Daryl's Denuo Novo TLJ FOTK build

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Didn’t make much progress this weekend. 

Worked on the shoulder bells, which had barely any (one, none at all) guidelines on the lower edge.

So I got one properly trimmed and sanded, then used it to trim the one without the guide lines.

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A little more progress on fine-trimming and sanding.

Cod before:


Cod after:


Torso before:




Torso after:






Spine plate before:


Spine plate after:

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Trimming/sanding, not a lot of difference visible in the pictures, but making progress.

Butt before:


Butt after:


Under chest before:


Under chest after:

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Pouch cover before:


Pouch cover after:



Knee before:


Knee after:


Hand plate before:


Hand plate after:

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Chest and back fine-trimming and sanding.

Chest before:


Chest after.  I was really unsure about the neckline and sides of the chest.  There were no guidelines.  Hopefully somebody can let me know how it looks, and what the tips should look like.

Neckline outside.  It’s really hard to tell, but I left just a bit of return edge:



Neckline inside:



Chest side:


Back before:




Back after:




The back, at the shoulder tabs, is by far the thinnest part of this armor kit.  It’s unfortunate since that area is going to carry a lot of stress when the under chest is attached.   I do have Ukswrath’s shoulder brackets, so hopefully that is going to help.  So I left extra at the shoulder tabs, just in case.  You can just barely see the guide lines in this photo:

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Helmet finally arrived.  Time to get my build going again.

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Completed the fine trimming and sanding of the thighs, shins, spats, and forearms.

Got my clamps and magnets out and decided to glue my first pieces.  I’m using E6000.

Left thigh:

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While waiting for the glue to fully set on the thigh (I only have enough magnets and clamps to do one piece at a time), I was feeling brave, so I decided to open up all of the pill holes (shins, biceps, and chest) and the chest indent.

I used my dremel with a sanding barrel and went at them from behind, sanding just enough to open the hole.  This worked really great.  Then I hand sanded to get nice openings.

Shins and biceps:


Inside view of a bicep:


Chest:


Inside view of the chest.


Overall, I’m very happy with how these turned out.  If you do this be very careful, it would be very easy to go too far or even melt the pieces.

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Left thigh turned out great.  Right thigh is glueing.

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I remembered I had some smaller clamps that would work great for the biceps, so I borrowed some magnets from the thigh, while it was still curing, and I glued the biceps.



I also was trying to plan ahead and figure out how to best apply the gaffer’s tape behind the front shin pill holes, which are partially backed by the glue surface on the rear shin when they are overlapped (didn’t get a picture of this unfortunately).  So I decided to do a little cutout on the rear shin so I would be able to easily apply the gaffer’s tape.

Rear shin with cutout:


Final look (not glued yet):

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I’ve really been struggling with how to handle the outer, elbow edge of the forearms, since I’m doing a TLJ build.

Denuo Novo cut instructions show this, which I believe is the TFA “Finn cut”:


This is a movie reference from FISD:


This is what is shown in the TLJ CRL:


So I tried to mimic that look on mine:


But you can see that the cut lines and the rough extra are visible.

The TLJ CRL mentions that the “TFA cut” is not permitted for level 3, so I assume the cut recommendation from DN would be sufficient for basic approval.

Thoughts?

[Anzo]

If you are just going for basic, then you can follow the DN trim lines. For my TLJ Executioner for basic I just use my TFA forearms. They reviewed and updated some things in the CRL's since my approval however, so I just wanted to be doubly sure.

If you want to keep the cut as they are in the photo above, using the ABS paste clean up method you described to me in a PM should be fine too.

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If you are just going for basic, then you can follow the DN trim lines. For my TLJ Executioner for basic I just use my TFA forearms. They reviewed and updated some things in the CRL's since my approval however, so I just wanted to be doubly sure.

If you want to keep the cut as they are in the photo above, using the ABS paste clean up method you described to me in a PM should be fine too.

Thanks for the info AJ.  I’ll likely use the DN cut lines so I can avoid ABS paste on these.

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Biceps done glueing:


Onto the right shin:

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All leg outer seams are glued:





I’m planning to use Velcro on the inner, overlapped seams.

Next is the ab side seams, starting with the right side: