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Cylon-Knight wrote:Fellow Centurions, I just had Christmas in July
The rest of my armor arrived today!

Cylon-Knight will be a reality stay tuned all you "tin cans" photos to follow tomorrow.

Congratulations on that!

It's always nice to see how another Cylon is coming together!

ByYourCommand.......What else can I say???....dot net!!!

OKAY! Yard work, overtime, and visiting with some good friends kept me from posting my photos sooner, BUT, here they are:








NICE, huh!!?

I didn't post a photo of EVERY part, I know... but you can see how most of my kit looks. I got some Cylon building to do!

Oops I need to photograph my boots too... will do that in a few minutes and post again.

And here are my pair of boots from a few views.
Georgia, size 11 EEE.

A great start, time to really understand the Cylon suit, and what it must have been like for the guys that designed, and build this outstanding piece of work from starting out with some clay, and turning into one of the most recognized robots out there.

Looks great, Cylon-Knight.

Good luck with the build!

You said it GoldCylon - they made a work of art! A lot of effort goes into these tin cans

Thanks Red Eye - I hope my build is worthy of our illustrious Imperious Leader

I had a great chat with nashslah last night and learned alot about working on my Cylon - great talking to you!

After our chat I was working on my armor a bit more before I uploaded my new photos to this thread... and well... the evil Cylon got me - a nasty cut on my left pointer finger from my x-acto knife while making a not so smart cut. It had quite a bit of blood going, so I woke up my wife to help mend it (I get faint at too much blood ). She patched me up, and I am fine.

I'm not going to try anymore "short cuts" in the trim work... only going to score and snap. I was just trying to cut a TINY corner off sort of like how one would peal an apple and everything slipped, and the cut occured.

SO, I will put up the photos tonight after work

Now it is photo time with Cylon-Kinight:

I am working on the chest armor and back pack...
Here are photos of the parts before from each angle,
and then after trimming from the pretty much the same views.
(Still working on them, more to do yet )





nashslash was kind enough to show me how to do the rest of the trimming on the chest plate.
I was unsure how the "neck" part should go. I'll work on that as soon as my fingers feel better
(from the bad cut, and a second smaller cut on the right hand.)












I'm not really sure why I have worked on the chest and back pack...
I thought I would start with the forearm armors first when I got my kit!?

P.S. BE CAREFUL OF CYLONS! OUCH
My finger all wrapped up so I could sleep and not bend it.

Hey looks good so far, even the bandage wrap score a BYC salute.

Nice clean work you've done so far!

Hope your finger will heal soon...

Thanks GoldCylon and Red Eye... yeah, my fingers are feeling better... still covered and healing, on the mend

Here are some MORE photos!
This time I have untrimmed on the left, trimmed on the right.







-- ------------------End of Left untrim | Right trim photos--------------------





Now here is a GOOF. The corner didn't stay when I scored and snapped. AAAAA! Oh well, it can be fixed. Just extra work (rats).





All the back pack parts are trimmed up enought to do a test fit.
Scotch tape is holding it all together now to see how everything goes together.



QUESTION: I have the back pack as you see it, and my helmet in the state as pictured prior in this same thread. SO, I had to geek out and wear both at once My question is the helmet and back pack don't have much room between them DO THEY? It seemed like if you wanted to turn your head much you really can't. The two parts as I have them now - ROUGH - hit a lot. I just wanted to make sure that was normal - I can look around, sure, but they do hit now and then, right?


QUESTION: Not too sure about the collar cap. It seems a bit big? Here is Cy from Galactica 1980: The Return of Starbuck. The cap does have some overlap, but it seem I have TOO MUCH?




I noticed this in The Return of Starbuck too...
RIB detail on screen!



I also noticed this is pretty cool - CYLON GUTS! And a cool prop that maybe we could make? A "Cylon screw driver?!" And where did Starbuck find a book on "Fixing Cylons for Coloninal Dummies?"

It looks to me like you might have trimmed a bit to much of the "L's" is why the chin plate is now too big. Just a guess but to hard to tell with out a true side by side.

Hello,

As I have been building my backpack, it seems that there is alot of body filler work to be done to cover the gaps and overlaps.

Are you having the same experience?

How do you plan on attaching the pieces together? Glue? Pop rivets?

Regards,
Chris A.

To secure the backpack together i'd go for plastic weld so that its permanent. To fill the gaps I use