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I finally did some cutting and shaping today. Butt plate is trimmed.

I'll try that. Thanks

Ok, I understand the hole on the right but what is that on the left? I don't see that in any of my reference photos. Does anyone else have this on their kit? Most likely I'm going to move the shoulder straps further down so I'll end up filling it in I just looked at the CRL photo and it doesn't have it

The hook on the bicep is another detail that I noticed when inspecting the hot toys figure. I couldn't figure out what it was and then I stumbled across this photo on Facebook. It looks like it holds up the bicep with a piece of string or elastic. Jimmy's kit dose not have this detail, and to be honest, I didn't think I'm going to try to recreate it

Let's discuss the kidney plate for a sec. The long line represents the hot toys figure. I have decided not to cut it down as it looks that big on the celebration display. The little mark is how much I want exposed with the back plate on. You can see though, it should be rounded at the bottom. If I have time, I will try to recreate this, but it's not high on my priority list at the moment. Also, it looks like it's connected with two tabs that would go under the belt.

Again, not really something that anyone will notice, but the crotch tab is rounded off. I debated on cutting off more, but actually I think a little bit needs to be added to the very bottom. I'm not going to do this. I'm just saying, if anyone is reading this that is changing out there molds or making new molds all together.

I put blue tape on the 1/6 scale figure and traced out the thigh pattern. Then I put the tape on paper and cut it out. Then I traced the pattern on graph paper. With that I could make it 1/6 larger, and cut out a real life pattern. Then I traced it on the thighs I'll cut out that back cover strip and reattach it. I'll cut plastic to recreate the bottoms. In the end it should have the look it want.

The thigh belt looks really good and doesn't need to be changed, but because I'm kind of a perfectionist I'm going to cut this little bit off on just the one side

This is another issue I want to tackle. For me the shin swoops too dramatically and the curve starts too low So this was my first idea on how to fix it. Cutting out the triangle and then cutting downward on the cover strip relieving pressure. I don't think that would have worked, but I was desperate for ideas. Then I came up with this, cutting slots and making it wider by expanding it. This would probably work well. Then I thought of this cut. By putting the sides together at more of an angel, I think it will give me the look I want. I may need to cut the front cover strip off and reattach it at the right angle. The back cover strip I don't need to change because it's supposed to carve out word. I am a little worried because after I bondo it, putting it on and taking it off for troops might crack. I'll just have to do my best to reenforce it

Sure, drop boxes are 2 5/16" wide by 4 5/8" high by 1/2" deep

Amen brother, my wife is about to kill me!

I made a cardboard mok up to give be an idea of size, pull measurements frome the figure. That was before the kit had even come in. Here you can see the size difference.

When I did the front comparison the first thing that jumped out at me was the fact that the ab details are much larger and the drop boxes are much larger. I knew that if I was going to make this kit I would have to try to replace parts of the ab and most likely the boxes on the belt. So I started playing around with vacuum forming This was my first test. Getting better!

Agreed. One of the reasons why I went with the black series for the helmet

I'm going to start discussing the differences I found in Jimmy's kit versus the photos from the celebration display and the screenshots that I have been obsessing over for the past few months I can assume that his butt piece is larger because Jimmys kits need to fit a large range of people. I've been pulling measurements from the 1/6 scale hot toys fig as well, as we are pretty much the same body size. The fig is just a little bit taller than I am. I've got several several side by side companies that I'll be posting as well. Understandably there are different camera perspectives and different body types.

I finally finished painting the helmet. like I said before, it's not the best but it does look much better. I forgot to take a picture of it finished so I'll have to do that latter

Yeah! Finally! I think this is the sixth 'big brown box day' for me.

IV decided to fill in the indents with bondo and sand them till they look right. It's a really long process and I'm not 100 percent happy with how it looks, but it is better than before. I should be finished painting tomorrow

I got something cool today! I pretty sure it's the first all white leather pauldron that trooperbay has made. Also got my First order shoes in. A little comparison to my sandy shoes. My R1 TK kit should be in tomorrow. Can't wait!

You look really good! I can't wait to get my kit in

Little update I got a tracking number for the shoes And armor shipped out Friday, should be here Wednesday. Getting very excited!

Boots from Imperial boots and pauldron from Trooperbay. It will most likely be another month before I see any of it. As long as I can get this TK approved before Solo premiere

That is fantastic! Thank you so much. That will help out a lot

This past week I got my boots ordered, pauldron ordered, and 40% down on the kit. Now it's just a waiting game On another note, I'm having trouble finding good quality, close up photos of the ab details. Mostly I have the Celebration photos and there's always a blaster in the way. So if anyone wants to help a brother out, please post here or message me

That's what I've been seeing online aswell, but where is the reference for that? Or is it, they had to call it something and someone just adopted that? Yesterday I saw there will be one crl for the jedha patrol which seem like it will include the option of both packs