jmschak Posted June 20, 2017 Report Share Posted June 20, 2017 BBB day was way back in March. For various reasons, the said box has been sitting in my garage untouched. Lots of other stuff going on between work and other projects. Plus, the box represented 40 years of childhood hopes and dreams and I was still a little terrified of jacking it up. Turns out the fear was largely unfounded. "Not jacking it up" being a priority, I spent the extra money to get my kit trimmed. At the inaugural unboxing at an armor party over the weekend, most of the pieces appear to require very little, if any, addituonal trimming to fit. I'm kicking myself a bit now for not starting sooner, but it is what it is. Started on the bucket last night. More to follow. Sent from my SM-G950U using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FencingCorvetteTrooper[TK] Posted June 20, 2017 Report Share Posted June 20, 2017 Nice!! Just got my AP armor yesterday (posting BBB day pics later now that site is back up). Took the same pre-trimmed option as you did, as time is at a premium, and Mark at AP provided a beautiful product. Still plenty of work to do on our own, but it's a relief not having the stress of getting all that cutting done (and the associated worry of really messing something up). Can't wait to get moving on it myself. We're actually building 3 sets at one time (my brother's, my son's and mine) so it will be an entertaining group effort. Good luck and congrats on starting the build! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
68Brick[TK] Posted June 20, 2017 Report Share Posted June 20, 2017 Congrats on BBB day and getting started! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shanester[TK] Posted June 20, 2017 Report Share Posted June 20, 2017 Congrats! Looking forward to seeing you suited up trooper! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmschak Posted June 26, 2017 Author Report Share Posted June 26, 2017 (edited) Pre-drilled holes on the helmet for the bottoms of the earcaps didn't quite line up right, and was causing some internal scrunching (to use a very technical term). Much tweaking later, the Lothar look is gone.No pics, but quite a bit of time was also spent sanding the opening so my ears don't get snagged when putting it on. Hopefully more progress on the rest of it soon. Edit: autocorrect is a fickle, fickle horrible thing. Edited June 26, 2017 by jmschak Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmschak Posted July 10, 2017 Author Report Share Posted July 10, 2017 (edited) Tiny update. Wife's best friend is visiting. My nerd cave is also our guest room and it's way too hot to spend a lot of time in the garage. So, I don't really have a place to work on this right now. Doing little things where I can. I'm probably going to have to repaint these, if for no other reason than I know I can do better. Edited July 10, 2017 by jmschak Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmschak Posted July 18, 2017 Author Report Share Posted July 18, 2017 (edited) Repainted traps, tears and ears. Turned out much better this time. I'm happy enough with it, anyway. Pic dump: Tube stripes are decals, everything else is hand painted. Obviously, I still need to put the hovis in, but I have UKSwrath's kit, and those will go in almost last. No pics, but second side of forearms and first side of biceps are E6000'ed and curing tonight. Edited July 18, 2017 by jmschak Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alay[TK] Posted July 18, 2017 Report Share Posted July 18, 2017 Looks great!!! Can't beat the hand painted look on the ANH helmet Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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