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Nice work

Great update, looking much better

Now be very very careful leaving in the sun, pieces can distort if it's too hot. Really depends on how flexible the fiberglass still is, I've had two different lots from Jim and one was a lot softer than the other, had a bicep which started out round distort oval, managed to save with wrapping tape around and leaving. With the putty as it does contain acetone it may very well have reacted with the primer, or the primer may still have been a little soft, or was too hot

There will also be a special piece I've been putting together for use in the newsletter for when we reach 1000

Correct, align the tops and then trim the bottoms to suit

If you use the "direct link" option to each of your photos and post them here you will get more feedback instead of just a link to a gallery

Congratulations and welcome to the ranks trooper

Congratulations trooper

Nice to see a photo, most of us use an online free image host, upload and copy the "direct link" into our threads, I use Imgur, a how to thread can be found here

Nice little paint area there, I have space between the sheds and house so I normally make a tarpaulin booth, sides, roof and floor, takes some time setting up but well worth keeping the overspray at bay. A good tip to find imperfections is to give a very fine mist coat of black over your spray putty/primer, when you wet sand it will leave areas of black were there are any imperfections or pinholes Nice work

First cut is often the hardest

Dave M from Trooperbay, they emulate the hand painted look https://trooperbay.com/dave-m-helmet-decals

I see some are available for pre order on eBay and them mention September release

We wear cotton inner gloves inside the rubber gloves, they tend to soak up the sweat well, keep your hands cooler too. Does help having several pairs so you can swap out during long events, nothing worse than having to put a soaking sweaty pair back on .

I think you will find one you are wearing your thighs as well it will all look fine

Is there enough room inside the top of the shins to add some foam to help push it forward, may give you a little more room

Images updated

Images updated

Images updated

Just a little

I've just added some chips and weathering to a droid build using toothpaste, worked great and is cheap. I see a few others using liquid latex or vaseline. Some great tutorials can be found on YouTube.

Hello and welcome aboard

Was last on the forum Feburary this year.

I just used a little hot glue

For those interested appears we made 500 in September 2015 And number 500 was