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Thanks mate. A nice Mother's Day present...to myself, lol! I've built it with Centurion in mind so now onto EIB and Centurion....see you there!

TK 29175 ready to serve the Empire! Sent from my HUAWEI G510-0251 using Tapatalk

...According to the knocking on my armour there's a child in front of me..... ...and on guard for more of those pesky kiddies...

.....and here we go...submission pics: ...now the wait begins....

Sure can. I made them that way. Sent from my HUAWEI G510-0251 using Tapatalk

Hey mate, I'd check out reference pics and see what col our they show (I don't know how to add links via tapatalk). Personally, I'd lean towards replacing with silver, only on the assumption that these don't show on reference pics or the CRL. Sent from my HUAWEI G510-0251 using Tapatalk

Some other last minute bits & pieces... I decided to not get submission pics today and concentrate on a couple of other parts that I want to have ready. Ab/kidney brace support - I installed some braces to give some extra support for the torso armour, but especially to lift the ab/cod & kidney/butt sections and keep them tucked in a bit more under the chest piece. This was to help keep the ab armour under the chest armour. I put a single snap in the centre top of the kidney piece to attach the back of the brace, and then super glued two plastic brackets inside the ab armour, through which I looped each side of the front braces.... I also installed a black pencil case in the chest plate to hold phone/licence/keys etc on me. Again I just used a couple of snaps to attach it... I plan to get some kind of voice system which will likely go here, and at that point I'll revisit my storage and maybe put a couple of smaller pouches in the back plate or something. I'll worry about that when I get to it. I'm also assuming I can use the snaps I've installed in the chest for future voice installation. Gotta say after test fitting this rig it feels really good and tight, sits well and definitely brings up the ab under the chest and the weight of the storage bag brings the chest down over the ab. So this seems to work really well. The braces are just some that I had lying around that I had from a costume party a couple of years back. Lastly, I trimmed the large plastic rectangle tab off each shoulder snap at back, to make this part more screen accurate (I've still got to give the cut edges a quick sand to tidy them up and get rid of the pencil line)... Submission pics planned for next Saturday, which I'll do with another recruit who plans to get their pics done too.

Shin Twist adjusted... I've put some padding in both shins and this is how they are looking now. Twisting has been hugely reduced. I've heard it mentioned before that the AP shins are a bit funny in that you can either centre the bottom or top of shins, or compromise between the two. Anyhow, I think I'm pretty much right unless anyone thinks otherwise?

...Shin twisting issue now fixed by glueing a strip of 25mm thick foam around the top of each shin. Hopefully I can get some good submission pics tomorrow.

Some last minute pre-submission pics, any glaring issues/feedback? I'm planning to have the wife take submission pics tomorrow... Me with my happy face: I've since put some padding in the right shin to try to stop the sideways movement. Both shins are also snapped to the boots to keep them over the boots and help prevent sideways travel at bottom.... I wanna cut off the large tab from the shoulder straps, more accurate I believe, should this be ok?...

Hey mate here's some pics of what I've done with a small ABS tab glued to the kidney side to help tuck it in tight. This might explain it better than words. I've slightly bent it to follow the contour of the kidney/ab pieces. I placed a small tab here so that it's hidden by the belt and avoids having to paint it black/cover with black to hide it. For the kidney > ab rivet connections, I went with elastic and made the join super tight (the two halves slightly overlap by a mm or so), to allow this side to stretch slightly as I put it on and make a tight seam; and have gone with nylon for the snap connection on the other side as I don't want stretch, just to have it connected tightly. ---------

I'll take a pic of the kidney>ab tab I've got in mine when I'm home from work tonight. Sent from my HUAWEI G510-0251 using Tapatalk

Looking good so far mate. Any pics of fitting it? Sent from my HUAWEI G510-0251 using Tapatalk

Interesting to see how this'll turn out....(if only my missus even liked Star Wars, that'd be a start...) Sent from my HUAWEI G510-0251 using Tapatalk

How did you go with the oval issue of your kidney/ab? With less return edge, is there room to trim more off the sides and therefore pull them in more as well? Sent from my HUAWEI G510-0251 using Tapatalk

You could try gluing an ABS tab to the kidney. This tab then tucks inside the ab plate, pulling the kidney in towards it. It's a method that's commonly suggested. Sent from my HUAWEI G510-0251 using Tapatalk

In saying lifting up the forearms it would be more accurate for me to say if you can close the forearm/bicep gap... which may mean lowering the biceps slightly too. Sent from my HUAWEI G510-0251 using Tapatalk

Looking good mate. I'd perhaps lose some of the return at the shoulder bell bottoms to pull them in a bit more. Forearms lifted up higher too. But great work so far! Sent from my HUAWEI G510-0251 using Tapatalk

Also, to widen your calf could you perhaps widen the cover strips to spread the armour pieces apart further (bearing in mind to keep proportions consistent, your GML could chime in here). Inner strips might add strength to this too. Sent from my HUAWEI G510-0251 using Tapatalk

Hey mate the front cover strips on your thighs go down too far. They should end just short of the ridge at bottom and not go over. Good on you for putting it out for feedback. Sent from my HUAWEI G510-0251 using Tapatalk

Where's the respect for Imperial property these days? Lol. Sent from my HUAWEI G510-0251 using Tapatalk

Your ab and kidney fitting looks good to me how you've got it. I also found if after you've fitted the strapping, and the kidney flairs out, to glue some scrap ABS tabs to the kidney, so that they tuck behind the ab piece, that should pull the kidney piece in. But what I can see, it's a good fit. Sent from my HUAWEI G510-0251 using Tapatalk

Hey mate about your bottom thigh ridge alignment, I had the exact same issue. I was scratching my head thinking "what happened here?". I took an offcut of the ridge from the trimming I did on the thigh and used it as a shim inside the ridge. I glued one end first (can't remember if I used superglue or E6000, I think E6000 only because I did it when gluing the inner strip as well), then the other end after a day. It does look messy but I wasn't sparing on the glue here. I used clamps however possible to keep the shim in place while the glue cured. On the outside it looks like this..... You could fill the gap I guess, but I'm going to leave it as is unless I need to. A word of warning, I did use some water treatment before glueing but try to avoid it if you can. I got this kink on the underside of the ridge through trying to bend in the piece sticking out while doing the hot tub treatment..... However, I used a normal iron, a pillow case (between iron and armour), and a piece of aluminium strip which I heated with the iron and then against the plastic (again both with and without the pillow case in between) and managed to get the kink to this.... I'll leave mine at this for now and come back to it if it bugs me. It's the inner thigh side and the underside of the ridge so not really noticeable. Moral of this story - try to use glue and clamps to match them together and not the hot tub. I hope this helps. Good luck!

Good tip with the cappacino mug.... I'm doing my shoulders this weekend. Sent from my HUAWEI G510-0251 using Tapatalk

Hey mate with your leg backs and the bottom ridges not matching I had the same issue. Since fixed. I'll post about it here when I'm home from work tonight. Sent from my HUAWEI G510-0251 using Tapatalk