Sizing question for a shorter trooper

[Guroburov[TK]]

Hi everybody,

 

I'm working on armor for my girlfriend.  She is 5'2" and I'm need some advice on resizing it.  I'll attach a photo (if I remember).  Currently the overlap between the chest and abdomen pieces will cover up the top two buttons on the ab plate.  I'm wondering if that will be alright or if I need to cut off the cod piece and trim excess materiel there to show more of the ab buttons.  How do you approach the problem?

 

Thanks,

Steve

[tkrestonva[TK]]

I would start by trimming down the chest plate a la Luke Skywalker in disguise.

 

[tkrestonva[TK]]

If you need to shorten the abdominal armor (which is likely) you can cut the cod where it meets the ab plate and remove a couple of inches off the plastic. The belt should cover the seam.

[Triple D[TK]]

I would probably do both, trim a little of the cod piece and the chest piece. If you do just one it may look odd when on.

[shashachu[TK]]

I'm 5' 3" and finishing up my first kit. Check out Cricket's and Fragarock's threads, which are both amazing resources for shorter troopers. I highly recommend cutting the cod, as that allows you to drop the abdomen quite a bit lower. Christine (Cricket) also ended up trimming the bottom of her chest piece and rebuilding the return edge, but I didn't have to as I have a long torso for my height. 

 

[gmrhodes13[Staff]]

I've seen a few builds on local forums for the heightwarldy challenged and one in particular cut off some of the chest and back plate, made a wooden jig and heated and bent over a new return, not for the faint hearted but came out looking great and really fitted her height.

[Gwithian]

I would agree look at Crickets aka Christine, and fragarock aka Frank, their build threads are on FISD and worth a good read. I'm short too and I have trimmed the neck as well fragarock also did that. Do your research and as you know just cut a bit at a time. Armour can be made to look really good on us shorter troopers..... thankfully the Empire is an equal opportunities employer and does not discriminate against height.... or lack of it


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[Guroburov[TK]]

ty all for the replies.  I'll be looking at those builds then and working from there.

 

Steve

 

[Locitus[Admin]]

You can also trim the bottom of the shins, and front of the forearms to cut off some length.