NEED ADVICE! Joining limb armour, for skinny troopers

[ComradeDave[TK]]

I've seen a few threads about this but it doesn't go into the detail I really want. So for the arm armour especially I cut the butt/joints down to around to 6.5mm on each side for a 13mm cover strip. Unfortunately the forearms look a little too big any advice or references for trimming and assembly to fit skinny arms?

[dejango[TK]]

Whose armor are you using? It can vary depending on which kit

 

 

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[ukswrath[Staff]]

15mm cover strip for the arms. Trim them (forearm halves) so they look anatomically correct in relation to the biceps and bells, If they're still too large for your arms add some foam inside. If you remove too much material then it becomes increasingly difficult to adequately close the gap between the two halves.

 

http://www.whitearmor.net/forum/topic/35086-ukswraths-anovos-tk-build/page-1

 

hope this helps

[ComradeDave[TK]]

It's AP armor and I saw from another thread some of the other staff said it varies widely. Arms can range for 13-16mm I did some dry fitting and the 7mm butt joints seem to go together fine is this acceptable Tony?

 

15mm cover strip for the arms. Trim them (forearm halves) so they look anatomically correct in relation to the biceps and bells, If they're still too large for your arms add some foam inside. If you remove too much material then it becomes increasingly difficult to adequately close the gap between the two halves.

 

http://www.whitearmor.net/forum/topic/35086-ukswraths-anovos-tk-build/page-1

 

hope this helps

[ukswrath[Staff]]

It's AP armor and I saw from another thread some of the other staff said it varies widely. Arms can range for 13-16mm I did some dry fitting and the 7mm butt joints seem to go together fine is this acceptable Tony?

 

I'm assuming when you say 7mm, you're referring to each side with a total combined width of 14mm? If yes and everything looks uniform we're not going to hold it against you. Accuracy is one thing, approvals are another.

 

Keep up the great work

[ComradeDave[TK]]

I'm assuming when you say 7mm, you're referring to each side with a total combined width of 14mm? If yes and everything looks uniform we're not going to hold it against you. Accuracy is one thing, approvals are another.

 

Keep up the great work

 Thanks Tony! Yes that's precisely what I mean.

[ComradeDave[TK]]

 

I found this on on of the reference photos here the biceps are the same there really wont be much of a difference I think

[ukswrath[Staff]]

Correct. BTW we won't be asking you to drag out the micrometer to prove cover strip widths 

[ComradeDave[TK]]

lol thank God! Thanks again Tony!

 

 

Correct. BTW we won't be asking you to drag out the micrometer to prove cover strip widths 

[Jinsei[TK]]

Hey Dave,

 

I'm apparently "skinny" (I like to maintain I'm normal sized....) as well. 5'8 150-155lbs ish. I had the same problem with skinny arms in my kit. For the forearms/biceps I had everything trimmed for the standard 16mm(or 15mm can't remember off top of my head). The biceps were HUGE on me (about 1.5" of gap) All I did was add a little bit of 1 inch (I think it was 1 inch) crafting foam and it centered the biceps nicely.

 

You can actually see the difference in my first "full kit up" shot and then my photo's I sent for approval. The only difference was adding  foam.

Edited March 21, 2016 by Jinsei

[ComradeDave[TK]]

Good Advice Spencer I'm going to try this

[Jinsei[TK]]

No problem. Worse comes to worse you can always trim more off the biceps..I was trying to avoid that as it would have ended up getting rid of the nice little ridge that the cover strip sits on. It is so much easier to trim stuff off then add stuff on