Novak Dimon's TK-build

[Novak Dimon[TK]]

Today is my triple "B" day!   So I start my own WIP.

First of all the Picture of my very own Big Brown Box:

 

 

Then unpacking everything...

 

 

I will take my time for the build. I'm planning a couple of modifications and mods. So it is possible that the updates are not as often as usual.

 

So let's go to work!

Edited February 15, 2018 by Novak Dimon
picture Update

[gazmosis[501st]]

Looking forward to seeing your progress!

[The5thHorseman[501st]]

I remember enjoying a lot your blaster build, so I'll be following this ANOVOS build .

[ukswrath[Staff]]

 Exciting times

[EmpireJAG[TK]]

Today is my triple "B" day! So I start my own WIP.

First of all the Picture of my very own Big Brown Box:

 

 

Then unpacking everything...

 

 

I will take my time for the build. I'm planning a couple of modifications and mods. So it is possible that the updates are not as often as usual.

 

So let's go to work!

 

That is always a fun day!

 

Have fun

 

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G900A using Tapatalk

[Novak Dimon[TK]]

The last days I started with the forearms.

First I had to find out what's the best way for me to trim the parts. I read some reports that the score and snap technique is not the best way for this kit so I made the first test with extra care.
I grabbed the first part and traced the ANOVOS trim lines with a pen prior to cutting. This made it more easy to follow them.

Using a new blade, I cut slowly along the markings with medium pressure, bend it...

 

... there and back again...

... that's it.

It's working fine for me, so that's my way to go.


Using the trim lines provided by Anovos, the return edges are quite big. Because I am a natural lazy guy and want to build the armor Centurion ready right away some of the return edges have to go anyway.So I modified my cutting lines at the other parts.

At the front facing parts I draw the line, leaving 7.5mm only to make the cover stripes fit without any additional trimming.:

 

 

This indeed is leaving no room for any mistakes. Cut with caution or:      

I did everything right:

 

After making some adjustments to make the forearms fit I trimmed the backside.

Finally I started to glue the front facing cover strips to the forearms.

During the curing time I take apart the Hovi Mic-Tips of the helmet and convert them into Hovi Air-Intakes.

To be continued >>>

Edited February 15, 2018 by Novak Dimon
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[The5thHorseman[501st]]

Pro-tip from TrooperMaster: once you have fitted your forearms start closing them by gluing the back cover stripes instead of the front ones. As there are no flat surfaces for the back cover stripes, if you want them to lie nicely flat without requiring a lot of magnets, it's easier to glue them first.

Edited February 14, 2016 by The5thHorseman

[MadMax]

Pro-tip from TrooperMaster: once you have fitted your forearms start closing them by gluing the back cover stripes instead of the front ones. As there are no flat surfaces for the back cover stripes, if you want them to lie nicely flat without requiring a lot of magnets, it's easier to glue them first.

Good tip. Thanks for that!

[Novak Dimon[TK]]

As announced in my last post I modified the Hovi tips of my helmet to air intakes. I planned to install a ventilation into the helmet from the start of the build. Primary because I think it has to be there (filtration system) and secondary because it make sense to have one.

The main question was how to bring the fresh air into the helmet most effectively. The Hovi tips were my first choice from the beginning because behind them is plenty of space for fans and they are the air intakes in the technical readouts.

I used PG glands to make the mod. Besides I changed the original mesh against some more movie accurate.

The mesh was easy removed and the internal part fell out after a light hammer blow.


Here the original and my new mesh side by side:

Here are the new and the original parts next to each other to show how everything come together:

 

I cut off the head of the resin interior part and also from the PG gland. Then I cut some notches into the PG gland, leaving four stands.

The resin head on top of the PG gland has exactly the same hight of the original resin part. Here the two parts side by side...


... and installed into the Hovi:


Next step was painting white the new internal parts and the inside walls of the Hovi's:


The new Hovi tips assembeled looking really good:

Now the new tips had to be installed into the helmet. Therefore I roughly marked the new holes.

Then I used my Exacto to carefully cut out the holes.

That's super easy because the material is paper thin there... don't sneeze while cutting!!


Here are my modified Hovi tips installed:


Inside view:

I will make two airboxes for 40mm fans from scap ABS to install in front of my air intakes for controlled ventilation of the helmet. But that's a new story.   

To be continued >>>

Edited February 15, 2018 by Novak Dimon
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[The5thHorseman[501st]]

Interesting stuff! I'm looking forward to the rest of it.

[bpoodoo]

Nice work. How did you cut out the mesh into circular disks? Stainless steel woven mesh with the thicker wire diameter can be tricky to cut out and not have it unravel.

