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GF is hogging the macbook, also photobucket messed up. So no pictures just yet. Todays deeds: Cut out the buttons/covers for ab and belt. Glued together both forearms. Trimmed chest and back, ready for snap Also trimmed (roughly) more on kidney. *did I say I have a deadline on this? 23 august. What do you think? Doable?

Pictures, pictures, pictures! Bicep gluing. One problem I hit were that the clamps pushed the joints apart, so in a moment of brilliance - I used my bigger magnets as spacers.

Great thing that my GF wanted to help me out with the armor.

Just want to get it in somewhat level, at least. Don't understand how it can fluck up so bad. I guess it's safer to bring these to the next armor party on sunday and focus on the rest. ---------------- Last night / today; - Glued together the last sides of both biceps - they'll be done tomorrow. - Trimmed ab, chest and kidney. Left approx 6mm return edge on top and bottom. What's the best way to clean off e6000 residue on the armor?

It's quite curvy. That makes it hard to measure and use a ruler. Tried to sand it on the table, but with same result.

Scissors. Hard to score and snap pieces this long.

The shins. Lower legs. It's insane. And they're about 15mm each now, so the next trimmings needs to be flawless Really stressing me out.

I'm having a hard time working on the shins. Can't make the buttjoints straight for the life of me. Been trying sanding and measuring, but it turns out crooked and won't line up. Any tips here would be greatly appreciated. So onto this piece for now. Including a full picture for those interested.

Cheers! Finished them today. Got trimming help yesterday, and I think they fit good. Great being smaller framed... thou there's a lot of trimming needed.

Did a heck a lot of work yesterday. Much help from the garrison. I'm now gluing together two biceps and one forearm, only one side at the time. Here's the trimmings. Will add photos of the glued parts later on.

A bit more trimming, removing the curved edges on biceps and arms. Will do the final fitting at the armor workshop tomorrow. Shoulders! Should I cut just below this line? It's a natural line in the mold. The shoulders won't be too small with this cut?

@Khazid; Will do Some progress done. It was hard to trim the biceps, so dremel were used a lot here. Spendt a few hours on them, but the result is good, me thinks. Notice, that only one bicep got the thumb print.

That gave me the boost I needed, and an idea. Using dremel a lot now, since it's quite tricky to cut at this point. (biceps) So here's a bit of progress. Ready to trim this mother. Also trimmed down this. I feel good about the RE here. It's been sanded down with 120 - 280 - 600 and 1500 grid. Saving the 2000 for when I'm more done. I'm not trimming down the sides for fit just yet. We're having an armor workshop saturday, or sunday - so I'm saving it for then!

First obstacle. How am I supposed to trim this? Much return edge? - how far in? etc. Or should I focus on trimming the width before the opening?

Sanding is so teraputic. 120, 280, 600, 1500 and 2000 grid paper.

I'll make a postit with that quote on it Going to the store to buy clamps and grid paper after work. After that I'm all over the biceps.

Got my brown box from Walt's Trooper Factory today, and after hours of smiling and dancing.. I'm in a world of angst. I promised myself that I would start trimming as soon as I've got my hands on the armor, and that I did. Following the tip about not starting with the bucked, I begun with the arms and bicep. ==== Trimming ==== Started with the arms and biceps. Going for close to no return edge here. Don't want it to cut me, since I'll need to trim a bit. Walt gave these parts a bit more abs for play. Note that I've done close to nothing with the return edge on biceps. Work in progress finding the cut-lines.

How is it snug? Does the nose or ears touch the plastic? hard to put on?

Thanks, that's comforting to hear!

Thanks a lot! It helps, yes and no. Yes - I now know I'm in the right direction No - I bought together 50m of both 1" elastic and flat webbing.

Trying to make nylon snap plates here, but I can't shake off that feeling of them being so tiny... Is this the correct size? It's from 1" black nylon webbing. 1" (width) x 1,5" (lenght)

Genious Tempted to buy, but I've got so much more to get before a blaster.... soon!

Out of curiosity, how you know this?

A bit of late night fun. Anovos TK prototype Anovos TK from SDCC 2015 RS Propmaster stunt High(er) res Anovos prototype Anovos SDCC 2015 RS Propmaster

"Fashionably late"