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I emailed them and they replied within a day. Perhaps they've tried to write you back? Check your junk mail. If you use gmail - check your "offers" tabs and such.

Are they true to size or shall I order a half size up? I normally wear a 13 US in Nike Running shoes. I'm still waiting on more steady communication to order my boots from Francois. I trust his product so I'll keep waiting for him to reply.

Posting some progress after putting the build off for a week. Note: 'm expecting Tino's finishing kit tomorrow or Thursday so I hope to post more frequently. ...also sorry for the harsh lighting. I have a new bench light that is really blinding... --- I've drilled out the holes in the stock. Once I get the finishing kit, I'll hollow out the gaps to fit the rod there. Ground / sanded off the nubs at the hinge of the stock in prep for replacing with actual screws from kit. Trimmed down the front sight. Did I grind out too much? Which side looks correct? The one on the right was ground down more. I intend on grinding the indentation detail and drill the hole through the sight post for more detail. Finally I hollowed out the end cap clip. I need to do a bit more sanding when I can get a hold of smaller files. Thanks! Hope for more pics to come.

Yaay! Look forward to hearing back from you. I'm sure you have a bunch of emails waiting for you

He should be back from vacation by next week. He has a lot of emails to reply to - including mine.

This is really helpful - following someone who is doing the steps I'll be doing when my finishing kit comes in

Awesome! I'm about to do this bit of the stalk tomorrow.

Another day, another boost of confidence. I don't get as much done as other people's daily posts but ... slow and steady seems to be working for me for the amount of time I set aside. Got a message from Tino letting me know my finishing kit is ready to be sent. Can't wait! Thanks, Hupspring. I used the 3/8" bit and did some touch up afterwards. I think I'm happy with the results. PS. I'm going to start following your thread Next up... I started on the folding stock, careful not to make the common mistake of hollowing out the entire thing. I traced where the stock would be by drawing a line and shading the part not to dremmel. Unfortunately, while starting the pilot holes the dremmel jumped and hit the edge. I hope to be able to fix that with some green stuff (Also a learning experience). I didn't realize how thick this area was. I took a step back and took Dark CMF's approach by drilling many small pilot holes. Lesson learned: Don't get over confident after you drill the first hole and have it come out the right spot on the other side. I got too comfortable after the first couple came out on the right side. I should have gone half way from both sides. I'll have a lot of Green Stuffing to do to fix this area. In the end, I'm pretty happy for my skill level. I know I'll have to go in and patch some areas up and use some hand files to smooth things out. My only question about this area is ... does the "inner stock" look correct? I also think I nicked this area a little from dremmel kickback. I'd also want to go "round" out the area to blend it in better. Tip for fellow noobs like me, keep dust pans around if you don't have a shop vac or anything around. I also use the brush to clear away the resin when I dremmel so I can actually see what I'm doing. Also, don't forget your safety gear! Goggles and a particulate face mask have been my best friend these last couple days. Thanks for the feedback yall!

Today I tried my hand at creating the rest of the holes on the underside of the barrel. I know it's going to be covered -- but all the good builds I see have done it. It's also helping me build more confidence in using a dremmel. I'm enjoying the learning experience so far. Hopefully the longer I do this the less nerve wracking this becomes. I started by using an engraving tip to start some pilot holes... then I used progressively larger sanding bits to widen the hole. What I should have done was just taken a drill - which I ended up finally doing a while later and it made things so much easier. Now I ended up with this. I stopped here for the day. How do you recommend that I clean these holes up? It seems like when I try to use a dremmel, the inner plastic part wants to kick the dremmel out. Is this the product of having bad tips? Should I try clean up by hand/ sanding?

Awesome! Thanks, I'll go back and edit my posts and do it that way for future updates.

Thanks for your photo bucket suggestion. I'll move my images over there. What I meant by annoyed was referring to the way I was currently posting pictures / linking pictures. I'm sure it didn't make for an easy read either having to open pictures in a new tab every time. Once I get settled with a better photo posting method it'll make posting my updates a breeze!

Day 2 I'm slowly getting more supplies in. So on this day, I attempted to use a borrowed dremmel for the first time ever. Like I said earlier, the kit can smell fear. My first steps were to sort of clean up the excess resin -- particularly on the pieces that were "stuck" on the same resin sheet. I broke off what I could by just snapping the thin sheets off. I then slowly dremmeled my way down to the edges. Let me know if I'm on the right track and how to correct for one of the sides still looking like it came off the sheet. I tried to contour around the pieces but I think I may have taken off more than I should have. I may need tips later on how to fill that back in with bondo (or something similar?) , restored by gmrhodes13 Notice the flat-ish edge at the top I flipped it around here.. you can better see the edge I'm talking about. It's almost as if there's a whole layer I need to shave off? I also think I made the tip of the trigger kind of lopsided? For the trigger guard, I shaved the excess down ...but I think I took too much out of it. Notice one side is thicker, and the other is thin. I'm in the same predicament for the flash guard and ejection port guard. I got more comfortable shaving down those pieces but I still don't know what to do about the flat-ness of it. I think I need to use a set of files on them...more control? I've stopped for now to wait for feedback (and a mask as to not breathe in resin dust). Feedback appreciated! Thanks yall! PS... that was annoying to post and I'm sure it was annoying to read. I want to be able to post my build thread like everyone else's. Does anyone know if this can be done from flickr or should I switch to something else like photobucket?

I'm so new to this... I have the rest of my pictures on flickr... and it doesn't seem very intuitive on how to share images. I guess it wants the URL to end in .jpg and since flikr is using some web based image viewer sharing isn't so straight forward. So excuse me for now...I'll have to just post URLs directly to the picture. Day 1 continued: Giving my kit a bath Doing inventory: Notice some of my pieces are still "stuck" on the same sheet.

"I have a bad feeling about this..." Hey Yall, It's time I start a build thread! I'm 110% new to using tools (outside basic drilling and IKEA furniture building) and making stuff ... so this is a huge learning experience for me. I'm terrified! I think the Doopy kit can smell my fear. I've been following other people's build threads and am intrigued. I've taken bits and pieces from each thread and kind of have an idea of what I want to do. I'm wait listed on T-Jay's finishing kit and Gazmosis' replacement clip is on the way. I look forward to this experience and hope to gain a lot of feedback from yall. Let the picture posting and documentation begin! --- Day 1 Medium Brown Box Day!

Yea, still on holiday and slowly answering emails / fulfilling orders in the order they were sent. I hope our patience will be rewarded. In reality, what other supplier are we to go with? TK Boots is indefinitely MIA and the stuff on Amazon aren't what most people are looking for (unless you want to paint your own boots white).

Yep, true in that different shoes have different fits. I use Nike Free Runs and don't feel like they're too tight/snug. I suppose he's still on holiday and I guess hasn't gotten around to my email sent in late July.

How do they fit? True to size as compared to tennis shoes?

This is the email you guys used to contact Francois right? [email protected]

France has rich delicious food AND long vacations? No fair.

Great tip! This helps iron out some concerns I have about going with this system.

Must be nice ... month + of vacation... I assume nobody else handles email while he's gone.

I suppose I can wait. Talk to ya in a month!

He hasn't replied to my email from last week. Possibly still on vacation?

I might have to get some -- then some extra to actually use in the car!

Anyone think they could run in these? I'm interested in doing a 5K in TK armor (or a walk). Someone else suggested I ditch the boots and bottom half of the armor and run properly while wearing the bucket and upper half instead.