bones3010

Hello everyone! Thanks in part to the arrival of my daughter awhile back, I had to take a break from my Anovos ANH TK build, but I'm finally looking to finish the final stretch to completion. I'm probably 90% done and was striving for Centurion approval before I got side-tracked, and it's down to mainly fitting and fine-tuning issues. Unfortunately, after taking so much time to come back to this I'm a bit out of the loop on some of the do's and don'ts of the builds, so apologies in advance for the ignorant questions! My first question is, I opted to toss the velcro that came with the kit and fabricated a bracket set for the main torso parts for better accuracy. Taking a new look at them, the screws attaching the brackets to the return edge on the chest have me a bit worried that they'll eventually crack the pieces of the rather thin material after a couple of fittings, so I was wondering if anyone had ever considered coating the insides of the armor with Plastidip for added durability, and more importantly, would that affect eligibility for Centurion status? I've coated the inside of the helmet like most people seem to do and I like the added heft and durability it seems to add, and it seems to me that the same would be true for the other armor parts but I don't recall every seeing anyone post about doing that so I wanted to get opinions before further consideration. My other question is about adding some helmet internals... I know there's no standard, but generally speaking it seems many people like to add cooling fans and voice amplifiers/modulators to the helmet. Can anyone make some suggestions about particular designs, parts, etc. and perhaps point me to a good tutorial and/or resource to get the necessary components? I'd love to just get a kit of some sort for one-stop shopping if there is such a thing available, but I came up dry when I looked on Trooperbay, etc. Thanks for any input!

Hello everyone! I expect that this is probably an issue that has been discussed elsewhere but my initial search came up somewhat dry. I started my Anovos build following UKsWrath's guide quite awhile ago, but my progress got derailed after I needed to tend to some family matters, and also because I found out that in spite of being only about 185-190lbs that apparently I'm still a bit too thick in the gut to fit in my torso comfortably. So now it's 6 months later and I'm ready to get back to it and finish off, but since my goal is to (eventually) submit for Centurion approval, I want to do the shims in a way that will be approved at all levels. Can anyone link to a good tutorial somewhere that will walk me through this process? Also, obviously the best situation would be to use the same ABS sheets that Anovos used for the armor when making shims, but I haven't had much luck finding a piece that perfectly matches. Does it really matter how perfect the shims match in this regard, and/or can someone link to a place where I can find a good match to buy? All I have right now is a hardware-grade piece of ABS that's pretty thick by comparison and not a perfect color match. It'll definitely do in a pinch, but if there's something better out there I should probably look in to that first. Thanks in advance!

Thank you, Tony! I hadn't visited your tutorial in awhile and must've missed this. This is perfect!

I'm sure this has been gone over a few times and I apologize in advance for bringing it up again if it has. I bought one of Rob's awesome belts to use with my Anovos build but I can't seem to find a specific tutorial on how to swap out the Anovos parts and get Rob's up to speed and accessorized to meet the CRL up to Centurian guidelines. Has anyone done this? All I've been able to locate are threads on converting the Anovos one to improve accuracy. Many thanks in advance! -Rob

Hi everyone! After dragging my feet for some time I'm finally beginning my Anovos TK build. I've finished trimming and am about to start fitting and gluing. That said, since I'm aiming to eventually make Centurion with this build, I'll be needing some additional accessories such as snaps, elastic, etc. to do this thing right. I'm very familiar with the awesome build/tutorial done by Tony (UKsWrath) and have seen his parts list with links, but I was wondering if anyone has done a formal "wish list" or the like for Amazon or some other retailer that would allow myself and others the ability to get the majority of those additional parts in one place. In Tony's post it seems that many of the parts he refers to either link to other sellers on FISD or a variety of retailers. I was hoping to put in as few orders with as few sellers as possible to get what I need rather than reach out to a bunch of folks for several transactions. I know that RS Prop Masters had an awesome kit that seemed to have EVERYTHING needed (including a proper belt and latex hand guards) but they will no longer sell those without buying one of their full kits. If I could find something else like that it would be even better. Thanks in advance for any pointers and tolerating my newbie questions! ;-) -Bones

I just might do that when time allows... Thanks, Tony!

Fantastic job on this build, Tony! I've been following this thread fairly closely and have been waiting to begin my build until it was complete and approved. Now that I'm getting ready to start, has anyone compiled your tutorial and weeded out the unrelated replies, etc. in to a single thread or PDF? I'd love to print it out to have on hand when I begin but 1000+ posts makes that pretty unreasonable! ;-) Thanks again for doing this for all of us! I'm hoping my build does it some justice!