silentsamurai

Glad to help, and thanks for the support. Can't wait to get started....again...

I'm backkkk. Apologies for the lack of updates I put the project on hold. I haven't touched the armor since the above post so nothing new to report. Planning on starting again this thursday. Cheers, Adam

regardless of the controversy brought between the makers of this armor and others, us NE owners have no other option but to build what we have and go with it. I'd like to keep my post about my armor and my journey on becoming a trooper for 501st. Comments like this should be left in a thread about the maker, not my build thread. Cheers, Adam

YEAAAAHHHHHH! i knew it wouldn't be much longer. Congrats sir! I should have my NE done in 1.5 to 2 months. Depending how mad i get at it ha. Cheers.

It actually goes off the number of ribbed indents. the one with 11 is right, and the one with 12 is left from what i remember. then again, some kits don't even count those. So i guess it doesn't matter. PER CRL- 06. Forearms: Forearms are fully closed. That's it. Doesn't say what side goes on where ha.

Looks awesome! nice detail. I think you're the 2nd person to finish a NE build behind obwan. You'll need some left and right, arms up and down photos and your back w/ T.D. too but I dont see you having a problem getting approved. Nice work. I just realized you're already a trooper so you know what you're doing ha. Sorry

For the right arm, it's a bit different. the side wrist piece is must larger than the outside. SOOOOO...You cut the bottom. Not the top. Take out the return edge at the wrist (if you want) and I left the top return. (you dont have to) Now that the wrist is even you will see the top is still out of proportion. Like I said I am skinny. So when I cut another 10mm or so from the back side it will actually even itself out and won't have one side being taller or shorter than the other: Now that that's done, more magnets and strips placed, glued with E-6000 now have to wait 24 hours for it to sit. (ran out of magnets had to use jumper clamps ha) Going to start the shoulders and biceps this weekend. Adam

Now, since I am skinny, and the arms need 15mm strip covers, I measured 7mm on each side and it was still big on me. one side of the arms have a flat side where you HAVE to have a 15mm strip. the back side is where you make the size cuts and trim as you please. So I cut 7mm on each side, and took about 17mm off the back of each side and it was still about 1.5 inch gap inside the armor. **So in order to solve the huge space at the wrist I took an extra 5-6mm at the wrist, and left the top as is. cutting at almost a " /| |\ " so when you put the two sides together itll be tight at the wrist and thick at the top: Next project: Tri-Tip! I felt that this would be a good fit. Keeping the size 14mm at the top and cutting the back side. Here I took off 10mm at the bottom, and nothing from the tip. making the wrists tighter and the elbow thicker: test fitting with gloves on. Plenty of room to fit gloves first, and slide them on. 15mm strip applied with E-6000 and used magnets and tape to secure. extra secure strap placed inside:

So i got tired of messing with the helmet and moved onto my arms. First thing, trimmed the return edge at the wrists: after making slight cuts with the razor on the inside, i took some grips and just bent back and forth till they snapped clean:

Had a BBQ / Amror party at my house last saturday, but didn't get too much done. Just the arms and a part of my helmet. For the helmet I just took the ears and made the outline of where I think they should be and trimmed the back side of the helmet to mid ear so it covers both front and rear parts of the bucket. I'll probably trim the bottom of the back piece 1/4 inch. as you can see there's a lot of extra abs on the bottom. to make the ears even, i found a razor tip that was a good size to use so I am even on both sides: how it looks without applying any pressure: How it looks while applying pressure: (will need to sand the inner roundness of the ear quite a bit more (3-5mm)

Hey Stuart, I will post more pictures this weekend. I am throwing an armor party and going to get a lot done. You are correct, this helmet is made with low ears, and both sides aren't even either. meaning they will both be low, yet one sits lower than the other. Technical questions should be emailed to the creator though. I will be as specific as I can with my pictures this coming weekend. Thanks for looking, Adam

Here is a better side shot with it cut up at the top. As you can see, once drilled the face will be flush with that edge:

Just posted pics on my thread. Give it a gander. I'll put up some video too when I get back to building it further.

most photo's and helmets i've seen in person the ear piece is even with the back of the top vent on the helmet, so if you're asking why i made that line there, I pencil'd the outside end of the ear, and will trim slightly inward after cutting it so the earpiece will hide it.

I was able to attend an armor party with the Socal guys yesterday and looking at all their helmets, they dont have this gap, so this is what I did: here is that ridge...it's huge! Here is that gap after both ear sides are cut: to remedy this I cut about this much off the back side of the front face piece: So now once you drill, it will be flush: FOR SOMEONE JUST STARTING THEIR N.E. HELMET BUILD. ****DO NOT START CUTTING UNTIL YOU GLUE THE TOP TO THE BACK WRAP. LET IT SIT WITH 3-6000 FOR 24 HOURS THEN START CUTTING THE SIDES AND FACE.***