Guest TK-2416 Posted July 15, 2008 Report Posted July 15, 2008 X-mas in July!! Received my TE2 armour today... And I am one happy guy and can’t wait to start up... I have planed to take some days off from work and assemble the armour. Thanks to T and his wonderful wife! Even though we have different threads covering the art of assembling armours.. I think we can’t have too many… So I will make sure to take a lot of pics during the process… I hope to move fast, but no rush… Process: Trim, sand edges, Novus and weathering it … yes correct.. this one is going sandtrooper.. I will copy Rolf’s (TD252) process.. Since I am going to weather it, I guess it would be ok to skip the white paint of the armour. Would hate to see it chips off. This is my looong inventory list for making it happen: 1. 4 tubes of E6000 2. Clamps, different sizes 3. Sandpaper - different sheets 4. Dremel 5. Stanley knife 6. Pencils 7. Woodland earth colours 8. Humbrol for the helmet - Mike is assembling it for me and does the white spray paint.. I will paint the details myself.. Black Gloss no. 21, Gray Gloss no. 5, Blue Gloss no. 14 9. Hairspray for the earth colours/weathering 10: Webbing: Belt, band, snaps, straps, velcro (heavy industrial) I will use a stop watch to see how long time the different steps take for a newbie… Step 1: First of all I will make sure that all pieces are here.. Step 2: Marking the lines with pencil, scoring, dremel, sand Step 3: Measuring, measuring, final trim, strips and gluing Step 4: Polish the armour using Novus Step 5: Prepare the webbing Step 6: Weathering time Step 7: The Sandy bucket… I bought a helmet from Rolf - handpainted and everything.. I think I will convert this to TD.. Still need to think about this - I guess it depends on how glossy the helmet from Mike is gonna be compared to Rolf’s…. I will make a TD out the one that is less glossy. Therefore this will be the last step (hopefully) in my process. Troop on... Quote
Guest TK-2416 Posted July 15, 2008 Report Posted July 15, 2008 Step 1: Making sure everything is good (of course it is ): Complete delivery - thanks Mr. X!! Quote
edlitmus Posted July 15, 2008 Report Posted July 15, 2008 Congrats! I'm glad to see another TE2 build, the more the merrier! Quote
ThayNerd[TK] Posted July 15, 2008 Report Posted July 15, 2008 Congrats! Have fun and take your time on your build! Quote
Nairod Posted July 15, 2008 Report Posted July 15, 2008 A new member with a great armor!!! Good luck for the differents steps!!! Quote
Ghost Posted July 15, 2008 Report Posted July 15, 2008 Looks good David!! Looking forward to seeing the progress on this!! Quote
Guest TK-2416 Posted July 15, 2008 Report Posted July 15, 2008 Step 2 - Trimming etc. OK... started up... pencil used to mark where to cut. I started out with chest, ab, butt, lower and upper bag.. Just used my Dremel.. Will sand the pieces tomorrow and continue with the other pieces... To be continued Quote
Guest TK-2416 Posted July 16, 2008 Report Posted July 16, 2008 Ok guys!! I really love my Dremel.. Dont know what I would have done without it... It is so great.. I haven't even used my Stanley knife!! Dremel all the way!! Todays prorgress so far (only afternoon ): All parts trimmed with the Dremel.. Took me around 7 hours effective... I have taken some pics - Arm pieces Leg pieces Next step sand, sand, sand.... Love my new T-shirt... Gives energy!! Quote
Guest TK-2416 Posted July 16, 2008 Report Posted July 16, 2008 Step 2 - Arm pieces.. A funny thing I noticed is that there is huge difference between the right and left bicep.. Drinking too many heavy beers with just one arm? Same Proces: Use pencil to draw/mark the magic line... Then Dremel.... Where the line is missing (or my eyes not good enough) I first make a dotted line and then a full line.. Quote
Guest TK-2416 Posted July 16, 2008 Report Posted July 16, 2008 Step 2 - Leg pieces.. This is an easy part Same procedure as for the arm pieces.. Draw/Mark and Dremel... The Dremel does a great job - think the sanding is going to be fast.... Rough trimmed leg parts: Are the pieces correct matched?: Quote
