Death Recon

Do some more pattern and take another shot, hard to tell with the small piece but I think the tan is a little dark but the brown/green look good.

I used a heat gun to pull the sides in closer together so they lined up easier... You'd think you need a lot of room to get it up around your knee but you don't once you trim/sand that return edge down. Then I lined them up on the top and I added the slant by taping it off at an angle, lower in front and higher in back, then cutting I just got them glued so now when I have time I'll sand down the bottom edge so it's flush and bondo the sides to make them seemless. Hope that helped a bit...

That's why I'm just useing my boots from Afghanistan

So I'm I loosing it or have the number of posts and the number of people visiting the site droped to another low again... I thought with BC making the armor kits and more people interested in making this armor we would see more people around. But hey maybe I'm just crazy...

Glad to hear your back BC

Got some more work done today... Everything is completely trimmed down and connected now. Just need some touch ups on a few pieces then it's painting time, maybe next week. I'm not sure how well building up my toe caps is going, gonna have to experiment with a few things to see what's best... The acetone/hips drys completely smooth, but when you try to sand it down all the air bubbles on the inside shows up. So maybe some bondo sanded down over top that will do the trick. Oh and I picked up a new shelf so everything isn't all over te place

The glove greeblies are perfectly fine. You won't even notice the bubbles once everything is together

Haha, there's a thought, join the threads Would that make it a string? Hmm I wasn't aware of this none-overlapping for movie accurate, I'm going to have to think about how I want to go about this now

Yes but self leveling means it will "run, or drip" doesn't it? I take that to mean if you had it on a curved surface it would run towards the lowest point. (I might look for some though, where'd he get it?) I'll tell you guys how I made out with the toe caps come tomorrow when they finally harden (the acetone/hips mix sets in 10-15 seconds so you gotta be quick when molding with it, but its still squishy for another few hours and its not completely hard until around 20-30 hours of drying time)

Yep that's what I needed thanks Matt

So I was looking at the referance pics for the toe caps & shins when I noticed the top of the toe cap come up to just above the bottom edge of the shin... My toe caps weren't that shape before trimming so I'm useing the acetone/hips paste to build up the top of mine so they match properly

If you heat it while its taped to the back piece then you run the risk of molding them both... I've used my heat gun on a bunch of different areas... Some for adding a return edge,or a slight curve, & some for straightening things out. I where a pair of my thin gloves while I do the work to protect my digits (burnt the tips of them a few times just from the heat on the plastic)

How's this look... It looks off to me, I think the back piece needs to rise up more. Wow I just noticed my kids creepy ass doll in the picture

From the look of the 2nd last picture (#6) I think the back needs to come up more. I'm just at that point right now, I'm trying to get it looking correct as well... So imm gonna chop a little off the top of the straps and then I'll have to trim the sides so they line up with each other (I don't mean cutting any length off the sides, I mean putting a different curve in it because you need to have the back overlap the front piece) Umm lemme see if I can get a picture

Thanks for the help Matt, that's awesome. I actually understand what you were saying to do so this is perfect... Guess I need to to get some snaps, only thing I didn't see you explain is how to attach the snaps

Thinking of chopping a little off of the back piece shoulder straps. Then maybe using my heat gun and getting things lined up *if needed but I'll try other thugs first* As for the top grey strips that cover the joint in the chest/back shoulder straps... I know you use a strip under the armor to join the chest/back but I'm not positive what everyone else used, gonna have to give a shout out and see what people are saying they used for both the cover and the connector

So I decided to see how the chest and back pieces fit together after my trimming an sanding... I think I need to reduce the size of the sholder pieces so the back fits more flush on my back.

Then I did pretty much the same with my back piece & tank... Here's a before, And after the acetone/HIPs, I'm hoping to get a bunch more finished up this week

So I rip apart my arm pieces and removed all the bondo (I had just used bondo to join them originally) I used E900 and joined them back together with strips of the only 'real' for sale sign still in Canada (They changed what they make the signs out of now) Anyways I glued the armbands together then used acetone & HIP's to coat and make the seal stronger... Just take your HIPs or ABS shavings and put them in a mason jar (glass)and leave it there for a few hours (I left it overnight) Here's the armbands with a small coat of the acetone/HIPs

Hmm paper template eh?... That would've been a good idea. Oh well

You ordered the corect pair, don't worry about it. LoL I like that guys add for them... " fully IRR treated" Yep, they are untill you wash them 2 or 3 times

Next time hang it upside down while it dries and tape down on the inside

Well once you find out let us know, I'll give a check in my area and see if I can find some your size

Also redid my helmet & visor: I had to use my heat gun to pull the face back into shape since it had a pull to the left, then put her back together: Now I'm gonna sand down my arm bands and add another coat of bondo....

Well I don't know why it took me so long to put the damn tank on my back piece, think I had it all cut n trimmed a week ago...