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  6. Repairing and Reinforcing TE2 bucket

    in Assembly, Mods, and Painting

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    Busy morning.

     

    I made a template for and cut out my lens frames. Tried bending them with hair dryer and it wasn't hot enough. Gonna have to borrow a heat gun.

     

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    I also did the reinforcement of the helmet. I used some CA glue and strips of t-shirt. Due to the location of the cracks, I put a strip on the outside as well. It will be covered by the neck trim. Very strong now.

     

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    I then masked off the outside of the bucket to apply the primer. 2 coats drying now. Plasti-dip tonight.

     

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  8. Best way to expand overlapping thighs

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    Wife scored me some free High Impact Styrene yesterday! I will most likely do cover strips for everything though so it looks uniform. Some of them just won't be serving a purpose.

     

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    I needed to get rid of a lot of the weathering so I can blend in the cover strips. Half a bottle of rubbing alcohol, two old shirts, and about 4 hours later and I removed about 70% of the weathering. I'll be replacing about 25% of that with fuller's earth.

     

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  10. Best way to expand overlapping thighs

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    Posted · Edited by Feezle

    Thanks a lot! I think in this case I will just try doing the back because I need so little extra space. I don't know though. I'll have to do some measurements. How do you handle the gap at the bottom in the front? The one side won't be a problem because of the ammo boxes, but the other side will be visible.

     

    I'm assuming all pieces would be done much the same way? I may try widening the biceps and shins while I'm at it.

  12. Repairing and Reinforcing TE2 bucket

    in Assembly, Mods, and Painting

    Posted · Edited by gmrhodes13
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    I bought the glue, and plasti-dip today. I also picked up some primer. Lowes didn't have white plastic primer. They had white primer and they had clear plastic primer. Wasn't sure what to do. I picked up this stuff:

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    Should that do the trick for the inside of the bucket?

  16. Best way to expand overlapping thighs

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    Posted · Edited by gmrhodes13
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    I actually trimmed the edges like you suggested last night.

     

    On 7/9/2011 at 2:22 AM, RogueTrooper said:

    What I would do is separate it in the back and add the small shim to the inside of the butt joint of the a and b parts of the thigh. Then fill in and blend with something like model plastic putty so the edges blend. model putty link:----

    Then put back the coved strip in the back. With your suit being a TD and you keeping it Sandy, you will be able to mask any imperfections, if any, with the weathering. You will probably have a gap around the bottom area where the armor has the lip around the back of the knee area. You can do either one of two things.

     

    I'm a little confused about this part. My armor isn't butt joined, it is the overlapping type. I don't actually have cover strips. I was considering butt joining the pieces anyway but the pieces aren't going to line up. Does that make sense?

     

    It is like this except the inside piece is straight, it doesn't have the bend in it.

     

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    I wish I had a picture but I don't have one with me.

  17. Best way to expand overlapping thighs

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    Ok, so my armor needs to be just a little bit bigger. I can wear it, but it is hard to move and if I gain 1 pound, it ain't happening.

     

    I'm trying to figure out the best way to do this without ruining the look.

     

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    In the tips and tutorials section it says that some people have used overlapping armor but butt joined the pieces. If I were able to eliminate the overlap, I would have plenty of room. I'm wondering how people have done this. I've also thought of maybe just shimming the backs of the thighs and using only the very edge of the overlap. I don't know how weird this would look though.

     

    So how have people gone about putting in very small shims without ruining the look of the armor?

  21. Repairing and Reinforcing TE2 bucket

    in Assembly, Mods, and Painting

    Posted

    I posted this over on MEPD too, but I figured I would post here as well since a lot of what I have read has been over here.

     

    The great helmet adventure...

     

    Let me preface this by saying that I have never put a stormtrooper helmet together, and until today I have never taken one apart.

     

    So I took my bucket apart today. The main reason was to get it prepared to paint the inside black. I am doing this in order to make the lenses appear darker....and frankly because I think it looks cooler. I also wanted to make it a bit easier to install my new lenses when I get the material in.

     

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    Anyway, after some nerve wracking drilling out of rivets and a bit of cutting at some stubborn glue, it came apart. I've noticed a couple of things.

     

    First were cracks. I was aware of several cracks under the chin, but I hadn't noticed that there is some cracking under where the brow trim was. This concerns me and I wanted to repair it. I think I read somewhere that the best way to do this is a bit of fabric and crazy glue. Is this correct? If so, I will probably run a strip the length of the brow for reinforcement.

     

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    I also noticed that the bottom right hand side(looking at it) of the mask is pushed in. I'm not sure I can do anything about that but not too concerned about it.

     

    Parts of the helmet are really thin. Because of this, I think I am going to change my game plan as far as the inside goes. I think I'm going to use plasti-dip instead of paint. I'm hoping that this will add a bit of reinforcement. I am going to put down a coat of white primer underneath in order prevent a possible gray outside appearance.

     

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    Does all of this sound about right?

  24. Anyone ever play laser tag in armor?

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    Did laser tag today as a TK for a couple of hours. It was a lot of fun, but man do I hurt now. Only my second troop in armor, the first being last weekend for about 30 minutes. I should have some pics and video which I will post once they crop up.

     

    I used my new aker amp to play a chatter loop that I constructed out of video game dialogue, and it sounded really good!

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