The shoulders and arms also needed tweaking. I found that I needed to lengthen the calves and thighs, and widen the torso pieces. My suit is partly based on a mix of my files and some heavily modified dung0beetle files. The fibreglass is a lot heavier than plastic, and as I'll be 65 next month, I'll be doing shorter stints from now on. I have done over twenty troops now, and completed two 11 km walks. Actually, I never really expected to get it to this stage - it's a lot of work, with pieces being pepped and re-pepped up to a dozen times each. Not nearly screen accurate, I know, but my version is that it's for the taller and more bulky trooper. It's still a work in progress and I the arms and thighs are vacformed plastic, but I've glassed all the remainder - just needs finishing and strapping. ![]() ![]() ![]() Here's a photo of my Gravel Trooper suit at my mum's 90th birthday last year. I thought it was about time I assembled my files and shared some progress pics and problems I had to overcome.
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