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Not much yesterday worked on my static prop gonk droid last night but I did stop by a couple spots to look for the items I'm gonna need for the snaps and elastics and such. The shins are rough trimmed, just have the thighs and the helmet which I'm holding off till the end.

 

Lesson learned - lightly scoring multiple times with your knife is meant to be lightly. Bull in a china shop method leads to novus 1-2-3 down the road! ☺

 

 

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More rough cut items added to the box!

 

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Stupid minecraft pig keeps photobombing my pics.

 

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No Worries Jorge lol. You should see some of my armour, it looks like I was in a sword fight! keep up the good work brother!

 

Not much yesterday worked on my static prop gonk droid last night but I did stop by a couple spots to look for the items I'm gonna need for the snaps and elastics and such. The shins are rough trimmed, just have the thighs and the helmet which I'm holding off till the end.

Lesson learned - lightly scoring multiple times with your knife is meant to be lightly. Bull in a china shop method leads to novus 1-2-3 down the road! ☺


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No Worries Jorge lol. You should see some of my armour, it looks like I was in a sword fight! keep up the good work brother!

This is still hours later making me piss my pants with laughter.

 

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How do these look. Did I match up the right sides?

 

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And these guys too... is it safe to assume the two "L"s go together and the two "R"s go together.

 

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Jorge,

Where did you see R's and L's on your legs? I tried to figure it out last night but couldn't find any.

The shins had them labeled on the top flashing part. The thighs did not. I just went with the lower part on the thighs has to be where the crotch is. At least I hope.
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The shins had them labeled on the top flashing part. The thighs did not. I just went with the lower part on the thighs has to be where the crotch is. At least I hope.

 Gotcha I'll double check mine, for your helmet did you get S-trim with it for the head opening or extra brow trim for that?

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Gotcha I'll double check mine, for your helmet did you get S-trim with it for the head opening or extra brow trim for that?

Funny that you mention that. I actually didn't get either. They are using the same trim for both the brow and neck opening. From what Mark and Mike told me, it should have been two pieces. My pieces grew some legs so they are totally taking care of it and shipping me out a brow trim. I told them not to worry about the neck opening trim because I bought some S trim from trooperbay.

On a side note, I owned a ATA helmet for a couple of moments and his S trim was way bigger than trooperbays. Hopefully it won't be an issue come higher levels of approval.

 

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Nice to see you on your way!

Enjoy the build.

I look forward to watching this build progress.......that pig makes me want a bacon sandwich!

 

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Holy smokes... super easy... right of passage... stupid gonk droid... anyway, back to this regularly schedule program. So... I said I was gonna leave the helmet till last... yeah... that ain't happening...

 

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Can someone chime in on the eyes and teeth please and thank you.

 

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The eyes and teeth are very close! The eyes might need a little more taken out of them (have a look at an approved Centurion build for clear examples). The teeth might only need a bit of clean up and squaring off. Looking Good! :duim:

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Unless you're making a sandtrooper with the famous droopy/sleepy eye, you have some more material to remove. Follow the contour of the eye socket while still leaving the depth. 

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looking good man, I also did the helmet first in hindsight it was a mistake. I should have done other stuff first as I was inexperienced with trimming and didn't have enough research under my belt. I shot first and asked questions later and ended up ruining 2 sets of ears and warped the right side of my helmet having to buy another one. Be extremely careful when trimming the ears if you don't like gaps I found it is ok to leave a little extra material on the backs of the flare that touches the cheek tubes. Installing the lenses wasn't very fun and took a lot of trial and error.

 

After my heatgun fiasco I have opted to use as little heating on the armour as possible I'm gun shy now.

 

Really sand out those eye holes to get them as flush as you can, and a flat needle file for the sides/top & bottoms, and a little square one for the corners of the teeth holes, work great for squaring them up.

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Perfect! Thanks for the info I will clean it up some more.

 

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hey no problem Jorge, here to pass on any experience I can offer, you'll probably finish yours long before me lol

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Lookie lookie here... Snaps on sale at Tandy. Today was my lucky day!!!

 

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Got everything but the ears done today. I'll tackle those tomorrow with fan installs and then I stamp this done.

 

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The lens and frown mesh are trooperbay. I also purchased an S gasket from him but it's way smaller than the one I had gotten with my previous ATA helmet. Has anyone had an issues with the size? It seems way small.

 

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Looks great!

 

What is the size of the S trim he sent? I purchased some a while back, but never checked the size specifically against anything else.

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Looks great!

 

What is the size of the S trim he sent? I purchased some a while back, but never checked the size specifically against anything else.

Here is a picture. I've sold my ATA helmet so I don't have the two to compare but here is the most recent S trim I purchased from Trooperbay.

 

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Well only one ear sanded and fitted. It's Mother's Day so I spent the day with the wife and kids. Time well spent. Here are some pics.

 

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I also fitted a bracket and switch for my fans. Still need to do all the wiring. I saw this exact bracket and switch somewhere on this site and I wish I could give credit to the person who did it but at this point I have no idea where I saw it. Anyhow I really like the way it came out.

 

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