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Yeah, I can probably do that. I needed to figure out how to hide the strap better anyway, crossing in the front would take care of that.

I'm not connecting the shoulders to that white elastic. It would never be strong enough to hold the shoulders tight. I have to directly connect shoulder to shoulder with a strap. I can change where that strap hits the shoulders, but I can't connect only from each shoulder to the chest plate. my shoulders are far too wide to use a conventional shoulder strapping method.

Alright, so, after a busy few days, my final weight loss numbers (pre Rogue One) were 13 lbs and 4.5 inches lost on the waist. A couple of notes: The backs of the shins do line up properly if attached properly, this was sort of a rush suit up to see how everything fit. The shoulder bells will not come in any more at the bottom. I can move the armpit strap up, down, tighten it, etc, and there's simply nowhere for the shoulder bells to come in. I have BROAD shoulders, and needed to extend the bicep armor as well. I did remove all of the return edge on the shoulder bells. The belt must have come unsnapped during the pictures, as it fit in the correct place (just touching the bottom of the ab detail plate) under normal circumstances. The left thigh was hiked up more after the pictures The right forearm was hiked up more after the pictures. There is a strap going all of the way from shoulder to shoulder, as nothing going from shoulder to chestplate would be able to withstand the force needed to hold the shoulders in place. I'm not sure if I have to hide that strap, but I'll have to come up with something if I do. I'll take some better pictures once I'm ready to apply for basic membership, but I have to patch the top holes in the belt first (which I really still can't fathom is needed for BASIC approval) since I am not ordering the new belt until I've got the ab/kidney gap closed. I had some serious problems with my throat mic setup, any time the throat mic was near the chest plate, there was CRAZY feedback, and this is a nice throat mic too. wearing the aker amp and icomm units on a gopro chest rig. Also had some problems with the SHA. I opted for the version with speakers, and there was crazy feedback once the volume was cranked to a level where it actually assisted hearing. I don't really want to deal with earbuds, as that's an akward connection to have. And now that I've drilled holes in the ears of my helmet, I don't want to move the microphones to a different location, as the holes will have served no purpose.

Which would be fine except that this movie and ANH are supposed to take place at the "same time", not separated by any amount of years or months.

The belt is on my upgrade list, but I'm in the process of losing weight, so it seems silly to order it now and try to guess the size when I could just do it later on and know for sure it's the right size. Any test fits regarding actual sizing are done with the undersuit on, yes. I do have another issue at the moment. My calves are very muscular, and so i can't actually trim a lot off of the front of the shins. If I do, the armor is not going to close in the back. This is how the sniper knee fits. Is that large gap acceptable? In hindsight, if I knew every problem I was gonna have in advance, I could have "sculpted" the return on the bottom to close that gap, but going through most of the build logs, everyone only shows the top of the sniper knee following the top of the shin, and doesn't bother showing how it fits otherwise.

*sigh*. Anyone have any tips on removing a snap without drilling it? Anovos kindly omitted the part where there are 2 ever so slightly different sizes of snaps in the kit, so now I need to replace the belt snaps on the ab plate. There'should no possible way to prevent the snap from spinning or heating up when I try to drill it.

I'm gonna need the white paint anyway for rivet heads and screw heads.

So, last night I was in autopilot mode and wound up drilling holes in the wrong place for the lower brackets on the kidney plate. Anyone know the closest white to the color of the anovos armor for me to fill and paint the wrong holes? <br><br> Also, diet started going downhill 2 days ago. I was on the same workout and calorie routine, but 2 days ago I was tired and ready for bed at 6pm, and yesterday by 2:30pm. My body, rather than using fat for energy to keep me going, decided to just slow everything down. So yesterday I bumped up my calories by 250. I went from 10.5 lbs down yesterday to 10.1 lbs down today, but I did continue losing inches off of the waist (3.5" down since 12/4 now). <br><br> Gonna spend the whole day building today. Hopefully I make a good amount of headway, but there really are only a few big things left to take care of.

