Dogb's Deathtrooper WIP

[dogbertwrldrulr]

On 7/28/2025 at 6:21 AM, Chaos said:

I can go back and take a look for Level 2 if you like. 

Also, is the Denuo Novo DT Specialist helmet L2 approvable as it comes?  Or does it require much work?  If you know and/or can say that is.

Thank you!

[Chaos[CMD-DCA]]

Dan,

You are wanting to basically visually  replicate these recessed areas of the shins. Because people have had to trim shins to make them the correct length, we agreed that as long as the upper edge appears to be there its acceptable.

[Chaos[CMD-DCA]]

As far as the Denuo Novo DT helmet, they took over the Anovos production and the helmets are identical. So yes, they are approvable as is. The only thing that I am not 100% sure about would be the screening and black backing of the side snout vents.

[dogbertwrldrulr]

6 hours ago, Chaos said:

Dan,

You are wanting to basically visually  replicate these recessed areas of the shins. Because people have had to trim shins to make them the correct length, we agreed that as long as the upper edge appears to be there its acceptable.

Can you clarify what you mean by the upper edge?  Do you mean the upper edge of the horizontal groove?  That picture shows (on the left shin) that the groove starts at the "point" of that triangular detail coming from the back, and on mine they were trimmed along that details lower edge giving me no good starting point to replicate it.

[dogbertwrldrulr]

My pauldron came in!  I just need to get together with some others to do a final suit up and take pictures.  I am ready to go!

One thing I did notice on my pauldron is that is should be good for basic, but I don't know that it's good enough for Level 2.  There seems to be some extra stitch lines on the 4th stitch starting from the leather on both sides, the leather doesn't have the black banding (not sure what to call it) on the outside of the collar (only the inside), and the leather parts are on top of instead of on the bottom.  Someone else feel free to correct me though.  I may provide comments back to the seller to help them improve their product if people agree with my assessment.

[dogbertwrldrulr]

I got my bubbled lens in today.  The "bubbling" isn't as much as I thought, but its there and pretty obvious when looking at it.  I don't know that I got a good picture of my flat lens in my helmet so I can't do a side by side comparison, but hey, one more item for level 2 checked off.

The first picture is a comparison of the bubbled lens and a flat lens I picked up from OPLE for comparison.  The nose needed some trimming on the bubbled lens and I found out the hard way that this plastic doesn't like to be cut.  Fortunately the crack wasn't big and I was able to dremel out the nose cutout I needed and get it mounted.

Here is the helmet with the lens installed.  Is it obvious its a bubbled lens when it's installed?  I have it pushed up next to the opening as far as I can.

[dogbertwrldrulr]

Got around to painting the grooves on the backpack today.  @Chaos, how did I do on the weathered silver?

I also noted as I was checking the color scheme chart that my pill on the chest was still gloss black so I repainted that with some flat black.