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I'm not familiar with it. Could you post a photo or a link?

Thanks Jeff. Always awesome to see more blaster reviews. I have the resin blaster from PA and it's great.

Great work Tomas!

In general, I think it looks fine. However, the primary test for the fit of the bund will come once you fit your chest armor and belt. The photo below should give you an idea of the proportions for both the fund and cod.

I used shoe goo and it's held up fairly well over the years. I know that shoe repair shops use contact cement for that sort of thing, but I haven't experimented with it yet.

Congrats!

Listen to Greeny. He speaks the truth!

No problem dude! This is exactly what we're here for!

GREAT job Greeny! You should have zero issues with basic approval for that costume.

Bondo is pretty much the standard go to choice for that sort of thing.

Congrats and welcome!

Hello Tomas, and thank you very much for your Lancer application. The review team has consulted with one another and we have a few items for your attention. Overall, you've done an excellent job, just a few small adjustments. Please let us know if you need additional guidance or have questions! Additional Photos: Please provide additional photos for the following costume parts: Flak vest: We need a photo of the measurement of the back closure velcro Holdout Blaster: Please provide detail photos of your DVH blaster, including front and back of the blaster Back Armor: Can you please provide additional detail photos of the rivet at the base of your tank? Costume Adjustments: Flight Suit Your butt flap appears to be approximately 1" too long, vertically. Please adjust your suede patches so they better match the photo in the Star Wars Costume book (see photo below). The squared off tops on suede patches should be more rounded. Cummerbund Overall, it appears that your bund is about 1" too long. Also please work on centering it once the adjustments are made. Additionally, It appears that there's a lot of excess bund material extended on your lower back right in the back-side photo. You don't necessarily need to trim it down, just try and keep it tucked in. Photo Examples:

Ah ok, sorry. Walt's is made from thick HIPS, if I recall correctly. It should be a-ok.

I've used it on abs before and it's fine. You've got the RS helmet right? If you're concerned you can always spray some on the extra abs scrap they included for reinforcements, but like I said, it should be fine.

I've had good luck with Rustoleum High Build Primer. Dries relatively fast and sands pretty easy. https://www.homedepot.com/p/Rust-Oleum-Automotive-11-oz-Gray-Filler-Primer-Spray-249279/202097276

Not at all. A clean scout is 100% acceptable for lancer review.

Based on the second photo, you still have some of a lip, though it's a bit uneven. You could glue a splint underneath, then make a paste from your scrap HIPS plastic to fill in the surface gap. Most folks will repair cracks, overtrimming, etc, by making ABS paste, but your helmet is made of HIPS plastic, so you'd need to use the leftover scrap from the helmet trimmings. Overall though, and I hate to say it, but I think that the fact you used spackle is working against you. Spackle is plaster based and, while it's fine for fixing cosmetic surface defects and drywall, is absolutely going to crack when it's flexed. The only other thing I can think of is that the thin HIPS plastic used in the helmet is flexing more than the typical ABS Chef/RS/WTF 5 piece helmet, which would also contribute to more cracking. Take a look at Sibbel's helmet build here, it has a lot of photos and should be a pretty good reference guide for best practices: http://forum.501stpathfinders.com/index.php?/topic/18869-my-first-helmet-built-rs/

Oh no definitely keep it. It adds strength. Plus as in the photos I linked earlier, it was on the original helmets as well.

Regarding the crack at the back base of the helm, do you have a return edge on the bottom? That can affect strength and rigidity, but it's hard to see based on the second to last image link.

The kriptontop/cucblack helmet is made of HIPS, which tends to be more brittle than abs. I would have thought that a piece of plexiglas would stabilize the top of the dome enough to keep it from bending and cracking. Def post some photos once you get a chance and we can offer more suggestions.

For posting images many folks host with imgur or dropbox. Give that a try and post up some images if you can. Bondo or other surfacing agents will smooth the exterior of the helmet, but they won't add any sort of structural strength to the dome. What make of helmet do you have? RS? Did you glue any sort of abs reinforcing plates into the interior of the helmet? That's what adds strength and keeps the seam area from flexing cracking. Here's some examples of the screen helmets with the reinforced plates along the interior seam. Let us know and we'll help you out!

Huh that's an interesting development. Praetorian was posting about the hold out blaster here a few months ago and most folks seemed to be pretty excited about it.

Urgh. Yeah, that's gonna be tricky. Just eyeballing it from your side photo, I believe you might need to trim more than just that small overlap, so you could consider cutting the 1cm overlap part. Obviously, with a gorgeous set of armor like that, there's a bit of a leap of faith there. Caution is advised. I would absolutely not try any solvents or anything like that -- anything that will dissolve superglue, will also attack the ABS.

So they didn't just glue the elastic covering over the two shoulder bridge ends, they overlapped and glued the plastic parts as well?

Hi Joe, thank you very much for your application. We have some initial notes on your app. However, before we go any further, can you please add measurement verification and detail shots to your post? An excellent example to follow is Nikki's application here: http://forum.501stpathfinders.com/index.php?/topic/20435-tb-69211-requesting-lancer-deployment-approved/ Again, thank you and we're happy to continue the review once you post the additional photos.