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Great stuff Curtis! I'm glad to see you immediately put that armor to use. As soon as I finish my gun, I'll go walk around my TRU just for the fun of it Since I have no occasions to troop here in Canada, gotta improvise a little .. ha! Love that pony pic!

Your research was well done .. although I'd correct the fact that the AP does fit tall person .. at 6'3'' 190lbs, I think I fit pretty good in my AP. So that shouldn't be a show stopper for you and your pal. Me in my AP http://whitearmor.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=1899 All images in link are broken and not recoverable Will have to let someone else chime in for the glasses issue though.

You should send that discussion in the TE/AP thread .. I'll answer and upload some pics of my AP TD.

As some of you know, I had my first appearance among friends last saturday (see other Halloween pics thread). As for public appearance at work yesterday and last night to go door to door with my condo neighbour, I was simply overwhelmed. I can definitely say I've had more fun then anybody out there, children included I too had a lot of knock on armor, congrats tap on shoulders, amazing comments. I've had the "Hey, it's Darth Vader", "Wow, nice robots", some parents came over to ask a pic and told me in the ear, "I hope you don't mind, he thinks you're a Power Ranger" .. Haha .. "Not at all" I've had around 30 pictures taken of me with random people and kids. A lot of parents telling me my armor totally rocked. I've had this kid running around, we were crossing roads a lot in the neighbourhood, and he kept telling me Vader wanted me to report immediately!!! Pretty funny boy. At work, I went around walking on all 4 floors .. and since I'm working in a video game company, people are all around 30 years old. One team went to me congratulating me .. until I actually backed up, and waved saying "Move along, move along" .. At this point, they went in complete frenzy and all applauded me .. it was an amazing feeling. All and all, most awesome Halloween EVER, even from what I recall being a child .. even now, I think about it and I'm smiling, what a great experience. Almost forgot, I've had a lot of "Awesome costume, but your voice thing completely was did it for me" from a lot of people. RomFX did it for me

Paul, I thought this was a screen used armor from ANH!!! Damn .. ok .. well, that's the look I wanna have for my armor! I'll try that after Halloween! Thanks for the tip!

I knew I shouldn't have joined!

OMG, they're back!! I think I'm gonna cry .. What the heck is "the stormtrooper" group anyway! Thanks again Chris! .. but now I know that you're unconsciously switching my forum's right cause you miss our interaction soo much.

Watch ANH again ... See Luke in the Death Star control room getting his helmet off See Han in the Detention block taking it off also .. Once you see and realize this is as it should be, it moves the "feature" from the to-fix-list to the cool-list

Oh no, it's spreading!!!

He has to be talking about enlarging the hole to fit the head straight in instead of sideways

Believe me, I'd have preferred not having to bother Chris so much .. but then, I'm beginning to like it! Haha! Glad Chris and I are making it interesting

I think I can help you on this one. To Subscribe: Hit Options in the upper right corner when you're reading a thread, then Subscribe to this forum. Or you can always hit the "Enable email notification of replies?" checkbox when you add a message and that will also subscribe you! Then, in your My Controls page, on your left side bar, you'll have Subscriptions - View Topics / View Forums that will show you all your subscribed Threads classified by Topic. Is that helping you in any way?

Oh .. just give us some actions!! You guys have great arguments and build your critics (for most parts anyway) with very good points! I love reading about those threads and I think they serve their purpose really well! This is how things move forward, but of course, it has to stay on topic!

Ok, so here's more info and questions I always thought my abs piece was pretty twisted .. I always assumed it was normal and never really bothered with it. I decided to make sure this was normal by taking a few pics of the abs piece and they fitting of the kidney piece with the abs piece. As you can see on the pics below, if I line up my left side to the kidney, the right side will have over 1" of lateral gap, I'm not taking about the side gap here .. see picture anyway, I'm sure it's clear enough. So that gap was what originally made me wonder how I could close the side gap .. Now, may this be normal or not, I assume I could always take away some kidney upper lip width so that the piece would be easier to squeeze closer? How thick is that lip on your AP armor? I guess it does make sense to take some ABS off that lip to make it more flexible? I'd like your input and pics if you have of those 2 pieces closed from top view .. Details to look at in this picture: Middle left : Upper lip shape being more angled on the left side Bottom left: Flat part where the buttons are is more bubbled on the left side Upper right: See gap on right side when left side is aligned Lower right: Kidney lip width reference shot .. is it too large so that it removed flexibility --------------

Great art work Simon, it always amazes me how people will take new helmets and do everything they can to make it look old and used I must not have been in the hobby for long enough Again, congrats!!!

