flashcove

Nice to see someone doing the Battlefront sniper rifle! You'll also need to do the right side of the barrel cooling sheath, since the "real" MG42 has a slot to take out the quick-barrel instead of the oblong vents.

The friend who built my KS helmet used hot glue to glue the bolt covers and nose piece on. Don't. At troops, I've lost both bolt covers, and my snout. Luckily, all were found by friends during the troop, though my snout was found after our skit at MechaCon by an audience member, and, oddly enough, given to the guy who had put it on with hot glue. That said, I appreciate his work in assembling helmet. I've reattached all pieces with thick superglue at troops where they were lost with no problem. By the by, I live in New Orleans, where you can fry bacon on a car hood on an August afternoon. Rice will work too, because it's so humid!

Impressive, and though my primary is ID8848, since I got my armor accepted, I've only been wearing my TB.

Yep, well aware that the only canon gun is the holdout blaster. Leaves a great openning for non-canon events.

Well, I finally got the acrylic rods epoxied in and sanded on my FAMAS, and will do a quick and dirty paintjob this week so I can use it at Mechacon. Have a gaming convention this weekend at the National World War II Museum, so a good paintjob will have to wait! So many toys, so little time!

That's really nice!

I'm using an air soft FAMAS for my carbine. Hey, it doesn't look like anything in the concept art, but is almost unknown to us Yanks! Lots of work filling screw holes and seams, sanding down mold marks, before it gets painted.

Excellent!

These are all excellent ideas. My velcro dots are beginning to slip!

Other than a custom Mando, my SC kit was the first armor that I built. The few extra slots I had to cut were very easy. It comes with every piece of elastic and velcro you have to have, and the pinstripping is in a little round container. It does not come with the rivets, but you only need a couple. I was more daunted about beginning than the actual work. Once I got over the "should I?" part, it was pretty easy. My KS helmet was received assembled and painted in a trade for modifications on a Vader soft suit (actually a remake by my wife). I've now worn itat more than a dozen troops, and it's more comfortable than my mando. My ID and ISB uniforms are feeling neglected in the closet, but as New Orleans gets warmer, they'll see the hot, humid sun.

Mine are also glued down all the way across with E6000.

Wow! That's too cool!

I know the elbow armor in the movies slides around all over the place, but after a few long troops, we put velcro on the pieces and on the corresponding spots on the undersuit sleeves. Less aggravation. I'm sure many have thought of this before I did, but I just thought I'd mention it.

Congrats!

Sometimes the simplest questions haven't been asked yet, or asked so long ago that no one remembers that they were. A case in point: I asked which way the details on the bicep t-bits went, to the front or back, and suddenly members remembered that they had researched this a while back, and came up with answers and pictures.

Very clever!

The repair turned out to be much easier than I feared. The "oh no, that's too hard" reaction kept me from doing it sooner. Other than waiting for glue to dry, it probably only took a couple of hours.

Thank you all. I didn't take any pictures of it damaged. Both front rivets were hanging free. The upper front corner had the rivet pulled out of the backing plate by breaking it. The lower front corner was broken off from the rivet hole out. The 2 rear rivets had star cracks outward from the rivet, and the backing plate that SC supplies was broken on that end also.

As you all know, my biker scout holster was heavily damaged by some "parentless" boys at the Mudbugs game. It needed repair. All four corners were dammaged, as was the backing plate supplied by SC. This necessitated rounding all 4 corners as shown on the front corners. The boot shaft had to be replaced as the original holes would not be covered by the holster. We decided to double the thickness of the shaft vinyl by folding it over at the top and coming down to a little below the top of the work boot inside. We cut the edges where the velcro would be attached to make it easier on the sewing machine. After all the sewing was done, I glued the front and back together with liquid Barge cement. The velcro to hold the boot up with the pants of the suit was self-adhesive helped with a generous coat of E-6000 after roughing the area where it would be attached with sandpaper. The boot now stood without other support. I had folded the vamp cover down after I detached the old shaft and reglued it with E-6000. I lowered the holster about 3/4" from the top of the boot istead of lining it up with the top as I had done before. And now the boot with the holster and blaster stands on its own. I still use the egg carton with velcro attached to store it. I'm quite relieved to have it done, and considerably cheered up

It can also be the weight of the vinyl of the boot. Mine is pretty light, but all that was availabel locally. And my blaster is zip-tied into the holster to keep little fingers from running away with it.

I use velcro in the boot mating with velcro on the suit leg and it seems to work just fine, so far. Here's a little tip for storage. After letting the boots air for a day after a troop, use an egg carton with velcro on the bottom side to hold it up while not being worn. Stuff the egg carton all the way down to the inner sole, and match up stick-on velcro with the velcro in the boot. Here's a picture of my boot being held up without the egg carton in it. The egg carton is lying beside it. And here's a picture of it standing on its own with the egg carton inserted. And inside the boot with the egg carton inserted That way they can stand up, and take less room while stored between troop. I have a carton in the left boot also, just to strengthen the ankle of the shoe, and so the vinyl boot.

And here is a photo of them. I only grooved the heels because I tend to shuffle when tired and didn't want the toe lugs to possibly trip me. Hey, I'm a senior citizen!

thanks to the excellent tutorial by TB-4210 and ArmyScout. Of course, there were insignificant problems during the assembly due to operator error, but they all came out in the wash.

...are done, as are the pouches. Just need to velcro them on. Suit has had the collar altered, velcro attached to the knees. Just waiting on the riding patch and mud flap, oh, and to add 2 zippers to the ankles to aid in fgetting the legs into the boots! We decided to attach the the vest to the cummerbund with a dozen buttons, so that they can be washed seperately. Otherwise they will normally be buttoned together to make suiting up quicker.

Excellent! Thank you.