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20 mins to glue the halves together? Is that the curing time? What type of glue are you using and where can I get some lol. I hate waiting a day for e6000 to cure.

Unfortunately, I don't think t-cut is available to us here in the states

Oh that looks great! How come I didn't think about gloss paint or wet sanding?!?! Guess that's why I come here. Thanks guys!

Hey guys, Ok I got my AP seconds in a week ago. I started to use novus on it today and I've gotten a pretty good shin on it. However, looking at the buckets on starwarshelmets.com I noticed some of them are shinny to the max. Does anyone have any ideas on how to get it like that? Or is it also due to the type of lighting that the picture was taken in? Should I just keep polishing it over and over? So here is my AP, all criticisms are welcome from build to shine. Thank you!

omg omg omg omg! Maybe I'll do a clean TK now.....I'm defiantly staying tuned as this story develops!

Those are both really good suits. I have an ATA Sandtrooper and the armor holds up really well to regular trooping, kids hitting you and leaning up on walls and things. Another thing to consider between ATA and AM is with ATA you will have to paint/polish the armor to get it looking good where as with AM it already comes rather shiny, you might want to do a quick polishing job when it's all put together.

You could probably use for sale signs. The can be purchased at Lowes or Home Depot.

HAH found the website I used for straps and other things....great site. http://www.tonybarnett.plus.com/snaps.html

Besides the things you already pointed out, I think it looks good. The shoulder bells will sit better once you get an elastic band around them. I'm sure there is someone on here that can show you a good strapping system. One thing I would suggest doing is pulling the chest piece down, it looks a bit to high to me. By doing that your bucket wont be resting on the chest piece. As for the issue with you not being able to see out of the bucket.....welcome to the world of TKs, where peripheral vision has gone the way of the dodo. Nah but serious what type of padding do you have in there? If you have padding you might want to get some thinner foam and a chin strap will help to pull the helm down and keep your bucket from wobbling around.

I have the MR1506 10watt model. If you are going to buy one get it from Jim TK6924. The link I posted will take ya to his sale board he ships super fast.

The Aker voice amp by it self is superb! I don't think anyone that has one will have anything bad to say about it

Before I bought an Aker Voice amp, I used the radio shack amp and there was a bit of feed back. However, the Aker combined with my hyperdyne fx board is awesome. There is no static burst before I talk but using a push to talk might add that, I haven't tried. aker voice amp : http://www.501stforums.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=26880&highlight= Hyperdyne : http://www.hyperdynelabs.com/products_elec_troopVoicePro.php I have the amp in my chest plate and I haven't had any feed back as of yet

I used E6000 for my ATA and everyone here will probably say stick with E6000 as well. Only down side to E6000 is the long cure time, but in the long run it holds together really well.

Oh hey! Look at that! Lol the more I watch sw the more I see new stuff I've never seen hah. Thanks for that pic Billhag Ok y'all can delete this post if ya want

He just had to be different huh