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Very cool Greg

Yep looks fine to me

Assembly cont... taking a short break from the spat assembly I went back on the waist belt boxes Waist belt boxes cont... (Standard belt assembly method) After the glue has dried prep the two center most boxes for filler and primer. The other (outer) boxes will be used for storage and will be assembled differently. If you are not using the other boxes as storage, continue to glue them together and prep for sanding and paint. Note: I'll elaborate on the storage box assmebly a bit later. Center boxes before... After... to be continued...

Assembly cont.. Spats Starting with the basic assembly. Using Devcon Plastic welder glue rear connecting cover to main body and let dry. At this point there's two ways you can go from here. Either install velcro between the rear cover and body (similar to calves) which from what I've been reading is very unpredictable and unreliable. Another option is to install snaps as Clint did in his build. From what I've heard so far this option is very reliable. Monte let's go with door #2. BTW this is optional, NOT mandatory or even suggested by ANOVOS. You can skip the rest of this section or continue to follow along. 1) Start with positioning a female snap on the body section where you will want the buckle greeblie to sit. I personally positioned my snap 1/16"-1/8" from forward bevel and marked center location of snap on forward section and prepare to drill a hole for the snap. Dead center of the snap was about 10mm The OD (outer diameter) of the snap was about 9mm. The largest drill bit I had was 3/8". Drill the hole then dremel the remainder. Trim as needed then check snap fit Now for the buckles and males snaps. Locate and mark location where male snap will be positioned. These are not side specific btw. Center male snap and and draw a outline. Using a dremel and circular bit slightly hollow out the buckle about the depth of the snap base. Once you bondo this section it will give the snap a nice clean fit appearing as if the buckle was made that way. Once cut check snap depth Set this aside for now and let's talk about a couple issues with this spat design. For starters the rear cover does not mate well with the body due to a manufacturing issue which is most likely the #1 cause for the connection location having issues as seen in the movie clips. As you can see here the two sections do not sit together naturally. To resolve this particular issue is simple, give them a hot water bath. Afterwards it takes very little effort to hold the two sections together as seen here. 1st concern solved. The other concern, a mfg issue IMO, is the rear cover upper and lower edges are not aligned with the spat body upper and lower edges. The only way I found to resolve this issue was to trim the rear cover to match the body. I spent about 30 minutes trying to come up with a way to secure the two sections so they wouldn't move during the trimming, that didn't work. As seen with some other areas I encountered I resorted to doing the impractical. Using E6000 I glued the two sections together. After the trimming is complete I'll separate the two. This is the first time I used E6000 only to assemble an area to only tear apart on purpose later. I started with assembling the spats and buckles ensuring when complete the buckle and snap would be in the same location after trimming. I then marked the inside location. Remove the clamp and greeblie and applied small amounts of E6000 then reapply clamp and let dry. Dried and ready to trim. Using the belt sander trim the two section even. After Ready to separate. To be continued...

Assembly cont... Yoke reinforcement cont... After I'll be trimming the reinforced area a bit more prior to painting.

Assembly cont.. Ab & Kidney cont... Made some final touches the the connection areas and reinforcements prior to complete sanding. Before After Trim and sand lower reinforcement tabs EDIT 10/8/15: Ab & Kidney cont.... Ab Boxes Match up boxes to ab plate location Now for the shaping. These are in random order but you'll understand what the object is here. Finished sanding Mounting the boxes to the ab There's bee several options illustrating how to do this. According to the CRL the boxes are to have a seem not seemless as originally thought. I'll be temporarily mounting nylon machine screws and nylon nuts to the boxes with E6000 until a later date when I'll permanently affix them with Devcon Plastic welder. The Screws are 2" long and can easily be trimmed after installed hence the reason I went with nylon. First I flattened the oval shaped screw heads. before... after Afterwards I glued the screws to the inside of the boxes. The large box was the only one to receive two screws for obvious reasons. Let dry for a few days. After the filler & primer is completed the boxes will have a final test fit before painting. After painting, the screws mounted with E6000 will be removed and Devcon Plastic welder applied for the final mounting. I wanted to wait until after the paint job to ensure everything is still positioned correctly. Surely you don't have to do it in this order if you don't want to.

huh, I was off and on all weekend. I wonder why no one else was on either, weird

It was only down for a few hours, everyone makes it seem like it was a couple days.

Lookin good Ty

Most definately

There's a lot of top notch help on this thread, I'm going to have to stay tuned in

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Thanks Paul

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