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Anyone planning on attending Baltimore Comic-Con?

I know this is random, but: Today is a pretty good day (considering it's Monday). Nice day outside, chance of Thunderstorms later (love them), at work, in my Star Wars museum of an office (decorrated my office with all my old toys, turned it into a museum of sorts), listening to Star Wars...

That does look rather cool. And yeah, you should definitely go for that on your next project. Something like what you have there, with a nice kama, the feed chute shoulder armor...and a big huge gun/grenade launcher/rocket launcher. "Oh, you closed your blast doors to try and keep us out...

Ah, yeah, I totally missed the link. I think it works really well, at least for a heavy trooper. That last pic that has a nice closeup of the inside of the chute, that looks almost interchangeable with a 25mm. lol Definitely complements the outfit. And the only thing I'd recommend to make it...

Ah, nah, that's not a disappointment. I was only 5mm off, the M2 Bradley (which I am a former crew member on) uses a 25mm Bushmaster, I had clicked on your avatar, hoping to find a larger pic and make a positive ID on exactly what it was. Very cool (and unique/great) addition to your suit. I...

Yeah, that it is (steel wool). Same thing with the M-4 vs. M240 in ammo. M-4 fires 5.56 as well, and the 240 fires 7.62. The M249 SAW fires 5.56 though, and DOES have a magazine well to use rifle mags in an emergency, but, from first hand experience trying it: you only wanna use the linked...

Yeah, I know what you mean. So the Bundeswehr adopted that policy? We still use gun teams: Gunner, AG (Assistant Gunner), and Ammo bearer (or, as we affectionately call them "ammo *****"), pretty self explanatory: The gunner carries an M240 + about 1000 rounds (ready) and another 1000 in a...

Heh, yeah, true, however, at least the weight of the helmet will be evenly distributed, try wearing AN/PVS-7b's (night vision I had when I was stationed in Germany and used throughout Iraq), THAT will tire the hell out of your neck. 30kg total is also far far lighter than what I'm used to (esp...

Thanks. I actually hadn't seen that tutorial, thanks! Just bookmarked it. And yeah, I know how difficult aluminum can be to weld, and yeah, as far as attaching the dome to the rest of it I'm thinking of making some folds on the inside and bolting them together, and then JB Welding around...

@Mafio : Question on the helmet though: how did you end up making yours? For the dome, I have some ideas on how I'm going to do it (one being using one of the many templates where the dome is strips that you weld together (and not something I relish doing), the other is cutting a circle out and...

I rather like it like that, I'll have to work less to weather and damage it, even so, thanks for the complement, I am usually very anal about making things perfect (even as a small kid I would meticulously color within the lines (outline then work in), so I actually had to work a little to not...

Thanks, I'm pretty giddy about it and wish I could just devote all my time and such into the project.

Was a little bit delayed due to some sudden maintenance I had to do on the rear diff on my Jeep (bad seal), but I finally got the first set of armor pieces cut out, they aren't entirely 100% perfectly symmetrical on purpose.

FINALLY starting my Mando build. The main factor in the delay was: The Army kept getting in the way (also hard to get the right facilities in the barracks for what I'm doing). Now that I'm out, I can finally start presenting my scratch build beskar'gam. The body suit is a pair of my old Nomex...

Awesomeness. :cheers