filled in shims and ears.

[LoudDragon]

I have, as the title suggests, filled the shims and ears on my armor. some have turned out ok and others haven't, aside from the fact that I shouldn't have done that in the first place. the question I now raise is, wat can I do to fix this?

 

 

then I have my abdomen that needed to be filled, because I had to shorten the cod piece. I ended up discoloring the area where I filled it, and it also has some splotchy and pock marks.

 

currently all this has now served to do, is give me a headache. is this fixable? will it be able to pass level one CRL even? do I just need to start over at this point, and make this a example project? 

[Doggydoc[Staff]]

6 minutes ago, LoudDragon said:

currently all this has now served to do, is give me a headache. is this fixable? will it be able to pass level one CRL even? do I just need to start over at this point, and make this a example project? 

I would think that the seam will be hidden under the belt.  If it is, then it should not affect approval.  Ultimately it is up to your GML though.

 

For the ears and shins ABS paste, just sanding with incrementally increasing grit up to 2000 or so and then polishing, should remove the texture of the filling.

[gmrhodes13[Staff]]

Generally we don't fill in the seams, even if there is a large gap in the ears.

 

I did notice you have over trimmed your large abdomen plate. A fix is to remove, make a plate larger than the ab plate, glue, fill in the seam with abs paste and sand, the re-apply

 

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[LoudDragon]

heres some of the progress I've made:

 

 

and in case the GML doesn't approve, I do also have my RS prop masters helmet to fallback on. my armor is an almost bleached white, while the RS helmet is more vanilla white, is this a big issue?

 

 

this thread is mainly to address abs paste and where and where not to fill, so unless any one out there has problems, or recommendations about the shims having filling, then that closes the matter for this.