Captain Jack

Looking awesome bro. Great work as always. Little man will be rocking it.

Ok so I hand painted my helmet details. And I painted the legs white. Planning on trying weathering tomorrow. Man I'm nervous. Hope I don't blow it

Awesome job Tim. Looking good. I know this suit will be top notch. Keep up the good work bro.

Thanks so much Chris. Your SWAT thread inspired me. Hope I can get this thing done lol

To be honest it sands fairly easy. I applided it to thick in the beginning. It's basically liquid plastic. So I thinned it out to thickness of paint and painted it on. I bought a small detail sander at harbor tools freight for about 30 bucks with the sanding pads and all. It worked great. Still had to sand detail areas by hand. Used 120, 240, 400, 600, and final was 0000 steel wool. The final steel wool was key took it back to shiny plastic. If you ever need to use ABS paste PM me. I can tell you what not to do. In the end I'm glad I did it. My super picky side just kept messing and messing with it. That's why it took so long. Lol. Here is pic of sander.

Looking good bro.

Thanks Tim that means a lot coming from you. Glad you talked me into it. Looks better and fits better.

It been a bit since my last post. After my last post I talked to Tim (Tytlinez). He brought to my attention the shim on my thighs and the overlap would look much better if I went to butt joint with a cover strip. After some thought I decided to give it a go. I heat up the ridge on the thighs and flattened them out as much as possible. I also used my trusty hobby iron to try to flatten them out. Here is what it looked like after this process. One on left has been flattened. The one on the right hasn't. You can see the ridge and shim on the right. After I flattened it out I gained enough that I didn't need the shim anymore. Next I used scrap ABS and mixed with 100% acetone nail polish remover. I made a paste and filled in to hide the ridge. I made it way to thick in the beginning. It needs to be about like paint so you can paint it on. After applying I thought I had totally screwed up. There were times that I thought about giving up and buying new thighs. I read DarthGrace SWAT thread and he inspired me to push on. So I filled and sanded and filled and sanded and sanded and sanded. Lol I'm sick of sanding. Here are some pics of the process After working on the thighs I decided to do the same on the calfs where I added the shim. This if you remember is what it looked like. And here is what looked like after ABS paste is added. I cut some cover strips and added them to the thighs and calfs. I'm pretty happy with how it turned out. It wasn't easy at all. In the end I'm glad I decided to do it. But none of this matters if you guys don't like it. What do you guys think? Does it look better. Worthy of MEPD? Fingers crossed. Also now I need to paint them white so I can get them Dirty.

Sorry to hear this brother. I will be praying for you. May you have a speedy recovery.

Juan you are the man.

Ok I think I figured out shoulder bell problem. I had the elastic way to tight. Don't need to pull it just hold it in place lol. Move along

Ok here is some more work I've got done. Shimmed the calfs. Next I worked on the right side shim. Once again I did return edge to look uniform. Then used Velcro to close it. Thanks Trooper1 for your help. Next I did the hand guards. I decided to use e6000 and elastic. Then I put Velcro over that. Now I can slip them on and off with ease. Was worried e6000 would let go but so far so good. Then it was time for a test fit. After test fit I realized a few things. I need to cut opening in helmet some. With neck seal and everything it was really tight on and off. I also need to heat up forearms and open them up a tad at the top. The big problem I had was the shoulder bells. I hooked them to my harness system to holds up ab plate and kidney plate. The shoulder bells wanted to walk the harness system off my shoulder area. Not sure if I was donning something wrong. Any input would be great on the shoulder bells. Also please look at pics and tell me where I need to make changes. I want to get some input before I attempt to weather this thing. Thanks a lot guys

Looking good Bro.... Nice work.

Still working on it. Shimmed both calfs. Now working on right side shim for ab plate.. Got all weathering removed. This is last shim then I'll post pics of test fit. If all approve then I'll start weathering.

Congrats man. Awesome job!!!!!!!

That's awesome bro. You will make a great leader. That logo is amazing. Do you have decals or anything with that logo? You are an inspiration.

