Day 1

I received my brown box this morning, actually I missed the delivery man but was lucky enough that he knew me and just dropped the package over my fence after giving me a call.

Here come the pictures!



A little bit of transport damage but nothing to whine about.



Unpacking... Christmas came early this year, or what!



Checking for damage, a few fine scratches here and there but, in the end, I'll be sporting a lightly "battle damaged" TK. Much like in the first scenes of ANH.

Moving on.



Not everything was unpacking here since I lack room. I'm currently sitting in the middle of boxes.

So, armed with the following tools I started trimming the parts. I was pleased with how easy the process turned out to be after pulling my hair off with my E-11 Hasbro mod.



I applied the score & snap method for trimming, and used the Tamiya curved scissors whenever I needed to cut out tougher parts and corners. The ABS is actually quite soft and thinner on certain areas and I didn't need to score in too deep before bending the sections I wanted off.

After roughly 5 hours of this work, here are the pieces I've trimmed, but not fitted yet.



Soon the question of thigh plate fitting has come up and I could use some advice from other short troopers. How much can I trim off the top front of the thighs, and do they need a return edge? I don't have a bending iron for plastic, so trimming those parts may make them look a bit gross... I might be confusing myself about this.

I felt like starting on the helmet but sleeping feels more reasonable right now, since it's getting late! Better off posting pictures.