FP Armor... painting techniques for the clandestine hunter

Okay. Here is a picture of my chest armor and shoulder bells. I hope this is all the work I need to do on them.

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Here is a test fit on my vest. Looks pretty good over the new TDH shirts don't you think?

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Here I have JB Welded on some snaps to fit the strap on the knees. Overkill kinda but I had some just lying around...

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ARE YOU SURE you haven't done this before..????

SWEET GARY...SWEET..:cheers

LOVE THE WEATHERED "Work station/ newspaper"..:lol: nice color washes..
 
While waiting for my gauntlets I took some publicity photos of my suit so far. I am wearing my work flightsuit since my SFP one hasn't shown up (jab, jab). I am sure that Skygunbro is gonna hook me up right though.

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Here you can see how I attached the bolts to my back plate. I JB Welded the bolts in which helps me attach the shoulder "keys."

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Next a picture of inside of the kidney plate attachment point. I didn't JB Weld in these since I can get my fingers on those easier.

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This is of my homemade key for my cod/kidney attachment. It is made of sculpey.

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I know it's not accurate but that flight suit goes pretty good with the armor. :)
That's why i'm making a custom first.. Doesn't have to be exactly this or that way. ;)

Outstanding work on everything you have done to date. (y)

Here's to ya :cheers
 
:D whoohoo sweet!!

dude!! I was startled by the jumpsuit picture!!!
I was like... whaaaaatt!!!!??? such an awesome accurate work on the armor and then... ow wait.. there's a message above... let's read it...

don't do that to my poor heart again!!! :p

awesome dude!! keep going!!
 
DUDE!! :eek: :eek: .where's your bucket????............;)
Pavespawn said:
While waiting for my gauntlets I took some publicity photos of my suit so far. I am wearing my work flightsuit since my SFP one hasn't shown up (jab, jab). I am sure that Skygunbro is gonna hook me up right though.

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I got my gauntlets in the other day and I finally got time to start working on them. Here is a picture of the big parts:

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I really had no idea where to start so I decided to attach the resin pieces to the vac parts and go from there. To make it as sturdy as possible, I dremeled out the resin pieces and JB Welded in machine screws (reverse of what I did for the shoulder keys.

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After fitting them I have temp installed the resin pieces.

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For the keypad, I sanded it down and then glued it in place. Instead of bondo, I used sandable wood filler to fill the gaps. If anyone knows if that was a bad idea or not, please let me know. I haven't sanded it down all the way yet!

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Alrighty. Here are a few update shots. I got some Bondo in a tube the other day and it works pretty well for small stuff. I also am digging JB Weld for big gap filling. Here you can see some pics of my right gaunt after being filled and sanded. I missed a couple places but as luck would have it, they came out looking like nicks.

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