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Thanks!!!! Exactly the info and help I was hoping for, and I'm moving again! Starting on the left forearm, because, honestly, I'm not sure how to deal with the mismatch on the right side and leave some amount of return to make it not look just totally weird transitioning from the low to high spots, I've taken the elbow end down to more like 6mm rather than 1/8th" at the moment. Mobility is already much improved, and next I'll taper the whole thing a bit, then move on to tackle the right one.

Gotcha - I hadn't thought of that. So the plan should be to trim the return edge down on the elbow end to something more like 1/8", and THEN go for size. Once that's done, just in terms of fit, should it be a little loose, or snug to skin? I think the pics give a good idea of how much of a gap I have at the elbows and wrists right now; after taking down the return edge, if I ended up trimming the forearms a bit to maintain a similar gap, does that look okay for fit?

Thanks, yes, definitely the plan as far as evening up the elbow end. My thinking though has been to try and figure out the overall forearm sizing before that though, so if there's any further trimming for width, I can clean that area up all at once. Thanks for the thread recommendation - haven't seen that build, so I'll check it out. On the topic of actual sizing for the forearm - do those look too loose, or do you think I can assemble as is?

Okay, here are (way too many ) pictures. Starting to realize just WHY there aren't a whole lot of fitting pictures form other people's builds! LEFT RIGHT With the piece pushed up, to show the whole gap For BONUS points, since I've got you fine gents looking, would you have a look at this pic of my biceps: I screwed up reading a tutorial and thought that the biceps needed to be trimmed more snugly. I finished the left, but then when I went to tackle the right thought "hold on, that doesn't look correct on the left side now", so assembled it as per the Anovos trim lines. It fits looser, but the left is a little binding when I flex. Since I've cut away material (and tapered that cut on an angle) I don't know how easy it would be to replace it, and I'm hoping I can just remove some return edge there to improve the fit. In terms of appearance though, how bad is it? Thanks, guys!!!!!! (sorry about the sizez, I've reduced the pics drastically in PS, so I'm not sure why they're showing up so enormous)

Thanks guys, will do on pics once I'm home tonight. Yeah, the build so far (what there is of it) is all E6000 apart from the T-det, which was simple enough to just CA. On the return edges, my impression was that it was preferable to leave it wherever possible, with the exception of the wrists and ankles. I think I'm going to have to trim it down a little on the elbow end just for movement, but I wasn't planning to completely removing it there - something that should be reconsidered?

K, so having spent multiple nights staring at my forearms, taping them smaller, taping them to the cut lines, taping them super duper smaller, staring at them some more I've managed to paralyze myself into not being able to assemble them at all now due to all the second guessing. I've taken the wrist return edges off, and trimmed the insane amount of too-biggishness off the front butt join surface from the right forearm (leaving an ugly mismatch at the top, but I'm assuming that's fixable...somehow). I've been through a metric ton of build threads trying to get a sense of what the actual FIT should be on them, but as most threads focus on the actual assembly rather than figuring out the fit (I get that UKWrath's build mentions taking measurements of your arms, but don't really get how those translate to the armor) am just as confused as when I started. . Initially I thought the idea was to bring the wrist end in as tight as possible while still barely being able to scrape my hand through (seriously, I had them taped so tight that I could do it, but was giving myself abrasions across the back of my hand - maaaaaybe not), and reducing the elbow end until it's snug against skin. Looking at more and more threads though, I'm starting to get the feeling that they actually should be assembled pretty much as Anovos indicated from their trim lines, which leaves (based on some of the pics I'm seeing) significantly more space at both the wrist and elbow. Two questions I'm really, REALLY hoping for an answer to if anyone can help out - First, can anyone give me some solid advice about how they should fit. Second, using E6000, how realistic is it to think that, should I assemble the things without trimming further, I will be able to pull them apart at the back side later to trim down that seam if they just look absurdly large, without damaging the pieces? Anyways, really hoping for some advice so I can get moving again on this build without feeling like I've doing irreparable harm to the kit. Thanks!!!!

Awesome, thanks again! Yeah, I've been doing score and snap for everything. Oddly though, I've actually (I think like a number of people) found that the protective plastic doesn't snag the break, but that something on the BACK side of the pieces almost always does. Don't know if the ABS is some kind of composite, with a flex/durability layer on the back, but it's consistent across all the parts. . . ****EDIT**** Okay, listen up fellow noobs - I was SO stupid here!!!!! Learn from my failure to think through the problem here - If you get lost on a cut LOOK INSIDE THE PIECE YOU'RE WORKING ON AT THE BACK!!!! The cut lines are fairly evident on the back sides even when they don't translate through to the front of a piece! For the right bell, the middle section of the cut is still not visible on the inside, but the ends are, and you can fairly safely play connect the dots. The left bell on the other hand, has CLEAR markings on the back where it should be cut. EASY!

Okay, JUST because I AM overly cautious, I've trimmed down the knee guard but haven't taken the knife to the shoulders yet. Here's a couple of quick snaps of the last cut that needs to bemade on each of them: LEFT BELL------------

AWESOME!!!!!!! THANK YOU GUYS FOR THOSE!! Whew - yeah, that's what I thought on both pieces, but being the first build I've ever done, and given the general asymmetry and wonkiness of the whole sculpt, I found I just couldn't bring myself make those cuts for fear of butchering my kit! Thank you again!!!!

Forgive me if someone else has solved this elsewhere, but I've been through a number of build threads (committing ukswarth's thread to memory!) and haven't seen anyone mention it yet. I'm trimming the last two pieces of my Anovos kit, but am stuck on cut lines for them both. Maybe I've got a wonky pull on a couple of pieces, maybe I'm just easily confused, or overly cautious. Who knows? Anyways - The shoulder bells do not have great, well defined markings on one long side, and the left one in particular appears to have two lines which could both be cut line on what would be the front edge of the bell. The two lines start about 1/4" to 1/8" apart at the top of the ridge, and diverge to about a half inch apart by the time they reach the bottom return edge. Anyone have this molded on their part, and which line did you cut to if so? The right shoulder bell again is pretty much missing a cut line on the same edge (what would be the back side on the right), and I'm just plain guessing with my pencil mark there - anyone able to point me at a good photo of the trimmed right bell? The last piece which I'm hesitant to cut is the right knee guard/power packs. The cut line there is nice and clear, EXCEPT that the left edge seems to just fall right off the corner, with no visible cut line to close the shape, and appears to truncate the curve on the left edge to a stubbier looking curve than on the right side - is that the same for everyone's, or do I have a bad pull there? Thanks, guys!!!!!