Thanks. Yeah, I'm 5'9", so 220 is pretty high for someone my size (even with my amount of muscle mass), and I really hate drawn out long term dieting. That's how I always fall off the wagon. If I have to be disciplined for 18 months to hit goal weight, that's a lot worse than going through a quick 3-4 week weight loss routine and then normalizing back to 1-2 lbs per week for the remainder. 1200 calories really does suck though. I'm able to get through it a little easier now than on day 1-5, but not much. You have to specifically time every glass of water so you don't tank your electrolytes, and time every "meal" (if you can call them that) so that you make it through the day without going to bed starving. I don't eat my half sandwich (well, it's a whole sandwich on a single piece of bread, 425 calories) until 3pm so that I can make it through my 5:30 workout all of the way to dinner at 7. At 1pm when you start to feel hungry, the next 2 hours go by REALLY slowly.

Alright, again, haven't posted daily, but I've been working. I did end up ripping the forearms apart, trimming them, and re-gluing them. They do look better now. I stopped being so careful with the glue, because I didn't realize it was this easy (even if it's a little annoying) to get it off. I fixed up my E-11 (not planning on taking that to the premier though, I'd rather not get arrested). There was a loose wire on the recharge port that I've procrastinated fixing for... 2 years maybe? As you can see, the thighs and forearms are glued, minus some internal reinforcement, and they need some sanding on the top and bottom edges to true everything up. I started installing the bracket system, still not sure if I'm okay with protruding screw heads. Every mounting point is reinforced. And as far as the fitness routine goes, I've been an ANGEL on my diet. Haven't slipped, cheated, snuck a snack, etc. It's been EXACTLY 1200 calories a day (ALL clean calories, lots of salmon, anything grilled or pan fried is done "dry" with no oil or butter in the pan), at least 8 (usually 10) pints of water a day, and 1-2 workouts, depending on what the strength workout is for that day. On 12/1 I weighed in at 230 lbs, and on 12/9 I weighed in at 219.8 lbs. Despite what seems like an impressive amount of loss in such a short amount of time, I'm a little disappointed. I purposefully skipped day 1 to eliminate any leftover food in my system, so I didn't weigh myself until day 2. I was also very scientific about when I weighed myself each day. day 2-3: -.6 lbs. Day 3-4: -2.7 lbs. day 4-5: -0 lbs. day 5-6: -1.3 lbs. day 6-7: - 2.3 lbs. Day 7-8: -1.3 lbs. Day 8-9: -1.6 lbs. Day 9-10: -.4 lbs Granted that day 2-3 was still early in the routine, and could have had skewed results, day 4-5 and day 9-10 really were disappointing. I started measuring my waist daily on 12/4 to help see if it was just water retention skewing some of the results. Since 12/4 I am down 2.5 inches in the waist, and did not lose any inches from day 9-10. I know the weight loss cycle is weird, but it's tough to be SO disciplined about eating and working out on this crazy level, and seeing a net loss of .4 lbs for a day. I'm not asking for 2.7 lbs on a daily basis, but a more consistent 1.5 lbs with no less than 1 lb per day would be nice. Part of the motivation is seeing that it's working, and when you wake up in the morning and the scale tells you "hey, good job, you're the same as yesterday" you really have to dig deep for that extra motivation. At 1200 calories, there's also the constant worry of when the super low intake is going to stop working, so seeing a small change on the scale triggers the "okay, is it still going to work if I keep doing exactly this? Do I have to change things up for slightly slower weight loss? Do I have to increase my intake just for today to rev my metabolism back up?" type of thoughts. 11/29 12/9 11/29 12/9

I have a question about the "Bracket System Final Assembly". Is there any reason one way or the other to countersink the armor (and reinforce it from the back) to make the bracket screws sit flush? I'm just imagining hearing a lot of rubbing of the screw heads between the posterior and the kidney when I walk, even allowing the screws to "lock" if they slide sideways a bit.

Got my notification as well, the way this was handled was... weird, to say the least. I'm happy it will be here in time for the premier, I'm just not sure why the information changed so many times so quickly.

Well, you're using simplify3d, so I know you know your stuff.

