Biker Scout

While waiting for some time to paint my R2 properly, I’m still doing a lot of wok on my biker scout!

Here’s a summary of what’s been done today!

For all my loose armour pieces, I’ve sewed on elastic bands according to the Lancer standards, and used self-adhesive velcro inside the pieces and sewed on velcro on one of the sides of the elastics. This should enable me to tighten the pieces up somewhat if I should need to.

I’ve also added velcro inside the pieces, and added velcro on the corresponding pieces on my jumpsuit, and sewed that on.

Let’s have a look!

The shoulder bells, complete with velcro for fastening on to the torso, and also 35mm elastic around the arm in place!

Biceps pieces, complete with elastic inside, and also velcro around the top edge to match the velcro sewn on to my under suit!

Arm pieces. The elastic is like the others, sewn on one end, and velcroed in on the other end. These also have long strips of white velcro going all along the bottom, that will attach to the under suit to not make them slip.

Knee pads, elastic bands in place, bot the big one that will go into the knee joint, and the top thinner one, that is required for Lancer approval, should I want to go for that some day.

I have also velcroed in place my cummerbund pockets, although I feel they maybe should be a little more spread apart. I’ll see to that later on! =)

All this velcro makes the suit a little harder to get in, but at least it makes the pieces stick where they should be! It is a little easier once they were sewn in properly, instead of just put in place with self-adhesive velcro…

Not in pictures: I’ve worked on the placement of the back hump, and once I find a proper screw, I will do a small “wedge” in styrene in order to help this sit more straight and not move about at all. Looking good so far.

Also, I’ve removed the rib stitching on my vest/undersuit that was visible in the shoulder area, and there’s only rib stitches on the arms of the vest now.

Next step is the scary bit: Cutting up the armour! Last thing needed to sew, is to shorten the cummerbund a few cm, and tightening the groin area elastic… not too much though! *ouch* !

Today, a 9 month wait was at its end!

A slightly beat up package arrived at my door step.

9 months in the making, 7 days to travel across the US and to Sweden, and finally 8 days to make the loooong journey from Malmö to Stockholm…

The contents of this bag is not R2-D2 related, but belongs in the same universe..

It is my Biker Scout armor, hand made, and now it is time for me to take these ABS plastic pieces and try and piece them together to form a proper Biker Scout armor!

I had arranged to have my helmet painted and assembled.. even though the mesh in the front of the snout and the smoked glass had fallen out during shipping..

Tiny things like that, that I need to glue back in place..

To officially start this build, I decided to bring in two bottle caps and glue to the ends of the thermal detonators so I’ve at least accomplished something..

If you think they look grungy, it is because I gave them a good sanding first in order to give the CA glue something to grip on..

Once glued, I realized the potential for comedy straight away…

A short trip to the store to pick up a riveting tool..

.. and I was ready to start doing some damage.

New tools needs to be tested, so I took a good look at some reference pictures, and decided to fasten the holster to my boots…

The blaster is still not painted black, but it looks nice in the holster.

I will probably need to add velcro on the inside of the boot and on my undersuit leg if I want the boot to maintain its shape with the blaster in it, though..

Can’t wait to get started properly. I’ve spent the night cleaning the apartment and when done, looking at reference photos and planning how to make this armour in the best possible way…