Tee-Bowls

I'm kind of in a pickle and I've searched parts of the forums but I can't quite figure out what to do, so I thought ask before I try anything on my own. My limbs (both arms and legs) are shorter than average due to a tumor I had when I was a kid which caused my bones to age quicker than normal and not grow properly. Luckily that's all in the past but it has made trimming and sizing armor parts much more difficult. I have a relatively average size torso so hopefully I don't run into any problems there. My main questions are: "How much can I trim to make it all fit properly?" I put both forearms and biceps together using the butt join/cover strip method, while they all fit separately when I put everything on my range of motion was cut down to the point I could hardly move my arms. I felt very much like C-3PO with his barely movable arms. I took everything back apart and now I'm lost. I'm thinking somewhere along the lines of trimming the front and back of the forearms and the bottoms of the shins but not sure how without ruining the pieces. "Will I still be able to go for EIB and Centurion?" This is what concerns me as well, because if i'm going to put this much time and effort into something I love I want to be able to aim for the top. Centurion has pretty much been my goal from the beginning and I really don't want to jeopardize it with trimming something to fit incorrectly. I really appreciate any and all help! Thanks for reading this and check out my armor build if you want. -Tyler

When I make the newer Cover Strips I'll give that a try with the straight edge and clamps. My kit is TE derived and there is definitely a difference between the arms.

The forearms are apart and I need to make them smaller I think. The forearms pretty much get stuck to the Biceps and i"m not getting any good range of motion with my wrists either. The old cover strips I used before are gone but HIPS is so hard to cut/keep straight after I score and snap it off. I wish I had taken pictures before I took everything apart. Would it be too weird/impossible/horrible if I got ABS for the cover strips?

Well I finished off both forearms and biceps but when I wore them together I felt like C-3PO.... So now i'm taking them all apart to try and make them fit better.I'll also have to deal with the same issue with my legs. Stupid short limbs and average torso . On a good note my latex hand guards and rubber gloves from Sonnenschein came in and they are amazing and I think they look better than plastic hand guards! Time to search the forum on how to make a size change....

It might be the picture or maybe the angle I took it at, but on the left side I have my cover strips and the right side I have strips I glued inside the joints for added strength/support.

Hey everybody, I got my big brown box earlier last month and I've been chomping at the bit to get started and after moving to a new location (sorta) I finally was able to! I've had my mind set on striving for Centurion since the beginning because you either go big or go home! Hopefully my skill level can catch up to my aspirations. I decided to get started with the forearms and biceps and thanks to some tutorials here I was able to figure out which forearm/bicep is which. The right forearm was calling my name so it became my first victim...I mean subject. I first cut out all the inside and return edging. I moved on to trimming the sides. Next I took the Inner Forearm and trimmed it but got a little overzealous... Luckily I was able to use some Zap-A-Gap to well zap the gap! Although in my haste to fix it I didn't snap a picture of the fixed section. I sized the forearm before any other glue was even allowed within 20 feet of the table. I used the standard 15 MM for cover strips on my Forearm and i taped it up without the cover strip mainly because I trimmed too much off all my sides and I figured it my hand and arm fit with the pieces close together then they would definitely fit with the added cover strip. Speaking of Cover strips! The two strips on the left are my cover strips and the two on the right are the inside strips I was going to use for added support. The strip I used for the bottom of the forearm didn't quite work out as well as I planned but it looks good on the outside! At least I hope it does. I spent a few hours last night and a few hours today finishing up the one forearm. As the build continues I hope I can start to gain some confidence and pick up a little speed because i spent like 20 minutes just staring at the pieces trying to figure out what to start with. Thanks for checking out my build! I wouldn't have been able to make it this far with out reading thread after thread of previous builds so any help is greatly appreciated! Time to get started on the other forearm and both biceps! Sleep is for the weak!