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Nice work, looks great

Just a tip, once you have taped up just hit it with a quick light coat of white first, any bleed areas in the tape should then be filled with white and not allow other paint through Good luck, again crossing my fingers all goes well

This is a retail item so really shouldn't be in ongoing sales in my mind

A great tutorial on pouches can be found here------------

As this is not a "Personal For Sale" item this thread will be moved to "Off Topic"

The sniper plate has to conform to the shin Butt plate as already mentioned may need a little more edge depending on brakets or strapping

You would have to follow the CRL's and be very close to what is seen in them https://databank.501st.com/databank/Costuming:TK_anh_stunt Ultimately it is your GML (garrison membership liaison) who gives approval so I would reach out to him/she in your area, you can find a list of garrisons here https://www.501st.com/members/displayUnits.php

I'm 6 feet and I can only bend my legs so far, but because of gaps between the armor to make the cut outs would leave a huge gap at the back which I don't like the looks off. I'd suggest kitting up first, checking all your gaps before any trimming.

Hello and welcome aboard, looking forward to seeing those BBB photos soon

ABS paste works great, I've also seen someone use white paintable silicon, you can uses a wet finger to smooth it out, does take a while to dry though. With any hole try to add something behind the hole to help give some strength to the area.

I use industrial paints for props which seems to adhere a little better than other paints, you could use an etch primer, or even just give a light sand with some fine wet/dry sandpaper, it will help the paint adhere. I would first give everything a wash, some times you can have grease spots or finger prints which can react with paint.

Congratulations trooper and welcome to the EI ranks

Quite easy with a Dremel or similar rotary tool

Looking forward to the progress, good luck

I'm 6" and I brought my shins up a little on my boots, just added some foam behind, helps reduce the gaps a little. I don't think it looks too bad.

You do tend to scrape paint off the ab buttons over time, I've touched mine up a few times but giving them a light sand before painting will definitely help the paint stick a little better. With your shin heights it all depends on gaps, if you have a large gap as I do at the knees I have mine sitting a little higher on the boots to reduce that gap, others with shorter legs have their boots right down snug.

Hello and welcome aboard, good luck with the build, looking forward to seeing the progress

Did you give the TD a scuff with some fine sandpaper first, I find a lot of PVC pipe tends to have a coating on it so cleaning it can help. For mine I used some spray grey primer then once dry went over with some gloss clear, mainly as I had them handy, using a spray definitely gives you a nice finish.

A good tip with using nylon or elastic with snaps is to either use a solder iron to make the holes, melts the edges of the holes and can prevent the snap pulling through, or even adding a small amount of glue around the hole before adding the snap.

Congratulations trooper a stellar build

Looks like you have left a little of the teeth areas top and bottom, when in doubt check the Gallery section Also a few really helpful helmet builds:

Perhaps try all the arm pieces on together first to make sure you have the right gaps before doing any trimming, easy to cut off but harder to replace

Beautiful work, well done

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Ears I found had been the hardest part to the whole build when I started. Your ear does appear to angled a little too much so you may want to tweak it a little.