Guest TK-2416 Posted July 16, 2008 Report Posted July 16, 2008 Step 2 - Misc.. The small parts: Belt, Energy bar (?), diamond kneeplate and hand armor: Same procedure: Draw/mark and Dremel.. The Dremel is soo fast and precise... Still missing.. A bit unsure how much to cut away.. Quote
Guest TK-2416 Posted July 16, 2008 Report Posted July 16, 2008 So... sanded: chest, ab, butt,back pieces... Step 2 completed... 8-9 hours work. The other pieces that need gluing will be sanded when ready to glue.. Step 3 - Glue I started up on the arm pieces.. Managed to glue one bicep part and trimmed the other parts, so I am ready to glue tomorrow... I think this is very time consuming due to a lot of measuring and dremel/sand... But I am in no hurry!! Now it is time off... Has been great fun so far... More to come.. Tomorrows project: Glue arm pieces, trim and glue leg pieces... Then all the basic is ready... Quote
Nairod Posted July 16, 2008 Report Posted July 16, 2008 Wow! You work fast...but it's a good and clean work! Quote
Guest TK-2416 Posted July 16, 2008 Report Posted July 16, 2008 Thanks bro.. Yes.. I really have fun doing this and I have taken some days off from work, so I want to move fast... Really looking forward wearing it the first time!! Troop on Quote
nice-biscuit Posted July 17, 2008 Report Posted July 17, 2008 Wow fast and so many pictures. Thanks for that, it's always good to see the progress. It must be a Danish thing, as you and Rolf seem to fly through. Quote
Guest TK-2416 Posted July 17, 2008 Report Posted July 17, 2008 Thanks for the nice words... Yep - we like speed us Danes Been a good and busy day today.. updates coming up... Quote
Guest TK-2416 Posted July 17, 2008 Report Posted July 17, 2008 Today's progres: Step 3 - Measuring, final trimming, strips and gluing... Status: completed - took 8 hours effective The thigh pieces took around 2 hours to get it right.. shin was fast and easy.. But I spend in total some time on measuring.. Measure twice cut once.. I made some lines to cut after - took some few steps, to make sure everything was good.. I have used 2 cm strips for the front and 2,5 cm for the back.. I have good thighs after playing soccer... Then final sanding of all the pieces to make it smooth and nice Then final set-up before glueing Gluing - been using E6000 seems to work ok... Sandtrooper on the way... Quote
Guest TK-2416 Posted July 17, 2008 Report Posted July 17, 2008 And some small parts: not final sanded And then the post man came... brought my TE helmet from Matt.. so my collection is now: So tomorrow's project: Novus and Webbing.... Stay tuned... Quote
Ghost Posted July 17, 2008 Report Posted July 17, 2008 And then the post man came... brought my TE helmet from Matt.. so my collection is now: Armour build is coming on well...and fast!! Nice collection of lids you have there David!! Quote
Guest TK-2416 Posted July 17, 2008 Report Posted July 17, 2008 Thanks Scott, for the nice words! You have an awesome collection - as I recall - two GINOs (Hero and Stunt)!! Do you have any pics of your complete collection? Troop on... Quote
Ghost Posted July 17, 2008 Report Posted July 17, 2008 Unknown to my Mrs I have three more lids ordered and will post some pics when they arrive!!! I just need a secret location to display them Quote
Guest TK-2416 Posted July 17, 2008 Report Posted July 17, 2008 Ha ha.. too cool.. they cant tell one helmet from the other (I guess )... I looking forward reading your thread... Quote
Guest TK-2416 Posted July 18, 2008 Report Posted July 18, 2008 Todays work (9 hours effective) - again great fun Step 4 and 5 completed... Stilling missing: Attach the power cells to the lower thigh piece and weathering. I used Novus 3,2 and 1... Ok I guess, but not as shiny as ABS.. Anyway I am going to make him dirty so I'll leave as is... I am happy with the result.. E6000 came out great and all the glued parts seems fine.. Tomorrow is weathering time... Here are some pictures The best thight solution!!: The monster: The sandy knee: A happy TE2 owner: Quote
MandalorianWarrior87 Posted July 18, 2008 Report Posted July 18, 2008 Armour build is coming on well...and fast!! Nice collection of lids you have there David!! I second that! Quote
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