Now we are going to build the knees. Your knees should already be trimmed, cleaned up and painted
white. Once again, I use this special plastic that I get from my old place of employment. It is flexible,
strong and paints well. It not something I can purchase, it packing plastic for large sheets of film. They
just toss it in the trash once the film is loaded so like I said, it’s free. I try to include this plastic in all my
kits. If you need any please just PM me, I can send you some for free you just need to cover the postage.
I tried .09 styrene and it did not work very well. I packed my suit for a event. Once I arrived and unpacked
I found the styrene had snapped on one of the knees. I had to replace the straps once I got back home.
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First, hot glue the tie looking shape per the photo below. This will be your knee pad.
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I use hot glue for all of the foam pieces and epoxy for the plastic one’s. Hot glue the foam in the
center of the knee. Epoxy the plastic strips to the vacuformed knees. Before you epoxy this strip,
check to make sure this will fit around your calves. Nothing like building and painted a set of knees then
not being able to slide them up and over you calves. I have done this before, it’s not fun.
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Hot glue the strip of foam into the knee.
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Hot glue the long strip vertically per below. This is to help keep your knees straight while trooping.
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Take the other strip of foam similar to the one used in step 4 and cut it into three pieces.
We will hot glue the two smaller pieces to the left and right of the long vertical one. The idea here is to have
a flat horizontal area to hot glue the next piece to.
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We will continue and finish the knee’s on the following post.
