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So Jae got us our base gloves. We have brown leather for the tops and tan leather which will be misted with grey eco flow leather paint and rubbed down to a SA finish (i hope) for the hand back parts the belt and the 'buckle'. Used a contour guage to refine the shape of the tank back cuts a bit and have the 2nd tank ready to mount. I used an angle guage to set the angle of the plastic L brackets and will plastic weld them into the tank.

You can use tulip fabric paint on any leather or leatherette kids boots. I've used it w great success. I buy my kids saw gloves for saddlery shops- kids riding gloves. There are great kids motocross gloves too if you want to spend 30 bucks on them. The other soft parts are a job for a seamstress. Good luck bro, the kids scout kits are awesome and cost effective.

Heres the humble beginnings of the KST fatigues. Same cut as xwing or tie suit. I found a material that closely matches the mocha-esque background color on the suits. The camo will be applied in fabric paint later. The legs, collar, and belt are actually cut, just not sewn or attached yet.

Discs bad. Drums good. If you have a high speed cutter bit use it, if not slowly work a drill bit through the resin of the windshield (eyepiece) stay 1/4" away from anything you don't want chewed. Then get closer with a sanding drum, then finish with hand sanding and small files.

Also if you adhere some thick stiffener from the fabric store into those boots tops they will stand up and keep their shape better for you.

Great work, and what a fantastic way to show your pics!!! I wonder if simple me can figure out how to tile wip pics like that. Well done.

1st coat of filler. This part will sit till tomorrow now... and so will I i think.

Im sure itll turn out great DR! A little more work on the visor this morning. So far I sont have that much time into it. There was one good "wonk" on one side of the visor which i took out with a little heat. Overall I like how the visor is coming together.

More than 1 way to skin a cat brother- looks like you're on your way to a sweet lid. I notice that your sunroof is well forward on the visor. On some screen pics it looks well forward and on some it looks center to further back. So I dont know where the heck to put it but ill have to decide soon.

Also I almost have the windshield hole shaped up... A little wonk still needs removal.

Here is a good cheat for those of you who want to take the wonkyness out of the inside of their visor without spending a ton of time filling and sanding. Hit the inside of the visor with some really gritty paper, i used 60gr, just enough to take the highest spots down. then shim part of the difference with plastic strips. I always keep a supply of the evergreen styrene strips from the hobby shop. Now you are only adjusting the height of your little plastic strips instead of working on the whole visor. Trace out the filler on some thin (i used .040 styrene) plastic trim it up and lay it in. While all of this was bonding, I clamoed the whole visor down flat to improve the overall shape. Do this on all 3 sides- the visor sides will require 2 pieces to match the angles. Now you will only be filling and sanding all the corner, front and back SEAMS. Tons of time and energy (and weight) saved doing it this way and will take all the wonk out of your visor. Pics:

Lookin good- keep at it brother!

Yup the green is too dark, the tan is too bright and the brown is too red.. fail again I think.

Thanks Grumps. Trying hard to get it right, and get it on and off the workbench fast! Hers paint test #2, I think the brown is too red (having trouble finding the reccomemded tamiya color, which is wierd cause my hobby shop is really well stocked), but I think the tan and green are getting closer. Maybe the green could be a few shades lighter yet? Rattlecan base with airbrush blobs and sea sponge edges, just rough, this was all done in about 20 mins. I think one of the keys (only if this turns out to be the winning technique) will be to sponge the edges of the basic shape 1st, then fill in with the airsrush so everything will blend much better than whats shown here. Just saw your post brother! Yup we are gonna build KT like nobodys business on Sat!! an I cant wait!

But on the screen seen theres clearly an black center to the strap. Why would something non screen accurate be lv2? It should be lv 0. Im not gettin it.

Mike's biceps joined and ready for finish shaping and filler. I used my clone biceps as a guide for the size so I wouldnt make them too big.

The PGHFett syle helmet doesnt have a complete tutorial now it looks like. Anyone know if there is a standard measurement for the moonroof in the visor? I just figured out that theres no return edge in the visor like the TBs I was assuming there was, glad theres some clear pics on here.

Edited. Found some old threads that explained things better. Will be trimming that lip off the chest plate. Guys, Ive been doing my homework etc. Almost everyone is trimming out their chest the same way they would for a TB. They are cutting away a lip on the bottom of the combat bra. Its a screen seen detail. Its either that, or the vertical straps on the cumberbunds should be ending just before the chest armor, with a little gap visible between them. Actually..... it could be both! [edit] NOPE!!! I found an old cumberbund thread by Skip that had some good thoughts. I'll be dremeling off that lip on the bottom of the chest and ending the vertical webbing on the bund just before it reaches the chest plate.

Backing the drop boxes. I just couldnt leave the like a half clamshell. I played with the idea of making them functional, pulled out some acrylic hinges and everything.... then decided it was a bit of work for a feature Id never use. So I reenforced the plastic where the D ring holder will rivet through.... with small rivets but still. Then I backed with .080 sheet, then Ill dremel it flush, sand and cover with fabric... Ill probably put the D ring holder on first then sew a machine buttonhole in the fabric and poke the D ring through. Anyway heres a shot:

Nate, Can you take a look at the wording in the CRL regarding this strap. To me it reads like there are 2 seperate grey straps. The SA part is a wider than standard clone strap that is black in the center and grey on both sides. Thanks Bro.

Spending the rest of the night shaping the windshield hole and augering out a place to mount the windshield hole on the right where the resin is uber thick. Not a bad problem to have in my books, but it will take some serious time.

Thanks bro. I heated and bent 4 plastic tabs and plastic welded them to the tank. Then i riveted each of them to the backplate and used apoxiesculpt around the tank. Bit of sanding. Now ill use some bumper repair type filler to really smooth around the tank, not that it really needs it. Ill try to take pics while we do Jae's tanks next weekend, i would have but i was really motoring along. Cheers.

Got the windshield dremmeled out to the point where its hand sanding only-i hate sanding resin :-( Nice thick bucket though- they didnt skimp on material which is always apprecitaed. There are no thin spots that require reenforcement just to be useable.... a really refreshing change. Ive got the biceps edge sanded. Im hoping to heat and shape the biceps and join them with first coat tonight as well as cut my KT coveralls pieces... need to prewash the fabric and iron out though.

Tank 1 installed and used it to mark tank 2, so that one should go super quick when Jae gets a chance to work with me. Unfortunately i made every mistake i could with the contour guage so I lost about 1/2" of tank. Im not a huge guy so the scale down could end up being a good thing i guess. Working on some other stuff now, but Ill scrub the tanks toppers and other greebs down with oven cleaner to get rid of any mold release. More progress soon.

2 kits finish trimmed (other than the tanks) and ready for surface and edge sanding. My toe caps need to be cut up and shaped for my little 8.5 boots. Also I think I may have to cut my elbow armor down to size a bit.