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I feel your pain here Greg, as a fellow skinny chicken leg trooper lol. I trimmed the front haves first so the cover strip covered the front ridge on the two halves. My cover strips are 20mm wide so left 10mm of the ridge on each half at the front. I then tape them together and while wearing my under suit put my leg through each thigh and slid it all the way up as high as it would go. The next step is easy if you have a second person helping. Overlap the two halves at the back and mark a center point of the overlapping halves, both at the top and bottom of the thigh. Tape them with those pencil marks aligned and have a look from the front to see if you have a nice taper in the thigh shape. What you want is a taper in the shape (wider at the top and narrower at the knee end. Take the thighs off and have a look, if you are happy with the shape draw a line from the top pencil mark to the bottom on each half and that is your trim line. What I did from there was add an extra 10mm plus per side out towards the edge and create a new trim line and cut the excess material away. I did this so if something went wrong the cut the thighs were slightly larger and I could re adjust and re trim if needed. Hope that makes sense, usually I have a set of armour here I am building for someone and I would quickly mock it up and take some example photos, but currently I dont sorry.

Well this is going over and above. Already approved but fully prepared to move with the CRL changes and be truly happy abut it. Good on you Arthur and keep up the great work sir.

Outstanding work Dino.

Congratulations Kris!

Great news, looking forward to a build thread when they arrive

Welcome to the ranks Jerald, Congratulations!

Wow, so cool. Welcome aboard trooper!

This is really coming along nicely, great work so far Mark.

Great to here Mark, we like good news stories.

Excellent news Pascal, welcome to the Empire

Hi Michael, I think what you will find is there are different whites from maker to maker so colour matching the ABS may be difficult. In saying that, perhaps get in contact with some of the vendors here and ask if they have any cut offs you could buy. The link below will give you a list of the vetted makers to contact, but also reach out to Mike from Trooperbay as he also makes kits an may be able to help. Another option would be to google local plastics manufacturers, some may offer smaller sheets of ABS if your lucky.

Post some photos up so we can have a look Jasper.

Beautiful work Lee!

Thanks for the update Dino.

Very cool indeed Daniel

Congratulations AJ!!

Ah hahahahah

Congratulations Brendan, great job on your build and EI approval.

Congratulations Trooper

I know what you mean, get the front right, then the rear needs adjusting. All you can do is go nice and slow and keep re checking. Also you should do trial fitting with the screws tightened up as this will also change how those gaps look.

I agree with Glen on this, lots to consider at this stage, if its a Disney parks character, or better still a screen character I think your decision will be an easy one Wonder what's in stall in the upcoming TrIXie trailer.

Love the weathering so far, you have done some very nice mods as well. Keep the photos coming.

Wow this has certainly come along nicely, good to see you have already listed the minor alterations, well done sir.

Looks like you are onto a great start already, there are plenty of highly experienced members here to help you along the way, so ask plenty of questions and please start a build thread.