And when I asked them about expedited shipping, they said no, so clearly they don't want people on the east coast to expect these to arrive on time.

UPDATE: I'll believe it when I see it, but at least it does sound like mine isn't pushed back due to the nonsensical reasons listed above. I also just found out this helmet lights up in the film, and there seems to be conflicting info about whether the helmet I am receiving will light up. At NYCC Anovos said it will, but I feel like if it did, that would be a major marketing point. For me, adding lights to that is one of the easiest things I can do, even if it needs to have some level of dimming control based on how it functions in the film (which I won't know until I see it).

They also said the second wave was supposed to ship by 12/16, all the way up until this afternoon. They still had units up for grabs around 12 pm est, and it still said ships by 12/16 (both waves), and 12 business days from order to shipment. Today, this is what I got from them. So, first 12 days was "very accurate", then due to "the volume of demands", it won't be able to be shipped on time. I don't know what changed in the last 10 days that made my order be further down than the "volume of demands" that weren't a concern until the preorder was shut down today, but I'm really not that impressed by how they handled this. It seems they left the inaccurate info up long enough to sell their stock (and even now it says the same thing, but the product is unavailable), but couldn't be bothered to update with accurate information prior to the sale of all of their units. I bought the helmet under the impression that I would be able to take it to a premier, as I'm sure 90% of the rest of their customers did. I just wish I got a better reason for not getting what I bought (the helmet in time for the movie) than "volume of demand". They could have at least said "hey, we're really sorry, we're shipping these (or building them) as fast as we can, and we aren't getting through as many units per day as we thought, so unfortunately, it's not going to arrive in time." I would have been okay with that, as I know exactly how that stuff goes. And this is what was on the page as of noon today, currently the only change is that it's not still available, but the text is unchanged. I guess I'm just surprised that Anovos would make such a big deal about "in stock and shipping by X date" and then not deliver. Especially when it seems they're trying to turn their reputation of "not delivering anything when they said they were, ever" around.

Well, unfortunately, I cannot taper the forearms any more, or I will not be able to get my hands through. I have big forearms, small wrists, and large (glove soze) hands. The most I coupdated have take off of the front was .5" in the circumference, so I didn't bother. I did remove part of the return on the back plate like that, but I am hesitant to heat and bend it. I am worried if the back plate sits any lower, the posterior armor will sit too low. <br><br> You do have the problem exactly right. I can strap this thing up correctly, but once it goes on, the kidney plate will be sitting high, with everything else sitting correctly. Also, can someone please alleviate my concerns about my boots? I keep reading "no front seam", which I assumed meant don't get the walmart boots that have a seam going all of the way to the toe. But then when I was directing a friend to tkboots, I noticed those don't have ANY front seam. My boots The ANH Stunt Centurion Checklist, which shows the same exact seam pattern as my boots. Boots with seam that goes all of the way to the front I will admit, I am going to be very cross about this if my boots, which are the ones shown in the checklist, are not actually Centurion approved, yet they appear on the checklist anyway. If the checklist is outdated (in text or image) rather than leaving inaccurate stuff up, it should be completely taken down so as to not cause confusion.

I'm gonna be looking at a 1"-2" gap between the top of the ab plate and the top of the kidney plate depending on how I strap this, but the kidney plate cannot be lowered (it's above the ab plate), and the codpiece cannot be raised.

