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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

Mmm, ok I see it now. I’ll have to just hope crowprops does get back to me in that case cus I don’t think keeptroopings will pass the higher accuracy requirements and nor will crowprops at base. Helmets finished printing. Next is the gauntlets I believe

So far the hand and bicep parts have been printed out in resin. The helmet should be done today if not during this passed night. And the greeblies for it are going on today. one thing I’m trying to get found out is if keep troopings boots would pass level 2. I inquired with Vincent and he said since he does the boots with proper thick leather , unlike crowprops who does it with thinner leather and a backing material, that adding padding isn’t really possible. I was wondering if the usage of thicker material would give that raised look the crl seems to be asking for on the instep. If I’m perfectly honest I’ve perused the screenshots and I can’t really make out on the crl or in the actual show to what degree so if I can get clarification on his shoes and if they’ll meet the additional accuracy requirements that would be great

right, so its not the easiest to get a pic with lighting low enough its not glinting and too light, but too low to where the colours arent showing right, but thats the test. the grey is the same francais used for his kit, i think the red is pretty much the perfect shade but im open to opinions. hand plates and a few of the helmet greeblies are printed, helmet and bicep parts are currently being printed, and the gauntlets will start today cus they wont really be affected by my intended weightloss. the thighs and knees will be next on the print list

ive ordered matte white, black, dark grey and the above dark red, and im going to do a test on some scrap plastic. essentially im gonna do a white coat. mask off an area and do the dark grey. then mask off and do dark red over it. and we cna see how it compares to the screen gabs. the helmet. biceps and hand plates are printing today and ill have some physical stuff to show off next week hopefully.

yeah im leaning more towards the latter two. but id prefer a matte finish so ill see if i cant find those brands in matte alternatively ive just found this in matte and reading reviews of the spraypaint people are saying its pretty dam good so if i can find white black and grey in matte ill start doing some colour tests on plastic spoons

right so ive been looking around for the right shade of red. frank is right that it looks to be around the same shade as the darkish red used in the biceps, chest detail and thigh insets. so ive come up with a potential list of specific paints that i think hit the mark. montana - royal red alternatively there's this gloss from halfords which looks pretty on the mark although id likely try to see if there's matte of it. if theres any production info on the specific brand or colour used for the costumes darker red sections thatll be super helpful but without that, i feel these 3 are fairly close. but maybe a physical test of one next to a gloss white needs to happen first

I’m not gonna pretend my painting space isn’t the outside round table with a plastic cover over it . But uh.

I’ve never used automotive paints myself yet and never gotten a spray gun. But this might be the time.

Good to know, the grey is the only paint I’d be using in the costume I have on hand so I can easily just get automotive paints instead , and I may just to have as good a finish as possible. I’ll check out what reds are out there and see if I can’t source the same shade of red. We are gonna have to figure that out sooner or later so why not sooner 😉

thanks mate, as always your kit is a beauty and I hope I can do as good a job. with regards to boots. I’ll go with my original plan of crowprops for both then since they have the glove Velcro for the hand plating sewn in. And make sure that they’re doing the padded version. i did think the red was the darker red we see on the biceps thighs and chest (if you have any helpful hints regarding what colour that is specifically that would be super helpful) but the lightest shots we see in studio lighting seems to be pretty bright red. I’ll have to spray paint the entirety of the costume rather than airbrushing the smaller details as I suck at airbrushing and don’t have one atm. But that shouldn’t be a problem as long as I’m careful. we spoke on Etsy regarding the ab piece and I’m hopeful I won’t actually need a larger mold if I do achieve my goal of slimming down enough. But if you keep me in the loop regarding your endeavors and the last thing Ive really gotta source is your chest files. Which I’ll be only happy to purchase when they’re available.