Daryl's Anovos ANH Stunt TK Build

[CJ49er]

GREAT job Daryl! Congrats!

[Pixelito]

Heck yeah! Congrats, Daryl!

[Lidocaine]

Woohoo, great job!

[Sinanju20]

Nice!

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[sitpadeshu]

Congratulations Daryl!  Can't wait to see your suit in person.

[daryldoak]

Anovos under suit and gloves arrived today. Better late than never.  LOL

Under suit looks the right size.  It'll be nice to have a backup.

Gloves are much thinner than my Trooperbay rubber gloves.

[daryldoak]

When I originally sized my thighs pieces I was really worried about messing them up so I decided to cut on the Anovos guide line and leave a large return edge.  This ending up leaving too much room in the thighs and caused them to hit the butt plate, especially when walking.  So I tried trimming some return edge off of the butt plate, but it never really solved the problem.

Last week I decided to remove more return edge from my thigh pieces and resize them.  I trimmed the upper and lower return edges to half of the original size, then took off about 3/4"-1" on the back of the thighs.

The results are really good, much better walking with no thigh-butt conflict.

[daryldoak]

I apologize in advance for my costume OCD...

While at the make-a-wish troop yesterday, as we were standing in the room of mirrors I noticed that my arm armor was longer on my left arm than my right, by about 1 inch.  Going back thru my photos I see it there now also.  I fixed this problem last night.

My arm pieces are all attached, shoulder bell/bicep/forearm, and I was using bicep hooks.  I assumed everything was aligned properly.  But what I discovered is that the inner piece of the biceps are sized differently, 11cm vs 12.5cm, so using the bicep hooks caused me to attach the bicep to the shoulder bell at the wrong height.

So I separated the right bicep from the shoulder bell by pulling off the elastic strap, repositioned the bicep and reglued the elastic. I also removed both bicep hooks.

Now both arms are the same length.

Sorry this is so long but I though it would be helpful to other Anovos builders.

[Spurgco]

Daryl, the mount points you and sitpadeshu suggested on my shoulder bell buttons was spot on!  Moved them today, and i wanted to say thanks. I should be able to transmit my application by the end of next week. Hopefully i can join the ranks soon


Omg bear is driving!? How can this be!?

[daryldoak]

Daryl, the mount points you and sitpadeshu suggested on my shoulder bell buttons was spot on!  Moved them today, and i wanted to say thanks. I should be able to transmit my application by the end of next week. Hopefully i can join the ranks soon


Omg bear is driving!? How can this be!?

That's awesome.  Glad i could help.  Keep up the good work.

[sitpadeshu]

Fantastic!!

[sitpadeshu]

Do you have pics of the straps you out in your helmet?  I'm trying to figure out placement

[daryldoak]

I finally decided to extend my frown. 

Here is the before:
Untitled by daryl doak, on Flickr

Here is the after:
Untitled by daryl doak, on Flickr
Untitled by daryl doak, on Flickr
Untitled by daryl doak, on Flickr

It's really hard to get a good idea from the pictures (especially the front view), but I think it looks pretty good.

[daryldoak]

Just received a reply email from Anovos regarding the email that I sent back on 2/18 requesting replacement shins, due to the shin mislabeling. #shingate

I guess I've had a support ticket opened with them the entire time and didn't know it.

They are shipping me replacements for all 4 shin pieces and new coverstrips in their next wave of replacement shipments.

[CJ49er]

good on em' for replacing them!