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Now we can sew the glove without hurting Bingo's hands. The five cut outs will gives enough room to sew.

Trace the hand plate on the bottle and mark the center between the two holes (5 sets). Mark & Cut it out. Use nail cutter to remove all the sharp edges. We don't want anything to snag the silk gloves. Sand and hot glue a PVC pipe to your bottle cut out. Mount into bench vise.

ESB Hand Plates & Black Silk Gloves Installation We couldn't find a tutorial so here's our recipe from the kitchen. Ingredients: Empty Shampoo Bottle or something close to our template below. Curved needles from the fabric store Black thread PVC pipe or something close to our example Bench vise or make our own holder Hot glue Shears Nail cutter Velcro (non-adhesive) Let's begin...

Congrat JC!!!!!!!

Congrats Trooper!

Thank you again Tony! Still hammering at it........ little by little to get er done! Silk Gloves arrived this morning. Silk Glove Information: Alaska Bear 100% Pure Silk Glvoes Thermal Liner for $10.99 on Amazon. Special Thank you to fellow garrison member and ESB trooper ToyBiz (Adam) for helping me find these beauties!

Final Bucket Details Here are helmet pictures to review for ESB application. We are making sure we hit all the bullet points on the CRL. S-Trim Pictures Added. We're at the 90% mark now.

Convert ANH Blaster to ESB Slice...slice....slice... Tada! Time to make an elegant cover. Cut, sand, ream, weather, hot glue.... and DONE!

The fans will be strategically placed in the front of the helmet. Keep in mind, you have use gaffer's tape to temporarily hold the fans so you adjust accordingly. Here' the finished look. Note: Once you use hot glue, its set for life and will be a pain to remove later. I encourage to practice and adjust with gaffers tape first. We tucked the wires along the bottom edge of the helmet. And added a coax cable holder near the battery pack to prevent any wire problems.

Helmet Fan Installation This is how we added EvilBoy's Fan Assembly. I didn't find any tutorials so this is my first attempt to share how we did it. Battery pack & switch will be placed in the back center of the helmet. I created a custom holder with velcro that will be hot glued to the helmet. This will keep the pack secured. Bingo will need to turn on the fan system before putting on the helmet. You can get plastic pieces from Tap Plastics clearance bin. Here i'm using some leftover pieces from my AT-AT Driver build. Cut to size to accommodate the battery pack. Velcro both pieces and hot glue the black holder to the helmet. Halfway done.

Helmet Padding This is all home made. Since the wife and I have been working on my sewing skills we decided to make our own helmet padding. I removed Bingo's existing foam pads (which was basically cut up packing foam) from his helmet and we added "pillow covers". We had leftover material from the neck seal project to make covers. Check it out! Sewn velcro to the covers. This makes it easy to adjust and remove for cleaning. Finished look.

Thanks Tony! Gloves should be arriving today. I'll update the hand plate installation some time this week. Meanwhile, here are some updates from last night. Homemade Neck Seal Start with templates online. Here's our cardboard cut out. Fold in half to make sure its symmetric before making fabric cut outs. We are going to use two layers of black automotive foam liner and one more regular foam liner. I'm very new to sewing. So we're still experimenting at the house. Here's an example of our sewing skills on this practice run. Here's the finished look.

Ryan, your build is amazing and good luck on your application. I'm curious. I see a rivet here. How did you install this?

I need the help of the ESB community. We ordered black silk gloves from Aazon.com I couldn't find a solid tutorial here on the FISD to sew the ESB hand plates to the glove. Can you someone advise? Thank you.

Thank you Michael! Its Troopers helping Troopers!

Hello Micheal....CRL states . . . <br><br> "Tube stripes are medium blue, should be 13 per side, but can be 9 and 16 per side with the curve bends extending backwards."

Thanks Tony!

To be continued . . .

Continue on with the back black stripes for the helmet. Take your time slicing the black stripes and removing the unwanted slices. Re-Purpose and Recycle!

1. Don't peel off the top wax paper yet! 2. Use your nail to rub the blue stripes onto the helmet (with the wax paper on top). 3. Then slowly peel back the wax paper. 4. Enjoy your new hack!

Here's the hack . . . Cut a piece of blue tape to a pencil's width and length. Install it where the curve begins on the helmet. White label tape or white bumper sticker Place blue stripes onto the white tape. Cut out your new ESB decal with an Exacto knife and place it onto the helmet (centering, double check for accuracy, etc...etc.. )

ESB Blue Stripes Hack I had some large white tape from an old industrial label maker. We carefully placed the blue stripes on top of the white tape and then installed it onto the helmet. Looks legit to me. You can also use a large white bumper sticker ( from the Dollar Store ).

ESB Decal Hack Here's a hack worth checking out. Re-purpose the "Sandtrooper" decals that came with the NE kit. Use the black edges of the throw away portion of the decal. Re-read the CRL and it says . . . Traps/tears and tube stripes shall be decals (with the correct ESB details), no hand-painting or decals that replicate hand painted. Traps/tears may be either ANH grey or a slightly bluer shade of ANH grey. Mark the decal with a pencil to guide our stripe placements.

hahahahah! JC, I call it the " Holder " !!! I'm so happy you implemented the "holder" to your armor. Its going to keep the ABS and kidney together. Anytime I discover something new to upgrade our armor, I love to share my ideas here on the FISD. Troopers Helping Troopers! Great progress so far!