better to do. And congratulations on becoming Centurion #50!

Much better. But you should cut the cover strip a bit above where the two halves of the thigh meet at the bottom. Like I did back in the day. This also applies to the back of the thighs.

I don't care which version you upload, but they need to be at least about 3x larger than they are now.

I would suggest using a different hosting service. I'm liking what I'm seeing, but that image size just isn't cutting it.

If you think that the ~10 different makers of armour that we promote constitutes as a monopoly, feel free to take the time and effort to sculpt your own moulds like TM, RT-MOD or AM. Or put your money on the table and buy the rights and the moulds like TE2 or CFO did.

There's also a German guy named Kai that makes his own blasters, casting them from real parts that makes a nice ROTJ from resin and aluminum.

Sounds good!

Because it hurts the non-recasters that spend a lot of time, money and effort into making the good stuff, and if they stop doing that, we're out of a hobby. That's why.