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On 2/19/2018 at 1:40 PM, ukswrath said:

Jeff you're an animal. Awesome work :th_AnimatedBravoSmiley:. Reminds me of when I had to rebuild my ATA :56pullhair:

 

On 2/19/2018 at 8:58 PM, Harbinger said:

Looks great! Much better than my attempt, but I didn’t have a jig either...

Thank you both!  It was a bit scary at first but really not hard at all.

 

Here is the butt plate before sanding with ABS paste

 

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and now after sanding

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I don't think I need to smooth out too much more.  What are your thoughts?

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Has come out really well, great work

 

 

 

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Nice work. That's scary stuff that ends up not being so scary. :th_AnimatedBravoSmiley:

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On the top of my kidney plate I think I removed a bit too much of my return edge than what I would have liked.

 

My simple fix for this as it was only a cosmetic piece was to put some painters tape down and add some ABS paste to extend the edge.

 

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After letting the ABS paste dry i'm left with

 

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And a bit of trimming gives me

 

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I'll probably trim it a bit more as I trim the rest of the edge but at least the armor will appear thicker on this part and uniform with the rest of the return edge.

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Posted
38 minutes ago, StrmTRPR85 said:

Ah look my wife knows exactly what to get me for my birthday!

 

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Happy B-day:salute:

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2 hours ago, StrmTRPR85 said:

Ah look my wife knows exactly what to get me for my birthday!

 

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Nice!

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Posted (edited)

Well its been a minute since I have updated.  So far have been focusing on getting the bucket assembled.

 

I am not sure if this will be an issue for level 3 approval as my left ear on the bottom goes over my S-trim.

 

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Do I need to trim the ear at the bottom to remove the over lap?  Or do I build out my edge on the bottom of the shell to move the S-trim in more?

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Posted
27 minutes ago, Madness990 said:

Awesome emoji41.png !!! I have a WTF as well !


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Welcome To the Family:peace:

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Any idea if this is normal? Should the back of the exterior shell and the face plate vent line up better?
 
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How did you FIX IT ???


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6 hours ago, Madness990 said:


How did you FIX IT ???


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This one I repositioned so the vent tubes lined up better, than drilled new holes and remounted it.

Posted (edited)

That's actually the right ear over the left side, so you'll need to switch those up. Hopefully that resolves the overlap issue and doesn't cause too much trouble with large gaps.

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Posted
2 hours ago, lucnak said:

That's actually the right ear over the left side, so you'll need to switch those up. Hopefully that resolves the overlap issue and doesn't cause too much trouble with large gaps.

Do you mean I have the right ear on the left side? and the left ear on the right side?

 

Wouldn't the ear lean forward if I had it that way?

Posted
5 minutes ago, StrmTRPR85 said:

Do you mean I have the right ear on the left side? and the left ear on the right side?

 

Wouldn't the ear lean forward if I had it that way?

Looks like the ears are on the correct sides.  The bottom just seems really far forward in the picture.  Hard to tell at that angle.

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2 minutes ago, wook1138 said:

Looks like the ears are on the correct sides.  The bottom just seems really far forward in the picture.  Hard to tell at that angle.

Looking at that pic I believe that may be the case.  I'll align it with it further back and see how it sits than once home from work.

 

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Sorry about that...not sure why the other reference that I looked at made me think it was the wrong ear. May have been the angle of your photo. My apologies! I was in the process of looking up another reference and my computer froze.

 

Tony, is that from the gallery? I looked for something like that and did not find it but perhaps I looked in the wrong place?

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28 minutes ago, ukswrath said:

When in doubt refer to reference photos ;).

 

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Why isnt this pic in the gallery?  Its the clearest view of where everything should be!

 

I keep going to the gallery and reference pics but can only do so much with the angles and light provided :P

Posted
1 minute ago, lucnak said:

Sorry about that...not sure why the other reference that I looked at made me think it was the wrong ear. May have been the angle of your photo. My apologies! I was in the process of looking up another reference and my computer froze.

 

Tony, is that from the gallery? I looked for something like that and did not find it but perhaps I looked in the wrong place?

No troubles!  Its always from a certain point of angle :laugh1:

 

I just asked the same question about the gallery

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Just now, lucnak said:

Tony, is that from the gallery? I looked for something like that and did not find it but perhaps I looked in the wrong place?

Yes and this doesn't have to be perfect. Canon ears were kinda staggered. Every helmet I build I try to align it like this regardless or series.

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1 minute ago, StrmTRPR85 said:

I just asked the same question about the gallery

Ah, it's under "General Stormtrooper Reference", not Costume Parts Reference.

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