Kadows

Hi! Thanks for asking! I haven't made much progress, no. Not much left to do though. Pretty much only need to attach the ammo-pack and sniper plate. Then the belt. I've been kind of procrastinating because I'm nervous by the belt, don't really know how to do it. Sometimes I over think stuff and then its better for me to put it out of my head for a week or two and then go back. So I've been working on another cosplay project! I hope to get back to this maybe next week and finish it up! Good luck and I hope you enjoy your build! If there is anything I can help with, just ask! P.S. Suuuuuuuuper cool that you work at NASA!! I've been a space nerd since I was little and its always been my biggest dream to work at NASA. Unfortunately I live in Sweden so its not very likely though!

Amazingly helpful and kind people here. Deserves every donation. I sent a little something too!

Ah, great. Thank you. I have already put my on and it feels good to wear. I'll try it out a bit more and if I don't like it I will change! ^^

I see. I used the tube for the thermal detonator to make it curved. I think it looks good, I will post a picture later. Thanks for noticing.

I'm not sure, do you mean the rounded corners? And yes, the butt plate has been adjusted since the picture was taken!

So here is my ammo pack, how do you guys think I should align it? At the first picture it is level, that is how I think I should do it. There is a bit of a gap above, but I could fill that with ABS paste. There is a bit of a gap above, but I could fill that with ABS paste. I kind of like the look, resembles the original here: Of course I could angle it up a bit like this: It looks a bit misaligned but you get the picture. So, what would you do? Thanks!

Finished up the strapping for the thighs today. Here is how it looks: I also shorten the straps to the back plate and the straps at the sides. It all feels a lot better now although one strap to the back plate could probably be a little bit shorter. For some reason my chest plate looks really crocked, I might have to look over the straps at the shoulder. Also my butt plate pops out. Going to try to shorten the straps to the kidney plate and see if that helps. The arms are more or less done, just had to re-glue one cover strip so tomorrow I should be able to put those on too. I got mostly details left. Sniper plate, ammo pack, button to pain and of course the belt! But I'm getting there!

Here is today's progress! I did something that I have been fearing for a while... making holes in my armor! Put in the split rivet and the two male snaps. I think it turned out ok, first time I ever used a split rivet! I also fixed some bicep hooks, I don't know how the will work out, I'm afraid they are a bit short. But they are easy to remove if I have to so it's not a big problem. I can't try them out until Monday because I have to go and buy some more elastics. I also plan on putting elastics between the forearm and the bicep and I have looked at a lot of reference pictures to figure out where it is suppose to be, I might be wrong though. Here is how I think it will be: This is my left arm so if I'm standing with my arm down the elastics will be towards my back, right? I plan on using snaps. I know the originals glued it right on but since I will be traveling a lot with my armor I need to be able to take everything apart and put in a box. Also, what size of elastics should I use? I got these two: They are about 4 cm/1.5 inch or 2.5 cm/1 inch. Thanks!

Yes, part that but I also want to tighten it up so it fits my body more snug. Its very loose right now and kind of wants to fall down. It will of course help to shorten the straps between kidney and back plate too.

Hey! I'm working a bit on my strapping so today I did a new suit up test. A lot less of the pieces are held on my tape this time! Please give me all of your feedback! Here is what I can see needs to be done: 1. Make the ab plate and kidney plate tighter so that the kidney plate don't fall down. 2. Make the room between the kidney plate and back plate smaller. 3. Put strap between legs and fix the but plate. I'm happy that the space between forearm, bicep and shoulder looks good, no room when the arms is down. I tried to tape the shoulders on as good as I could, they are a bit tricky and they will be tricky when it comes to the straps, but it looks like there is hope. Other than that the room between the back plate and kidney plate needs to be filled, how do you guys think the back plate and chest plate looks in relations to each other? Any other input? Feels awesome to see something that actually looks like a stormtrooper! Thanks!

Hi, Just wanted to post a little update. My thighs are all glued up and finished except for the ammo pack. Will look into that later. I glued the first part of the lower legs today, I don't have that many magnets so I will have to spread it out over a couple of days! I also got my belt from TKittell so I figured I'll get started on that while the legs are getting glued. I can't seem to find a good guide on how to attach the belt and how to get it aligned! I spent all last night looking trough threads here but didn't find any detailed explanation! If anyone knows a good one, please do share as I don't really know how to proceed! Thanks!

Thanks for the input guys! Tomorrow I will glue up the thighs and then get right to the lower legs! I have also done some experiments with ABS paste on some scrap pieces. Preparing for fixing the space on my sides. I do want to show my helmet! It got the chance to finish it today! I have not painted the screws because I don't have any white paint at home, and the rank bar on the ears will be the last thing I do on the armor! When I started this I of course did a lot of research here on the forum and I quickly got the stupid idea to hand paint all of the helmet, I never liked the look of the decals. That was a stupid idea since I have never in my life painted anything. I have now spent lots of time training on scrap pieces, then painting the helmet, fixing the paint, removing, painting again, more fixing and so on. I now think it looks OK. I will probably try fixing it a bit more later on, but it's at least good enough that I don't feel ashamed to show it! And hey, I guess it looks hand painted like I wanted to! So here it is! My complete, hand painted helmet! What do you guys think? Thanks!

Yeah, might get a picture of that later. I'm aware of the cover strip, what I want input on is more the fit of the thigh on my leg. Do it sit high enough? Is the room between thigh and ab plate good enough?

That's masking tape, protection for the clamps and magnets!

Hey, I'm back and I need some input! I got the tip to strap up the torso to be able to see where the thighs will end up, so that what I've done. Here is the result and I just wanted to see what you guys say. I have glued the strips on the front like 4 times now. I can't get them better than this. I have tried to glue them in different ways, but the area that the strip sits on just isn't straight! What do you guys think? Will this do for basic approval? If so, I will go ahead and glue the back. There are some glue that sticks out I haven't removed yet, ignore that. You can also see the space between the back and ab plate. The AP is really made for some skinny people! This is the biggest reason I'm not going for EIB now, ABS paste feels way out of my skill-level. But what do you guys think of the thighs? Thanks!