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Thanks for sharing the dimensions. If you get a chance could you take some shots of the seams so we can try to match type and stitching? That's my method of color matching fabric. Hard color and wash/bleach it back.

Do more people troop with the "welding helmet" support or using foam padding inside the helmet? Seems like the padding would get rather warm vs the helmet headband. I have a grinding mask with a band that looks identical to the original ones, just with back knobs instead of grey. The color is an easyfix though.

Here's an update with the nose bridge grill installed. Looks pretty slick like that. I'll model a piece to clip to it to hold the sticker. Sticker for trooping, vent for display. it looks even better with the edging blacked out and the front painted grey.

I've got two inserts, one that is a grill and one that is slick for the sticker.

I begin. At the beginning. 3d printing the armour. Thought to start with the mask to get the size right from the start. took a guess measurement and came out right. 23hrs single piece print. has a little jitter line right at the brow because I didn't put quite enough support and it wobbled for a couple layers before completing the bridge. very minor. sands right out. Most impressed that my hand slipped and got sliced on the sharp edge of some half clipped support. Was bleeding everywhere. None on the face mask, but at least I got my blood sacrifice for this project over with early.

I have a shoulder perching assistant as I work sometimes too.

the mg-34 was not a small gun to start with.

I've been printing parts of it over the last few weeks in between other parts. Here's a crappy picture of it rough fitted together.

It's the one by surfinbird132: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3940279

There's a good dlt-19/dlt-19x on thingiverse. It has barrels segments for with the bi-pod and without.

Try OFF deep woods. Spry on, let soak only a minute, then spray on some more. rinse off.

I mocked up a tank topper for the Battlefront 2 Kashyyyk trooper. I made it a little wide between the shoulders so that there is material to glue. I wasn't sure what the dimensions should be so I did it just eyeballing the relationships of the buttons and knob.

Those large packs used to be in piles at surplus stores for $10-$20 a piece without the straps. I bet you won't be able to find one for less than $100 in a couple months. Although maybe they all got bought up when people were bedazzling everything. I remember seeing a bunch of them all painted and plasti-jeweled.

I use one of those 3D printer pens to "weld" my splits back together. Works fabulously! All that sanding. Have you tried doing a basic smoothing with a heat gun? For things with large faces like a mask or helmet a heat gun works very well and can save a bunch of sanding.

cool maybe we'll catch each other at a troop sometime.

That yellow looks like it was a good color base for the off white color. Very nice!

Looks good. It's cool how something as simple as 1/4 dowel or 1/2 EMT keeps thinks light and pretty impact resistant.

@USG51North Houston for me. Thanks for letting now about the source.

Check thrift stores. I often find a sewing machine there. There's the usual classifieds, Craigslist, offerup, etc. Don't overlook local sewing/fabric stores. Some will have sewing classes, or groups to help new people. As far as what makes a good sewing machine? One that keeps time and tension. You can find with a little looking, the old cast iron framed singers from the 1920's complete with cabinet for $50. They were made at a time when things were made to last, they are hardy, simple and they made so dang many of them they are still not a rare item 100 years later.

Looking pretty good so far. I would recommend the PET/PETG because PLA gets a little brittle. I've also had PLA printed stuff warp inside my truck in the south texas heat, not PETG though. I usually use zyltech's ceramic white for most of my stuff. It's absolutely perfect for a base color for everything. I was wondering where you got the models or did you make them yourself? There used to be a set on thingiverse but the user took them down. I wanted to make a set for my self and my kid and was going to use them to scale down to get a proper fit. Would you be willing to share them? It will help me fast track instead of having to model them up from scratch.