ShaunPug

Thanks Smitty! The blaster is coming together well. I'll post some pics soon of the finished product.

Just got my kit from the wife for Christmas! I cant wait to start putting it together!

Looking better and better! If that's possible... The fact that I may one day be able to purchase one of these is incredible. Keep up the amazing work!

I still have yet to complete my costume. Money is tight! But I will finish eventually! As for the velcro and how it's sewn to the vinyl, I basically just followed the boot tutorial on the forums here and looked at the reference pictures on the gallery here. The photos on here are the most recent pictures of my boots that I have. For the grooves, I just studied the reference pictures closely, counted how many "grooves" there were on the original shoe, and compensated space on my boots so as to have the right number of grooves. I first drew them all out using a pencil, and then used a normal x-acto knife. My process for each groove was to score along the pencil lines I had drawn with the knife, and then slowly cut deeper with each pass. After I got to a point that I thought was deep enough I would leave the knife where I cut down to, then angle it to cut across the the other side of the groove. This way I got an even depth across the whole groove. The smaller ones were kind of tricky though. This is by no means the "official" way to do it, nor is it the easiest. It was just kind of what I did haha. I am sure there is a simpler way haha. Hope this helps!

oh man is that looking TASTY.

Dude, no joke I stabbed myself in the belly as well when I first started doing the cuts. haha, I just mentioned the good slice in my thumb because it was the worse of the 2 injuries haha

lonewolf, you are seriously amazing for doing this

This fact is definitely something that has been brought to light in my endeavors haha

haha! I plan on going in the seperate grooves I cut with a small dremel sanding head to clean things up. Another thing to do as I wait to pay for the rest of my outfit :/ Thanks for the feedback everyone!

Done! Took a while, and was really a pain (physically and mentally, I cut myself BAD because of a lack of intelligence on my part ) Just for comparison purposes, here is a before shot:

I am also extremely interested in this lid. And by that I mean interested in purchasing one, if that is something that may happen

Sweet! I'll post my completed pics when I'm done!

Oh ok cool. I'll start on the bottom cuts then. Is there a specific amount of areas that need to be cut on the back half?

haha, well, I'm definitely a perfectionist and like to have things...well, perfect. lol I would really like to shoot for Lancer, and just really want to make sure that I have acceptable boots w/ the proper cuts and grooves so I don't need to start over. The fronts look pretty good, but I want to know for sure a good way to go about doing the back sides before I start

Ok, so I had finished covering my boots a while back and got involved with school, etc., and forgot that I still wanted to cut the grooves. I have since started, and have finished cutting the front half of my right sole. It looks really cool, but I want to ensure that its being done right. I drew out how I wanted to cut it out first, and used an X-acto blade to do the cutting. I do however have some questions about the back half of the sole How can I remove the stuff inside the area I cut? Also, how many 'ribs' or 'raised' areas should there be? Looking at my boot compared with the reference photos of the shoe, it looks like my boot has to many existing cut ins on the sole... What would be the best option here? Thanks for the help!