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Ok question time.. How far back can i trip the top of the stomache pice and back pieces? Are they supposed to have big return edges??? Thanks in advance

Armor party satuday! Soo hopeing to make some serious progress. Trimming down all my torso pieces now so that i can hopefully get lots of help wiht the snaps and webbing from the experts in my Garrison and maybe get thing fitted!

Looks great!

Yea i followed trooper bay. Third box from the right centerd on joining strip. Then make it not warped. Aka look flat and straight.

Oh good to know! So glue it is! hehe

So i got the velcro on and the sniper pad. Still trying to decide if i do a rivet or not.. The CPL says no rivit for leval 2 cirt. yet the tutorials here say to do a rivit (i did glue right now) And yes i did put my thighs boots and ankel pices on and run around my house for a few.. kinda a nice feeling to see that i may someday really have armor to wear. No it's not going to make centurion this time. But i think it's goona look great to troop in!

Yay more progress. Got my ankles done, Kinda.. I still need to even up the bottoms and put on the knee piece. But makeing sure i have these right as per what goes where first. Also i can see i definatly need to reinforce the inside of the front join. As i feel the stress on them when i open it up to get my legs in. And need to do the strips and velcro on the back. (

Oh GOOD thats what i did with mine. I figgured centerd and not warped was more important!

Mine is all over the place. Once i had fitted my thigh piece there was no way the ammo belt for the leg was going to line up with thoes marks and nto be warped or not lined up. so i ended up just lineing it up and keeping it leval then drilling the holes where it lined up

So heres a question. I see lots of things with gaps i'm going to have to fill. What does everyone use? Just normal bondo or something?? any help is appreciated.

Ok did that with the second theigh. Funny thing i now realize is apperantly one of my legs is thicker than theother. so they are together. But a little messy. (i'm soo not gonna make centurion status) but it's my first build . On the left side theres a light behind it. so you can see the reinforcement on the inside heh

And yes i know i have lots of sanding to do on the glue overage and edges hehe

Ok will give it a look. Some questions on the thighs. Should i close them up before putting the ammo pouch (knee) on? Watching the trooper bay video he doesent but i think it has to do with him fittin someone. Also i still have some gaps on the lower connection point on the thigh. Should i fill them with something (spackel or anything you suggest?)

Yea i got some extra as well. issue i'm running into now is my calve pieces not ligning up quite right. Lots of sanding. next step is to rivit the ammo pouch then close them up. But trying to find good reference material on how the pouches line up on the knee.

Ok i swear there will be an update soon. I did some work last night. The dreaded Joining strips again. But got two going for the front of my thigh pieces. Also my extra joining strip material from Trooper Bay is here so i feel a little less scared i'll run out from my screw ups! hehe

Thanks airborne. All good right now. But yea finding a job will be challenging Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Well we might see some acceleration in my build. I was informed this morning that i'm being Layed off (yay giant corporations!) good news is a nice package. And no responsibilities for a few months. (other than job hunting) so maybe i'll get more done on my TK build

Oh i have a TON of tools. Xacto Knives, Utility knives. Sheers.. heat guns.. the list goes on and on. I really only use the Dremmle as a tool of last resort, If theres something that needs to be sanded WAY down. (then touched up with hand sanding. My arms ad bells are done. Today i will try and find time to tacle the legs. I'm feeling pretty good on the ABS cutting and joining. The next big hurtle will be webbing and riggings.

Yes mike I got your package. I understand your a one man shop. Totally understand the balancing of real life and trooper life. Thanks for your communication and the great service you have for us to builders! Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Good advise guys! Keep it comeing! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I got a pair as well. My hope is to evetnually get some TK boots whenever they start makeing them again. But these look good (fit well) and should get me through original cirt for my TK..

And now that i've gotten over my perfection motive (looking at all the reference pictures from the movies it's hit me lines dont have to be scientifically straight lol!) I have some arms! Little more sanding to do to clean it up but i'm feeling pretty good.

Got some feed back from my Garroson i needed to leave a little more return edge... Ooops.. Well i'll remember that on the next pieces.

Ok, So after calming myself down some. And getting a grip and realizeing theres no way i'm getting centurian on my first build (HEHE) I looked at pictures of movie armor and relized no cuts were perfect. So i did the best i could. BUT i did finally get one piece together. it's not perfect. But it's wearable and with some more tweaking good to go. (little tight i'll leave more on other arm) So heres my first piece You can see where i rat chewed some on the corner. But live and learn. Now i'll start working on the other bicep

Kedri thanks soo much for the offer. Very cool of you. but i think i'm going to wait till we have an officail Garrison party. Or some of the closer guys help me out. But man thats cool of you to offer!