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Ha ha ha - know th feeling mate - I was there this time last year!! I'm sure someone will jusmp in if I'm wrong but here's my take: 1) The black polypropelene straps (have no give) are used for connecting each piece of the arms, connecting the chest to the ab and cod, and the thigh to shin....the only thing I use webbing for is to connect the chest plate to the back plate over the shoulders - the traditionalists on here use (white) elastic for this. I also use webbing on the female snappers, rather than plastic and also on the male snappers to give 'em a bit of extra strength 2) The black nylon elastic bands are used for connecting the arms to the top (under the chest and back plate)...not sure what you mean here? I hang my arm sections off the shoulder webbing (see above). Snapper on bridge to the top of the bell & down to bicep - then run another piece of black elastic on the insie of the bicep to the forearm. 3) Everything gets snaps- just follow TK-300's instructions on what gets a male and what gets a female snap...that's what I did but it can be done other ways too 4) On an ANH build, what do I use to connect the front to the back of the costume? ....again this is a matter of opinion but I use black webbing over the shoulders, black elastic for the kidney/abs, the belt wraps around here also & elastic from the cod to butt 5) What else are the elastic bands for?....the very thin white ones? Traditionally the are to 'tie' the back floating setion of the shoulder bridge to the back plate

Celebration Time!!!

I use garters on my TK & Cody - basic canvas ones for a few quid on the bay

Any pics of said weapons my brothers in arms?

Lovin' the sinister Tarkin.............

Hokey lol! We should all silently gather round the house and scare the cr*p out of him

Hey there - I recently bought some and will be sorting the shoulders hopefully this weekend. PM me your address & I'll let you have what I have left over.

Cheers John

More progress over the weekend...some good some bad Last weekend I painted the buttons for the torso using humbrol 15 & 5. I decided to attach them to the torso using superglue as the plastic was slightly bent & If I used E6000 I'd need a good clamp to keep it flush - which I didn't have. Next up was my first mistake - I was unpclamping a thigh when I saw this... I'd used some pretty old abs goo to add strength (which in hind-sight wasn't really required) to the parts of the thigh that weren't covered bt the internal cover strips... Unfortunately this old goop must have been fully laced with acetone - that coupled with the compression from the clamp distorted the finish to the thigh. After crying in my beer for a little while I realised it was on the right thigh & this section would be covered by the battery pack....stoopid mistake & a bit of a let off Next I started on the td. I figured out the drill holes... Attached the brackets (bought here on FISD)... Fitted the end caps (heat gun as per TMs instruction) and detail (CA glue)... Here was my second mistake - I hat heatgun work and was so pleased to get the end caps on without incident, I forgot to check the spacing & left the gaps between the caps & detail a little thin. The CA glue meant this is here to stay...until it falls on the floor a few times and pings off so I can trim it down.....in the meantime I'll have to live with it. Saturday was reletivley uneventful. I fixed the sniper plate on the left greave.. And the battery pack - this was a bit of a monkey due to it's springy nature and although TM warned about the fiddley nature of fixing it with the correct rivets, I was determined to get it done... Al that was left to do was to paint the rivets white. Next job, the belt!

This is gonna be the plan Vern - towards the end of the year I think though. Just a check though...is the esb e-11 same as anh type, without counter or power cylinders, but with some extra greeblies? If so, does anyone make these greeblies?

Yeh, it looks like I'm gonna stay with the anh & in the future get an esb lid with the esb handguard.

Okay I'm going to ask something that could have me up for a public stoning - and I don't mean the sort where we need to find a garage cos of the munchies!!! It's about mixing and matching tk gendres.. anh, esb, rotj The thing is, I like & dislike bits of all three, let me explain.... My preference is for anh stunt, however: - I like the black smile on the esb lid & a satin vocoder - I want my shoulder bridges fixed at the back rotj style (Velcro) - I want to fix my holster with 4 snaps like the anh hero - I want the esb/ rotj catch & hammer greeblies on my e-11 whilst retaining the power cylinders & counter My first question...... would this hybrid be cleared? My second question, as much as I'm a 'don't know much about art but I know what I like' kind of guy, we are a family here & I'd like to know your thoughts......have your consent if you like. In the meantime I'll go and get my tin hat!!!

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I was wondering the same thing when I started researching the build. On the TM ab section there is an indented line about 10mm from the edge (2nd pic) and a similar line on the other side too (3rd pic) - I checked out other TM builds and the rivets went straight through it so I used it as a 1st reference. I then guessed from other pics the vertical height - looks about 20 mm, did the same at the bottom then measures the middle one dead centre. After that I just place the rivets on the kidney plate to mirror the ab plate

Not my doing mate - TM's sculpt did all the work!!! I just made sure I could get my hand through lol! No Stephen any suggestions then fire 'em off - that's a good shout looking at the pic. I'm gonna be dremmelling top rtn edges of all clamshells one they're glued to make sure they match up - I'll put this on the list

Biceps dry, forearms glued.......just check out the way TM has the flared out the forearms from the narrow wrists...yummy! Will prbably need to pad it a little inside. Next job as the appendeges cure (for bits that will be under stress like the arms and legs I like to let the E6000 cure for three days) was to get some detail on to the torso. Ist up, marking out where the rivets and snapper will go. ...and fixing them in. next came the most boring job of the build.....making the female snapper & plates.....I prefer to use canvas for these as it's never let me down - just make sure you run a flame round the outside of the patch to melt the frayed strands Finally, got them all glued on (as well as the cover strips on the calves, top right)

Not a great deal of progress made due to an exausting Saturday troop - however as most of the trimming has been done it pretty much many small jobs from here on in..... So, sealing the arms and legs Get it straight - note not all will not necessarily need to be straight in order to be flush. This is the bicep Line em up Plas weld at the ready Weld the edges together Inside cover strips glued (E6000) & clamped Outside cover strips added after the inside ones cured

I had that issue after a bit of over fiddling (doh!), however it was always my intention to use the green grade 5 welding faceshield anyway. I just put a blob of milliput inside the snozzer, let it cure then screwed (self-tapper) the trimmed down faceshield in to it!

So I did a bit more over the weekend..... Trimming the calves, thighs & forearms in preparation for the covere strips. Then it was out with the 'jaffa tape' for sizing - please let me know what you think before I get the glue out... Again let me know your thoughts on the sizing....I think the biceps, forearms could be a bit baggy (although I have just abuilt a v.snug clone!) and are the calves a bit high? ......oh, and how come my pics end up soooo grainy!

Well done sir and all the best

Guys - just wondering if there is a rule of thumb in how snug these should be?

Okay so updates from the weekend....more trimming I'm afraid folks! Calves / greaves And all the small stuff..... So first trim complete and ready for sizing & fitting......I can alsmost smell the E6000

Hey Acima - how did you achieve the darkened wood weathering on the stock of the DLT-19?

Dudes - say no to crack! No sitting, controlled leaning works for me!

I I'm 6'2" - this will be more than enough