Darth Poison

ah the belt!! thank you both, I will take your advice and attach from the inside.

Yes. What I am leaning towards is making ABS paste, filling in the slots i cut, then doing what you said or removing the suspender clasps and buttoning the suspenders to the inside of the kidney plate.

Dave's garage videos on youtube which I found the link to in these forums. in his videos the back plate overlaps the kidney plate and you don't see the clasps. It's my fault (obviously) for not checking the measurements and seeing how the pieces would line up before i cut the armor.

OK after a couple of deep breaths...i feel better

I have to say that this whole stormtrooper building process has been a huge pain in the keester thus far! I'm about ready to sell it.

When I try to use photobucket and paste the URL i get this message: You are not allowed to use that image extension on this community

Here are some photos: ab plate with suspenders attached: ------------------

Alright, thanks guys! the other alternative is to fill in the holes i cut with an abs paste and then just glue or snap the suspenders on the inside of the kidney plate, and then all you would see is the suspender straps and not the clasps. I should also mention that the armor is black (shadow trooper).

The suspenders are black, but the clasps are silver, but could be painted.

The gap is minmal, but without overlap you can see the suspender straps. Why is it recommended to use suspenders? I just assumed (thereby making an an impolite person out of u and me i realize) that they were supposed to overlap in order to hide the suspenders clipping to the kidney plate. I'll get a picture up tomorrow.

I am putting together my first set of armor and am having trouble getting the back plate/ab plate/kidney plate to all line up. I went the suspenders route to attach the ab plate to the lower back (kidney plate), but the problem is that if I line up the kidney plate with the ab plate on the sides, the back plate doesn't overlap the the kidney plate and you can see where the suspenders attach to the kidney plate. No bueno, since I have already attached the suspenders and have cut approx 1" long 1/4" wide slots in to the kidney plate to do so. Any suggestions? My only thought is to heat up the back plate and take some of the bend out of the pieces that overlap the shoulders, thereby dropping the back plate down?? thanks in advance!

I too just received a shadow trooper armor kit 2.0 from Armor Master and am building my first stormtrooper. I have been watching vids from trooperbay and dave's garage on youtube atbe. Right now i'm hung up on the biceps and how much to trim off and the best way to attach them to the shoulder bells.