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Quick update: Tri-folds now approved and available in English, Spanish and German. We will continue working with international members in making these available in more languages. Stay tuned.

The RS guide is only that, a guide. Depending on how broad your shoulders are, you may well need to trim less than that off. Make sure you go to the gallery section and check out all the screen references, and you will see the shoulder bells fit well up against the chest plate, so over trimming can leave you with larger gaps. I would simply trim them to the mold lines first, then try them on against your chest and back plate. you may require some assistance, or simply wait until you have assembled chest with bridges, and strapped to back plate leaving the trimming of the shoulder bells to later. https://www.whitearmor.net/forum/gallery/category/24-anh-tk-reference/

Excellent move, Photobucket have caused plenty of major issues for our forums over the last few years and trying to fix that has been a massive undertaking. Thank you for taking action on yours.

Your old account, was it under the same forum name? I might need a few more details from you so please shoot me a PM

Ah I totally see what you mean. Good luck with your second attempt, hopefully they stop curving up so much.

Welcome back Jamie!

Nice build Chris, good luck with your application.

Ab plates are looking great, hard to tell with your hand guards but they look ok to me. Perhaps a side by side before/after image will do the trick.

Moving right into it very nicely, and welcome to FISD Chuck.

Love your applications so much, best of luck on this one as well.

For the fine details, you need to go to the finest print setting you can. Also slow the speed down. many printers come with some test files and some of these have optimum settings for the best result. You can use those print settings and add them to the file you are using which will make a big difference.

Nice work Garrett, congratulations.

Beautiful application brother!

Welcome to FISD Michael. You are certainly on the right path choosing either of those makers. Both quality kits. RS is a warts and all version, specially the helmet as it has all the paint runs etc as cast straight off the original. AP is a cleaned up version, also cast off an original item, so no paint drips and runs, clean and smooth. Kind of an idealised version if you will. You wont be disappointed either way, but as mentioned by Wook, cost and freight might make your decision lean one way or the other. Both makers are great to talk with and generally very responsive to any questions you might have. Good luck on your journey, and i look forward to hearing which way you go and to keep abreast of your ultimate approval.

Hi Jennifer We have a list of vetted armour makers who some of will supply helmets as kits you need to assemble/paint yourself. Some do offer a built helmet at additional cost. AP recently had some kits on offer but go to this thread for more info on sellers.

I am sorry to hear Angie, but i really hope you can get out and troop. Sometimes it's those little things that make such a huge difference to our lives and those we touch through what we do. Keep us posted on you, and your troops, we will always be hear for you.

Loving this detailed build Joseph, you are a master at your craft.

Nice work Justin, I am really looking forward to your progress on this and ultimately getting a CRL built and complete so others will have the confidence to follow.

The tooth pick and thinners or mineral turpentine trick generally works very well. I have also used the Testors brand of thinners to do this with no issue. Best recommendation I have for painting those Ab buttons neatly is, Don't drink coffee before you paint them lol, I didn't think Caffeine had an effect on me until I tried to paint some very fine details after my usual double shot

Looking good Alex. Make sure you sand off any of the sharp corners on those cover strips. just a touch so they cant catch or damage anything. The one at the bottom of the shin can damage your boot from rubbing,

Late to this party but welcome aboard Phillip. Looks like you are going with all the bells and whistles, nice work so far, keep it up.

Congratulations Ben, well deserved. Welcome to Expert Infantry!

This is an interesting one. 1. How tall are you? 2. Please post a photo of your kidney section so we can try and figure it out. There should be a series of tabs at the base which is what you secure the belt and But plate to, kind of like a skirt. it give the separation between it and the but plate and the belt fits between.

The CRL does require some updating and we have quite the discussion thread on what needs to be changed. The big thing is also having the photos of a built costume that can be added to show visual reference to some of the changes we intend to make. Also don't forget, the materials used for the screen assets were vastly different to vac formed ABS so they are more flexible and durable. Not all behind the scenes attributes can be easily replicated using the materials we have, so things like the concealed zipper will not form part of a CRL, just like strapping doesn't factor into them. It's not meant to be seen and is not consistently visible on screen therefore we won't mandate it. It is certainly fun to try and replicate it though.

Welcome back to FISD Damien!