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UPDATE: Ok, here´s where I´m at right now. Both thighs are done (except for the snaps to hold them up, I´m going for the belt solution on these) Both forearms are done Both biceps are done Ab buttons in place Back/butt plate are separated 1 1/2 calf pieces are done (finishing up the second one as I write this) I´ll post some more pics later today. I also fixed most of the issues I had with malformed biceps and velcro and stuff. A good tip, if you screw something up, is to use a heatgun to warm up the glue. Pieces can be taken apart in no time.

Check out the last pages of my mod-thread. I´ve got for fans in there, no prob! -------------

contued... Resizing the handplates. (You loose the return edge and it's really difficult to give them a new one. I'll what I come up with (or buy AP plates:-) Here's how the thighs turned out: And finally VaderDave's ab buttons: That's it for now. More updates the coming week. Thanks for looking.

Finally some work done. Here's a few pics of what's been done so far. I had to shim the forearms to get them around my arms. Because of the shim, the shape is under stress and thus makes a gap in the velcro. I'm think I'm just gonna glue that side as well. Did it with the left one and it works fine. I also had to shim the biceps on both sides. It suddenly dawned on me that my problems with a bit misshaping when shimming was due to the belt pieces in the FX-kit are thicker than the suit itself. Heres how the bicep turned out because of it. (I later took them apart and boiled them to get a better shape.)

I´ve thought about it, and will if the mod doesn´t work. I´ll post my progress pics tomorrow. Got a sci-fi gameconvention in town I´m helping the local garrison with. (www.scifiworld.no)

Are you referring to the MRCE? How is it a piece of junk? Whith the required mods it looks great. The only hitch is that it's face is symmetrical i.e. idealized, which is what some troopers also strive for. Yeah TE2 and Ap look way better, but the MR-lids are far away from being junk. Just my 2 cents on the matter.

Ditto on that, really. Mark with a pencil and go forth with the knife and sand the edge afterwards. Works great.

I got it to look ok. Done both forearms and one bicep. The only problem is really that the belt pieces are pretty thick and therefore warp the parts a bit. But I guess hot/cold water will fix that later today. Pics will be up in a couple of hours.

Finally the FX is in the house. after just doing a quick overview I can already see I´m going to have to shim the hell outta some pieces. At least the forearms, calves and biceps. I´ll probably use the belt pieces to do this, as I´m going for a canvasbelt anyway. But worst case... I´m gonna need some ABS strips or sheets. I can´t find this in Norway, so if anyone as up for selling a bit, shoot me a PM please. I see now that RT might be better for me, at least for some of the pieces. And AP and TE2 is probably no use at all unless I quit lifting weights and just start living on water and crispbread. Hehe.

I wanted to, but was a little reluctant and since it is my first ever build/mod, I wanted to play it a bit safe. I´m doing the TE2 next, so it won´t be necessary there. But maybe as an experiment later I´ll do it.

I thought I'd share the latest additions to my bucket. I've got 4 fans running in it now. The blue light will show a bit through the lenses in the dark. But if it looks weird I can just turn the fans off, or I'll call it "nightvision" :-P

Armor is held up in customs, so it'll probably be a couple of days before I can start the build

Alright! I'm picking up my FX-kit at the postoffice tomorrow. I'll use this thread to post the progress and mods that I will do to make this kit as good as possible. The plan is to do the chestplate mod, to make it look more accurate. I'll also do the thighs up. Of course all required mods to get Elite status. I also plan on scaling down the handplates to be more accurate. The build starts tomorrow:) Can't wait!

The way I'm going to do it is mark up what I want removed with a pencil, cut with a knife or Dremel, then sand a bit and finally give it thereturn edge with the iron.

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Hmm... I suddenly wanted to get the Altaïr outfit. That looked cool.

I just got an email confirming my FX ships tomorrow, so I´ll try to document that build as well. I decided to handpaint, just because it really looks cooler. And it wasn´t as hard as I thought once I got started. Thanks for the kind words!

I bought them at a local hardware store. They´re made for workpants, as inserts in kneepockets. They come in black as well, but it´s getting to be a blue theme in my bucket. Blue padding, blue LED on the fansystem, and two more fans that also are blue, going in the front of the helmet.

Thanks mate! It was challenging and great fun! Next up is TE2:)

Aaaaand it's done! There are minor scratches and stuff on the paintjob, but they will come sooner or later, so I've decided not to do anything about them. The frown mesh will be added later, as I'm looking at different solutions for it still, same goes for soundsystem. Hope you guys like it! As it's my first ever build of anything, I'm damn happy with it!

UPDATE: Painted the tears, traps and ears tonight. By hand, by myself (since my wife ain't home...) And added necktrim as well. It's coming together. Back: Left: Right: Necktrim: Browtrim will be added as soon as I fix up a few minor paint-snags tomorrow.

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I guess that kinda depends on if you prime it or not, and how many coats you put on there. I'd probably prime first.

Try PM'ing Scott M. here on the forum. That's where I got mine.

I'm not entirely sure about that one, didn't think about it, so I used the same grey for all of them. Testors 1138 I think, or Humbrol #5.