Mayhem's RT-Mod Build

[Mayhem75[TK]]

Hello all:

 

After many weeks of waiting, reading, collecting needed parts, more reading, collecting more needed parts, even more reading, collecting more parts - not so needed but really wanted, and then more reading.........

 

My box finally arived! RT-Mod from Rob. Boy was it fun to finally get it and unwrap every thing. I maybe strange but I hope I am not the only one to immediately have to wear the helmet around the house a bit. The wife and daughter are very tollerent - actually the daughter thinks it is pretty cool.

 

Well I was kind of fitting the parts to me as I was looking at everything. I am a bit large for a typical trooper (6'2" about 270lbs) but I am steadily working on the weight part. So one thing that jumped out at me is the shins. I do not really have calves, I call them full grown cows. So when I was wrapping the two halves of the shin around one of my ham hocks I am sure some shimming is needed. (about an inch or so)

 

Can anyone point out a forum link (I have been tring but can not find one) on methods how to best do this. Or any advise would be greatly appreciated.

 

Everything else seems OK (need to whitle my middle a bit more) - maybe a question on the chest plate but will address that later.

 

Thanks for your time and look forward to hearing from you all.

 

Mike

(hoping to be able to insert a TK ID number here soon)

[boomshakra[TK]]

Awesome - I am a larger size trooper waiting on my RT-Mod armor, so I look forward to your build thread!

[NastyNoah[TK]]

Hey Mike glad to see another Rt-Mod trooper here on the forums. I just received my TK number a few weeks ago after completing phase 1 of my build (Phase 2 is electronics and EIB and 3 will probably be a Centurion HWT for me). Luckily for you on the shins they do not need to fully close in the back, in fact to be screen accurate they should open up some. If you watch the first scene of ANH you will notice as the troops enter the Blockade runner the shins are very much open in the back. If you still need a bit more room you can butt join the pieces together then use the extra plastic Rob includes to make cover strips. I hope theis helps you, and if you have any questions feel free to PM me.

 

You should post as many pictures as possible so we can follow your progress.

[Mayhem75[TK]]

Well I looked at it all again and the shins may not need as much work as I thought but I will still need to shim them a bit. I am very new to this whole but I will do my best to show all my progress on this build. I will be trying to lower my density as well during this build as well, so I do not have too much black showing between the ab and back plates.

 

Noah I may take you up on your offer for help, thanks!

 

My daughter's soccer and softball schedule may slow my progress at first (this coaching thing takes up a bit of my time lol) On my way to a soccer game now.

 

Later all:

 

Mike

[Mayhem75[TK]]

Well I finally took the plung! I did my fisrt gluing today on the forearms. I used the over lapping method and will be using velcro on the under side so I can fit my paws it them.

 

I starting fitting the biceps and I have a question for those more experienced. Here is the bicep I taped and tried fitting. Over lapping them here with the rigde of the under one showing about 1/4 of an inch on both sides. Is this acceptable, or should I but them up and use larger cover strips.

 

 

Also is it OK to use the over lap method and the cover strip method in the same build or should it all be the same?