BuckeyeTrooper

There is the Anovos Stormtrooper Kit Building Group, TK Armor's Costuming Group (specific to AM Armor), WTF: Walt's Trooper Factory and tons more. Walt has some good helmet building videos and Eric Dyck has posted some great videos on assembling helmets in various groups, but he's easily found on the TK Armor page. I enjoy hearing ideas and opinions on different armors and seeing people build their kits, so I join new groups all the time. Once you join one, it seems Facebook likes to suggest others.

Honestly a little bit of both. If you find some other AM 2.0 builds, they usually mention it, too Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

The AM 2.0 biceps are a bit of a pain, I still am not a huge fan of how mine fit. But did a lot of hot water bath attempts to make them more rounded and less U shaped. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Yes. All of your limbs have cover strips that are visible in two spots (front and rear). Biceps, forearms, thighs and shins. I put inner strips on for strength in all my pieces as well, but that’s up to the builder since they aren’t seen. Strongly suggest them on the shins, though, because of the way they open and close. It puts a lot of stress on that joint that runs down the frontz Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Not a big deal. You can just cut where you need to make it fit, then the cover strip will cover up any uneven edge. Make the cover strip long enough to go to the end of the longest piece. Or you can trim it even, since it’ll all be covered Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I know the feeling very well! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Bumps go on the outside of the arm. The cover strip will be on top and lines up with the cover strip on the front of your bicep Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Looks awesome! In addition to the over-the-palm elastic on the clamshell hand plates, I also used industrial strength velcro to keep them in place. Works really well. It also allows you to remove the hand plates and put them on a glove more comfortable for trooping, like the nomex ones most people use. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

I did watch a couple videos just to get an idea of what I was I doing (had never done anything remotely like this before). TrooperBay has a nice series of videos. I watched all of those for his sandy (again I was just watching to see how to cut and fit and do cover strips, etc). Something like “building accurate stormtrooper armor” on YouTube Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I used ukswrath anovos and his am 1.0 build thread and just disregarded the anovos and 1.0 specific stuff. Also sharkbait and Navajo Bros. Builds are pretty much the same regardless of armor maker, except for a couple small things. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Looks like a good start. I had to do the hot water bath to make my bicep pieces more of a round shape instead of the more U shape that they came. Added some room and comfort. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

There is a lot of info about this on the site on the ANH threads. They are suggestions. Since the AM suit is upscaled a bit, you can go a little larger than the recommendation (a few mm or so). Most seem to stay with recommended sizes on front and go a little larger on back if needed. Here are the notes I have from when I was trying to figure it out. Double check with the other threads though. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Also, the dome will straighten out a bit when you attach the face plate. It'll definitely pull the sides in a bit. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

I did not cut that ridge off on mine. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Just approved! TK-14256 requesting 501st Access http://www.501st.com/members/displaymemberdetails.php?userID=24399 Thanks!