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Good luck hope you hear some good news soon

Wow weird ridges in the elastic thought they where Velcro, we don't see that type of elastic down under. Doubling over is definitely the way to go with high stress points, shoulder bridges to bells is another area that needs them.

Nice work the same as I do except I prefer using elastic, just allows a little give when moving and bending.

Shame about the color difference but a lot of makers armor are different shades, ATA probably the most off white/cream compared to many. I've read most use a gloss white for touch up for Anovos, just be aware that forearms can get pretty scratched up over time.

If you use the "direct link" or "copy link" and paste directly into this thread, makes it a little easier to reference images directly in the thread.

Coming together nicely, hopefully you'll get your BBB soon.

From what I've seen so far most are using just a gloss white.

I know it's extra work but it can save you in the long run, having double snaps in places gives you the opportunity to still troop if one snap fails

Congratulations trooper and welcome to the rank

If you hit the search button you'll find quite a few threads on it's use, having a quick look there doesn't seem to be any negative comments that I have seen https://www.whitearmor.net/forum/search/?q=Isopropyl alcohol

I have snaps under mine, this was mainly for air transport so I could completely pull apart the clamshell to make the armor pieces fit into each other, but as mentioned they don't need to be functional.

The ony issues to worry about is heat from the glue and if you need to swap them out at a later stage due to strapping stretching/adjustment or the need to replace snaps. Having enough clamps, magnets and tape can help when adding E6000 and internal strapping. If it works for you all good but I'd suggest the longer way for longevity of the costume, 7 years of trooping and I've had to swap out a few snaps over the years

Looking forward to the progress, good luck

I would suggest using elastic for the drop boxes, when moving about they can get wedged and having elastic allows them to be pushed out of the way

Hello and welcome to the forums, the black series helmet is styled off Rogue One and not approvable without a lot of work, so for ANH version you won't be able to use it, note that the Hero version also is different to standard Stunt, Hero only have 6 teeth, 3 ear bumps, only 2 ear screws and bubble green lenses. You can find a few other differences list in this doc: https://drive.google.com/file/d/10tEVteIreh6AHMogW010cuH_Bf8TBfU6/view Also check out the base requirements for ANH Hero here https://databank.501st.com/databank/Costuming:TK_anh_hero Not many go with SDS these days but you can find a few threads in the builds area and also EIB and Centurion sections. Yu can find some great info following others builds so do the research and I'm sure you'll be fine. The guys in Knightfall have a few armor workshops during the year so make sure you sign up on their forum: https://forum.501kfg.com/ Good luck and looking forward to the progress.

Good luck and hope to see a build thread from you soon.

Nice work, a couple of other things that will really make you shine: Tube stripes should ideally be a pencil width from the cheek. Some of your black lines on the helmet are a little thin, now if you want to cheat (shhhh) you could use a permanent marker to go over them. You could also remove a little of the grey from the teeth area, the grey should not go on the gums. Also to stop the butt plate from flaring backwards you could try tighter elastic, if that doesn't work I add a couple of strips of bent ABS behind and glue, still allows movement. Good luck and hope to see your approval soon.

I prefer elastic just allows some movement when bending and stretching, just use the industrial type elastic it's a little thicker than standard elastic. If you loop it over the belt while trial fitting then you can permanently sew in place once you are happy with the positioning.

Looks great, nice work

Looking forward to the progress, we are all here to help and guide you along the way, good luck

Cheers and added

Correct

Just be award if you want to use an Icomm static burst unit with it that some amps don't have a return power feed in the mic input, the icomm uses this as a power feed which helps it stay charged, other amps do not. I use a separate MP3 unit which fits in my glove and I have a tee section which allows balster sounds and the mp3 to use the same input jack and the mic uses the other input as the Aker has two inputs

Nice work, looks a tad long but may be the photo, just check with this reference:

Great work, came out a treat, just a note your belt appears to be on a slant, may need an adjustment