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.
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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!!!!