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Congrats on getting your armor. I have AP and love it. Easy to work with and build! Good luck!

Best of luck with your build! Keep the pics coming

Congrats and welcome to the EI ranks!!

Looks like you already have a future trooper John. Best of luck with your build!

LOL...think you're off to a great start Marc!

Yup, flat black is what I used inside my helmet. Also, for covering up a an extra hole, I would use abs paste which is a mixture of acetone and spare abs material. Here's link to making the paste http://www.whitearmor.net/fisd/HOWTO:ABSpaste

Nice job so far....if I may make a recommendation if you haven't already seen it in other builds...it's purely preference but painting the inside of your helmet black. It will helmet keep sun light from shining through and if kids try to look up, they'll see darkness...

Hey Christian, welcome to the FISD. As everyone has mentioned, research, research and more research. Once you get started, you are hooked

Looks good sir...Only recommendations I can make would be is adding a snap to the top right side kidney plate and a black rank bar on the ear piece of your helmet. CRL has those for centurion level though. Also, putting straight edges on your TD clips and us slot screws as well. (those were couple of recommendations on my application).... Good luck Ron!

Great news Tim! Congrats to you and your family. May you all live a long and prosper...wait, wrong movie. Can't believe I almost finished that! May the force be with your new little one!

Hopefully 13 will be good luck for you! Congrats and best of luck on your build....hope you'll continue to shar

Got mine from him too and recommend as well!

You'll also need hovi mic tips for the helmet for EIB and centurion approval. What Andrew mentions sounds like a lot and it is but with just about any armor you will probably be getting updated stuff and will have to do trimming. Check out trooperbay for most of the stuff.

I can't talk about the AM 2.0 but like I mentioned, I have the AP and love it! If you decide to go for expert infantry and centurion, you'll need to replace the mic tips on the helmet and build or buy the backs for the drop boxes on the belt, or buy new sets from somewhere like trooperbay. I would also recommend getting darker lens to hide your eyes better from light. Depending on your waist size, you will probably have to add a shim in between the ab and back plate to fill in the gap. Hope that doesn't sound bad cause it's not...just about any armor, you'll be making any kind of adjustment and there's plenty of help and advice here. AP seems to also have a less wait time then most. I had ordered mine in January and had it in March and was done with it in June. Best thing to do besides asking questions is research, go through build topics and EIB / Centurion applications, see how things look to you. Good luck....

I've only been on one troop outing but I did talk, everyone seem to hear me okay and no one asked why I didn't sound like a stormtrooper. I still will get a speaker system though.

I agree with Carlos, especially since it's fitted to a smaller size. I have AP armor and love it.

Nice!! Congrats and good luck!

Congrats!

Forgot about that. Unfortunately I didn't see about KW's inner boxes till long after I ordered full boxes from trooperbay...

Awesome one!

Looks good. Good luck trooper!

Congrats on getting your armor. Take your time and trim less than you think you need to and work it to where you need it to be. And as everyone has been saying, research. It can be intimidating but once you get started, it'll be addicting! There is no shortage of help here! Good luck!

I won't be running but want to say good luck, especially running in armor

He supplies only the front half of the drop boxes. If you go for centurion level, you'll need to either build the back half or order new from someone like trooperbay. Trooperbay also has darker lens for the helmet to hide you eyes from the outside better.

I'll second everything everyone already said... I love my AP armor! It took me about 2 months to build mine with working on it after work and weekends. I used both dremel and tin snips to trim mine. E6000 works great although I had to use ca glue on the shims that go on the shins because of the curve. But that was before I learned about heating the abs shims with a heat gun to put a curve in them. As Steve mentioned, you'll probably have gap between the kidney and ab plates but it's easy to fill that in with some time and patience...there's a great how to on making paste for doing that. You'll find quick and awesome help here with anything you run into. Good luck!