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cut the front of the lower legs today and did a trial fitting. They are quite snug, I still intend to remove a bit of the return edge at the top and clean out the last mm at the bottom. That will hopefully give me enough playing room to get them right. The shoes btw are 20 euro, brown chelsea boots from Aldi Painted by hand. Non of that fancy boots for me just yet. Working on a bit tighter budget than I did for my First Order TI. Going to have to figure out how to get the back aligned properly, at least at the top. Still need to clean up the soles of my shoes a bit, remove some of the paint that I got on them. As I am 182cm the length of the lower legs is close to perfect for me, by the feel of it. I haven't removed the pull-edge from the back sides yet, quite worried I am not going to have enough material to play with in the end. So first planning to get the front coverplates on, align the back properly and glue them together properly. Intending to close the back with industrial velcro as I have used copious amounts of on my TI costumes (but then obviously for TK in white).

Thanks! Gonna look that one up! got a mate from Dutch Garrison coming by this weekend, he promised to take his TM bells with him. So that will help with lines as well.

Finally remembered to make some better photos of the bells, they are all the same shoulder bell. All the right side.

Will do, but that will have to wait a bit. I just turned my phone into a paper-weight unfortunately. New photos coming in tomorrow

The actual fitting I do indeed do with my undersuit underneath it. Quite a few of the return edges I am leaving bigger than required and trim them down the moment the pieces are glued together. Loving the quality indeed.

Update!! Both lower arms and biceps are done and looking quite good. Still need to clean up some glue of course, but for the rest they rest well around my arms. A few more things I need to trim properly, among others the shoulder bells. I have real difficulty with those. I really do not see the cutting lines here. And the way they arrived from RS they are huge! These are the only things at the moment that completely terrify me, cause I have no idea where to cut yet. Any suggestions would be very much appreciated!

Re Pic 3, thanks for the tip! Going to attempt that one tomorrow, see how that works out. Hope it will buff out properly, what i hear from others in NL with a RS it should work out fine.

The wrist ends I will indeed clean out even more, been a bit conservative there cause I was not sure yet whether I need to shorten them more. Thing with the elbow is, the ends do match up on the front side, just not on the back of the elbow.

Ok... armor has been laying around for a whilte now. Starting to get the feeling I am in a hurry. There are some troops coming up I would love to do in white instead of my usual black. Sorry, brief intro: TI-69241, I have an ANH and a First Order tie pilot costume, both approved with the Dutch Garrison. Despite having quite some experience now in playing around with the plastics, I am a bit wary when it comes to putting this together, it is after all one of the most iconic costumes possible. So please endulge me and help me a bit here and there I am getting help with the helmet, for now not too much with the rest of the armor. Trimmed most of it, now started to trim and blue-tape my first fore-arm. I guess the return edge on the outside can be smoothened out even more? Also, the elbow sides of the arm do not seem to match up well: What do I do with that? this is the back of my arms. The front of the arm is not smooth, there is a clear V-shape visible in the connecting parts for now, will that smoothen out somehow when I put the coverplates on?

TI-69241, Dutch Garrison requesting access: http://501st.com/members/displaymemberdetails.php?userID=23522 Working hard to move from TI and TN (ok, First Order TI) to TK