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Cutting
out the frown
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My first
mistake
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Aerators
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Some
more small bits
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Masking off for paint
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The front of the
bucket
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The side of the
bucket
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Day 2- Day 2
actually started off with Azman and Cal (HUGE thanks!) coming
over and helping me test fit my armor. No pics of that-
sorry. Also, it was freezing in my un-heated garage, so
work time was limited- severally limited... |
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Riveting the webbing
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Another view
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Cutting the ab plate-
plus Sandtrooper mod
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Cutting the back plate
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Day 3 |
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Gluing
the shoulder
straps
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Forearms and biceps-
riveted and glued
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Thighs
and lower legs-
riveted and glued
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Clips
going into the dome- front clips modified for specs
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Day 4 |
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Next step in the ab
plate mod
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Shimming the
forearms
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Shimming the
biceps
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Shoulder bell mod-
strap button and guide
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Dome clips 2
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Day 5 |
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Forearms finished!
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Bicep final gluing
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Initial leg trimming
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Thigh shims
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Shoulder ammo pouch
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Day 6 |
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Final thigh gluing
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Bicep snaps
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Final
gluing on the ab
mod |
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Dome
liner
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Shimming the lower
legs |
I
messed up on the shims for the thighs and lower legs and glued
the shims on top of the under piece. Don't do this... |
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Day 7-
a very short day |
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The upper arms
assembly
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On the chest plate
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Upper torso finished!
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Day 8 |
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Putting the dome on
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Piece used to connect
the split abs and back
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The connector on
the upper ab and back
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Snaps on the cod
and bum
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Snaps on the thighs
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Leg belt attached
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A trick from Cal-
A wire loop on the ear
piece to better hold the
small grey box
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Day 9 |
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Ab/Back harness
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And here is how it works
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The back pieces
together again
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The front pieces-
showing rivet
placement
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Hard to see, but here
are the loops for the inner belt- part of the harness system
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The dome ears
being glued
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Hand guards together
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Trying to make the
lower legs velcro
mesh better |
I am not at all happy
with the way the connector I came up with works. It's too
rigid and may not give me any more waist flexibility than if I
left the pieces whole. We'll see... |
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So, you
may have noticed that the leg shims are messed up- both on the
thigh pieces and the lower legs. Yeah, I really blew that
one. The problem was, my legs are pretty big and when I
thought I'd got it sorted, I found the shims didn't work.
I was also running out of spare ABS. This is the first
time I've been annoyed that I still have my huge sprinters legs. |
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Day 10 |
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The helmet nearly
finished
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And the back
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The sniper plate
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Additional snaps
on the thighs
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The first coat of
weathering
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And on the forearms
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After drying and
wiping down
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So, my
camera broke. I had a bunch of great pictures of some new
DEVO items, and when I went to check them out again, I got the
message that my memory card was empty. I took a few more
pictures, and found that they were just not saving at all...
so... Yeah, hopefully a new camera is in my future, and
I'll go back and take pictures of the few things I did to finish
up. Bummer... |
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