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I also have a short inseam so I still have to cut the length down about 1/2" on both sides, my knee plates will be pinching like crazy if I don't. Tough being short and fat By the time I am done triming the shims will be just the right size....I hope

The shin armor with my splines glued in place. Next free time this week i ill be cutting to final size and then putting the bondo/icing on it.

Sanded the icing off of the biceps and they look good. All ready for paint. I glued a 3/4" strip on each side of the calves to give my freakishly large calves more room. When they dry, tomorrow I will E6000 them together. Tomorrow I will also sand the first layer of icing on the tank and get it ready for the second coat. I did do another coat of plastic weld on the one weak point that I found...I hope it holds this time.

Ok, so yesterday I had about 2 hours to spend, so I put the icing (similar to Bondo) on the tank and backplate to fill in the seam. All went well, put on a thin coat so it would dry pretty quickly and was going to put another coat on this morning. I picked the backplate up and found the one spot that the plasticweld did not work and cracked the base coat for about 2.5 inches. UGGHHHH!!!! :6: :6:

That would be great Grumpy Thanks. I am going to an AP at Brent's house in two weeks I can get it there, or at our next troop.

Brent if I come across any I will pick up enough for two, since I have the same lens (from Bikerchick) I am sure mine won't pass either, if yours didn't

I dyed mine a couple of times to get it dark enough for my liking, so dont get discouraged yet.

Was going to spend my day off yesterday working on my armor, but my wife and friends insisted I leave the house and they dragged me to Busch Gardens for the day. Had lots of fun, but nothing to report on my armor. No wonder this build is taking forever, I have bad influences in my life

I didn't realize WAY to late that the return lip was supposed to be on, crl didn't mention it and I did not really notice it in the Ref Pics.

Damn those UK guys, they have all the good stuff

Collar looks great. Just a question on the thigh pockets (it might just be the angle of the pic) but do have the bias pleat on the outside edge? It looks in the close up pic, like it may be there just hard to tell. If you had to rather fix it now, than after it is dyed

Sorry to hear about the brown paint man. Color change from a different base color is so hard to predict. Where did you end up getting the riding patch? I am thinking I am going to trade out my grey for the oatmeal color as well.

Oh man That sucks.

looking forward to seeing it.

I hope so. I'll Be sure to let everyone know once I get some and try it out. Could be the worst thing ever, LOL

BTW, any input on attaching the visor to the helmet? E6000 or something different?

That is what I was thinking DRE, but all the people in my garrison are telling me to used Proflex instead of the E6000. This item stays plyable, but is also easily sanded, unlike the E6000. and then I will not have to do two separate steps. :-)

With the tank greeb getting attached from inside the sealed tank, I would have had to cut another hole in the backplate to pass it through later. And yes painters tape is used for just about everything I have done on this project . I am going to bring it to the AP and thought since we would be trooping together, we need to have out paint colors match as close as possible. Obviously our camos will be different, but that is ok. I was going to e6000 my calf clam shells together today and found that my calves are going to make me add a 3/4" strip on both sides, inner and outer. So I need to pick up some plastic (HIPS or ABS) that will be used as a filler. I have some, but it is way to thick.

Just did the final touch ups to the tank tabs I installed. Heated them, bent them over and e6000'nd them to the back plate. Tank greeb is installed and with just a touch of filler will be complete and ready for paint.

Today I heated the toe caps and the shin armor to go around my huge calves. I think I am going to have to cut bu boot high tops off about 2"-2.5" to allow me to slide the shin armor up, tie the boots and slide the armor back down. Otherwise my shin armor will be extremely loose when it is resting in place, if I make it big enough to slide all the way up.

So finally had a few hours off yesterday so I decided to make good use of the time. E6000 my bicep pieces E6000 my tabs to the tank and cut some slots in my back plate to accept them. I decided to pass the tabs through the back plate and then I will bend the tabs over and seal them to the inside of the back piece. I thought this might make the seams and bond a little stronger. After the abs have been e6000'nd I will fill the area around the tabs with bondo and feather them in. Lastly I did some more filling on my visor Very productive afternoon. I will be attaching my visor this weekend to the helmet and then bondoing it. I was going to use E6000 to attach it, does any one have a better method?

Agree with DR, used a dremil for almost every bit of my cutting.

Getting home at 10:30pm and going to work at 7:00am gives little time for building or for anything else. When I do get my Sunday off, I really like sitting by the pool relaxing, not in my hot workshop, working more. When my jobs slow up, I will be right back onto my kit.

This will be interesting as you are not using the old style british desert style BDU's. It will be interesting to see what these will look like when they get dyed. Since the British BDU's are getting harder to find a good alternative will be needed. Hope they come out ok when finished. Agree with the glove greebs, they already look good and beat up, perfectly weathered.

:icon_bow: Those came out great.