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I feel like my depth kind of came about organically as I got the sides to fit how they felt right. At the center of my visor, on the bottom I have ~ 1 1/4" from faceplate to edge and on top it's ~ 2 3/8". That top distance will vary some based on how exactly your visor behaves when it rotates - I slightly over-trimmed the right half of my visor, resulting in a larger than desired gap between the bucket and the visor on that side.

I don't think I personally have any good photos of that. I had to iterate so much on the face plate sides, trying to get things to fit just right. I spent a lot of time trying to get the molding of the face plate to sit right in the bonnet before gluing. Looks like my only pic of just the face plate is straight on, so it doesn't show the sides at all. How the bonnet looks trimmed but separate is going to vary a per person. There is such significant overlap before you trim that not everyone will trim the same amount from each side. All I can really say is draw lines and cut small parts at a time, test fitting with clamps before gluing to make sure you don't trim at the wrong angle or too much. Later I can try and get a pic of the inside of the mask to see the side of the face plate where it attaches to the bonnet.

I used a mix of Lexan scissors and a Dremel, depending on what I was trying to accomplish and how much I was cutting off. Most of the scout stuff doesn't lend itself too well to score-and-snap.

Yeah, put it all over the seam from back to front. One reason of the reasons to leave the mohawk is so that you don't have to worry about being neat with applying it. Excess Devcon will just be trimmed off with the mohawk pieces after it dries.

Behind on forum reading and costume work - did you make any good progress?

A few things: 1) Trim the return edges off of the sides and top of the face piece. 2) The sides of the face (where it bulges out even with the ears) should be trimmed to fit inside your visor. Anything not touched by the visor you can further trim later. Don't worry about trimming the visor more until you attach the face to it. After you do that, you can tell better how things will naturally lie. So after you do 1) and 2) above, I think it's time to go ahead and attach the face mask to the visor. Do you have the bolts or maybe some screws you can try attaching he visor to the bucket with? We just put some small screws or nails through at first to check alignment (we didn't receive out bolts until very late in the process). Then you can pivot the mask up and down and see what other trimming you have to do on the visor portion near the bucket. I over-trimmed mine a little on the top of the visor trying to fix that interference, but it's really not bad. It's only really noticeable during outdoor troops with certain sun angles, because light gets through. I can already tell that the rounded portion near the pivot point is going to need to be trimmed/rounded, but you won't know how much you need to until you start putting somethings together.

Got any pics? I totally get the "trim to far" fear - I was constantly in fear of that, and part of why it's also taken me a year to work on my ANH TIE kit.

Which parts in particular? Bucket? Visor? Face?

The new photo mode is nice - here are some clearer shots of some details. . . . . . . Too bad with the glove mods - would have been nice to reuse gloves.

I've been snapping screenshots as I play through, I'll see if I can find some good ones to take a closer look at. Looks like a great start.

Annoying thing is that even though the databank entry correctly identifies the Scout Trooper, the subtitles all label them as Storm Troopers, and the first time you come up on a pair of them, one talks about the other being a Storm Trooper...

What do y'all like for adhesive to stick the vinyl to the boots? I used E-6000 and I know some people used shoe goo. One of my boots just sort of fell apart on me (vinyl game unglued) after about my 4th troop, so I'm weighing if I just do E-6000 again or Shoe Goo or something else...

Glad it helped! One of our struggles was there were few examples we found that really went over the build. There were some, but everyone emphasizes different things and runs into different challenges. We didn't get our bolts delivered until super late in the build, so we were improvising for getting the visor and bucket lined up with small nails. Looking good! Now gotta get those seams sanded down. Because we were Bondo novices, this took us WAY longer than I expect it would others to do. Does your visor rotate well?

Right now I feel like it's additions from game, plus new cummerbund without pouches, and some sort of new gloves (wiring runs into and out of the right glove). But I'm not the guy to make that call Also looks like pauldrons can be added as an option now. Don't remember them being canon before for scouts.

Most of what I'm seeing in terms of differences in armor sizing seems like it's within the variability we have in scouts today (i.e. different kit vendors). The wiring running up into around the harness, down the arm and into and through the gloves doesn't look like a lot of fun.

The more I look at it, I don't think the pouches are there. There's harness with a control box up front and a cylinder in the back. The addition of that harness and deletion of pouches seems to be about it in terms of armor. And how is no one talking about the addition of pauldrons???

Meant to post this earlier - here are shots of the post cut/dremel'd helmet, prior to SO many rounds of bondo... You can see the "oops" devcon mess in the second pic. I eventually sanded that down. I mentioned before filling gaps in the seam with devcon - I should emphasize that I did that at the same time I as applying ABS strips to the interior. Some people filled gaps from the outside, too, but I didn't at this point. I wish I'd taken more pics of the helmet interior as I was working on it. I also used a heat gun and a scrap piece of wood to help shape the ABS strips for the helmet interior.

Out of 4 of us building together, I think 2 of us used devcon for that and 2 of us used E6000. Both seemed to work fine.

Maybe? Probably not as good as ABS. You’ll have plenty of abs scrap from trimming things like the belt and thermal detonators. Also, fill gaps with more weld once you’ve trimmed the Mohawk down.

So what's holding your liner in? Looks like 2 rivets?

Late to the party here, but WTF is sized for bigger people. The helmet is a major pain to assemble, but honestly can wind up looking better than many others if you put the effort in (it took me forever, not sure if I would again). But as was said before, the chest and back are what matters the most. My 5'2" wife ended up abandoning her WTF chest/back and ordering SC because she couldn't trim the torso any more and still have it look right, because it was too big on her. It fits me fine at 5'11" 230.

It took me a minute to realize you have the chin strap in there. Is that 3 pieces of padding I see on the back of the helmet interior?

Well, they essentially made it a 2 piece flight suit. It's functionally a pair of pants and a jacket now.

Thanks, that helped a lot!