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gloves and boots have arrived, looks like theyll be fine for centurion so thats great. though i do wish id gone a half size larger on the boots as theyre a bit snug. only time will tell there belt is complete and ready for belt boxes. though thatll be a while

Yeah ill try and do a paper mockup before i try anything else. it does look pretty simple and just shaped to the shape of the blaster

Yeah, though it does seem fairly simple, hopefully not deceptively simple, it looks like it’s similar to the Han solo style of holster shape in all honesty

Yeah unfortunately there’s no good detail shots beyond that image showing the side profile blurrily , so the holster might present an issue

Sorry for the late reply , life has been hectic the last week, so the gauntlets have been the most trouble of any of the bits, as you can see by the photos the printer quality on both resin and FDM pieces is incredible , he’s really honed in the printer settings. But for whatever reason the gauntlet files if printed all 4 shells together was failing near the end , so in the end it took over a week and a half to get all pieces printed of the main shells , and 1 and a half days each when doing 2 and 2 respectively. so now just to update for myself and the team whats done , what’s commissioned ,ectr everything barring the chest and jetpack is printed , I will be receiving the resin parts and finishing them myself sometime in the next week I hope so I can get them all painted before the end of the year. the boots and gloves are comissioned and should be done now, I’ll check in as I did pay for expedited construction as I want to confirm they are how they need to be in case a return is needed (regarding centurion level accuracy ) belt is also comissioned and is 5cm roughly tall as per francais’s build. Belt boxes scaled appropriately but don’t really need to be scaled if you use his excellent and most accurate files. blaster is or should be finished printing. so what’s left unfortunately the important parts, the chest, jetpack, undersuit and ab section, all of which require (well they don’t but I’m not happy doing the kit without feeling good in it) me to be successful in my weightloss goals. I’ve spoken with Francais about the ab section a month ago when I was starting this up as even with successful weightloss I might need a larger (or I guess wider) ab mould than he has from his build , I’ll be comissioning the ab from him when he’s happy with the process so we’ll have to see how I’d fit the existing one when I’m actually in the position to be thinking about that. Regarding the holster . It uses the same y strap section as the grunt holster , but the blaster is obviously different and while I’ve tried to find actual detail shots of the holster there very much isn’t any good shots showing any actual detailing like the grunts has with the 3 raised rectangles , it seems to me like it’s a plain holster section fitted to the guns shape and glued into the y strap. So we’ll have to see if I can mock something up when the blaster arrives and if you’re all happy with it that’ll have to suffice

belt boxes are all done. cylinder ones not pictured

one set of gauntlets complete, second set printing now. next will be the pouches and blaster in resin, and cod in fdm

right so im gonna be attempting to do the holster at some point when the blaster is printed. going off the images we've gathered above i can conclude this from the above image, the part of the holster which holds the gun is roughly as tall as this box it seems to have a cutout at the back where the trigger guard would otherwise prevent it from going fully into the holster. while it has a more trapezoidal appearance. wider at the top than it is lower, its not enough to have the blaster go as low as it sits in the images of it holstered. so there is likely a cutout as with the grunt holster. only on this one it doesnt go round to the side since its half as wide. the y straps are identical to the grunts, which leaves a lot more of the rear half exposed compared to the grunts. as shown in the image below since its a much narrower holster on a side profile while we dont have any real good images of the holster close up, it definitely appears to be two separate fake leather components, the y strap and the holster component, which is visibly attached somehow with no sewing. i assume this means it was glued together. and the holster component is a complete cylinder shape glued onto the y strap, which should extend all the way down to the bottom of the holster, or thereneough. any opinions on this would be exceptionally helpful since we really dont have good enough views and din doesnt take the holster with him when he steals their pistol so unlike the pistol theres no good references externally

shins pics. they're francais's files so they've got the accurate single seam and flex, as well as level 2 requirements

Right so I’ve inquired with darmansprops about the holster and they would be happy to work on getting that made, but they work with real leather only. Is there any chance thin real leather made white is doable or does it absolutely have to be synthetic white leather. If so I might have to try my hand at doing it myself ive also talked over the belt and the people I was thinking about using don’t think it will be too hard so I’ll probably get that made sometime soon.

knees are done. thighs also printed. all helmet greeblies printed. gauntlet greeblies printed, gauntlets themselves need a reprint as they failed a bit. and shins have a few hours left. when ive got pics of all that ill send em over. all thats left out of the parts i can do now (so not the jetpack or whole chest rig as i need to lose a hefty amount of weight before im comfortable doing that and frankly the kit would look massively out of proportion in that area if id have to stretch it out a lot) the bits remaining are the hard pouches. which ive sized, the cod which ive yet to scale. and the blaster pistol. when the blaster is done ill be attempting to have the holster made. likely from darmans props. but i need the pattern first which ill be working on when francais is able to get me the pattern for the og, and ill hopefully be able to get a pattern approved for send off to whoevers making it. or me if i decide to make it. as far as everything else goes. the gloves and boots are being made by crowprops to the higher levels of accuracy requirements so no problem there. which leaves the belt, undersuit and ab section. the undersuit will have to wait until around Christmas where ill see how much progress ive made on losing weight and if ive slimmed down enough ill get the undersuit commissioned from keeptrooping and make sure they're able to do the level2/3 accurate version. ab section will be from out own wonderful crl model when hes got the process working to his liking. tho whether the size he made allready will fit me by the time that time arises is another thing, may ahve to hope he has enough interest for a larger circumference version. the belt will be made by a uk maker ive worked with for my snowy.

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yep, confirmed with gio so alls good. ill put those on order now and thats two parts of the build tehcnically done and away with

Yeah im not entirely convinced they do have the padded instep. But they did reply back to my email and say they are made like that so I’ve gotta take their word for it really. I do want to go for centurion and the boots are the one complex component of higher accuracy since of the two venders. Crowprops is the only one who physically can add the padded look. But we can’t confirm if it actually is done by default. And it doesn’t really look like they’re padded on the pictures on the website. So I might hold out actually just to be 100 percent sure.

According to crowprops the boots they do do have padding on the instep. So I’m going to trust that they do and order the gloves and boots from them