 

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[Novak Dimon[TK]]

Hi bpoodoo, thank you!

First I cut square pieces with a wire cutter. Then I bent them to the correct diameter using long nose pliers and finally cut off the excess material.

[Novak Dimon[TK]]

Time for an update. During the last weeks I had way too much work and spent the few free hours mainly with my family.

But anyway I managed to finish the forearms of my armour and and commenced the works at biceps and shoulder bells.

 

After gluing the fore cover stripes I prepared the back facing cover stripes and glued them as well.

 

Cutting the edges...

 

Sanding the back of the cover stripes and covered areas of the armour...

 

Glued and clamped.

 

Then I glued the two pieces of the forearms, starting with the back facing side (as recommended):

 

And then the front side:

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After the curing time I peeled off the excess glue. Using E6000 is really handy here.

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Then I removed the protective covering and voila the finished forearms:

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>>>to be continued >>>

Edited October 8, 2021 by Novak Dimon
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[Novak Dimon[TK]]

During the curing time of the glue I trimmed and sanded the shoulder bells.

 

Before:

 

After trimming:

 

Sanded left side:

 

The area of the return edge is vey thin at the left side:

 

I reinforced this area with E6000:

 

Next step: biceps armour.

>>>to be continued >>>

Edited March 5, 2016 by Novak Dimon

[Novak Dimon[TK]]

I trimmed the biceps parts during the last weeks

 

Left side:

 

 

Right side:

 

 

Today I made the fitting and pre-assembly of the right parts and glued the left side.

 

Left side pre assembled:

 

 

And the right side:

 

 

 

At last I glued the left biceps armour. I tried out to glue the parts completely. It worked well so I will do it again in the future.

 

 

 

That's it for now.

 

>>> to be continued >>>

[Novak Dimon[TK]]

New Updates today.

After drying I removed the exess glue and protective sheets from the left biceps part.







Then I glued the right part as well. Removing the magnets was a pain every time. Thats why i wrapped them into painters tape. This improved the handling very much!





The finished right biceps part:







Comparison of left and right biceps:



For a test fit of the arms I made some temporary strapping with painters tape.   What do you think?



Next are the shins.

>>> to be continued >>>

[Novak Dimon[TK]]

Ok, Shins next.

Because the massive discussion about the labelling of the ANOVOS shins I decided to stop reading, forgot anything about it and just started building them, putting together the parts the way they fit best to my legs.

I started to trim the parts 24 and 25 (the right leg!?):





Then I cut the area of the fore cover stripes leaving 10mm each side. Looking already ok here:



I have to cot some material here:



Drawing a cutting line with the ruler:



Score and snap and finished. By the way, I always cut without the ruler. For some reason the cut is more staight without it .





I trimmed the right shins afterwards.



Again I marked the 10mm:



(Right) Front completely trimmed:


 

Now I tried to figure out whitch parts belong to each other. After some tries and comparisons I decided to use my shin parts as labelled by ANOVOS. 24 + 25 for the right leg, 27 + 28 for the left one.

Next step was the fitting. I took the parts on and of. Adjusted caerfully and made markings here and there.The back of my shins was looking a little chaotic for a while:



Here some pictures of my final fitting prior to gluing:









What are the experts saying? Go    or no Go    ?

That´s it for today. Im looking forward to your feedback!

>>> to be continued >>>
 

[Novak Dimon[TK]]

Next update for my Trooper-build:
While I´m happy with my shins and no one posted that I have to correct something, I decided to glue the parts together.





During the curing time I trimmed the sniper-knee...







... and glued it:





Bending the part around the shin was quite hard but I have strong clamps. Here the final result:








 

Leaving the backside of the shins. I don´t want to use the velcro under the coverstripe. The original bra-hooks are also not the way I want to go. I´ve seen a thread here where someone used inner and outer coverstripes and only one snap or maybe some Velcro to close the shins. Unfortunately I don´t find the thread anymore.   Though I want to test this solution. First I made inner coverstripes from some scrap ABS:





Gluing the stripes:





I used a piece of coverstripe to remove exess glue from the gap.





This is leaving a thin film of E6000 inside the gap, making it sticky and helping to hold the shins together..

Here some pics of the finished right shin. The small flap on top holding the two parts in one line and the gap is a little bit concealed.



Shin closed:



Inside view:





And a final test fit:









I was wearing the shins a while for testing and they never opened. But i think I will install a snap anyway to make shure the shins are not open during a troop.

 

Next are the thights.

