I'M NOT DEAD YET!!!!!!
Alright,it feels like it's been a hot minute since any real progress has been made, so I'm gonna post what I've gotten done and try to keep the ball rolling. lets go.
Alright, thighs. Lets talk about thighs.What are thighs? Thighs have been an iterative process for me to say the least. they're part of what made mebreak down and actually buy Armorsmith because I messed up 2 different sizes and wasted all that foam (not really because I can still use most of it for other pieces) Once I FINALLY got them sized close enough I still had to make some adjustments to really get them to fit nicely. Anyways, once they were scaled I put the magnets in to hold the pistol as I'm sure many of you have already seen and you're sitting here thinking how I'm just running in circles at this point well guess what bub I'm not done, and I've only had 4 cups of coffee today so sit back and relax. I put the magnets into the thigh and got the pistol *close* to where it should be sitting and everything and I was happy with the magnets. After some tests and speaking with some others I realized I was gonna need some way to keep it attached in case someone bumped into me (Or I them) and lost it at the con. So for 11 bucks and some american schmoo, I got myself some retractable badge clips and those worked out great! I can even pull the pistol off my hip and up to a nice stance for photo ops.
So, only after I get the second one made and all nicely put together do I realize...I didnt cut those horizontal rectangles on the front part of the left thigh. Well darn buddy what's a guy gonna do y'know? Well I'll tell ya what, we got a whole pot of coffee and a year now that the con is cancelled! So heres what we do....We gonna hide it. I decided that I needed a nice pouch for my phone and wallet anyways so we don't make mistakes, we have happy accidents here. I'm gonna use the utility pouch as a way to hide the mistake some and to give me a little storage while on the con floors.
So upwards and onwards we go! It's a crucial and most important thing you must do to your armor for weathering. Get yourself a cheapo bottle of cinnamon straight from the dollar store and a little spritz bottle full of water. And once your paint is all nice and pretty and dry wash the whole sucker down with a healthy spritzing of water and pop that cinnamon bottle open like a dad at the back yard bbq and just go to town. The more seasoning the better.
Once we get her nice and coated now we take a ratty old rag and wipe her down like its been covered in the ugliest mud you've seen and ya just gotta get some of it off ya. No spit and polish type cleaning, just the bare minimum to get the job done. Once you've accomplished this she'll have sand in all the cracks and crevices that'll just be there for the rest of your time.
Now that that's all out of the way,I'll just throw this up here too since a little work has been done on it. I ended up snapping my rifle in half because I saw too much wiggle in her step and I had to fix it. I drilled a couple holes into the two halves and secured some decent dowels into both sides before gluing them back together, and now it's stiff as can be. I've also worked on the data module and I'm now trying to figure out how I'll make the clear housing (Since I goofed on the model and made it too thin to actually take a 1/8" walled acrylic tube. The show goes on though and I've got a nice big sheet of .040" PETG sitting around doing no good so I'm gonna try to work that into shape and make it a nice tube.
Thanks for coming to my Ted talks, see you when I got more for you