Hesikaya

Suddenly I feel like I'm moving forward. I started installing the cover strips on the shins this morning after trimming the backs. This is my first foray into applying cover strips. Crossing my fingers that I didn't go too far when I trimmed the backs. Just waiting for tomorrow so I can take all the clamps off and check out what I did. After that I worked on the thermal detonator and installed the Mr.NoStripes brackets. My concern is with the screws for the brackets and how much they are still protruding right now. Is this a normal amount or do I need to counter sink them and add a doubler behind them to increase support?

Good point Daniel, Thanks for that. I had forgotten the handguards will be attached. I will look at bringing the wrist gap down a bit more then.

TKSpartan I see what you mean about the vocoder but can you elaborate on what you mean on trimming more on the frown?

I think these forearms are just about ready to have cover strips installed. I am planning to even out the bottom of the right where the black line is to clean that up. I am still contemplating making the 1/8 inch adjustment to the wrist side of the right forearm but the tops are the same measurement. The wrist side should have plenty of room to slide your gloved hand and suited up arm though right?

I've been working on my Anovos helmet most recently. I painted the frown, insides of the Hovi tips, cleaned the return edge around the eyes. I haven't put the frown mesh back in yet as I wanted to see if anyone noted anything I should fix first. I do have two concerns. First, the brow strip doesn't go all the way to the back of the traps on either side. Would this be a concern later when I applied for EIB or centurion? Second the distance of the blue tube stripes are a little more than a pencils width. They look ok to me but I'm thinking I'll have to remove and repaint them. They look like they are stickers to me. Sent from my SM-G950U using Tapatalk

After posting in the new member section the most fabulous idea was presented to me of posting a build thread to make asking questions and getting help easier. An amazing idea! Thanks Troy and Frank! Here it goes. I've trimmed the legs and arms for the front and not to bring up any drama swapped Shins back and forth several times after I realized one had two number labels and another none. That said I'm fairly confident these are mated to the correct partners. I am concerned about my measurement mishap where I made this curve on the Left shin (pictured on right side). The gap is about 10MM. Once I have the front cuts sanded (Apparently a metal ruler didn't help me keep the line non-jagged either) should I place a piece of cast off material back there with an inner shim to assure it's strength? The cover strip looks like it will cover the gap but there's not much to hang on to on the left side .

Astyanax, Thank you for this great tutorial. Back in 2017 I built two foam troopers for my little guys 8 and 5. I took what I learned from that in 2018 and adapted it to make a Darth Vader kit for the older one and mixed and matched pieces for the younger. They will be different things this year Jawa and a GONK droid but all that I learned from your post was a big help to make them super cool foam troopers.