Hi all.
So, for the troops where I can't do Vader, and to annoy my Wife ready for when she's built her Jawa, I decided it was time to build myself a TK.
After lots of research, asking questions and thinking about the finish I wanted, I decided to go down the idealised TK route, what I imagined, rather than what they actually looked like on screen, controversial I know, but there we go.
So I ordered myself a set of RS PVC from the lovely, and very nice to deal with, Rob, Si and Andrea at RS.
Just a matter of a few days later, this little beauty arrives....
Very exciting!
So, here we go....
I've decided to start with the shins.
I've cut my two 20mm wide front cover strips, trimmed the return ages on the inside top to a first pass (I may trim down more after a test fit, but I figure it's sensible to trim less than more, you can't glue it back on when it's gone) and clamped together shin number one overnight with good old E6000.
To get the front strip in the position I wanted, I offered it up to the shins, and marked the inner most edge where I wanted it (furthest away from the edge) the measured 10mm out, and marked here. I figured 10mm on each shin side = 20mm, which should give me a nice central strip without too much flat front shin poking out either side, I wanted a nice curved look to the front as I'd seen in most reference photographs I've studied.
This is where I'm at right now.
Not a lot, but it's a start :-)