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Hi Jim! Your progress is going by really well it looks pretty good so far. Can't wait to see it all finished up. Keep up the good work and you'll be done in no time! Remember to ask any questions if you're unsure of things, don't want to make any mistakes now. Karl

Here is more progress pictures so far what I have done: - Chest,Abkidney, and back connections (ab kidney conections still needs some work.) - right Shin In the next update, ill have the a kidney connected right and another shin done. Also the butt plate attached. Feel free to make any constructive comments.

Yeah, I only used 2 snaps for the chest and ab, but also two for the back and kidney. Why do you recommend more than 2 for the back?

Day 3. Wow what a busy day I had. I got myself a bag of 100 snaps at Tandy Leather since they were on sale. Then, worked on trimming my pieces close to where I want it for 7 hours! Here are the results: Most of the pieces are cut except for the length sides where it must be trimmed to fit me. Also the ends of the arms (forearms,& biceps) need to be cut to shape. If you saw the photo with all the tap above here it all is now... Ive taken the time to draw where all my snaps may go and have come to a total of 54-60 snaps in total for the entire suit. Luckily I have 100 which is more than enough. I still need to buy some elastic and webbing before I can start snapping. Here's my drawing, snaps are blue in BLUE. Overall it was a pretty good 7 hours. Next up spray painting inside helmet black, & gluing pieces together with cover strips!

Day 2... Today I've practice cutting spare abs with an olfa and I think it turned out pretty good when I actually started on the real pieces. So far I've only done one ear and the shoulders since I did not have any time today. For some reason i was not scared doing my first real cut and was able to do a better job than i thought I would. I have spare time tomorrow and will hopefully cut out more pieces with pictures. Note that i still have to sand/grind pieces to get it to the desired look. Here's picture of my....right ear? Does the ear end up looking where my black line is or what i have trimmed out? Also, do i cut where the red line is? Here's a pic of my shoulders, should I keep the return edge? 2nd shoulder bell. I'm proud of this cut since I only had to score the entire edge once without having to lift the knife. snapped off after one score. I would also like to spray paint the inside of my helmet black tomorrow. Can I use this type of spray paint? More progress tomorrow! Other stuff: what parts do you guys find most easy to start with? Are both AP shoulder bells identical and doesn't matter which goes on which shoulder? Tandy snaps sale all through this month! Going tomorrow to get me 100...

Thanks for the tip Andrea, I tried some cuts with the utility knife on some parts and I must say it is not that hard to snap off even only two scores. Now time for the real thing.....lol

Ahh, I understand, thanks for letting me know. I don't have an exacto knife at the moment but I do have an olfa knife which is a utility knife with those extra snapable blades. I thought you had to have a deeper score to snap, is two enough?

Would an Olfa knife be used for the score and snap method?

Hey everyone! I got my AP kit a couple days ago and started (well you could say it's a start) yesterday. I'm trying to go for ANH Stunt with my build. Since I'm still young, I'm on a very tight budget and have basically no experience with tool working even though I took tech (woodshop) in first year high school and passed...hopefully with the help of the kind people on this forum I can get my build done in time for Halloween '12. This will be like a picture/story build with questions! Day 1 After waiting one day of shipping my AP kit arrived! I know I don't have tools with me at my house so decided to pack all my armor in a large duffel bag with wheels and head to my gfs house. I know her dad has all the tools I need and they offered to help me. Unfortunately when I arrived there and inspected for any damages the bag left may have left a mark on my helmet! (photo was taken later that day) With that mark being found my gfs dad said that I should tape everything I'm not cutting up so nothing else would be scratched. Since I cant say no to him nor can I persuade him we headed off to our local home depot to buy painters tape. We got a really great deal, 3 rolls of blue painters tape for the price of one! After we came back here's what we've accomplished for day 1. This is the tool ill be trim/cutting with. Has anyone seen or used this before? Yes, we also went to Canadian tire to get this tool since it was on sale. I've tried cutting a piece of scrap plastic with this and it seems to do the job. One good thing about this is that you can't cut yourself, I've tried! That's it for day 1 guys! Ill get a picture of what the cut turned out like. There are also different kinds of blades for this tool. I'm only using it for general trimming and then grinding/sanding down to what the end result should look like. Other info: I went out today with my uncle and bought some under armor for my suit, first time wearing compression wear and I must say, its tight! Decals/ holster, darker lenses and elastic belt from Mark will arrive next week since hes waiting for them to arrive. Any feedback would be much appreciated!