odysseus27766[501st] Posted January 10, 2017 Report Posted January 10, 2017 (edited) With the plethora of knowledge and experience available within our local Garrison, I chose to keep my build thread on our local Garrison forums. That being said, I recognize that there is a wealth of knowledge to draw upon within the larger community and a duty to our fellow TKs and those aspiring towards a TK status, to pass along knowledge. As such I thought that I would provide a "Coles Notes" version of my progression for everyone to see, share comment and hopefully take away a few laughs! Stay tuned! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Edited January 12, 2017 by odysseus27766 1 Quote
odysseus27766[501st] Posted January 11, 2017 Author Report Posted January 11, 2017 (edited) This build has been something I have wanted to do for quite some time now. The Universe has a mysterious way of always trying to derail all those things in life that you really want to do - marriage, kids, crazy work schedule, the list goes on - but if you persevere and adapt, you can accomplish what you set your mind on...a small bit of alcohol helps as well ... SO I started putting my list of required items together that I thought I needed: - ABS glue - utility knife - palm sander - propane torch - soldering gun started doing lots of research on how to do this because as we all know there are no instruction manuals for this type of thing - although Anovos now has one online - then I updated my list of required items: - E6000 lots! - painters tape - black elastic lots! - snaps and rivets of all sorts - rare earth magnets (never knew about this trick!) - clamps - some good music - a fair bit of patience and set forth to find, build, beg, borrow and steal all that I could. One of the first items I was able to source were two pairs of ESB specific handguards. After receiving the silk gloves I ordered I set forth with the first stitch of the build... ----------- Pleased with my work on the gloves I sat patiently and waited for the day the BBB would arrive on my doorstep...I'll take you on that up and down journey in my next post! Edited May 16, 2022 by gmrhodes13 link removed no longer working 1 Quote
gmrhodes13[Staff] Posted January 11, 2017 Report Posted January 11, 2017 Looking forward to the progress Quote
sandtrooper[501st] Posted January 11, 2017 Report Posted January 11, 2017 Where did you get the silk gloves? Thanks. Quote
odysseus27766[501st] Posted January 12, 2017 Author Report Posted January 12, 2017 (edited) On 1/12/2017 at 4:06 AM, sandtrooper said: Where did you get the silk gloves? Thanks. Right here... ----------- Edited May 16, 2022 by gmrhodes13 link removed no longer working Quote
odysseus27766[501st] Posted January 19, 2017 Author Report Posted January 19, 2017 2016 was quite a busy year. On top of muddling my way along as a new father, we were blessed with another one - as if life wasn't already crazy enough! Work and family obligations began to take priority over my quest for a TK until life quieted down enough. And quiet down it did. Having some spare time at work during the days I focused on gathering together the required additional soft parts that complete the costume - boots, ESB E-11, strapping, snaps, holster etc. and in September, I was able to liberate a set locally that was going unused and the quest officially began! Now, being the father of two adorable little kids meant that the time I had available to focus on this was quite limited. It fell into that time slot of after the kids went to bed and "I'm so tired I really should go to bed" and in reality I was only able to commit to a couple hours a night if I was lucky. So this carried on throughout the fall and things started to slowly come together... Taking a break from the build in November and December for the holidays I jumped back into it near the end of December to hopefully finish things up by the end of January... Quote
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