[Novak Dimon[TK]]

Starting with the thights.
Again I trimmed the parts first, using the trimmlines, and then cut the front to the size of the coverstripes.:





Drawing the trimmlines:





Front of the right thight after trimming.


 

Same at the left side. To fit the thights I trimmed all return edges first. I only left very small return edges to keep the parts looking thicker. It was impossible to make the parts fit with the return edges. I did the same with the shins befor installing the rear coverstripes.

Now I was able to figure out how much I have to trim to make the thights fit.:



Then I started gluing the thights, starting with the front.:



I prepared the thight ammo pack also:





>>> to be continued>>>

[ukswrath[Staff]]

Looking good Christian. 

[Novak Dimon[TK]]

Thank you Tony! Seeing that my work is passing your experienced view is very motivating!

[Novak Dimon[TK]]

Time for a new update!

During the last weeks I wasn't lazy. I worked on several parts and continue my report with the right thigh first.

 

I continued gluing it step by step, starting with the fore side:

 

 

Next I glued the rear cover stripe...

 

 

and finally closed the thigh:

 

 

I had to wrap the thigh into plenty of tape to shape it the way I wanted it.

 

After curing I cleaned the thigh. Then I grabbed the ammopack and pre-installed it with some tape to mark the positions of the holes:

 

 

 

 

The goal was to install the ammopack with equal distance to the rear corners as described by Ukswrath.

 

Some action for my drill:

 

 

And fixed the pack with the split rivets, delivered by Anovos:

 

 

 

The distance is looking ok.

 

 

At last I painted the rivet heads with glossy white paint:

 

 

 

Thereby the right thigh armor is complete.

 

Edited April 6, 2016 by Novak Dimon

[Novak Dimon[TK]]

Left thigh:

The last days I was working on the strapping during the curing time of the right thigh armor

 

First I installed the cover stripes on front and back. The tape was holding the part to bend it a little bit into shape:

 

 

Next was gluing the front.:

 

 

Then the backside:

 

 

And the finished left thigh after cleaning:

 

 

 

>>> to be continued >>>

Edited April 12, 2016 by Novak Dimon

[Novak Dimon[TK]]

Arm strapping:

 

Now it's time to bring the arms together. The goal is to use as much of the parts delivered by ANOVOS as possible.

I just use them a little different then the instructions say. I want the strapping as screen accurate as needed for Centurion level but as comfortable as possible.

But let's start.

Here are the parts to connect the forearms to the biceps armor:

 

 

I used the elastic bands delivered by ANOVOS. One side glued, the other side detachable for easy transport and storage of the armor.

So the first step is cutting off one of the velcro pads.

 

 

Because I don't trust the velcro alone, I installed a snap in the middle of the velcro. I guess that's strong enough.

 

 

The adhesive velcro pads seem to stick well. I placed them in the biceps armor. If they come off though I call my friend E6000 to take care of it.

 

 

I glued the other side of the straps into the forearms. The gap between forearm and biceps has the width of a pencil. That's perfect for my arms.

 

Here the left arm:

 

 

And the right arm:

 

 

 

Next are the shoulder bells. Here I use the ANOVOS strapping as well but without the velcro.

 

 

Get rid of the velcro pads!

 

 

And glued with E6000 for eternity:

 

 

 

Next job is to connect the biceps armor with the shoulder bells. Again I used the ANOVOS strapping.

 

 

But as before I constructed a mixture of velcro, snaps and glued parts.

That's why I cut off the velcro at on side.

 

 

Then I installed a female snap in the center of the velcro and the male snap in the self adhesive velcro pad.

The side without velcro is glued into the biceps armor.

I installed the sticky velcro pad in the shoulder bells

 

 

 

To connect the shoulder bells to the chest armor I choose the screen accurate version, Tony showing in his build thread.

Again the raw material is delivered with the kit.

 

 

I used the elastics only without any velcro. Here the dismantled ANOVOS parts:

 

 

Prior installing the sew on snaps I folded 20mm of the end and sewed it together.

 

 

Then I sewed the male snaps onto the elastic bands.

 

 

I glued the elastic bands into the shoulder bells. Mine are 40mm from the bells. That's the best setup for me.

 

 

The finished shoulder bells after curing and cleaning:

 

 

And the completed arms:

 

 

>>> to be continued >>>

[Novak Dimon[TK]]

During curing times and whenever I had some time I performed some trimming and fitting work.

 

Chest-Armor:

 

 

 

Backplate:

 

 

 

Abdomen:

 

 

 

Kidney-Armor:

 

 

 

Posterior:

 

 

 

Shoulder-Cover:

 

 

And all parts together.:

 

Edited April 14, 2016 by Novak Dimon