TheLoneRanger

I've been looking at my shins, and I think I have two right shins. I assembled a shin and proclaimed it as being the right shin, but now I'm looking at the other two pieces, and I'm pretty sure these are the same.

Thanks! Those pictures are most helpful. Looks like I did get the cover strip on the right side.

I went back and removed the interior cover strip. I put on an exterior cover strip over one side of the back so that when I install hooks, it will close. How does this look?

Lookin' great Tom! Good luck!

Well, when measuring the shin for my fitment, the shin fit perfectly to my own leg, so I cut and assembled it. However, my foot won't pass through the opening. Any suggestions on how to fix this?

There's a cover strip on the inside. How I do it is I glue the interior strip in first, let it dry, then I add the exterior strip after. It lets me make sure the shins are in place how I want them before I cover it and make it permanent, so I can go back and fix any problems.

Trimmed a shin down to size and got the rough gluing done.

I'm finishing up the finer details on the biceps, while prepping to start the shins. Just a quick question, after reading the 'proper way to assemble AM shins' tutorial, are these correct?

One bicep finished, the other glued together. How do they look?

Hello! I first attached the back and front together following the screw dimples. It came out very lop-sided, so Iwent back and disassembled it. I attached the cap to the back, and put the front in. This time, I measured where the ears should be and drilled where the holes lined up. However, the ears didn't exactly sit well with the tubes. But, when done this way, the helmet came out assembled much better. The gap is rather large, so I'm trying to figure out how to fix it. That's about the only problem.

Worked on a bicep today. My arm fits through the opening just fine, but once it gets past my elbow, it gets too tight and scrapes my arm up. It was like this even during fitment. Can I remove the return edge from the bottom? Also, one side is longer than the other, which is obvious from the picture. Does it matter, or no because it'll be covered by the shoulder bell?

If it's too loose, what if I added a loop of black elastic in there to put my arm through and hold it in place?

I finished the other forearm, but still haven't removed the return edges. I want to be sure everything looks right before I do that. So how do these look? The interior cover strip inside the one arm is a bit short, yes. I accidentally cut it too short, so I used it as an interior strip. Another question: What is the best way to remove the stray E6000?

Hey Tom, it's Steve! Nice pictures! Hope to troop again soon

I didn't remove anything yet. Because juuust to be clear, the return edge is this, right? Except on the wrist side?

I finished up the forearm while the site was down. How does this look, guys?

I'm not finishing the helmet. That helmet is atrocious in terms of molding and assembly. I assembled it where the marks were for the screws, just to have it come out lopsided, requiring re-drilling. And after an hour and a half of re-drilling and re-fitting, it is still lopsided due to the back half being slightly larger than the front half (refer to the pictures posted previously.) Plus, there are gaps in the ears so gigantic I could fly an jetliner through them. Should I just give up the helmet as a lost cause and focus on the other armor pieces? I already have an assembled ATA helmet that'd be great for trooping in. EDIT: What is up with all the multi-posts?

Oh, keep turning it? Since it was stopping, I didn't try to force it. Well, thanks! Back to it then.

Hello all! I'm seeking assistance with how in the world I make these nuts work. ----------- The screw goes into the nut about halfway, but then there's some rubber thing in the nut that prevents it from going further. This is in all the nuts. In all my projects I've done over the years, I have never come across this. So I'm at a bit of a loss of how to proceed. Any help is appreciated! (The previous helmet I built was done with rivets.)

I think I goofed already. I trimmed my forearms, but now see that what I thought was the return edge may not have actually been the return edge??? How does this look? And ignore the gap, that's the clamps messing with it.

I've tried to post to my build thread twice, and each time I go to post, it says 'saving post' without doing anything. I let it go a full ten minutes. Refreshing the page worked, but now my thread doesn't have any 'new posts' notifications, despite my posts being there. It also says there are only 16 replies, when there are actually 18. Is this a glitch?

Due to the helmet's oddness, I decided to instead go the route of doing the forearms first. I've trimmed one pair, and want to know if I did it right. I fit it to my arm, marked the seam, and cut. Trimmed is on the left, untrimmed is on the right.

I'm going to start on the helmet first, since I already built the one. And I've already come across something odd. The curve on the back is sgnificantly larger than the front. Will this go away when I screw the two halves together?

By the thighs, I meant how do they get put on the leg? Just slip the foot through and pull it up?

So I am incredibly nervous to start. I've been examining the various pieces, and I think I'll just start off by painting the buttons and such until I've settled a bit. There's so much to do..