Thanks a lot guys for weighing in. I have read a lot of your threads and its great to have your insight. It means a lot. Jason I know I don't have to do the return edge on the shims. I just want to go the extra mile and make it look as uniform as possible. Here is a pic of a shim I added to the left thigh. After I added the shim I again did the return edge to try to make it look as natural as possible. I knew I would have trouble matching the weathering so............. I took all the weathering off so I could make it my own. Here is some before and after. One is the old weathering still on. The other is the one I cleaned up. I haven't started weathering anything yet. I am going to go the fullers earth route. For my MP38 pouch I need to put something in there so it looked real. So I went out in the garage and found.......... Tree tie off stakes lol. I cut them to size and added black duct tape to the tops. I like how they turned out Ok guys got plenty more to share. Hope I continue to head the right direction. Thanks again for everyone's help so far. I'll post more soon.

Thanks guys that mean a lot. Jay I hope you weren't affected by the water problem up there in West Virginia. My thoughts and prayers go out to West by God.

Hello brothers. I changed my display name tonight. It was Dirt Bag lol. I changed it to Captain Jack. That's my name over on FISD. You will find out why Captin Jack as we go. Anyway as some of you know I bought Dirty Boys old rig off of PAC know as Desert Punk. It's been a challenge so far but I'm slowly getting there. I wanted to start a post and put some picture up so you guys could see where I'm at. And so cantina security would stop asking for pics lol just kidding bro. So here again is the start. The brown box arrived So next I opened box and made no changes. I just put it on. Lol it fit about as good as a wookiee in a yoda costume. Going to have to make some shims for the sides. So after some adjusting I had it looking like this Do you guys think its ok the back plate is a little far down my back? Christmas came and I guess I was good because look what he brought me I love my AP helmet. Thanks Mark I had two cracks at the top of the ab plate so I did the old T-shirt and super glue trick to fix I work on Swimming pools for a living so I used swimming pool signs for my shims and such. The one I am using says please shower before entering pool LOL. Thought it was funny because we are dirty. To reinforce the ab plate crack area I cut a piece out and used e 6000 to glue it down Next I bought a cheap white trash can for the side shims. I glued it underneath the kidney plate and also underneath on the ab plate I know I know this was before I got my rare earth magnets. I still use these magnets along with my rare earth as well So after glueing it looked like this Next I cut out a shim to double layer this shim so it would sit flush. I cut this from the shower before enter pool sign. I glued the two shims together with e6000 And it turned out like this I bought a hooby co heat sealer to do the return edge and I thought I took before and after pics but sadly I didn't. I will take pics when I do the other side. I do have a question before I do the other side. Do you want the ab plate and kidney plate to be tight against your body? or do you want some room in there? Thanks gots more pics to share but Going to head off to bed. Hope I am doing ok so far. I look forward to being a member of the MEPD. Please let me know if I'm doing anything wrong. Thanks again brothers

Man that's awesome. I love Disney world. I bet it was packed huh? Congrats man

LOL thought about changing my user name. Dirt Bag I thought would be funny but who knows?

Thanks Soon to be. I wanted to take pics and mess with Armor more but Had to go out of town for Thanksgiving. As soon as I get back I will suit up and take pics.

Hello all. My name is Matt and i am from NC. Over the last several weeks I have been reading and researching to decide what I wanted to be to become a member of the 501st. It didn't take long until I decided I wanted to get dirty. I have read the boards here a lot and still lost somewhat. I found a guy selling a suit at a good price so I bought it from him not knowing any different. As I researched I found out Dirty Boy was super helpful so I emailed him. He got back to me super nice guy. The next day in reading here again I found out that the guy I bought suit from (PAC) got the suit from Dirty Boy. Small world huh?. Anyway suit came today! Everything seems to fit snug except for the ab kidney plate area have large gaps on both side. Not sure if can shim a large area or not. Didn't have a lot of time today going out of town for Thanksgiving. Sorry for long post. You guys will see a lot of me from here on so wanted to let y'all know a little background. I will need a lot of help. Happy thanksgiving brothers.