Team Armor Build [MTK]: ANH Stunt in Northern California

[Haribon72[TK]]

Hello Everyone,

 

 

I'm helping out a new friend on his armor for legion membership.

 

This is a “Troopers Helping Troopers” team armor build.

 

 

Name:  Jay

 

 

Helmet:  ATA

100% Done (already at Centurion Level)

 

 

Armor:  MTK

100% Done for basic approval.

80% Done for Centurion Level (updated on 09/17/2015).

 

Location:  Northern California

 

 

 

Background

 

Jay and I were introduced by UKSWARTH (Tony) last month at one of our garrison armor parties.    Since we live close by, we began working together on his build.  

 

He’s been working on his armor by himself for the past two months.  Before our second armor build, he was at 30% underway.   He's already aware with the legion CRL requirements and our Advanced Tactics program.    We will be documenting the build here.    

 

 

 

Edited September 17, 2015 by Haribon72

[Haribon72[TK]]

Pictures from last Sunday

 

Jay and his girlfriend working together

 

Drop Box assembly

 

 

[Haribon72[TK]]

 

Our rivets

 

Cutting the ammo belt

[Haribon72[TK]]

MTK has curves on their ammo belts.

[Haribon72[TK]]

Building the rivets on the abs and kidney (clam shell assembly)

Edited August 28, 2015 by Haribon72

[Haribon72[TK]]

We call this the "UKSWARTH" method = Reinforcing the abs and kidney assembly with additional strips and rubber washers

Edited August 28, 2015 by Haribon72

[Haribon72[TK]]

If they can paint their nails, the ladies can paint ab buttons!  Hahahahhah!!!

[Haribon72[TK]]

After eleven hours, we wanted to do a test fit and get him into his armor for the first time.   There's still a lot of work ahead.   On this day, we got Jay at the 60% mark.

 

We'll update again on our next build day.

Edited August 26, 2015 by Haribon72

[Airborne Trooper[501st]]

MTK is getting really popular lately. Looking great guys

[The5thHorseman[501st]]

It's looking very well!

Do you realize that now you've become the expert, Walter?

Edited August 26, 2015 by The5thHorseman

[Haribon72[TK]]

Thank you Jason and Hello again Germain!   Yes, I'm back on the FISD boards and its getting easier to build TK armor now.   I wish I had a veteran builder when I started two years ago.     For this build, we're aiming straight for Centurion by building everything to advanced tactics requirements.  Luckily for Jay, I still had a lot of leftover rivets, straps, abs cement, and misc materials to get his build in full swing.  

 

Jay has experience with tools so it makes this team build more productive.

[starsaber25[Admin]]

Nice Job Walter.  I wish my build went as fast as Jay's has.  Looks great!

[Haribon72[TK]]

Thanks Steve! Every new builder should reach out to their local garrison for help. They might have a veteran builder waiting to help.

[Starrfox1]

Come to Oregon and help me :-) I have 2 TK's in the works and a friend with a trimmed kit; neither of us have progressed very much unfortunately. Nobody seems to like BBQ either, I keep trying to bribe people with meat to get an armor party together but I think Oregon must be full of Vegan-troopers... 

Edited August 26, 2015 by Starrfox1

[Darth Havoc[TK]]

Great job guys

[LordOfFairies]

looking very good! when do you guys do the armor parties? i need a little help with my TK badly...

[ukswrath[Staff]]

Hey sorry I'm late. Excellent build so far Walter and Jay. I'm probably just as anxious as Jay to see this build come to a conclusion, exciting times. 

 

[ukswrath[Staff]]

We call this the "UKSWARTH" method = Reinforcing the abs and cod assembly with additional strips and rubber washers

 

 

 

LOL... too funny Walter, though I think you meant Ab and Kidney, right? 

 

Also, you can have the title of "Walter's rubber washers" as I don't use those 

 

Excellent job BTW to the both of you. 

Edited August 27, 2015 by ukswrath

[Haribon72[TK]]

Come to Oregon and help me :-) I have 2 TK's in the works and a friend with a trimmed kit; neither of us have progressed very much unfortunately. Nobody seems to like BBQ either, I keep trying to bribe people with meat to get an armor party together but I think Oregon must be full of Vegan-troopers... 

 

Hello James, keep trying to reach them.  Do you have a build site on FISD?

 

 

looking very good! when do you guys do the armor parties? i need a little help with my TK badly...

 

 

We've been having monthly armor parties.   PM me for details.   There are members in the Salinas area.

[Haribon72[TK]]

LOL... too funny Walter, though I think you meant Ab and Kidney, right? 

 

Also, you can have the title of "Walter's rubber washers" as I don't use those 

 

Excellent job BTW to the both of you. 

 

hahahahaha! Thanks Tony!  I think I had sniffed too much abs glue.    Let me fix my post.  =)

 

Jay said he learned the rubber washers from you.  And it works great!   Overkill....but we learned something new!

Edited August 28, 2015 by Haribon72

[ukswrath[Staff]]

Lol well I do use washers but just the standard steel you'd use. Hey, if it works. Gotta love the creativity.

[Haribon72[TK]]

Website is up and running again.  Sweet.

[Airborne Trooper[501st]]

Website is up and running again.  Sweet.

Now you just jinxed the site. Let's see if it can stay up today.

[ukswrath[Staff]]

It was only down for a few hours, everyone makes it seem like it was a couple days. 

[Airborne Trooper[501st]]

It was down all weekend for me. Did the DNS flush, used cell phone, work network, home network... nada.