thechosenhitman

The part have circled I know has to come off for ESB & it does easily, my question is on the hasbro gun the part the resin part goes onto, does that part have to be cut off for it to be used for expert infantry, and do I have to have the blaster for EI.

here is the brush that i used to get the very, very thin coat on the buttons: Its a 3/8" flat brush with a very thin edge. all i did was when i dipped it in the paint i just got enough paint on the brush to be noticeable.

i am giving it one last shot. i got a 3/4" flat paintbrush and only dipped the tip in enough to brush on a very, very, very thin coat on each button. i will report in on how they turn out tomorrow. the way it looks it would take at least 2 to 3 coats to make them look great.

The only thing I can think is that I got a bad batch of paint. I am going to try it again tonight and wait till tomorrow evening and see what happens, but it's driving me up a wall.

this is the first time that i have used humbrol, and i would never put plastic in the oven. i have the buttons on a piece of cardboard to paint them, but was wondering if i could put the buttons to a low heat to help cure them.

i am having an issue with painting the abs plate buttons. every time i try to put them on the armor the paint just wants to come off. i currently have etching primer on the buttons and the humbrol paint for the color. it looks like the paint just is not dry when i try handling them & i am wondering can the humbrol paint be baked at a low temp to cure it all the way? this is so far one of the mall issues i would like to get solved so i can continue on with the abs plate.

anyone know if you can bake the humbrol paint? I am having an issue where even with a good primer and a light coat of paint, when I go to handle them to put them on the abs plate the paint wants to come off. I have let them sit for over 24hrs each time and it does it every time.

i was just wanting to confirm the size for the abs plate buttons. for ei on esb tk's does there have to be snaps anywhere even if they are not functional? i ask cause i want to have all my ducks in a row when i get going again on the kit with TD-2817

after a few days of not looking at the armor i realized that i had a problem. the first one in the picture was obvious to me, but the second issue is the kidney plate. A) do i have it flipped the wrong way is the top edge supposed to line up with the top of the abs plate & C) do i have to trim it down in this pic i have the butt plate sitting on it also what size are the buttons on the abs plate supposed to be? I also got the 4pack of humbrol paint and i don't know which blue to use for the 3 blue buttons the dark blue or the light blue, so if someone can get me in the right direction on that it would help.

I am building everything to go centurian for the stuff i do not have to make major modifications to, so all i would have to do is the major mods later when i get the $ to do so. I still have to do the detail work, & yes padding will be added... I do not plan on having it complete for at least another 8 weeks.

almost forgot if anyone sees anything that i would need to fix now for EIB please let me know. i will try to post some close up pics when i get home from work.

me & TD-2817 were working on it. for something like this it helps to have someone who had done a build help (for me anyway i learn better with someone in person rather than reading something on a forum, but that is not the case with everyone else)

I did a 10-12hr armor session with another member of my squad and I now have the suit about 80-85% done. This is just after we got everything glued together & I decided before leaving that we need to try everything on. There is no strapping or velcro on any of the parts yet! I will be doing more detail work and strapping in a few weeks when we can get together again to finish everything up. I hope by then to have my boots, but since they are on back order I have no clue when I will even be able to order them.

Wow looks great!!

trimmed the rest of the return edge off the forearms and tapered them just a bit. will post a new pic later on,

Almost forgot to post pics of the blaster

Thanks, now back to building it i go

basically then for the biceps and upper leg armor its just for comfort? and for the sniper plate i have seen pics with it very thin and ones with barely any taken off

i second that

While I am working on it I would like to get everything set for centurion, but until I get a proper blaster EI is what i would have to settle for in the mean time. A good question i have is, how much of the return edge on the rest of the pieces should i take off?

steve most of the the links are threads on the legion boards. once we get your tk done and approved you will be able to see them.

I am planning on being there, I just have to decide which suit I will take (Vader, TK or both!)

For the forearm armor as it is i can barely get my hand through the hole so i don't know if i will have it clued on both sides, as well as the shins. I am thinking for comfort to just have velcro close off one seam.

I received my AM armor about a week ago and started the fitting process this past Sunday. I am also on the back order list for boots. I already have a E11 blaster (holster another member is giving me), neck seal, & a squad member is selling me his RT ESB bucket. Here is what I have done so far: I have trimmed front of the shins according to the how to thread for am shins and trimmed the round-overs I also have the forearm armor fitted, but I do not know how much of the round-over on both ends to trim off (I do have some of it trimmed) As of right now I will not glue anything until everything if fitted & trimmed properly. Any advice is welcome.

just got my armor yesterday. sadly i have not been able to open the box b/c i had to go search for a plane that had its emergency location transmitter going off (found it in the hanger getting a bath)