Does anyone have pics of the back of AP/VT thighs?

[TK-7980]

I guess I got a bad pull but the backs of my thighs don't have the ridges towards the center, so it makes it kind of hard to trim. I'd just like to get a feel for how far inward I need to cut away for a good look.

 

Thanks.

[pandatrooper[TK]]

One mine, I knew that the thighs would be big for me since I have slimmer thighs (my real thighs!).

 

So for the front, I trimmed the front edges so that they fit the 20mm ANH cover strip. For the back, I trimmed some of the extra material off first, then put the thigh armor on to see how much I actually needed to trim. The backs of mine (VT) were a little hit and miss which might be like AP as well. Sometimes there's a ridge line to indicate where you could measure 20mm away and trim it, but most of the time there's no indication.

 

A trick I did was one of the thigh sides (I can't remember which one, I'll use "outer right" in this description) had a good "ridge line" definition on the front and the back. I cut the front as described above, and then I used a tape measure and wrapped it around the thigh, around it's circumference from front ridge to back ridge. I measured this near the top of the thigh, and at the bottom, like a straight "cut away" cross section line. This circumference could be matched on the "outer left" thigh. So even if the outer left doesn't have a ridge line to indicate where to cut, both outer thighs would have the same approximate size and dimension. Then I could make pencil marks on the outer left thigh with the same dimension, and add 10mm for the ridge, then I cut it. I could do the same with the inners with some test fitting and measuring technique.

 

Hope that makes sense! I don't have any stand alone images of the backs of the thighs, but here's my build thread link. I think it might be more helpful to read the descriptions rather than me just posting the images here.

 

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There's some back thigh views in my EIB thread too

 

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Of course, check out Stukas AP build if you haven't already. I consider his builds the "bibles" of armor so to speak.

 

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Edited December 5, 2020 by gmrhodes13
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