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Also, when "dry fitting" armor, try to fit it to yourself without normal clothes on! If you have an undersuit or something tight, use that instead (or just your underwear even) since you will ultimately use an understuit when wearing the armor, and if you have measured and built a kit based off of how it looks when you are wearing jeans or something else, the fitment will not be accurate to your body!

Two straight plates are easier to sand smooth than one curved and one straight

Side shims as @gmrhodes13 said is the way to go! If you have Centurion in mind, it is not much work to hide the seam that the shim creates! Since you are building the kit yourself, save the scraps and create ABS paste - put the paste in the seam, let it dry and sand it smooth! My method was to buy Apoxie Sculpt, and sand it smooth - but then I had the issue of color matching with the armor to make it seamless! I really wished I had some ABS paste because color matching was a pain! Also, this shim seam was attached in a bad way, just slotted under the kidney plate, instead of lined up next to the kidney plate and held together with a cover strip on the inside. I had to sand at an angle and follow a curve because of the way this was attached behind the kidney plate and I would have been able to use much less Apoxie Sculpt to hide the gap, had it been attached in the right way!

Would be cool to see a tshirt run in the future with the new stepping out logo

Congratulations and welcome EI #1065!

I agree with @gmrhodes13 on a higher pack position!

You look fabulous! I can also help out with cropping the images for the crl, I can bang them out in two red and one green (an expression here in Sweden, two red is referring to two red Danish hot dogs and one green is a Danish beer, so basically the time it takes to eat two hot dogs and drink a beer on the 15-20 minute ferry over to Denmark )

Hello and welcome Eleanor! Really great story, thank you for sharing! Congratulations on taking the first step on your journey of becoming a TK! Super exciting!

How would you go about doing it with elastic? Since the armor rests (not totally ofc) on the back plate it seems tricky to get the right length, but maybe it isn't at all? I'm thinking of doing the same thing!

Congratulations Tyler! Welcome to the higher ranks number 1063!!!

To me that is perfection! Amazing work Logan!

Nice! Send me a PM with the image you want to use, what logos (Garrison, 501st, Squad, Fire team) if you have any certain background preferences, and what info you want - TKID, forum name and so on!

Great job and congratulations EIB 1062!!!

Congratulations Marcel and welcome to the ranks trooper!!! Your armor is looking stunning! Should be a breeze on the higher approvals!! Exciting!!

Since velcro is used on the belt it could be considered a simple dressing issue! If you have a spotter whilst taking the images just make them aware of the position!

Just throwing my thoughts in here, but the downward part on the posterior plate might actually follow the lines of the raised square bit above! It isn't much but the angles right now are more steep than in my reference image to the left, and following the lines of the box made the angle of the part look more similar! Thoughts?

Welcome to the FISD Alex! A great tip whilst waiting for the BBB is to look at EIB and Centurion applications so that you can have this into consideration when building your armor! The high standards are so much easier to achieve when building with them in mind rather than having it as an afterthought! Regardless if you want EIB and Centurion or not, it will really help your armor look truly amazing! Looking forward to your build thread!

Looking great! You got this!

Congratulations!!

@BAZINGA Good point Bart, I don't know where would start! Looks like someone has already eaten the tube stribes so I guess that's where I would start too

Hello Marcel! How is everything going? Excited to see how it looks!

Congratulations James! Well worth all the work, you look amazing!

Congratulations no. 1061!

Congratulations Sherry!!! Welcome no. 1060

Congratulations Gary!