Mr.Nova

How's everyone doing? It got a little quiet in here, lol. Just wanted to make sure everyone's alive and well.

How often would a person need to be painting the bottom of a boot in order to be determined as "accurate"? I feel like that would wear off after every outing if you were to paint the bottom of a rubber boot and walk around in it for any length of time.

Are there any other models that have armored spats? I haven't looked atm, but I can check later. I feel it'd be safe to say it's a limitation of the model, but yeah.

Right, I guess I'm not explaining what I meant very clearly. I'll try and find a reference pic to explain what I mean. Isn't this piece, like, a covering on top of the boot? Like this, but plastic (or w/e applicable material) That would cover the rectangles you're focusing on.

Wouldn't these shoes be adequate? I thought there was a plating or something going over the top of the ankle that would inevitably cover those horizontal bars? Or am I misremembering

Oh wow, I wasn't getting updated notifications. You guys have written quite a lot! Good to see it's progressing steadily. I'm still down here in SWFL saving up my money for the move. I can't wait to get started once I move to Jax and get settled in Keep up the good work! It's appreciated!

I keep putting too many irons in my fire I get sidetracked and finish nothing, lmao. We'll see how it goes!

Wow, this looks absolutely fantastic. I had no idea there was already so much progress on this armor. Is Jim still taking orders? I noticed you said you were slightly under 6 ft. I'm 6'1" at 180lbs, pretty lean. How is the fit? Love the guide on where you found each part. Extremely helpful. Hope to join you soon!

Hey! Noticed someone on the FB page said you guys had finished the CRL. Nice work! Looking forward to it!

Oh, that was the image you posted, so I thought you were referencing your model. Degginal Nox's model is a bit different, so I assumed it was yours. Apologies, This is primarily the thread I've been staying in, so I didn't know yours was completed.

Is this your updated model that you were working on? It's come a long way @_@

Idk, short of reaching out to the design team directly, all we can do is assume. It just strikes me as strange since no other units have pauldrons like that, and seems like it could easily just have been a quirk that was overlooked and never patched. Like a typo in the rotation numbers for the mesh skeleton, which could easily happen. (Just look at the 212 story monolith in the new Flight Simulator, lol) It's taking design liberties into our hands, but I think would be a very reasonable assumption to make that they were intended to be down, like the pauldrons on all the other units, but we can agree to disagree, if that's the case.

That honestly seems more like a graphical thing rather than intended design. Physically, pauldrons wouldn't be elevated like that unless there was some kind of angled hard point.

How are they normally attached? I assume to the shoulder straps, correct?