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Depending on how they fit is the important part, if you can go a little small then I would say keep the bottom flush, but if you need the large size then keep the top the same and trim the bottoms. Careful cutting and a smoothing with a heat iron or household iron on low, will help to cure and smooth the cut surfaces

Awesome standing by with popcorn and beer

A little abs or plastic for strength behind the crack and some e6000 should do the trick. You can then fill the outside of the crack with either, abs paste, while silicon or bondo, the crack may even be not too visible once you have given it some strength behind

Looking good, a few issues, sniper plate is too low, your ammo belt on the other leg is fitted in the wrong spot, should be riveted in the top corner. The black lines are a little large and messy on you're lid. You're right thigh could come up a little also tuck the gloves in a little better in the forearms. Biceps could come up a bit, I don't see elastic from the bells to them, also the right forearm looks as it needs to rotate in slightly. Just a few tweaks for a sharper looking application, good luck.

Congrats and welcome to the ranks, a few more details and tweaks and you would be ready for Centurian

Here's the tip on bleed through http://www.whitearmor.net/forum/topic/23204-tip-on-tube-stripe-painting-with-no-bleed-through/page-2?hl=%2Btube+%2Bstripe#entry294139 Tube stripe color just looked really dark in the photo's. The last teeth should be pointed at the end on either side, but for basic approval you are fine.

Awesome, loved opening my first brown box, good luck with the build

OK just a couple of things, with your armor fit up looks like you're right bicep needs to come up, thighs could come up a bit too, foam behind your shin will stop it from rotating, also elastic from you're boot to the shin can help them from coming up. Now helmet, the tube stripes look a bit large in the photos also not enough of them, could just be the photo, also what blue did you use. There is a tip about painting tube stripes on the forum, first paint white then if they bleed it will only be white underneath, then paint blue on top and the blue won't bleed through. Is the black on the vocoder satin black, that is more acceptable. The cap looks a little slanted you may want to look at fixing this but you could play with the rubber trim and get away with it. The grey on the end of you're teeth need more of a point to them. Just watch the outside of your painting, the straighter the lines the better. Don't panic its only a few tweaks and you will get there, good luck with the rest of the build

Looking good, nice work I don't have a camera handy but I just cut a rectangle and took out a v section where my nose is, I then drill a hole in each end, glued a small piece of plastic at either side of the eyes, lay the lens on top, then drill holes through into the plastic blocks behind and secure with screws. Some use double sided tape, glue, silicon, hot glue, there is no right or wrong way but if you leave a little gap it will help reduce fogging. Hope that made sense, keep up the good work

Looking good, apart from rivets not placed properly, you could bring you're drop boxes up a little and closer to the ends of belt, also you're forearms look huge, can you reduce the size of them, you could also bring your biceps down to close the gap between them and you're forearms. I would also try to get rid of the extra on the end of the belt or Velcro the end. That being said you shouldn't have any problems with basic approval, a few tweaks and I can see EIB in you're future

I used a thin metal coat hanger and wrapped the wire around a broom handle, it is springy and I have a working bolt which has not failed as yet. Some hardware stores have springs, other than that I would say search the evil bay

I use a belt and braces, then elastic to hold the thighs up, there is also elastic between the shoulder bells, biceps, forearms, keeps everything in the right places. You can also put elastic from you're boots to the bottom of you're shins this will keep them from drifting up. There are all different ways people add elastic, have a look through some of the build threads, I think there also may be a few how too's also.

Looking good so far just watch extra material on you're cover strips and round the corners as they will catch

+1 I had the same issue, I think most of us do the first time, amazing how a few holes, rivets and screws can make a difference

Good luck with approval, a few tweaks and you will get there, be worth the extra work in the end

Looking good

If you're number 2 wouldn't that make you Pooper Trooper

Great news, if you have left over E6000 just use you're thumb and rub it off

Very cool, you have had a very interesting week

Congrats and welcome to the ranks

Congrats and welcome to the ranks

Looking good, shouldn't be long now

Nice work with the brush

Looks good and with those nicely rounded corners on the strips you won't catch on anything

Troopers helping troopers, that's the spirit, goon on you Tim