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I had to build my 3 button plate to. I used domed head car interior trim clips. When I built my Tie kit I needed to use 2 of them in the trident area and so I had 4 left. Cut the backs off and glue them to some styrene sheet, a bit of paint and all good

Don't have any pictures at hand right now but i did the same as i did with my armor... In my case i used Fullers Earth in light brown and a little bit of darker brown plus grey and hairspray... In case your trooping with it don't handle it too carefully, this will add some natural wear and tear... Btw. I'm more a collector than a trooping member and i have my armor and backpack on a mannequin forsome years now, the natural dust from all those years makes it look even better... It's the only mannquin i don't need to clean from time to time... that's one more reason to love TD's, huh?

Same here, i love your attention for details! i'll be following with great interest! Imho the helmet is, beside the armor weathering of course, the most noticeable part of every TD! Keep up your good work!

I am currently making a new 3 button plate as well. I took a nice piece of scrap ABS for the plate itself, then traced circles the size I wanted. Stacked up 5 of them and sanded them as one. Glue the buttons on with ABS paste. Your method is probably much quicker. Good job

Amazing attention to detail, that's what we need here at the MEPD, great work mate I'll be watching this build with anticipation. One thing about the ears though, they fit nice and snug now as it seems but bigger gaps would be screenaccurate.

Picking away at things. I’m upgrading my TK right now for a big troop in a couple weeks, so not much time left for the TD. I got the ears rough trimmed and on for my first of many rounds of seeing where I need to trim. This guy has spaces, so I don’t need to close the gap. Question: is his right ear thinner than his left? All the pics I've seen seems to suggest so, but the angle is hard to figure out. Here are the ears. The tape are reference markers for paint blemishes on the original. The original has a very roughly painted surface. I won’t be replicating every bump of course - just the ones that are seen onscreen or have been pointed out in previous SWAT applications. Of course, SWAT applications are notorious for becoming more strict every application. I did consider painting the helmet HDPE-like green and then painting over with white - but I didn’t want to do that for the whole suit. Plus, I want the whole thing to still look good in person to the general public. I want it to look like how they think they remember the armour looking, if that makes sense. Maybe others will chime in and change my mind about that. I’m trying to test how I’m going to add the paint drips. Just using white paint doesn’t work well - it is a warmer white and just interacts with light differently than ABS. So I’m planning on using ABS paste. Really runny ABS paste as it turns out. Paint is on the right. My first attempts at ABS paste on the bottom. Final test on the left. Should work but the ABS does dimple so... who knows. You can’t tell from the pick, but I was able to fine tune the locations of the blemishes by overlaying pics in photoshop.

I kept it on all afternoon even though it was killing me. Lol

Looks good just gotta raise those forearms up like you said. The bottom of your biceps should be above the bend in your inner elbow and the forearms should be just below. You look like you have long arms so unfortunately you'll have a bit of a gap but I suppose that's better than what us short guys have to deal with and have even less arm mobility.

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