Thanks guys, Paul, if only I had asked and read that answer before drilling my holes ... now I feel sad I didn't ask the question BEFORE doing the drilling .. I hate the idea of having unused holes in my armor .. god I feel stupid for having done that! For now, I'll keep the bolts there while I build myself a canvas belt that will be less inclined to pop out. May this thread serves other with their kit Paul, you should add a picture of your abs piece with the snap in to help with the location and overall look for future reference. Joey, off to reshaping it anyway

Chris, you have to admit, I keep you busy around! Now, it does work (no more minimum character warnings, but it never returns anything .. Try hitting TE, AP, abs etc to see what I mean ... you're my angel! LOL

Well if you would fix me up for real, I wouln't bother you anymore! Back at you .. LOL

I'm currently tweaking my armor to give it a better fit. My belt had always been a problem. The AP kit comes with 2 pieces of white elastic to rivets on each side of the belt. Now, if you do this and use both pieces keeping the length they come, your belt will most likely be loose, or at least not really tight. So, I had the choice, shorten the belt's elastics, or fix the belt to the abs with snaps. After noticing this thing on a lot of pictures and screen grabs, I decided to give the snaps method a GO! So I used my belts end holes to mark where to put the male snaps in the armor. Drilled through, put the snaps in, put 2 female snaps through the belt's holes. Looked pretty neat .. Tried it on .. snapped right out! Resnapped it in .. snapped right out! The belt is way too rigid for these snaps to hold! Now, I'm using the same heavy duty snaps I've used for the rest of the armor. So the snaps is not the issue here. NOW, I'm sorry I drilled through the abs piece .. and realized that perhaps this was working only when the female snaps were NOT attached to the ABS belt, but on the canvas belt which is way more flexible than the ABS. For now, I used 2 bolts going through the ABS belt, then through the elastic, then the female snap, then the male snaps and through the abs piece closed inside the armor... I sure don't wanna keep the bolting solution! Does that all make sense .. input needed on this one.

That's an awesome suggestion .. I don't know why I assumed both sides were glued ... :| Really cool! How much hidden extra len did you have to leave to make sure it wouldn't pop out? Also, did you use rivets with the ABS too? Keep em coming boys! I'd like to hear people using elastic or any soft material too.

Title says it all .. It's already been said in some other threads which I couldn't find back. So I made an official request for it ... Can we have the possibility to make searches for less then 4 letters? Here's why: AP TE TE2 TM FX ABS material COD piece knee PAD GUN E11 blaster LID [...] You see the obvious, it seems that this forum is the perfect place to search less than 4 characters ... it's so often suggested to newbs to use the Search box, let's make it even more useful. Thanks, Al

Chris, it worked for a week, I could delete some images (by viewing my album, clicking the little pink checkbox and choosing the delete image selected combo box in the bottom - is there another way?) But now, it won't show me those options anymore .. so unless I dreamed of it, or I was using another way to "view in edit mode", I can't seem to have the checkbox in the upper/left corner of each image and neither the combo box in the lower task bar .. ? Am I the only one with such problems? Is this a per-user setup? HUGE thanks for your time Al

Here we go again! This has been discussed a lot, but not so much that I had all the details I wanted. I know of all the ways to do it, so no need to develop it here in this thread. What I'm interested in, is the pros & cons of ABS vs Elastic. So your experience is definitely a big plus here. Also, before starting this thing. I've seen enough pictures/screen grabs with rivets to decide I would go this way. Now, what's the real deal with those rivets, what are they for? Is it purely a visual thing? Becaue if you choose to close with ABS/hard plastic, won't it be glued to prevent the sides from opening? Same goes if you use elastic, won't you glue it inside the armor to prevent it from stretching away or to prevent the rivets to tear through? I have about 1-2" of gap on each side, I'm affraid if I use plastic, it will be way too rigid and not practical for storage. While if I choose a 3" wide elastic, the armor will still keep it's flexibility at the side and be white (to achieve Elite status ). All your inputs are welcome!

Oh no! "Just when I thought I was out they pull me back in" Thanks Daetrin!

I'm looking for gloves too .. Until this week, I had the cheapest rubber gloves, but they dried up on my mannequin before even using them!!! I bought another 1$ pair for my halloween party. It's gonna be my first time using them but I'd like something not rubber .. I feel like it'll be disgusting after an hour in those!!! Daetrin, PM Sent