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Its definitely different. Im just curious how much action they will have, and who's army they will be in

Sent both to me as well. Now I have some extra cover strip material

Congrats Tim! You DEFINITELY deserve it!! Should definitely have that picture posted on some trading cards!

And I will attempt to make the ears looks smaller on this bucket as well. At least thats the plan lol

The first helmet I built came with trimmed ears exactly as pictured above. I think when they were selling the NE armor, it did originally come with untrimmed ears. When they made the revisions to the AM armor and brought it back, they replaced the old AM bucket with the NE helmet and shipped them with trimmed ears. Thanks! This is unfortunately the easy part of the build lol. Well, easier at the least now that I have gotten one other under my belt.

Thats some fine work there Gus! Thanks for reassuring us all that that left ear can sit flush at the bottom Great job!

I will also be taking my time with this build, as I was rushed to make my first one. Once I begin my armor build, I will try to keep up with this build while my armor is set aside for the E6k to cure. So, basically just started by gluing the cap and back using E6K, while holding it together with painters tape, magnets, and 2 clamps(one on each side) I HIGHLY recommend using E6K with this helmet, as the separated cap and back can give you some trouble down the line while trying to align the face properly. Cap and back are now set aside while the E6K cures. For the record, and the sake of anyone else checking this helmet build out, E6K=E6000.

As my last topic is my AM build and I have just about wrapped up my helmet build with that armor(minus some touch ups), I decided to create a new thread that will only consist of a helmet build. Basically, I purchased an extra helmet kit from the new AM 2.0 kits JUST in case I had managed to mess up my first build. The only differences between the helmet kits, is this one will not be comprised of mistakes I had learned from my very first helmet build(ever!), and that I had specifically requested THIS kit to include untrimmed ears, so I may learn this process to better assist other members of FISD . Do not get me wrong, I am NOT a helmet expert nor do I pretend to be, I just wanted to help anyone who may be struggling(although Darth Vorhees has a great write up as it is). The helmet kit still has the pre made dimples for alignment and ear installation, but I will be using different lenses, and possibly hand painting the helmet instead of using the decals.

Btw, did you cut out a 5th hole on each side of the frown?

To clean it up, you can use small amounts of paint thinner. What kind of paint did you use? Whatever brand it is, I would use their paint thinner. Basically dip a fine tipped brush into the paint thinner, and brush over what you want cleaned up a little at a time, then wipe it up with a clean cloth. Thats what I had to do and it worked great. If you clean up a little too much, just have your paint handy along with the brushes for touch ups

Question. Is the best way to line up the face with the cap basically how MTK did it on his videos? Basically lining up the edge of the traps on the cap with the edge of the ones of the face? On my second build, but after re watching that video, I have now gotten nervous about the proper alignment of the face lol

If ya have them, lets see pictures of that beloved left ear, including the bottom of the ear. Many of us building this helmet are having most of our issues there

Did that second screw on the right side help out enough? Dod you add the one on the left side as well?

Nice helmet! Ive always been partial to the ESB TKs! Only decided to go with ANH so I can convert to HWT. How did those ears treat ya btw? Im on my second helmet build, but got scared off from the ears of the first one lol

GREAT WORK! Simply amazing the work you can do with that router! Its truly an inspiration!

Im curious of that abs weld as well. May use it for my practice shin to see how it holds and how hard it is to come apart. But i will agree with E6k. Definitely using it for my second helmet build for the cap and back

Ill get a toothpick from work tomorrow to address the teeth btw

How does the brow and ears look now? My son had to get a picture of me so I did a little dance for him lol

Thanks! I doubled up the lens today and made a quick adjustment to get rid of the dip in the brow, also trimmed down the ears a bit more. Doubling up the lens really helped hide my eyes btw!

I could sir, i deffinitely could Go to thinkgeek.com for the poster, and many other SW related items!

Ended up not having the time for any more fine tuning for today. I decided to temporarily install the lens, along with the frown mesh using painters tape. I just need this helmet for wedding photos for this up coming weekend, so I may not be able to do much more until after the wedding. I did learn a LOT with this assembly that will help me on my second helmet. The dimples to attach the face to the back do line up if you drill them separate from the cap at first. From there, you can fit you cap to align with the face and back, once ya get it where ya want it, tape it in place, then glue the cap and back. That will at least be my plan of attack on the next helmet, I won't be at the mercy of trimmed ears either, so looks like Ill have to man up and trim the next ears myself. Quick selfie

A toothpick by itself? Or dipped in paint thinner?

Fixed the outline and made the rank stripe smaller Do i need to adjust it more?

And were your referring to one particular ear, or both?

Btw, steve, were you talking about the outline of the war bars or the rank stripe?