Alright, so I have been quiet, but not because I haven't been working. Here's where I am gonna need some help. This does not seem to be a problem most people have, but my shoulders are abnormally tall and wide (according to a tailor), for someone my size. I also have a very large upper back. In these next 2 pictures, I cannot pull the codpiece any further up (if I got super creative, and found exactly the right pants, I could maybe get another .5" out of it), and as far as I'm aware, there is a specific alignment that is needed between the bottom of the ab plate and the bottom of the kidney plate. With the correct gap between the kidney plate and the back armor, it falls a full 2" below the top of my shoulders. I saw a recommendation to bend the "shoulder strap" sections of the back plate, but I absolutely don't want to remove the return there at all, and failing to do so would lead to cracking if I try to heat and bend it. Keeping in mind that this is a test fit, and the kidney plate isn't in its final location, it also cannot move upward 2". Period. Is there something I'm missing, or am I going to have to pick between a list of inaccurate options to make this fit? I'm not going to make any modification that disqualifies me from Centurion, so I need a Centurion approved method for correcting this issue. EDIT: After a more thorough test fit, I think I have determined my exact problem. The codpiece can't go up any higher for the obvious reason, and because then my thigh armor would have too much of a gap at the top below the codpiece. The posterior armor actually has to sit higher than I thought, and as of now, it can't. It's sitting right around an inch too low, butted (no pun intended) right up against the kidney plate. Everything would fit perfectly if I could just raise the kidney plate ~1.25" upwards. What is the maximum overlap for the top of the kidney plate to the top of the ab plate allowed for Centurion status? Because honestly, raising that kidney plate would solve literally every issue I have.

I've been searching for a bit, and I'm not really sure why there isn't a complete list of TK movie quotes. So far I've found a few partial ones that overlap, are missing lots of stuff, and include non-movie quotes. Am I just looking in the wrong place? Or has no one sat down and compiled the list yet?

it looks like I'm just supposed to line up the tops of the calves, then trim the bottoms until they meet at the same point, while doing my best to follow the curvature of the plates.

That's not the overhang I mean. I'm talking about vertical overhang (left side of calf 1 is .5" longer than right side of calf 1). The calf plates actually fit my legs just right.

Hey everyone, finally getting around to posting my build log for this. There isn't really much to share at this point, but I'd rather start one now while there's not much to show than later when I have to sort through a few dozen pictures. I'm 4 days into the build right now, working about 2.5 hours a day on it. Everything is trimmed, that was much easier than I thought it would be. Current biggest problem, I have to close those gaps between the ab and kidney plates (I have already been informed the kidney plate was upside down). Yes, I am aware that spacers can be made. No, I won't be using those as a bandaid solution. I'd rather actually take this as motivation to take my workout regimen a little more seriously than I have been lately, and close the gap the proper way, by losing some weight. I wish I had discovered this issue sooner, but I didn't start working on the armor until T-17 days from Rogue One. So far my workout regimen is working, and this is the fastest rate of weight loss I've ever undergone (1.5 lbs/day roughly). I've been assembling the pieces in a way that I've not seen so far, but I've only looked through a handful of build logs. I'm gluing the trim pieces to one piece of armor at a time, rather than both pieces. It helps control glue overspill, and position. It's much easier to position it exactly right the first time when you can use the entire length of it as active alignment, rather than passive (with magnets). Once it's correct on the first piece, the second piece attaches very easily. It takes twice as many glue joints per part to do it this way, but that's not really a concern since I do have the time between now and the release of Rogue One to account for those extra cure periods. I'm not a fan of using large amounts of glue, and then wasting time wiping it off when it comes out the sides of the part being attached. I had some initial fitment issues with the thighs, and despite not having pictures of it yet, I went ahead and trimmed the lower back section of the thighs to "match" the screen used suits, and did still end up having to trim about 1" off of the tops of the thighs (which included the extra length added by the return). I now am limited by the top of the thigh armor jamming into my upper thigh/waist rather than by the back of my knee being hit with the armor. I'm not 100% certain that I rotated the thighs outward far enough in my test fits, but I don't see how they could go out any further and still look right. I'm a little confused about the calf armor. I see there is an ongoing debate about which calf matches which, but either way, there seems to be a large amount of overhang that I don't see on most of the builds I've looked through. Does everyone just true up the calf armor once it's assembled so there isn't such a large overhang? I'm also planning some fans for my helmet, I got the ones that it seems most people use when keeping defrosting the visor in mind. How does everyone mount them? I don't want to mount it with something so strong that I ruin the helmet if I have to remove them later. I can 3d print an angled bracket if I need to so I don't have to fill any extra space between the inside of the helmet and back of the fan with glue, but I don't want to use VBH tape only to find it is so strong that I can't remove the fans later.