Day 7

After doing what was assumed to be the hardest and most difficult part of the kit, aka. the helmet, here I move to the gluing session. It's the assembling of the shins.

I had heard interesting things about the shin armor and how the two parts wouldn't align properly when put together, but mine seemed okay when I trimmed the front joints to form a 22 mm strip. This strip would be covered by one of the provided ABS strips that I had to divide in two, of course with the Score'n'Snap technique.

Covering strips cut to 22mm in width, sanded down slightly to allow for the E6000 glue to stick better. Sanding should be done prior to gluing on all surfaces.

Reference picture to show the cover strips

I normally clamp the edges but for the purpose of this picture I removed them to show, after 12 hours, that there is the covering strip on the outside, and a slightly slimmer strip on the inside, called a "shim", to help compensate for bending or moving of the larger elements glued together. The round thingy that you see there is a Rare Earth neodymium magnet.