phil Posted December 26, 2018 Report Posted December 26, 2018 some very useful tips to follow.... thanks 1 Quote
Roundarmor[TK] Posted April 11, 2022 Report Posted April 11, 2022 Comment meant to book mark page Quote
Cricket[TK] Posted April 11, 2022 Author Report Posted April 11, 2022 36 minutes ago, Roundarmor said: Comment meant to book mark page Thanks for bookmarking my build! Feel free to ask if you have questions, and be sure to start your own build thread. We love new white armor!!! Cheers! Quote
Roundarmor[TK] Posted April 11, 2022 Report Posted April 11, 2022 I’m so excited. I’m just waiting for brown box day Quote
Roundarmor[TK] Posted April 18, 2022 Report Posted April 18, 2022 On 4/24/2017 at 3:44 PM, Cricket said: Oh, hi there, me again. I began my white armor journey intending on building a Hero TK- namely a Luke suit. Along the way, things happened, things didn't happen, and over one year later, I ended up building a Stunt TK. Still, I never gave up on my dream to build a proper Hero Luke suit. Below are shortcuts to my build, and if you want to see the unboxing, just keep scrolling down. Thanks for stopping by! ***************************************************************************************************** Thread Shortcuts for The Chronically Impatient or Short of TimeTrim Guide for Short TKs Making Initial Cuts Cover Strippin' Shins Shin Assembly Magnetic Shins Part 1: Building Buttons Magnetic Shins Part 2: Shaping the Shins (with Bonus Small Person Thigh Sizing!) Magnetic Shins Part 3: Making ABS Hole Strips and Installation Magnetic Shins Part 4: Making Holes in the Shins, Prepping Magnet Buttons, and Cover Strip Installation Magnetic Shins Part 5: Gluing Magnets on the Inside of the Cover Strip Magnetic Shins Part 6: Attaching the Magnet Buttons DIY Shin Stirrups (such easy, much awesome, wow) Torso Bits and PiecesTrimming Ammo Pack, Ab Buttons, and Drop Boxes Further Mods to the Ab Button Plates Slice the Cod! Shaping Shoulder Straps and Biceps Resizing the Chest Like TK Luke Making a Return for the WTF Butt Plate Cutting Down the Kidney and Rebuilding the Return First Torso Fitting: Back Plate Sizing, Kidney and Ab Shaping in Hot Water Bath Flattening and Reinforcing Returns on the Kidney and Butt Plate Trimming and Hot Water Bath for the Butt Plate Butt Plate and Kidney Bracket Installation Ab/Kidney Split Rivet Connections and Ab/Kidney TabHot Water Bath and Heat Sealing Iron to Improve Kidney ReturnReducing Kidney Width, New Kidney NotchCurving the Belt and Ammo Pack Ab and Kidney 2.0- Hot Water to Shape Things Up (let's do this again, shall we?) Sizing the Kit Down for an Even Smaller TKSmaller TK Initial Fitting (Look at that Back Plate!)*NEW!* Second Fitting for Smaller TK (Fine Tuning Limbs to Torso) Arms! Forearm Sizing for Smaller TKs Shaping Shoulder Straps and BicepsIncreasing the Size of the Biceps Making Reinforced Shoulder Straps How To Make ABS Reinforced Snaps for Elastic Strapping Display Your TK! DIY PVC Mannequin Frame (Parts List Included!) ***************************************************************************************************** Well, today my dream becomes a reality! After almost 12 weeks of waiting, my WTF Hero TK kit arrived in the mail today. Horray! BBB #2! The opening... Checking that everything is in there... I have to say, I'm a big fan of the S trim included with this kit. And the Hero face. Yay, I don't have to modify the teeth!!! Included with the kit were an extra pair of shoulder straps, two extra sets of Hero ears, and lots of extra ABS for outer cover strips. Sweet! A Hero build is a little different than a Stunt build, with the differences mostly with the helmet (three-bar ears, six teeth), and with the number of rivets on the holster (4 instead of 2). I'm planning on taking this kit to Centurion, then modifying it after to a proper Luke suit. The difference between a Hero and a Luke Hero is in little things that most people won't notice or care about, but can't be cleared for Centurion. So what does a Luke suit have that a Hero doesn't? (Upper level guidelines don't recognize individual characters here, or so I've been told!) A Luke suit has: two left forearms two left shoulder bells grappling hook and comlink shortened back no return on bottom of the back no return at the bottom of the chest some inner bracket strapping, some glued elastic strapping I'm sure I'm forgetting some additional things (it's been a while since I started doing research on this, and I can't remember every detail at the moment), but that's the gist of it. The only things that won't take the Luke to Centurion are the two left forearms, I think. I made sure that a right forearm was included with my kit, though. My biggest challenge that I can see so far with this kit is with the kidney/butt plate. I wasn't expecting it to be all in one piece, and I'll have to cut them apart. Cutting them isn't the problem. It's that I'm going to have to rebuild the return at the top of the butt plate in order to accommodate the wire bracket strapping. There will be almost no return on those areas once they've been separated. *sigh* I'm going to have to cut a few inches from the bottom of the kidney and rebuild that return anyhow, so I expected that. Just not the butt plate return. Oh well, what's one more return when I have to make so many new ones anyways? haha... I promise that I won't post nearly as much as I did with my RS build, because lots of it will be redundant. I will be sure to include lots of the Hero-applicable stuff, though. So... are you still with me? On to the build!!! Marking page for future reading. Love this post 1 Quote
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