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I hear ya! TG did awesome taking care of everyone though! Mistakes happen, no biggie. Hopefully my forearms go a little smoother than lol. Thanks for the tip on the abs!

That would be a neat function indeed! Perhaps even have a post of the day posted on the main FISD forum too! Although it would be a hassle to keep up with! Maybe a post of the week instead or month. Just a small quote taken from any post, short and sweet

My inner bicep shims were a success! Took off all the clamps, magnets, and painters tape tonight and aside from a little extra E6k here and there, it was awesome! Its like opening a present on christmas morning and not getting socks! No pictures tonight, will save those for after I get my cover strips installed. I also started taking the return edges off of the wrist side of my forearms during lunch today, again, no pics yet, its been a very late night and long day for me. Back at it tomorrow! Hopefully! I highly recommend to anyone researching that you do indeed begin with the biceps! I know its been said PLENTY of times from just about all the members with a build thread, but it REALLY does boost confidence for the rest of the armor. I did have to take quite a bit off for the biceps to fit me perfectly, BUT i was able to use that as my inner shim material without much trimming at all. So, SAVE YOUR TRIMMED ABS! I will use the spare abs provided with the kit for my outer cover strips however, as they are a little cleaner than my trimmed scraps. I now have PLENTY of abs to make enough abs paste to last me the rest of this build(barring any newbie mistakes I intend to keep to a minimum)

thats more like it!

Come to think of it, I haven't heard anyone here on fisd say they had too many

BOTH biceps now set aside for curing Luckily i found my extra clamps and I bought a boat load of magnets!

Inner shims are now set aside for curing! I think I need more clamps!

I think i used krylon clear coat for mine. Blasters looking awesome!

Looks like I found time! Glue will be put off tomorrow, but the right bicep was MUCH easier after getting the left done

Hopefully I will find time tonight to start the right bicep, if not definitely tomorrow!

Got the return edges off the bottom tonight. Got sidetracked with family so I only had time to really tackle the left bicep AGAIN. After cutting the return edge, I had to trim some more for a better fit. I now have about a finger width at the openings between my arm and the armor. Did the flex test and theres only a bit of pressure, and I can move pretty comfortably!

Yes my "giant guns" touch lol. Its a little pressure, not too much but not too little. Ive been trying to find the dang write up that says exactly which return edges to remove, but I cannot find it for the life of me. I think if i trim off the bottom return edge, i MAY need to trim a hair more off of the bicep. Going to attempt it tonight. Was thinking of measuring the amount I cut on this left bicep and mirroring it for the right bicep using my calipers. The score and snap method is hard when your really fine tuning small bits lol. Perhaps ill use my lexan scissors next time!

Was able to FINALLY break the seal on the armor today. Its been a busy couple of weeks for me, and I did not grt much done at all. I decided to tackle the left bicep, for my own self esteem. I fitted, then marked my cuts on one side, made my cuts, then test fitted with an overlap, and marked the other side, then cut. So here I have the bicep test fitting to my left bicep. Do I need to trim more off? I don't want to continue until I have a good solid answer. Its a tight squeeze getting it over my forearm(i play bass and am a machinist, so my forearms are bigger than normal), almost bigger than my actual bicep lol! So, here are the pics.

Same with me! Hurry up and complete this build!

I can see i almost sold my router, but your thread and instruction said otherwise!

Already planning on that trick going to attempt it with my compass. Thanks!

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?