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Thanks Keita! it will be great seeing you at my small armor party tomorrow Hopefully we will finish up your AP for elite status also

I used about 400 grit, but thats just me...I'm sure if your a perfectionist you could smooth it down as much as you would like though

Thanks Paul

Yes, Clone armor is a whole different beast so to say

Thanks man, yeah I can't wait either

My left forearm with one of the seams already secured the other side is preped for glueing My elbows which I am going to re-pain becfause i was not happy how they turned out My elbow detail strapping

My Bicep, Elbow, and Forearm pieces before assembly and weathering My right forearm after putting the more accurate com pad on...notice the shim in place for butting the two ends together for the "seamless" look my other seam on my right forearm already bondo'ed & partialy sanded

My More authentic looking OSCS Knee's about 60% done The contrast between the standard knee that came with the armor "left" and the more authentic OSCS knee "right"

My Helmet before when I thought it had too much weathering After I re-paineted some of it

The chest plate time line this is a pic of the chest plate that has been painted with a base coat of flat black and flat white with the two holes painstakingly cut out of the right chest area the chest plate after some weathering the chest plate today with the 501st color scheme

My back plate time line Ruff cut holes... sanded holes...[/b] more flat black to conceal the sanding... My back detail kit... The back plate painted with most of the detail kit in place... My back plate 90% done!

I started the weathering process with my shoulder bells & Hand plates...They were the easiest to start with in my opinion My shoulder bells about 60% done... My bells about 80% done... My hand plates when I started thweathering process Hand plates 60% done Hand plates 90% done

Here are some concept pics that I am using... Here is what my armor sets looked like when I got them " raw and Un-trimmed"...

Hello all... I know this is an off topic and dosn't have much to do with TK's, but since everyone here is an open ear, and I feel closer to this community than any other that I belong to, I wanted to share my CT.net clone build with you all...this has been an on going project for over the last 9 months...this will also show many of you how much work go's into making a clone look semi-real... So here my story...after 8 months of making mistakes, and waiting for miscellaneous parts to arrive, I came to the cfonclusion a couple of months ago that I have enough stuff to finally finish putting one of my sets of clone armor together...I have been working on it vigorously in the past 2 month except for when I put together my AP for ROTJ Elite...so now i'm trying to get it going again... but before you see anything thing that I have done now we must first look at the timeline following up to this point I bought two sets of R2-V7 clone armor off of a fellow 501st armorer about 8 months ago or so...and the The first bonehead mistake I made about 6 month ago was to Paint the armor before assembling, this means that after I trimmed the excess mold remnants off the suite I gave it a front and back base coat of flat black #1, then proceeded to paint a gray coat#2 over the front then a silver #3, then another black #4, and then two coats of flat white #5 & #6 for weathering... But soon after when trying to assemble the armor I found out that hot glue doesn't stick very well to painted plastic ...so now I have had my forearms come apart on me twice...I solved this by sanding the heck out of the areas being glued and buy using CA/super glue...I also had to teach myself how to bondo the seems to give them the seamless look... I want to give my armor that "authentic" I just stepped out of the movie look, so it has taken me a long time of trial and error to get my armor up to the point that it is at today ...[/b][/size] I have peretty goo ideas on the best way to attach the shoulder straps...I have motre authentic strapping for my elbows, and have OSCS knee's that solved my strapping delema I think I have too much attention to detail some times...because I have been working on this armor for so long, and sometimes it just doesn't seam like I will ever have it put together ... I know that this is a TK community but either way any comments and or criticism is welcome, and I know that some of you do clone as well B

Thanks Tom, yeah my clone is slow going because want it to look "real"...I don't want to look like an action figure

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they were cut out

Yeah, that was one of the reasons thy I like my AP helmet because of it being so lite

Congratulations Bryce!

lookin good as ussual Curtis , thats my next project, fixing my liner in my old AP helmet

yes, but you could buy the round metal buttons that are the correct size and easy to paint, I painted my AP ab plate buttons, but on my other set of armor I have the painted metal buttons which looks more uniform

I don't see any snaps but, if you mean the cod snap, I would think that its a pretty irrelevant issue

The buttons are the correct size and can be baught seperate and painted before applying them to the AB plate

its usually a type of "testor's" dark blue of some sorts

well, it is turning into a buyers market with alot of people leaving the bay area and all